IMPACT Forum 2026

Alexandre Beaux is part of Aerospace Carbon Solutions, a GE Aerospace business. He serves as the customer and partner-facing lead for the Innovation Unit, a team of experts focused on ensuring the airline industry’s resilient and sustainable future through advanced technology. One of the main focuses of his team today is incubating solutions that help airlines decarbonize in a cost-effective way. Aerospace Carbon Solutions is also a thought leader in contrails avoidance, leveraging highly precise and accurate weather prediction capabilities to support aviation’s net-zero transition. Over his 20-year career in aerospace, Alexandre has held roles in marketing, sales, revenue and partner management. He began his career at Continental Airlines after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. 

Nicolas Bellouin is Professor of Climate Processes at the University of Reading (UK), and Chair in Aviation and Climate at Sorbonne Université in Paris (France), where he leads the Climaviation research project on the non-CO2 effects of aviation. Nicolas’ expertise is in the radiative forcing of climate change, especially from particles of pollution. He was awarded the Edward Appleton Medal by the British Institute of Physics in 2024. He was one of the lead authors of the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published in August 2021. He is a member of the European Aviation Safety Agency’s Aviation Non-CO2 Expert Network. 

Alastair leads the sustainable aviation team at ICF, supporting companies and governments across the global industry to reduce the environmental impact of aviation. His focus is on SAF, including designing, assessing, and improving regulation, developing private-sector initiatives to scale the SAF industry, and supporting investments and offtakes with SAF facilities. To date, he has supported over $6 Bn of SAF investments and offtakes, and has led SAF projects in the UK, EU, US, Canada, UAE, Australia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latin America, and Turkiye. Through project work and completion of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program, he has a thorough understanding of the financial implications of sustainability initiatives, supported by technical expertise as a Chartered Engineer, with a Master’s in aeronautical engineering.

Leonhard Braun is Senior Business Development Manager for Carbon Removal at Carbonfuture, where he works with corporate buyers and project developers to scale high-integrity carbon dioxide removal solutions. With a foundation in climate economics, he began his career advancing renewable energy initiatives in Africa before moving into carbon markets. Today, he supports companies in reaching their Net Zero ambitions by building tailored portfolios and strategies with durable CDR projects. 

Freya Burton is a senior leader at LanzaTech, where she has worked for nearly 20 years across a wide range of roles spanning R&D, communications, human resources, and executive leadership. She currently leads Global Policy, Government Relations, and External Relations, overseeing the company’s engagement with policymakers and stakeholders worldwide. 

Freya has played an active role in the Jet Zero Council in the United Kingdom, contributing to the development of policy frameworks supporting sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and recycled carbon fuels. Her work spans both the UK and the European Union levels, where she collaborates with industry groups, NGOs, and other stakeholders to help inform, guide, and advance legislation on carbon capture and utilization (CCU) for fuels and chemicals. 

With a career that began in research and development, Freya brings deep technical knowledge alongside strategic policy expertise, helping shape regulatory environments that enable the commercialization and scale-up of recycled carbon solutions globally. 

Tom Conlon is Professor of Finance at University College Dublin where he leads all aviation finance and leasing activities. His research interests are in sustainable finance, asset pricing and risk management, with a focus on using finance to promote sustainability in aviation. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences on issues relating to aviation sustainability.  Tom is Co-Chair of the Impact Science Working Group.

Patrick Edmond is Chief Commercial Officer at Future Energy Global, which is working to build a SAF ecosystem by aggregating demand for SAF and SAF credits from aircraft operators and corporates, securing offtakes from suppliers, and bringing external investment into the SAF space to accelerate production ramp-up. Patrick holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSc in Air Transport Management from Cranfield University, and an MBA from Purdue University. Before joining Future Energy Global, Patrick led the commercial and strategy functions for a number of airlines and airports, founded the aviation strategy and sustainability consultancy Altair Advisory, and served as advisor to a number of startups in the fields of travel technology and electric aviation. He is based in Ireland. 

Lev is a partner in the Climate Projects group at Philip Lee LLP.  Both Lev and the firm are ranked in Chambers Global Market Leaders for Climate Change.  Prior to Lev’s work on climate related matters, he spent six years as an aircraft finance and leasing lawyer in London and Singapore.  Lev’s current practice focuses on advising project developers, investors and offtakers on all matters relating to global carbon markets, engineered carbon removal projects and sustainable aviation fuels.

Steve Kelly is President and General Manager of 1PointFive International, responsible for developing 1PointFive’s Direct Air Capture (DAC) and CCUS business in locations outside North America.  1PointFive, a subsidiary of Occidental (Oxy), works with partners across aviation, technology and other sectors through the deployment of decarbonization solutions and is currently deploying its first commercial scale DAC plant in Texas. 

Steve joined Oxy in 1995 and has held increasingly senior positions in Qatar, Houston and Oman, most recently as President and GM of Oxy’s businesses in Qatar and Oman from 2012 to 2022. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Dolphin Energy Ltd.

Lahiru Ranasinghe is Director of Sustainability at EasyJet. An experienced aerospace professional with expertise in airline strategy, network planning and sustainability. He has been in the airline industry for over a decade with commercial and strategy roles at British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and easyJet. Prior to joining the airline industry he completed a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering and started his career as an engineer working on commercial aircraft. 

With over 20 years of leadership in the aviation and energy sectors, Arnaud brings deep industry expertise and a track record of innovation. Arnaud is the co-founder and CEO of ATOBA Energy, the midstream sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) aggregator accelerating the aviation industry energy transition. Previously, as Chief Operating Officer of Universal Hydrogen, he spearheaded the development of the aviation hydrogen value chain and launched a pioneering energy aggregation to unlock the hydrogen market for mobility.

Earlier in his career, Arnaud held executive positions at Safran and Zodiac Aerospace —global leaders in aerospace systems and equipment—, where he led major initiatives in engineering, program management, and corporate strategy. He began his career at Airbus, contributing to advanced aircraft design. A graduate of École Polytechnique in France and UCLA Anderson in California, Arnaud is recognized for his ability to drive collaboration, a true sense of urgency, and bold solutions in the pursuit of sustainable aviation.

Volker Ratzmann is Senior Advisor Public Affairs at DHL Group. Previously, the trained lawyer served as Executive Vice President Corporate Public Affairs. Earlier in his career, he held positions as State Secretary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the German Federal Government and was a Member of Parliament in Berlin for the political party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.

Nikhil Sachdeva is Roland Berger’s Global Lead for Aerospace & Aviation Sustainability and a Principal in the London office. Nikhil leads Roland Berger’s work into how the aviation sector can transition to climate neutrality, from sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) to hydrogen to electrical propulsion, to addressing non-CO2 effects, as well as the commercial and technological implications for the aerospace, aviation and fuels sectors. He specialises in strategy and implementation projects, having worked with major airlines, aerospace OEMs, investors, suppliers, as well as governmental bodies. Nikhil holds a Masters in Engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Gaurav is a Professor and the Pritzker Endowed Chair in Sustainability at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Gaurav has published over 225 peer-reviewed journal publications and has an h-index of 68. He is the Director of UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management (ICM): a cross-campus technology translation institute. Gaurav is the CTO/Co-Founder of Equatic Inc., the Grand Prize Winner of the Temasek Foundation’s 2021 Liveability Challenge, the Co-Founder of Concrete-AI Inc., the Co-Founder of Nextli Technologies Inc., and the Founder of CarbonBuilt Inc., a Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Gaurav has served as an expert providing: a) testimony to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and the California State Senate, and b) strategic consulting, core R&D, and innovation support to Fortune500 corporations, government agencies, foundations, and industry organizations globally. Gaurav earned his B.S. (2006), M.S. (2007), and Ph.D. (2009) from Purdue University. Gaurav is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, the American Ceramic Society, the American Concrete Institute, and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Giulia Squadrin is a business development manager at Argus Media in London, contributing to strategy and business development for European biofuels, with a focus on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), ethanol and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). 
Giulia previously produced daily assessments for hydrotreated biofuels as part of Argus Media’s editorial team, where she worked on the analysis of the European biofuels market, including regulatory changes and data management. 
Prior to joining Argus, Giulia worked with international organisations in Geneva for a year and completed a master’s degree in International Affairs at Middle Tennessee State University. 

As Director Strategic Analysis & Transformation at the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority, Jan Petter is responsible for identifying and ramping up efforts in areas of future importance. Key areas when engaging in emerging issues are the development of new competencies, national and international collaboration, and paving the way for research and innovative technologies and solutions. He is committed to the work on sustainable aviation and is responsible for the established International Test Arena in Norway, including a Regulatory Sandbox for future technologies.

Jan Petter has broad operational and strategical experience within aviation, both military and civilian.