Each Thursday, Akshat Rathi interviews leading voices shaping our energy and climate future.
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2026 | 2025| 2024 | 2023 | 2022
2026
Kim Stanley Robinson (Sci-fi author, Hugo Prize winner), Sheldon Whitehouse (US Senator), Lisa Sachs (Columbia Professor), Kingsmill Bond (Energy strategist, Ember) George Saunders (novelist, Booker Prize winner), Manoj Sinha (CEO, Husk Power), Julia Wolfe (Pulitzer-winning composer), Yuma Sasaki (CEO, Dodai), Luke Kemp (Cambridge University), Jason Bordoff (Professor, Columbia University), Abi Daré (Climate Fiction Prize winner).
2025
Kim Stanley Robinson (sci-fi author), Katharine Hayhoe (chief scientist, Nature Conservancy), Paul Sabin (Yale Historian), Jonathan Lash (World Resources Institute), Albert Cheung (BloombergNEF), Chris Stark (UK’s clean power mission), Achim Steiner (Head of UNDP), Rick Smith (Canadian Climate Institute), Mia Mottley (Barbados Prime Minister), Melanie Rua (Bloomberg Intelligence), Greg Wasserman (Wellington Management), Jan Wurzbacher (co-founder, Climeworks), Claes Westerlind (CEO of NKT), Lauri Myllyvirta (co-founder, CREA), Mike Schroepfer (co-founder, Gigascale Capital and former CTO, Meta), Dan McGrail (CEO, Great British Energy), Richard Nugee (Retd Lt Gen, British Army), Jigar Shah (former chief, LPO), Vinod Khosla (founder, Khosla Ventures), Laura Clarke (CEO, ClientEarth), Rachel Slaybaugh (Partner, DCVC), Sylvain Filippi (Envision Racing), Monira Al Qadiri (Artist), Colin McKerracher (BloombergNEF), Greg Jackson (CEO of Octopus Energy), Shayle Kann (Energy Impact Partners), Abby Innes (Prof at LSE), Sanjiv Lamba (CEO of Linde), Christiana Figueres (former head of UNFCCC), Laurence Tubiana (Paris Agreement architect), André Corrêa do Lago (President of COP30), Darren Woods (CEO, ExxonMobil), Al Gore (former US vice president), Steven Guilbeault (former Canadian minister), Sebastian Kind (former Argentinian minister).
2024
Tom Steyer (former US presidential candidate), John Kerry (former US climate envoy), Connor Teskey (President of Brookfield Asset Management), Inger Andersen (UNEP chief), Chris Stark (CEO of CCC), Claire Curry (BNEF), Jakob Baruël Poulsen (Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners), Henrik Andersen (CEO of Vestas), Akinwumi Adesina (Head of African Development Bank), Bas Eickhout (head of European Greens), Chris Skidmore (former UK energy minister), Brad Smith (President of Microsoft), Priya Donti (MIT), Liam Denning (Bloomberg Opinion), John Vaillant (Fire Weather), Katharine Hayhoe (Texas Tech University), Bill Gates, Nan Ransohoff (Stripe), Stephen Kunken (Actor, Kyoto), Stacey Abrams (Georgia governor candidate), Lucie Pinson (Reclaim Finance), Sanjeet Sanghera (National Grid), Keith Anderson (Head of Scottish Power), Jason Huang (CEO of TS Conductor), Renee Salas (Harvard), Nicola Twilley (Frostbite), Tim Latimer (CEO of Fervo), Andrew Gilmour (Berghof), Jennifer Dlouhy (Bloomberg News), Steven Vassiloudis (CEO of Novalith), Henry Bilinsky (CEO of MicroTau), Bob Mumgaard (CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Susana Muhamad (Colombia’s environment minister), Liliam Chagas (Brazil’s chief climate negotiator), Avinash Persaud (Inter-American Development Bank), Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Ro Khanna (US Congressman), Jason Bordoff (Columbia University), Mukhtar Babayev (COP29 President), Darren Woods (CEO of ExxonMobil), Ali Zaidi (US National Climate Advisor), André Corrêa do Lago (Brazil’s Secretary for Climate), Scott Strazik (CEO of GE Vernova), Eric Toone (Breakthrough Energy Ventures).
2023
Gail Whiteman (Arctic Basecamp), Mads Nipper (CEO of Orsted), Chamath Palihapitiya (Social Capital), Romina Pourmokthari (Sweden’s climate minister), Jennifer Morgan (Germany’s climate envoy), Christine Ho (CEO of Imprint Energy), Achim Steiner (Head of UNDP), Katie Rae (CEO of The Engine), Fatih Birol (Head of IEA), Mateo Jaramillo (CEO of Form Energy), Venkat Viswanathan (University of Michigan), Rebecca Shaw (Chief Scientist of WWF), Monica Medina (US biodiversity envoy), Andrew Steer (CEO of Bezos Earth Fund), Eleni Myrvili (UN’s chief heat officer), Dipender Saluja (Capricorn Investment Group), Richard Curtis (screenwriter), Avinash Persaud (Barbados economics envoy), Jigar Shah (Head of Loan Programs Office), Jay Inslee (Governor of Washington), Michelle Lujan Grisham (Governor of New Mexico), Eric Holcomb (Governor of Indiana), Ma Jun (Founder of IPE), Cath McKenna (former climate minister of Canada), Jenny Chase (solar chief of BNEF), Kim Stanley Robinson (sci-fi author), Amy Westervelt (investigative journalist), Dorothy Fortenberry (playwright), Ian Learmonth (head of CEFC), Gilles Dreyfus (CEO of The Jungle), Grace Lim (CEO of Urban Farming), Martin Green (Professor, UNSW), Brynn O’Brien (head of ACCR), Colin McKerracher (transport chief of BNEF), David Fickling (Bloomberg Opinion), Emily Grubert (University of Notre Dame), Jennifer Wilcox (US department of energy), Jim Snabe (chairman of Siemens and Northvolt), Christiana Figueres (former UNFCCC chief), Al Gore (former US vice president), Patrick Verkooijen (CEO of Global Center on Adaptation).
2022
Bryony Worthington (House of Lords), Gabriel Kra (Prelude Ventures), Bill Gates (Founder of Breakthrough Energy), Sandeep Nijhawan (CEO of Electra), Adam Bandt & David Pocock (Australian politicians), Justin Trudeau (PM of Canada), Vicki Hollub (CEO of Oxy), Leah Stokes (Professor, UCSB), Saleemul Huq (Professor, Independent University), Philip Davis (PM of Bahamas), Ali Zaidi (White House climate adviser), Patricia Espinosa (former UNFCCC chief), Lewis Pugh (UN ocean ambassador), Makhtar Diop (head of IFC), Mark Trexler (offsets expert), Andreas Malm (Professor, Lund University), George Monbiot (activist and campaigner), Dan Fiorino (Professor, American University)
Akshat Rathi 