Roadmap Commission Members
Leadership
Victor J. Dzau, MD, is the President of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly the Institute of Medicine (IOM). In addition, he serves as Vice Chair of the National Research Council. Dr. Dzau is Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dr. Dzau was the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and Chairman of Medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as Bloomfield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University.
Dr. Dzau is an internationally acclaimed physician scientist and leader whose work has improved health and medicine in the United States and globally. His seminal work in cardiovascular medicine and genetics laid the foundation for the development of the class of lifesaving drugs known as ACE inhibitors, used globally to treat hypertension and heart failure. Dr. Dzau pioneered gene therapy for vascular disease and was the first to introduce DNA decoy molecules in humans in vivo. His pioneering research in cardiac regeneration led to the Paracrine Hypothesis of stem cell action and his recent strategy of direct cardiac reprogramming using microRNA. He maintains an active NIH-funded research laboratory.
Dr. Dzau is a leader in health and heath policy. At the NAM, he has led important initiatives such as Vital Directions for Health and Health Care, the Action Collaborative on Countering the US Opioid Epidemic, and the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience. Under his tenure, the NAM has advanced efforts to improve health equity and address racism throughout its programmatic activities, especially the Culture of Health Program. Most recently, the NAM launched a Grand Challenge in Climate Change and Human Health & Equity to reverse the negative effects of climate change on health and social equity by activating the entire biomedical community, communicating and educating the public about climate change and health, driving changes through research, innovation and policy, and leading bold action to decarbonize the health care sector.
As a global health leader, he helped design and launch the National Academies initiatives on Global Health Risk Framework; Global Health and Future Role of the US; Crossing the Global Quality Chasm and Human Genome Editing. The NAM Global Grand Challenge for Healthy Longevity represents his vision to inspire across disciplines and sectors to coalesce around a shared priority and audacious goal to advance health.
He has led the NAM’s response to COVID-19, which includes numerous committees, reports, consultations and communication on a range of issues including public health, vaccine allocation, health equity and mental health. He has worked tirelessly to engage with the global response to COVD-19 by providing leadership as a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, co-chair of the G20 Scientific Expert Panel on Global Health Security, Advisor to the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing and a principal of the ACT-Accelerator which includes COVAX, the global collaboration for accelerating the development, manufacture and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
He is active in advising science and health in US and globally. He has served as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), chaired the NIH Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee and NHLBI Cardiovascular Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium. Currently, he chairs the Cardiovascular Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium. He is a member of the Health and Biomedical Sciences International Advisory Council of Singapore, as well as a board member of the Imperial College Health Partners, UK and the Gairdner Foundation. He chairs the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Qatar Precision Medicine Institute, the Scientific Boards of the Peter Munk Cardiac Center, University of Toronto and Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow. He served on the Board of Health Governors of the World Economic Forum and chairs its Global Futures Council on Healthy Longevity.
Among his many honors and recognitions are the Max Delbreck Medal from Charite, Humboldt and Max Planck, Germany, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the Henry Freisen International Prize. In 2019, he was named an Honorary Citizen of Singapore- the highest level of honor bestowed to a foreign citizen conferred by the President of Singapore. He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the Japan Academy, Mexican Academy of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica. He has received 16 honorary doctorates.
Andy Haines was Director (formerly Dean) of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine from 2001- October 2010, having been trained in family practice and epidemiology. He developed an interest in climate change and health in the 1990’s and was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the 2nd, 3rd and 5th assessment exercises. He chaired the Rockefeller /Lancet Commission on Planetary Health (2014-15) and the InterAcademy Partnership (140 science academies worldwide) working group on climate change and health. He is currently co-chairing the Lancet Pathfinder Commission on health in the zero-carbon economy. He was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2022.
Judith Rodin is a pioneer, innovator, change-maker and global thought-leader. For over two decades Rodin led and transformed two global institutions: The Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania. A ground-breaking executive throughout her career, Dr. Rodin was the first woman named to lead an Ivy League Institution and was the first woman to serve as The Rockefeller Foundation’s president. A research psychologist by training, she was one of the pioneers of the behavioral medicine and health psychology movements. Dr. Rodin’s leadership ushered The Rockefeller Foundation into a new era of strategic philanthropy that emphasized partnerships with business, government, and the philanthropic community to address and solve for the complex challenges of the 21st century. Rodin championed two whole new fields that are now pervasive: resilience and impact investing. At Penn, Dr. Rodin presided over an unprecedented decade of growth and progress that transformed the institution, its campus, and the community, taking the university from sixteenth to fourth in U.S. News and World Report national rankings. The University also engineered a comprehensive, internationally acclaimed neighborhood revitalization program in West Philadelphia. Rodin has served as a member of the board for several leading corporations and many non-profits. She has authored more than 250 academic articles and chapters, and has written or co-written 15 books, including The Power of Impact Investing: Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good and The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong. Her most recent book, Making Money Moral: How a New Wave of Visionaries is Linking Purpose and Profit, was published in February 2021 by Wharton School Press.
Commission Members
Lewis is Executive Director of Hot or Cool Institute. He is a political economist with an interest in institutions and policies, and the fair allocation of resources and opportunities for collective wellbeing within ecological limits. Lewis served as Executive Director of SEED, a UN partnership founded at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development to promote entrepreneurship for sustainable development. Prior to that, he was Director for Sustainable Consumption and Production at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. He has consulted with organizations including United Nations agencies, the Asian and African Development Banks, the European Commission, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and has served as technical or science-policy adviser to several national government delegations, including Finland, Japan, Sweden, Indonesia and Hungary. Lewis is a Full Member of the Club of Rome, and a Transformational Economics Commissioner with the Earth4All project, he is also a Board member of several organizations. Lewis has an M.Sc. Sustainable Resource Management (Technical University Munich, Germany) and a Ph.D. Political Economy (University of Helsinki, Finland).
Pablo Bereciartua currently serves as the Minister of Infrastructure for the City of Buenos Aires. Previously, he held key roles, including Secretary of Infrastructure and Water Policy of the Nation, Undersecretary of Water Resources of the Nation, and Director of Infrastructure for the City of Buenos Aires.
An expert in engineering and water resource management, Bereciartua has extensive experience in infrastructure development, sustainability, and environmental resilience. He has contributed to global initiatives as a board member of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and as part of the advisory council for Europe’s Climate Innovation Institute (Climate KIC).
He has received numerous honors, including being recognized as a Fulbright, Eisenhower Fellow, IIASA Fellow, and Yale World Fellow. Additionally, he was awarded the Antonio Marin Engineering Award (2009) and the Enrique Butty Engineering Award (2017) by the National Academy of Engineering.
Bereciartua holds a degree in engineering from the National University of La Plata and pursued postgraduate studies at IHE Delft in the Netherlands, as well as at UC Berkeley and Yale University in the United States.
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is the Head of the climate change and health unit at WHO Headquarters. His training is on the ecology of infectious disease and public health, and he has worked on climate change and health for over 20 years. During that time, Diarmid has played key roles in the development of the first quantitative estimates of the overall health impacts of climate change, resolutions of the World Health Assembly, the first four WHO global conferences on health and climate, and the expansion of WHO’s climate change and health programme, which has now provided direct support to over 30 low and middle income countries. Diarmid is author of over 100 journal papers, reports, and book chapters on the ecology and control of infectious disease, and on the health implications of global environmental change. He is an international Member of the US National Academy of Medicine, and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Extreme Events, of the health chapters of the 5th and 6th IPCC Assessment reports, and of the first two health reports to the UN Climate Negotiations.
Driven by socio-economic and environmental justice; Maruxa has worked 20+ years in the design and delivery of wide-impact strategies, public policy solutions and multi-stakeholder partnerships for equitable prosperity, sustainability and climate action. From executive and advisory positions in NGOs, international organisations and civil service, she has worked with leaders in multilateral organisations, government, civil society, philanthropy and business across multiple countries and contexts.
Before joining SLOCAT, Maruxa founded the multi-stakeholder coalition Communitas, which pioneered knowledge-based advocacy for the Sustainable Development Goal on Cities. Former roles also include Secretary General of Regions for Sustainable Development, Senior Policy Specialist in Cities Alliance-UNOPS, and local and regional civil service in the UK and Spain. Maruxa has served as Champion of the Lancet Pathfinder Initiative for Healthy Zero-Carbon Futures and chaired the 68th UN Civil Society Conference.
Howard Frumkin, professor emeritus at the University of Washington School of Public Health, is a physician-epidemiologist specializing in environmental health. His career has focused on health aspects of climate change, the built environment, nature contact, and sustainability, within the framework of Planetary Health. He has served as Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, as Dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health, as head of the “Our Planet, Our Health” initiative at the Wellcome Trust, and as Senior Vice President of Trust for Public Land. He is author or co-author of over 300 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his ten books include Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability (2nd Edition, 2022), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (3rd Edition, 2016), Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves (2020), and Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene (2021). He is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Medicine, and is a Hagler Fellow at Texas A&M University. He was educated at Brown (A.B.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.), and Harvard (M.P.H. and Dr.P.H.).
Joyeeta Gupta is Distinguished Professor of Climate Justice, Sustainability and Global Justice (University of Amsterdam), and is also Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South and holds a water professorship at IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education. She is the co-chair (2024-2025) of the UN Secretary General Appointed Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (10-Member-Group) – a component of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism. She is a Commissioner in the Global Commission on the Economics of Water andwas Co-chair of the first phase of the Earth Commission (2019-2024), convened by Future Earth and the Global Commons Alliance during which time 22 publications were achieved with a top publication in Nature and in Lancet Planetary Health. She was awarded the 2023 Spinoza Prize – the highest distinction in Dutch science and also called the ‘Dutch Nobel Prize’and was lead author of the Nobel Peace Prize winning report on climate change of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Maryanne Q. Hancock is the Chief Executive Officer of Y Analytics, the public benefit LLC of TPG. Y Analytics was founded by TPG, Bono, and Jeff Skoll to deliver rigorous, evidence-based environmental and social investment decision-making. Under Maryanne’s leadership, Y Analytics has built methodologies and an ecosystem of talent and distinguished advisors that advances this mission through their work with TPG Rise Impact, one of the largest private equity impact investing platforms globally, and in particular, TPG Rise Climate. In line with the public benefit mission of the organization, Maryanne publishes, speaks, teaches, shares with other investors, and contributes to industry bodies.
Maryanne spent ~20 years at McKinsey and Company, where she was a Senior Partner and counsellor to numerous CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies. Maryanne co-founded McKinsey’s K-12 education practice in the U.S. and served several poverty alleviation non-profits, including CARE. She worked extensively in environmental services and energy. She was a Co-Chair of McKinsey’s global Partner Election Committee.
Maryanne currently serves on the boards of Ownership Works, a non-profit expanding shared ownership among workers, as well as Intersect Power. She previously served on the board of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
Maryanne holds a BA with Honors and an MA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She resides with her husband and two sons in Virginia.
Dr. Naoko Ishii is Professor and Director of the Center for Global Commons (CGC) at the University of Tokyo. Before joining UTokyo, she was the CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) from 2012 to 2020. She is a vocal advocate for catalyzing systems change for sustainable development within the planetary boundaries. She brings her expertise to global discourse by joining the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW), Food System Economics Commission, as well as serving the Board for ClimateWorks Foundation, UNFoundation and Planetary Guardians. Her earlier roles include Deputy Vice Minister of Finance in Japan, Director at the World Bank and Economist at the IMF. She earned a doctorate degree in international studies at the University of Tokyo.
Kelly is Chief of Science, Data and Systems Change for the Bezos Earth Fund. In this role, she brings data, analysis and evidence to inform the Fund’s strategic direction. Kelly is also Co-Director of the Systems Change Lab, which monitors, learns from and accelerates the transformational change required to protect people and the planet.
Before coming to the Earth Fund, Kelly spent 12 years at the World Resources Institute, where she was the Director of Tracking and Strengthening Climate Action in WRI’s global climate program. Kelly holds a PhD and Master of Environmental Management from Yale’s School of Environment and a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale College.
Dr. Mahmood is currently Professor and Executive Director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health at Sunway University in Malaysia. She was the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health during the Covid 19 pandemic. She currently co-chairs the World Economic Forum (WEF) Steering Committee on Climate and Health and in 2025 was appointed as a member of the WEF Global Future Council for Clean Air . She is a strong advocate of planetary health and sustainability and actively advises on Environment, Social and Governance in the advisory and board roles she holds. She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards including the most prestigious Malaysian Merdeka Award in 2015 and the ASEAN Prize in 2019, for her contribution to peace, community development and humanitarian work. She also received the inaugural Isa Award for Humanity in 2013 from the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Gandhi- King-Ikeda Award for community development and peace building from Morehouse College, USA. More recently, she was awarded the Wu Lien-Teh Award for Leadership in Public Health 2023. Dr Mahmood graduated as a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the National University of Malaysia, has a Masters in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the same university and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists United Kingdom. She also completed executive education at the International Management and Development Centre, IMD Lausanne and University California Berkeley Law. She is also the founder of MERCY Malaysia, a leading southern-based international humanitarian organisation.
Ms. Majdalani joined the International Center on Agriculture Research in Drylands (ICARDA) in January 2022 as a Senior Climate Advisor, supporting ICARDA to align its programs on food systems transformation with the Climate and Sustainable Development agendas. Prior to that, she served as the Director of the Arab Center for Climate Change Policies and Cluster Leader of Natural Resource Sustainability at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA). She has extensive experience in integrated management of natural resources (water, energy and food security), working with public and private sector institutions, and supporting inter-governmental processes to achieve region-specific development goals.
She holds an MSc degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Syracuse University and has served on a number of international research and development Boards, such as International Center on Biosaline Agriculture, and the Stockholm International Water Award and is currently serving on the Steering Committee of the Global Water Partnership.
María Mendiluce is an expert in sustainable development, energy and climate action with over 25 years of experience. As CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition (WMB), she works with non-profit and corporate partners to provide the lodestar to guide companies to net zero.
To date, WMB has mobilised over 20,000 companies that have committed to Paris-aligned emissions reduction and has brought the business voice to the G7, G20 and UNFCCC. In 2023, WMB launched the Fossil To Clean movement, galvanising action across business and policymakers for fossil fuel phaseout. This campaign was influential in securing inclusion of fossil fuel phase out in the final agreement at COP28 and has so far mobilised 260+ companies representing $1.6 trillion in global annual revenue.
María sits on the Executive Board of The Science Based Targets initiative, the Mission Possible Partnership and is co-founder of the SME Climate Hub, which is building a one-stop-shop for smaller companies for their net-zero commitments.
Formerly being the Managing Director and member of the Senior Management Team at WBCSD, María established transformative industry projects in energy, climate, transport, plastics and circular economy. She has also held senior positions at the Economic Bureau of the Spanish Prime Minister, in the CEO’s office of Iberdrola and at the International Energy Agency.
Maria has a PhD in energy economics. She is a Commissioner on the Energy Transitions Commission, a member of the Advisory Board of the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability (HCGS) at the Geneva Graduate Institute and she is part of several companies’ sustainability advisory councils.
In 2023, Maria was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential climate leader in business, and in 2021 she was the recipient of the Spanish Climate Personality of the Year award by The Climate Reality Project.
Tolu(llah) Oni is Clinical Professor of Global Public Health and Sustainable Development at the University Cambridge and Founder & CEO of UrbanBetter. She is an Extraordinary Professor in Architecture at University of Pretoria and Honorary Professor in Public Health, University of Cape Town.
A Public Health Physician and urban epidemiologist, her work supports a coordinated approach between science, policy and societal role players, identifying creative and long-term strategies to address complex urban population and planetary health challenges in rapidly growing cities. She has served as scientific adviser for several organisations including International Society for Urban Health, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Planetary health board and the World Obesity Federation. She is an editorial board member of PLOS Global Public Health, Lancet Planetary Health, Cities and Health, and the Journal of Urban Health.
In recognition of her work, she has been profiled in the Lancet journal, Science magazine, and the British Medical Journal, and is a Fellow of the International Science Council, African Academy of Sciences, Next Einstein Forum Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment, and inaugural director (2011-2022) of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also has an Adjunct Professorship with the Division of Planetary Health at Monash University. Professor Patz is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine for his pioneering research on climate change and human health, and he currently serves as Director and PI of the NIH-sponsored Health-First Climate Action Research Center at UW-Madison.
Dr. Patz served as Health Co-Chair for the first US National Climate Assessment – a mandated report to the US Congress – and for 15 years, served as a Lead Author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Some of his other awards include: the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows Award; shared Zayed International Prize for the Environment; Fulbright Scholarship; American Public Health Association’s Homer Calver Award for environmental health leadership; Case Western School of Medicine Alumni Special Recognition award; Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars; Chanchlani Global Health Research Award.
Professor Patz has taught and conducted research on the health effects of climate change and global environmental change for nearly 30 years. His faculty appointment is jointly with the Department of Population Health Science and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and he currently directs the university’s Planetary Health Scholars Program. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications and several textbooks on these subjects.
Tamer Rabie, MD, is the Global Program Lead for Climate and Health at the World Bank. He joined the Bank in 2005 and has since been leading lending as well as advisory services programs across more than thirty countries across all regions, including those characterized by fragility, conflict and violence. He has over twenty-five years of wide-ranging policy, public health and health systems experience including in climate change, nutrition, reproductive health, service delivery, governance, the private sector, and environmental health. As a medical doctor and public health specialist, he has always remained acutely aware that addressing global health challenges transcends the confines of healthcare alone and necessitates a comprehensive approach encompassing social, economic, and environmental policies, among others. Having worked on the nexus of climate and health since 2008, he has helped the World Bank shape its vision on climate action. In his current role as the Global Program Lead for Climate and Health, Dr. Rabie leads the World Bank’s efforts in addressing the climate-health crisis by scaling country tailored solutions, delivering global public goods, and forging partnerships with other development partners, the private sector and civil society organizations.
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, MBE, is an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, based in the Department of Psychology, University of Bath. She is Director of the ESRC-funded UK Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST).
She regularly advises governmental and other organisations on low-carbon behaviour change and climate change communication, was one of the expert leads for Climate Assembly UK, and Lead Author for IPCC’s Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report. Her research projects have included studies of meat consumption, energy efficiency behaviours, waste reduction and carrier bag reuse, perceptions of smart technologies and electric vehicles, low-carbon lifestyles, and responses to climate change.
Dr. Catherine Woteki is Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University and a Distinguished Fellow of the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. She recently served as a member of President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and as chair of the Division of Earth and Life Studies of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. She was Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area from 2010 to 2016. In that role, she developed the Office of the Chief Scientist, established the USDA Science Council, instituted the Department’s first scientific integrity and open data policies, and was a founding member of the Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists held under the auspices of the G-20. Dr. Woteki is an advocate for building the platforms needed to enhance domestic and international food security and agricultural research.
Prior to joining USDA, Dr. Woteki served as Global Director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs for Mars, Incorporated, where she managed the company’s scientific policy on matters of health, nutrition, and food safety. From 2002 to 2005, she was Dean of Agriculture and also head of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Iowa State University. Dr. Woteki served as the first Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1997 to 2001, where she oversaw the safety of meat, poultry and egg products. Dr. Woteki served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as Deputy Associate Director for Science from 1994 to1996. During that time, she co-authored the Clinton Administration’s policy statement, “Science in the National Interest.”
