Satu Teerikangas is professor of management at the School of Economics, University of Turku and Honorary Professor at University College London, where she worked 2010-15. Satu bears a cosmopolitan background, cutting across several countries and continents. Prior to an academic career, Satu worked for Shell in the Hague and Aberdeen. In her research, she has shifted from a focus on post-M&A integration management & cultural change to appreciating how leadership can help address grand challenges. She is editor of the Handbook of M&A (Oxford University Press) and Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency (Edward Elgar). Presently, she is co-director of the transdisciplinary biodiversity-respectful leadership consortium (BIODIFUL) funded by the Strategic Research Council of Finland. Satu’s research has appeared on BBC, Financial Times and Forbes. She is passionate to understand how to unleash our potential in building sustainable futures.
Professor Susan L. Prescott, MD, PhD, is an artist, pediatrician, immunologist, and award-winning author, internationally recognized for her pioneering research on the early environmental determinants of health and disease. She is Professor of Planetary Health at the University of Western Australia and Director of the Center for Planetary Consciousness and Global Flourishing at the Nova Institute for Health in Baltimore, where she also leads the Nova Network—a global transdisciplinary community advancing planetary health—and the Earthrise Community, which explores spiritual approaches to collective transformation.
Her work promotes awareness of the deep interconnections between personal and planetary health, inspiring creative, integrated, and compassionate approaches—grounded in wisdom and reciprocity—for social and ecological justice and flourishing futures. She is Editor-in-Chief of Challenges - Journal of Planetary Health, a journal advancing transdisciplinary dialogue in planetary health, and founding Director of the ORIGINS Project, a large-scale >$30 million intervention birth cohort of 10,000 families designed to improve lifelong physical and emotional well-being.