SRI2025
Conveners
Future Earth is a global network of scientists, researchers, and innovators collaborating for a more sustainable planet. Our mission is to advance research in support of transformations to global sustainability. Our vision is of a sustainable and equitable world for all, where societal decisions are informed by openly-accessible and shared knowledge.
Future Earth exists to support collaboration between researchers and stakeholders from all different regions, backgrounds, and sectors who are working to generate actionable, solutions-oriented knowledge to help transform toward societies that provide good and fair lives for all within a stable and resilient Earth system.
Future Earth’s global community is composed of diverse Global Research Networks, Regional Partners, and National and Local Networks spread across regions, continents, and time zones, coordinated by Secretariat-led Hubs.
Learn more about Future Earth.
Established in 2009, the Belmont Forum is a partnership of funding organizations, international science councils, and regional consortia committed to the advancement of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary science. Forum operations are guided by the Belmont Challenge, a vision document that encourages International transdisciplinary research providing knowledge for understanding, mitigating and adapting to global environmental change.
Forum members and partner organizations work collaboratively to meet this Challenge by issuing international calls for proposals, committing to best practices for open data access, and providing transdisciplinary training.
Additional details can be found on the Belmont Forum website.
SRI2025
Host
The University of Illinois System is Illinois’ premier higher education network, encompassing three world-class universities and serving over 97,000 students. Our diverse community of scholars, innovators, and leaders drives economic growth, addresses society’s greatest challenges, and enriches lives.
Together, our campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield are at the forefront of driving sustainable practices and finding solutions to combat climate change. With a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research and action, we are dedicated to addressing the urgent sustainability, energy, and environmental challenges facing our planet today and in the years ahead. Our commitment to innovation and collaboration allows us to pave the way towards a greener and more sustainable future.
Learn more about the University of Illinois System
Host Committee
- Timothy Killeen – President, University of Illinois System
- Anita Alexander – Senior Program Officer, Driehaus Foundation
- Michelle Carr – CEO, Evergreen Climate Innovations
- John Cecala – Director of External Relations, Google Cloud
- Phil Clement – CEO, World Business Chicago
- Michael Davidson – CEO, Openlands
- Doug Farr – Executive Director, Climate Action Museum
- Michael Fassnacht – President & Chief Growth Officer, Clayco
- Georgie Geraghty – Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy
- Eleanor Esser Gorski – CEO & President, Chicago Architecture Center
- Alaina Harkness – CEO, Current & CEO, Great Lakes ReNEW
- Brian Imus – Executive Director, Illinois Green Alliance
- Tonika Johnson – Creative Executive Director, Folded Map Project
- Bridget Coughlin – President and CEO, The Shedd Aquarium
- Tom Livingston – Regional Vice President, CSX
- José López – Executive Director & Co-Founder, Puerto Rican Cultural Center
- Gil Quinones – CEO, ComEd
- Jimmy Samartzis – CEO, LanzaJet
- Rebeccah Sanders – Executive Director, IL Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund
- Brian Sauder – President & CEO, Faith in Place
- Adele Simmons – Founder, Global Philanthropy Partnership
- Gail Sturm – Chair, Brushwood Center, The Way of the Rain
- Angela Tovar – Chief Sustainability Officer and Commissioner of Environment, City of Chicago
- Jack Westwood – Senior Program Officer, Walder Foundation
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Catherine Game – Executive Director, Brushwood Center