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Maeve Allsup

Associated Press

Maeve Allsup is the founding reporter at Latitude Media, an integrated B2B news, events, and production company focused on the energy transition. She has helped build Latitude's coverage of U.S. clean energy policy, grid modernization, and AI infrastructure demands. Maeve previously covered tech policy and electric vehicles for Morning Brew, and spent several years as a California correspondent for Bloomberg Law.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maeve-allsup/

Drew Anderson

The Narwhal

Drew Anderson is a Calgary-based journalist with The Narwhal, covering energy and the environment on the Canadian Prairies. His work focuses on the intersection of climate, politics and energy from his home base in the heart of the country's oilpatch. That work encompasses everything from the impacts of oil and gas regulation on landowners and First Nations, to the pressure of grid modernization and the socio-economic strains of decarbonization.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-anderson-069b3439/
Blusky: @drewanderson.bsky.social

Chloe Bennett

StateImpact Oklahoma

Chloe Bennett-Steele covers the environment and science for StateImpact Oklahoma, a collaboration between four NPR member stations. Chloe reports on the oil and gas industry, the expansion of wind and solar and the state’s exploration of nuclear energy. She also covers utilities, climate change and wildlife. Before StateImpact, Chloe was a climate change reporter for Adirondack Explorer, an environmental magazine in Saranac Lake, New York. She holds a master’s degree from the City University of New York, where she studied science journalism.

Bluesky: chloebwrites.bsky.social
Instagram: chloe.outdoors
Linkedin: chloe-bennett-steele-b36562124

Catherine Cartier

Reuters

Catherine Cartier is a Visual Verification Producer at Reuters, based in Beirut. She uses visual documentation to report on breaking news, energy, and conflict. Before joining Reuters, she covered oil markets at Bloomberg and interned at CNN. She is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Scholar Award (2024), an alumna of the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, and a former Pulitzer Center fellow. Catherine speaks Arabic and is a graduate of New York University's Global Journalism program and Davidson College.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-cartier-2a2142112/

Lana Ferguson

Dallas Morning News

Lana Ferguson is a business reporter at The Dallas Morning News, covering energy and natural resources. She is a graduate of the University of Mississippi's journalism school and previously covered South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspapers. She hails from Virginia, but her work has taken her all over the U.S., southern Africa, and Sri Lanka.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lanafergusonjourno/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LanaFergusonJournalist/
X: https://x.com/TheLanaBanana
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bylanaferguson/

Steven Grattan

Associated Press

Steven Grattan is The Associated Press’ Amazon rainforest and deforestation reporter, covering climate and energy issues across Latin America, including fossil fuels, environmental policy and Indigenous rights. An Irish native, he previously worked as a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Brazil and has reported across the region since 2013 for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post and BBC News. He also co-founded the English-language newspaper The Bogotá Post and holds an MA in human rights and global ethics from the University of Leicester.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-james-grattan/ - https://x.com/sjgrattan

Joseph Harris

Freelance

Joey Harris covers state government and economic development at the Indianapolis Business Journal where he reports on utilities, data centers and carbon capture, among other topics. He previously worked for three years in North Dakota as the energy and environment reporter at the Bismarck Tribune. In North Dakota, Harris primarily focused on the state's oil industry and industrial efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

Twitter/X: JoeyHarris4028

Sameer Hashmi

Indianapolis Business Journal

Sameer Hashmi is an independent journalist covering energy, business and geopolitics across the Gulf and South Asia. He spent seven years as the BBC’s Middle East Business Correspondent, where he established and led the broadcaster’s Gulf bureau, reporting on global energy markets, OPEC policy and economic transformation across the region for television, radio and digital audiences. Prior to that, he spent more than a decade as the BBC’s India Business Correspondent, covering business, energy and economic developments across South Asia. He continues to report on the Gulf for the BBC and other international news organisations.

X - https://x.com/sameerhashmi

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameer-hashmi-19447321

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Sameer.Hashmi22/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sameer_hashmi

YouTube - https://m.youtube.com/@sameer_hashmi22

Ying (Coco) Liu

Bloomberg News

Coco Liu covers all aspects of climate change for Bloomberg News, with a special focus on climate technology. Based in New York, she joined Bloomberg following a decade of reporting on business and the environment across 13 countries in Asia. In 2024, she was part of a Bloomberg team named Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series on corporate use of public water.

LinkedIn: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/cocosh/__;!!BDUfV1Et5lrpZQ!T33lVRsh7zxIzZ0IStPX-oostkXHDgFaL4F9vpPgdxDIxUs1G2DxmusyIIAEDeZTIDoIxmQIPJB8bQqXgyuk5N4$
X: @cocojournalist
Bluesky: @cocojournalist.bsky.social

Pietro Lombardi

Reuters

Pietro Lombardi is an energy and climate reporter at Reuters, based in Madrid. He covers politics, policy and corporate strategies with a focus on the Iberian region. Pietro grew up in the province of Naples, Italy, where he began his career in journalism writing for a local paper. He is a Fulbright alumnus and holds a master’s degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pietrolombardi/
X: @PietroLombard10

Yutong Lu

Caixin Media

Yutong Lu is a reporter at Caixin Media, where she covers the energy sector with a focus on critical minerals, electric vehicle supply chains, and hydrogen. Her reporting examines China’s role in global energy transitions and the intersection of energy, industrial policy, and geopolitics.
She has also reported on China’s overseas energy investments and capacity expansion, as well as how local policy environments shape their development.

Linkedin URL is www.linkedin.com/in/yutong-lu-399424177

Samuel Meredith

CNBC International

Sam Meredith is a Senior Correspondent at CNBC International in London, covering geopolitics, climate change and the energy transition. Sam has reported from the factory floor of Europe’s largest rare earths facility on Russia’s doorstep, traveled to Oslo to cover Norway’s electric vehicle transition and covered United Nations climate talks from Scotland to Egypt.
Sam’s reporting typically covers European corporates in the oil and gas, renewables and automotive sectors. He has also presented short documentaries on issues such as Big Tech’s “thirsty” AI boom, climate risks in the real estate sector and the degrowth movement.
www.linkedin.com/in/samuelmeredith

Stuti Mishra

The Independent

Stuti Mishra is Asia Climate Correspondent at The Independent where she covers climate, environment, and energy. Based in Delhi, she has reported on solar deployment, coal-dependent communities, carbon markets, climate finance and fossil fuel policy, alongside ground reporting on extreme weather and its human consequences. She has covered four UN climate summits, as well as plastics and biodiversity negotiations. Stuti is also a TedX speaker, a Climate Justice Fellow and a graduate of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute.

X : @stutinmishra
Bluesky : Stuti.bsky.social
Instagram : @StutiMishra

Carlos Nogueras

Texas Tribune

Carlos Nogueras Ramos is a regional reporter based in Odessa. In 2023, he joined The Texas Tribune as a corps member with Report for America. He tells the stories of Texas from the vast oil-rich Permian Basin region, where he documents the oil and gas industry’s reverberating impacts on the Texas economy, environment and how it helps shape energy markets writ large.

X: carlosnogueras_
Work instagram: carlosinthewest

Meghan Potkins

The Logic

Meghan Potkins is the Alberta correspondent for The Logic. Previously, she spent more than four years covering the energy sector at the Financial Post, where she broke stories on Canada's oil sands and pipeline companies and reported extensively on the economic and policy implications of decarbonization. She studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa and holds a degree in political science from the University of Alberta.

X: @mpotkikns

Clavel Rangel Jimenez

Freelance

Clavel Rangel Jiménez is a Venezuelan investigative journalist with more than 15 years of experience covering extractive industries, labor movements, corruption, migration, and human rights across Latin America and the United States. Her reporting has focused extensively on the political economy of mining and state-owned industries in Venezuela, particularly in the Guayana region—home to the country’s steel, aluminum, and gold sectors.
She is the co-founder of the Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network, an initiative that promotes investigative journalism in southern Venezuela. Rangel began her career at Correo del Caroní, an award-winning regional newspaper in southern Venezuela, where she reported on industry, labor, and corruption. She later worked as a correspondent for El Nacional and El Pitazo, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish-language newsletter Soy Arepita, and was a Senior Editor at El Tiempo Latino in Washington, D.C.
Her work has been published in The Guardian, Chicago Health Magazine, and Armando.info, among other outlets. She is currently a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clavelrangel/
X: https://x.com/ClavelRangel

Nathan Risser

Bloomberg News

Nathan Risser is a reporter covering oil and energy for Bloomberg News. Based in Colorado, he writes about commodity markets, the companies and people behind them and how policy and geopolitical events shape the industry. Before joining Bloomberg, he was a senior correspondent at Argus Media in Houston, Texas, and has freelanced for publications like New York Magazine and The Spectator. He holds a degree in philosophy from Durham University.

Twitter is @nathanrisser1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-risser/

Noah Schwartz

S&P Global

Noah Schwartz is a Washington, DC-based reporter for S&P Global covering utilities and energy policy in the Northeast US. He has a master's degree in security policy studies from George Washington University. In his free time, he is passionate about reading and the Boston Celtics.

My Bluesky is @nschwartz42.bsky.social

Hayley Smith

LA Times

Hayley Smith is an environment reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering climate policy, technology and solutions. Her recent work examines how federal environmental actions are shaping California’s clean energy transition. She previously worked on the breaking news team. Originally from Miami, Hayley holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.

x.com/whereishayley

Lucas Smolcic Larson

MLive

Lucas Smolcic Larson is an investigative reporter for MLive, a statewide news organization in Michigan, with a focus on energy and utilities. Since joining MLive in 2021, Lucas has also covered statewide environmental news and local government in and around Ann Arbor, where he lives. Previously, he was an investigative projects reporter at the Hilton Head Island Packet, where his stories documented how powerful South Carolina lawmakers funneled taxpayer money to causes tied to their relatives and revealed how drunk drivers routinely escape conviction. Lucas speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

X @Lucasgsl6
https://x.com/Lucasgsl6

Bill Loveless

Columbia Energy Exchange Host

Bill Loveless is a host on the Columbia Energy Exchange and Director of CGEP's Energy Journalism Initiative. He is a senior energy journalist with nearly 40 years of experience covering energy policy, regulation, and business from the Carter administration to the Trump administration.

Bill spent most of his career at The McGraw-Hill Companies (now S&P Global) as a reporter, editor and editorial director for Platts, an international provider of energy news and prices, and other McGraw-Hill energy news services. From 2010 to 2014, he anchored “Platts Energy Week,” a weekly TV program that aired on the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., and on PBS stations across the U.S.

He is a recipient of the McGraw-Hill Companies Corporate Achievement Award.

From 2015 to 2017, Bill wrote a weekly column for USA Today focusing on energy policy, business and technology trends.

A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Bill began his career as a newspaper reporter in Rhode Island. He is a member of the Harrington School of Communications and Media Executive Advisory Board at URI.

Nikia Cartwright

Associate Director of Strategy and Board Operation

Nikia Cartwright is an Associate Director of Strategy and Board Operations at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA.

Nikia has over 20 years of experience working in the administrative space. Prior to joining CGEP, she worked at HPS Investment Advisors as Executive Assistant to a Founding Partner; Senior Executive Assistant and Administrative Manager for the Healthcare group at Deutsche Bank; and Administrative Assistant for the Capital Markets group at Credit Suisse. Personal and intellectual interests include: Environmental studies, diversity and inclusion, and cycling.

Alice Manos

Associate Director of Social Media and Content

Alice Manos is the Associate Director of Social Media and Content at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA. She most recently served as Digital Content Coordinator at American University, leading student life communication operations through social media, web, video, and photography.

Prior to that, she developed her digital storytelling skills at the international nonprofit World Food Program USA, a U.S. fundraising branch of the United Nations World Food Programme.

Alice holds an M.A. in Strategic Communication from American University and a B.A. in Public Communication with a minor in Spanish. As a dual French-American citizen, she grew up in Paris before moving to college in the U.S. and is fluent in French and Spanish.

Kyu Lee

Director of Marketing and Communications

Kyu Lee is director of marketing and communications at the Center on Global Energy Policy where he leads efforts to showcase and advance the center’s work around the world’s most pressing energy issues.

Kyu has been working for more than 20 years in strategic communications. Prior he was an associate director of communications and marketing for the Earth Institute at Columbia University. There he helped lead outreach efforts across a range of areas including media relations, partnership development, social media, and digital strategy. Kyu joined the Earth Institute in 2007 to bring attention to the work of the Millennium Villages, a project that spanned 10 different countries in sub-Saharan Africa focused on demonstrating the Millennium Development Goals could be achieved. Since then he's developed core strategies and campaigns to promote Columbia's work in the fields of sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and climate change.

He first worked on climate change issues in 1992 when he traveled to the Rio Earth Summit as an intern for a newspaper. After graduating, he traveled to all the major UN global conferences during the 90s as a photographer, operations manager, editor, and writer. He's visited more than 30 countries and written on sustainable development issues throughout the world.

He lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and daughter. He is an avid birder and you can find him early in the morning during the spring and fall in Central Park. He is a member of the Board of Directors for NYC Bird Alliance. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in English Literature.

Sibi Arasu

Associated Press

Biography

Sibi Arasu covers climate, environment and renewable energy-related issues for the Associated Press. He is based in Bengaluru, India and has reported on climate change for various Indian newspapers and many international outlets as an independent journalist before joining the Associated Press in 2022. He has written extensively about solar power, the energy transition in India and beyond, efforts made by communities and individuals to adapt to or mitigate climate impacts among other issues. He has also covered the United Nations climate talks for the Associated Press. Sibi’s work has garnered several accolades, ranging from India’s Red Ink awards to the United Nations Correspondent Award.

Hilary Beaumont

Freelance

Biography

Hilary Beaumont is an investigative journalist covering the climate crisis. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Rolling Stone, VICE News, The New Republic, High Country News and more.In 2021, she won a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, which recognizes journalists who produce impactful work and bring a fresh perspective to the climate beat. She is a Pulitzer Center grantee exploring how climate change is destroying the ice roads that supply Indigenous communities. Her work includes coverage of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires for The Guardian and Al Jazeera, an investigation for The Guardian revealing how the fossil fuel industry helped to spread anti-protest laws, and a Rolling Stone investigation focusing on the first environmental activists killed by police in the United States.

Bluesky: @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social
Instagram: @hilarybeaumont
Twitter: @hilarybeaumont

Mie Dahl

Freelance

Biography

Mie Hoejris Dahl is a Danish freelance journalist based in Mexico City. She covers Latin America for international outlets like The Economist, Foreign Policy, Mongabay, The Christian Science Monitor, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg investigations and others. She is specialized in public health, climate and environmental topics, crime, economics and politics. She holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Website: https://www.miedahl.com/
X: https://x.com/Miehdahl
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miedahl/
Instagram: @dahlmie

Kirsten Errick

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Biography

Kirsten Errick is a Renewable Energy and Climate Reporter for Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights. Based in Washington, DC, Kirsten covers solar power. She is focused on solar developers, manufacturers, residential companies, projects, policies and utilities as they relate to solar. She has reported on the Inflation Reduction Act's tax credits and the role of these incentives for the solar industry. She also writes data articles about solar development in the US. Kirsten has closely followed the antidumping and countervailing duty trade case for solar cells from four Southeast Asian countries. She is closely covering the impact of the new administration's tariffs on solar. She is curious about the role of solar to meet growing energy demand and the geopolitical and policy environment around solar. Previously, she reported on various government agencies and also covered litigation, mergers, and acquisitions.Kirsten holds a Master's in Professional Studies in Journalism from Georgetown University and a BA in Communication from Villanova University.

www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenerrick ; X: @KirstenErrick ; BlueSky: kirstenerrick.bsky.social

Andrea Jaramillo

Bloomberg News

Biography

Andrea Jaramillo is a reporter at Bloomberg News where she focuses mainly on covering energy in Colombia. Based in Bogotá, she has reported on the nation's push for a fast transition away from fossil fuels, the challenges the country faces regarding its wind energy ambitions as well as other stories related to the environment. She holds a master's degree in Environmental Economics from a joint program between Universidad de los Andes and University of Maryland.

Twitter: @anjaralop
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-jaramillo-b0521615/

Claire Hao

Houston Chronicle

Biography

Claire Hao is a reporter at the Houston Chronicle covering the Texas power grid, renewable energy and the energy transition.Claire previously spent a year on the climate and environment team of the San Francisco Chronicle. She has written for the news desks of Bloomberg Law and the Chicago Tribune as well as for the editorial board of the Washington Post. Claire graduated from the University of Michigan.

Twitter: @clairehao_ (https://x.com/clairehao_) ; LinkedIn: claire-hao (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-hao/)

Steve Howe

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Biography

Steve Howe covers climate, weather and the Great Lakes at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, where he blends daily explainers with enterprise reporting on topics of environmental justice, renewable energy and unusual meteorological and astronomical events. In previous positions, he covered federal, state and local politics and government, as well as law enforcement, at several newspapers in New York and Utah. Steve holds a BS in Journalism from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Bluesky: Rochowe.bksy.sociaL
Twitter: @ROC_Howe

Jeff Lagerquist

Yahoo Finance Canada

Biography

Georgina McCartney

Reuters

Biography

Georgina McCartney is an energy reporter at Reuters, based in Houston. She mainly covers U.S. crude markets, writing about supply, demand trends. Before joining the Reuters’ Commodities and Energy team in December 2023, she covered oil products markets at Argus Media in London. Georgina is a graduate of University College London, from the UK and plays rugby.

Siyi Liu

Reuters

Biography

Siyi Liu is an Asia Energy Correspondent at Reuters, based in Singapore. Her reporting focuses on the complex interplay between geopolitics and energy markets, with a particular emphasis on oil supply and demand dynamics across Asia. Originally from China, she holds a Master’s degree in Financial Journalism from City, University of London.

Twitter @liu_siyi0319
linkedin.com/in/siyi-liu-730b64113

Callie Patteson

Washington Examiner

Biography

Callie Patteson is an energy and environment reporter with the Washington Examiner, where she co-authors a daily newsletter widely covering energy and environmental policy, administrative and agency activities, major industry moves, as well as the various challenges brought on by the effects of climate change. Her reporting has also been featured in Fast Company, Non-Profit Quarterly Magazine, the New York Post, TODAY.com, and more. She holds a joint master's degree in journalism from Aarhus University, Denmark, and the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and received her bachelor's from The King's College, New York. Based in Washington D.C., Callie grew up in southern New Hampshire and is a lifelong Red Sox fan.

Twitter: @CalliePatteson

Keaton Peters

Straight Arrow News

Biography

Keaton Peters is a reporter for Straight Arrow News, based in Austin, Texas covering climate change and the energy industry. His work has been featured in numerous publications including the Texas Tribune, Inside Climate News and Canary Media. Peters originally hails from a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains in eastern California. He has an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and a master’s in journalism from UT Austin.

Twitter/X: @keatonpeters; Bluesky: @keatonpeters; Instagram: @bykeatonpeters

Olivia Rudgard

Bloomberg News

Biography

Olivia Rudgard is a reporter at Bloomberg News covering climate change. Based in London, she focuses on the consumer aspects of climate and energy, asking how climate change is also changing everyday life. Her stories include a look at how heat pumps could be made more marketable and how dads are becoming a driving force of community climate action. Before joining Bloomberg, she spent eight years at the Telegraph where she covered beats including personal finance and religious affairs, and also spent two years reporting on technology companies from San Francisco.

Shilpa Samant

The Economic Times

Biography

Shilpa Samant is the Energy Correspondent at The Economic Times, India’s foremost financial daily. Based in New Delhi, she covers developments in the country’s energy transition and their broader economic implications. Her reporting primarily focuses on clean energy and emerging technologies, combining in-depth journalism with strong analytical insight. Prior to joining The Economic Times, she served as a commodity pricing specialist at S&P Global, where she conducted extensive research on India’s recycled plastics market. Her work contributed to the launch of the country’s first free-on-board benchmark price for recycled PET.

www.linkedin.com/in/shilpasamant

Francisco Sequera

S&P Global

Biography

Francisco Sequera is an associate price reporter within the Energy Transition & Renewables team at S&P Global Commodity Insights in Mexico City. His expertise lies in Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) in the USA and I-RECs in Latin America, he also has a keen interest in energy policy and electricity market analysis with over five years of experience focusing on the Mexico and Texas markets. Francisco is skilled in Python and before joining S&P he developed models to optimize energy systems. Francisco holds an MSC in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh.

linkedin.com/in/francisco-sequera-245615a1

Alexa St. John

Associated Press

Biography

Alexa St. John is a reporter on the climate team at The Associated Press covering climate change, solutions, environmental policy and the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles. Based in Detroit, Alexa previously reported on automakers and EV startups at Business Insider, as well as industry suppliers and mobility at trade publication Automotive News. Alexa is a graduate of the University of Michigan

Twitter: @alexa_stjohn; LinkedIn: Alexa St. John

Mike Tony

Charleston Gazette-Mail

Biography

Mike Tony is a reporter at the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette-Mail, where he focuses on the environment and energy as well as investigative work on other issues. Tony previously was an enterprise and investigative reporter for the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard, his hometown newspaper. The University of Pennsylvania alumnus was a 2024 recipient of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications and a 2023 MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Fellow. He has produced award-winning, in-depth reporting on environmental health, state and federal government, the opioid epidemic and other areas.

Ali Withers

Reuters

Biography

Ali Withers reports on climate and environment news for Reuters News Agency. Based in Copenhagen, her reporting is visually-minded and spans science, policy, impacts of extreme weather and adaptation. She spent her first two years at Reuters working with bureaus globally to strengthen visual climate reporting. Prior to Reuters, Ali was a video journalist at NBC News and Bloomberg News in New York.

IG/Linkedin/BlueSky: @AliWithers

Jasmine Wambui

Royal Media Services, Kenya

Biography

Jasmine Wambui is a financial journalist at Royal Media Services in Kenya, where she covers Energy, Climate News, Investment Developments and Infrastructure across Africa. She has years of experience in business reporting, previously working with The Standard Group across its television, print, and digital platforms.Jasmine has a background in Communication and Media Studies from Daystar University and has pursued additional training in Financial Markets at Yale University and Oil & Gas Industry Operations at Duke University. She has moderated high-profile policy and industry events including the Launch of The Global Hunger Index and The World Chambers Federation Summit. Her reporting has helped shape public discourse and influence legislation around energy in Kenya. Jasmine’s work is driven by a passion for translating complex economic issues into accessible, impactful stories that inform and engage.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-wambui/ ; X: https://x.com/Jasmine__wambui

Xuan Zhao

Caixin Media, Beijing

Biography

Xuan Zhao is an energy reporter at Caixin Media in Beijing, where she covers China’s energy transition, renewable energy development, and power market reforms. She has authored dozens of in-depth features on energy, environment, and industrial policy. Her reporting focuses on how policy and market forces shape the clean energy shift in China and globally.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/煊-赵-59889810b/

Mohammed Almadhoun

Al Jazeera

Biography

Mohammed Almadhoun is a TV correspondent based in London covering politics, current affairs and conflicts in Europe for Al Jazeera. Almadhoun covers the annual G7, NATO, and EU leaders’ summits where energy policies have gained more relevance in the geopolitics of the region recently. Also, he covered a series of extreme heatwaves and wildfire incidents in southern Europe in the last couple of years. Prior to his role with Al Jazeera, Almadhoun worked for different media outlets in Gaza and Beirut, covering wars and politics of the Middle East.

Jack Board

Channel News Asia

Biography

Jack Board is the climate change correspondent for Singapore-based news outlet, CNA. He is Australian but lives in Bangkok and travels throughout the Southeast Asia region and beyond covering stories about our changing planet and economies. He is a writer, photographer and videographer and so he spends a lot of time chasing powerful visuals to bring these complex stories to life.

Marjorie Cessac

Freelance

Biography

Marjorie Cessac is an independent journalist, working almost exclusively for Le Monde, covering energy and environmental policies with a focus on climate change and biodiversity.
She has been a reporter for almost 30 years, and more than 5 years covering all aspects of energy and climate change. For instance, she has been following the entire energy crisis in Europe and the risk of blackouts after the war in Ukraine. She investigated the uranium mines in Niger that supply European nuclear power plants, the hydrogen diplomacy, the challenges surrounding minerals to ensure the energy transition and the resilience of electricity grids.
Before working for Le Monde, and taking a more in-depth interest in energy and climate issues, Marjorie spent a long time interested in emerging countries. She was a correspondent in India for about 7 years and traveled through South America and several African countries, notably as part of a contract with Jeune Afrique. She has also contributed to the writing of several books, including one on the Tunisian revolution of 2011 and the other on the Muslims of France. She has a Master's degree in economics from the University La Sorbonne in Paris and a Master's degree in international migration from the EHESS. She also has a Master's degree in journalism from the University Centre for Journalism Education in Strasbourg.

Gloria Dickie

Reuters

Biography

Gloria Dickie is a global climate and environment correspondent at Reuters News Agency, based in London. She has reported from more than 20 countries on climate change impacts, from melting glaciers to raging wildfires to shifts in international diplomacy. Gloria was named a National Geographic Explorer in 2018, and was a 2022 finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in the international reporting category. She is also the author of “Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future” (W.W. Norton, 2023), which was named a best book of the year by the New Yorker and the Economist.

Luz Ding

Bloomberg News

Biography

Luz Ding is a reporter at Bloomberg News covering energy transition and climate change in China. Based in Beijing, she has reported from solar power plants in Inner Mongolian deserts and melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. Her story on China's bottled water industry was part of Bloomberg's Water Grab series named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
Prior to Bloomberg, Luz was a news researcher for the New York Times and a reporter for Caixin Media. She holds a master’s degree in international science and technology policy from George Washington University.

James Dinneen

New Scientist

Biography

James Dinneen is a science and environmental journalist from Colorado, based in New York where he reports on climate, energy, biodiversity, and other curiosities for New Scientist. His writing has also appeared in Science, National Geographic, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Undark, Discover, Yale E360, Wired, bioGraphic and Smithsonian, among other outlets. His investigation for Undark on aging dam infrastructure was a 2022 National Magazine Award finalist and won the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for investigative journalism. He has a master's in science writing from MIT, and studied history and philosophy at Colorado College. He likes maps.

Elizabeth Elkin

Bloomberg News

Biography

Elizabeth Elkin is the deputy energy team leader and natural gas reporter for Bloomberg News. Based in New York City, she writes a daily gas markets column and covers natural gas producers and pipeline companies. She previously covered agriculture for Bloomberg. She holds an M.A. from the Missouri School of Journalism and a B.A. from the University of Alabama, where she also studied journalism.

Abagael Giles

Vermont Public

Biography

Abagael Giles is the climate and environment reporter at Vermont Public, where she focuses her reporting on the energy transition, climate and environmental justice and how climate change affects rural communities. Before that, Abagael worked as an agriculture reporter at the Addison Independent in Middlebury, Vt. and covered the ski industry at Vermont Ski + Ride and Vermont Sports magazines. She first fell in love with reporting on rural communities while interning at North Country Public Radio and later working for The Sheet: News, Views + Culture of the Eastern Sierra, where she covered climate change and the Los Angeles Aqueduct. When she's not making radio stories, she can usually be found exploring her home state of Vermont, one old logging road or ridgetop at a time. Twitter: @AbagaelGiles

Oliver Griffin

Reuters

Biography

Oliver Griffin reports on energy and the environment as well as general news across northern South America from Bogotá, Colombia. He joined Reuters in 2019 where he has developed a special interest in reporting on Colombia's oil crime – where stolen hydrocarbons flow directly into the global drug trade and illegal gold-mining industry – and the plight of environmental activists. More recently he has turned his attention towards Colombia’s efforts to advance towards the energy transition and away from fossil fuels. Originally from the United Kingdom, Oliver worked at Dow Jones Newswires in Barcelona where he covered oil and mining companies.
Twitter: @OliGGriffin

David Jordan

CQ Roll Call

Biography

David Jordan is the energy and environment reporter for CQ Roll Call, where he covers congressional and agency actions. Previously he covered congressional committees, and prior to joining the publication he worked for the Associated Press in Montpelier, Vermont. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and Northwestern University.
Twitter: @davpjor

Alexander Kaufman

HuffPost

Biography

Alexander Kaufman is a senior reporter at HuffPost, where he covers energy and climate change. His recent reporting has focused on nuclear energy, building codes, clean-energy supply chains and energy poverty, and featured dispatches from Taiwan, Mongolia and Portugal. Before joining HuffPost in 2014 as a business editor, he worked for the International Business Times, The Wrap and the Boston Globe. A fourth-generation New Yorker, he lives with his wife in southern Brooklyn. He blogs at kaufman.substack.com at microblogs at twitter.com/alexckaufman.
Twitter: @alexckaufman

Anna Kramer

NOTUS

Biography

Anna Kramer is a climate, environment, and technology journalist, writing widely about energy, agriculture and food systems, and how communities are navigating the challenges created by climate change. She is currently the energy and environmental policy reporter at NOTUS, although she still writes about climate change and food for other publications. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Heatmap News, and the MIT Technology Review, among others. She grew up in Philadelphia (and remains a loyal Phillies sports fan), studied international relations and Arabic at Brown University, and now resides in Washington, DC. She also writes about food and cooking in her newsletter, Bite into this.
Twitter: @anna_c_kramer

Christina Lu

Foreign Policy

Biography

Christina Lu is a reporter at Foreign Policy. Prior to joining FP in 2021, she worked at Foreign Affairs and the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research in Lusaka, Zambia. She lives in Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of Cornell University.
Twitter: @christinafei

Adam Mahoney

Capital B News

Biography

Adam Mahoney is the national climate and environment reporter at Capital B News, a local-national nonprofit news organization focused on the Black experience. Before joining Capital B, he was an environmental justice reporter at Grist and reported on police and prisons for several Chicago-based publications. Mahoney is a two-time Peter Lisagor Award winner for best reporting on race in Illinois in 2021 and best reporting on climate change in 2022.
He was a 2022 national finalist for best community-centered journalism from the Online News Association for his project about the impact of oil production on the community where he grew up. He has reported from a dozen U.S. states and Uganda, Vietnam, and Palestine for newspapers like the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as several print magazines.
Twitter: @AdamLMahoney

Joan Meiners

Arizona Republic

Biography

Joan Meiners is the climate news and storytelling reporter at the Arizona Republic, where she publishes climate accountability stories, environmental investigations, news analyses and commentary on the climate crisis. She has previously reported on the environment in southern Utah with Report For America and in New Orleans via ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her freelance writing has appeared in outlets including Discover magazine, National Geographic, Orion magazine and more. Her work has won multiple national-level awards, including the Nina Mason Pulliam award for "best of the best" in environment reporting, a feature story award from the Society of Environmental Journalists and a Science in Society award from the National Association of Science Writers. Before becoming a journalist, she completed a PhD in Ecology with research on the biodiversity patterns of native bee species. She lives in Phoenix, where she tries to spend as much time outside as she can when it's not too hot.
Twitter: @beecycles

Carlos Mureithi

Associated Press

Biography

Carlos Mureithi is the Africa climate and environment correspondent at the Associated Press.
His previous roles include East Africa correspondent at Quartz, East Africa editor at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Africa correspondent at the Christian Science Monitor.

His work has also been published by Reuters, Al Jazeera and the New York Times, where was part of a team that exposed efforts by big oil companies to weaken Kenya’s rules on plastics and make Africa a dumping ground for plastic waste.

Mureithi has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the United States International University-Africa and a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a Mastercard Foundation scholar.
Twitter: @CarlosMureithi

Francisco Parra

Freelance

Biography

Francisco Parra is a journalist specialized in environment and climate change, with postgraduate studies in investigative journalism, climate change and energy transition. He has worked in various media in Chile and abroad. He lives in Santiago and is the director of the Climate Tracker Latin America Foundation, an NGO dedicated to support and promote climate journalism.
Twitter: @frparrag

Kate Petersen

USA TODAY

Biography

Kate Petersen is the first climate change focused fact check reporter at USA TODAY, where she is responsible for writing articles that correct viral climate change related misinformation. Before accepting her current position, she was a freelance science journalist and has bylines in Discover, Wired, Ars Technica, Astronomy, Environmental Health News, Sky & Telescope and Eos. Kate earned her master of science degree from the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing.
Twitter: @KateSPetersen1

Martha Pskowski

Inside Climate News

Biography

Martha Pskowski reports on energy and the environment in Texas for Inside Climate News. She covers the oil and gas industries, air and water pollution and the impacts of climate change. She was previously a freelance reporter in Mexico City and an environmental reporter at the El Paso Times. Martha holds an MA in Journalism and Latin American Studies from New York University.
Twitter: @psskow

Jerry Redfern

Capital & Main

Biography

Jerry Redfern has covered the intersection of the oil and gas industry, state government, and climate change in New Mexico for Capital & Main since 2020. His reporting has led to millions in fines and operations upgrades for oil and gas producers and led to greater scrutiny of industry oversight agencies in the second-largest oil-producing state in the U.S.

Before that, he spent two decades as a photojournalist covering environmental and human rights stories across Southeast Asia and other regions. He is the co-producer, director, and editor of Eternal Harvest, an award-winning, feature-length documentary film about the deadly bombs left in Laos from America’s Vietnam War-era bombing campaign. And a data visualization he created showing all of the bombing missions carried out during the Vietnam War is part of the permanent collection at the U.S. National Archives.
Twitter: @jerryredfern

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