GLOBAL GOALS
SUMMIT 2022

Professor of Economics and Vice-Rector of Charles University

Professor of Economics and Vice-Rector for Scientific and Creative Activities at Charles University and one of the most cited scientists working in the Czech Republic. He has been engaged in financial research of crypto active assets and decentralized finance for a long time, including the energy intensity of their operation and possible long-term climate impacts. He aims to answer the question of whether it is possible to operate a bitcoin network and not to destroy the planet at the same time.  

Chief R&D Officer Unilever Nutrition Business Group

Food Scientist by training at the University of Wageningen in The Netherlands. She joined Unilever in 1993, starting as a product developer in the margarine category. Since that she led and implemented a number of R&D innovations in the area of Heart Health margarine products.  At the end of 2019 she took over the overall responsibility of Foods, Ice-Cream and Tea R&D within the Foods & Refreshment division in Unilever.

CEO Rohlík.cz

He is the CEO of Rohlik.cz and stands behind the company’s growth and the creation of an organizational culture focused on quality food, great customer service, and rapid innovation. He strengthened Rohlík’s team in September 2018, when he joined the head of the Czech marketing team. After two years, he moved to the position of Group CCO, where he transferred his rich experience to the Hungarian, Austrian and German teams.

journalist, reporter, co-founder DVTV

Her journalism career started as a parliamentary correspondent for the Arteria news agency. She worked as a presenter on Czech Television for almost 20 years, was awarded with K.H.Borovsky Journalist Award, won the Journalist Award of the OSF Foundation and the special prize of the FITES Trilobit Beroun jury, and for the program Události, komentáře, her team received the Elsa TV Award. In cooperation with coleagues from CT and the media house Economia she launched the DVTV internet project.

Founder and CEO of the Association of Social Responsibility

Founder and CEO of the Association of Social Responsibility, the largest CSR and Sustainable Development Goals initiative in the Czech Republic. She received a doctorate in economics, was named the historically first Ambassador of Good Will of the Czech Republic and is repeatedly ranked among the 100 most influential women in Forbes magazine. She brought the world donation holiday Giving Tuesday to the Czech Republic and stands behind the socially responsible e-shop with sustainable gifts Nakup na Dobro.

founder and CEO of Mewery

Roman is an entrepreneur and has built or co-founded several brands: Global DTP, Global E-learning, Home Institute, and also invested in several startups. He has been a founding member as well as a Program Director at Future Port Prague, the largest international futuristic event in the heart of Europe. In 2020, Roman founded Mewery, the first European cell-based food-tech startup developing cultivated pork on a microalgae base with the potential to change the entire cultivated meat industry. 

journalist, presenter, co-founder of DVTV

The well-known czech TV, internet and radio presenter and journalist. Started his career at the Radio Club of the Voice of America, from where he moved to Europe 2. He moderated at Prima, TV Nova and Czech Television, and also performed at Czech Radio and Radiožurnál. In 2014, he became a co-founder of the first internet television DVTV, which is the holder of 12 Crystal Magnifiers – prestigious Czech Internet awards. He himself has won several journalistic awards, including the Ferdinand Peroutka Award.

CEO of INOVUJ, co-founder of the innovative FaceRehab application, Slovakia

CEO of INOVUJ, co-founder of the innovative application called FaceRehab developed for people with facial paralysis and Bell’s Palsy. Digital therapy allows the patient to exercise interactively without having to travel and visit a physiotherapist. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for digital therapy, which is not only an effective solution that saves time, but also reduces fossil fuel consumption and improves our climate.

Docent at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague and head of the Building Energy Systems research department at the Czech Technical University research center

One of his projects is the S.A.W.E.R. (Solar Air Water Earth Resources) device that extracts water from the air, aimed for dry hot deserts. The device was designed, built and tested for several months directly in the desert in the United Arab Emirates. It became the basis of the exhibition in the Czech pavilion at the EXPO 2021 exhibition in Dubai, where it won the main prize for innovation.

founder of Plant-for-the-Planet in Czechia

At the age of 14, Šimon became the first Czech ambassador of the Plant-for-the-Planet global initiative, and a few years later he became the co-founder and leader of the Czech branch of the Plant-for-the-Planet Czech Republic Foundation. During his time with the organization, he has educated over 1,000 children about the climate crisis and planted or helped planted more than 10,000 trees. He is one of the few graduates of the interdisciplinary field of Global Sustainable Development & Business at the University of Warwick, England, thanks to which he likes to look at sustainability issues holistically and critically.

ambassador of Plant-for-the-Planet in Czechia

Julie is proof that great things can be achieved even at a young age. For the planet and for others. Between visiting the 6th grade of elementary school and her favorite recitation, she devotes herself to educating other children on the topic of the climate crisis. Together with other inspiring personalities, he is among the Ambassadors of Climate Justice in the Czech branch of Plant-for-the-Planet.

environmental activist, influencer, Slovakia

Environmental activist, influencer, founder of the initiative and association #everyindividualmatters and the Fashion Session podcast. She is dedicated to sustainability in the fashion industry, the initiator of the most successful online petition in Slovakia #klimatapotrebuje, which received more than 126,000 signatures and in 2021 received the Forbes 30 under 30 award.

journalist, anchorman and member of DVTV

Journalist, anchorman and member of DVTV internet television. Worked at Czech Radio, where he moderated the morning broadcast of ČRo Plus and political interviews on Interview Plus. He studied political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague and gained first initial experience in the media on Czech Television and Radio Prague. Then he worked for five years in a think tank operating in the field of international relations of the Association for International Affairs (AMO).

Illustrator, designer, lecturer and founder of the POP – PAP publishing house.

Through her new book she set herself the goal to lead even the smallest of us to respect all living beings and educate about the reality of the life of farm animals. How would they behave when living in the wild? How do we influence the world in which we live, in which our children will live and what mark will we leave behind?

protector of elephants and nature, traveler, adventurer

With his organization Save-Elephants, he has been involved in monitoring the African wilderness for more than 10 years, but above all he reveals poaching networks and the arrest of ivory traffickers. The black tusk market is the main reason why elephants can disappear forever within a few years. Their rescue became a personal subject for Arthur to whom he dedicated his life. As he himself likes to say: “Who – if not us? When – if not now? “

is everything she wants to be, but most of all she is … Viki

She’s twelve, but that doesn’t matter how huge things she can do. This is what she tryes to teach children in her lectures. Viki is the ambassador of the Coalition for Biodiversity – CCBC, where everyone makes sure that animals and plants are not extinct from nature and help people in poor countries. What is the recipe for sustainability according to Viki? She buys two sizes larger clothes, which later inherit her cousins and sent the bike from which she grew up to children in Africa, who can get to school easily.

CEO and founder at Cyrkl.com

CEO and founder at Cyrkl.com, Europe’s largest platform for industrial waste management and green sourcing. Previously Cyril worked as an innovation leader in the Direct People, leading Czech innovation agency and before as a manager responsible for the corporate part of innovation at Raiffeisenbank, where he co founded Raiffeisen Advisory. He received awards for a Global Digital Disruption and was selected among top innovators in Czechia for a year 2020.

founder of the organization Konsent

Founder of the organization Konsent, which spreads awareness about sexual violence and how to approach it through workshops in schools, but also in bars. She won the Women of Europe Award, for which Greta Thunberg and São Cahill, among others, were nominated. She was ranked 30 under 30 by Forbes magazine and the American server Bitch Media ranked her on the list of the 50 most important figures in feminism. She also works as a publicist for the Czech Radio station Wave, Heroine or A2larm.

founder of the company Česká krajina

Founder of the company Česká krajina, which has created a world-unique reservation of large ungulates, which combines the protection of endangered species with ecological tourism and economic development of the region. Since the establishment of the reserve, the numbers of the rarest species have increased by hundreds to thousands of percent. The reservation also serves as a pilot project for effective prevention of climate change and at the same time adaptation of landscapes to climate change.