2012
- Masahiro Akiyama Chairman of Ocean Policy Research Foundation, Japan
- Erik Brandsma Director General, Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden
- Svein Richards Brandtzæg President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA, Norway
- Kirsten Broch Mathisen Special Adviser, The Research Council of Norway
- Robert Corell Principal, Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF), USA
- Bo Diczfalusy Director, Directorate of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology, International Energy Agency, France
- Per Otto Dyb CEO of Siemens Norway
- Bo Ekman Founder and Executive Chairman of the Tällberg Foundation, Sweden
- Bente E. Engesland Senior Vice President Corporatte Communication, Statkraft; Norway
- Frederic Hauge Leader, The Bellona Foundation, Norway
- Helge Friis Mayor Halsnæs municipality, Denmark
- Trond Giske Minister of Trade and Industry, Norway
- Daniel M. Kammen Founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, USA
- Nalan Koç Research Director at the Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway
- Christian Kunstmann Senior Manager GME Electrification, Germany
- Bernice Lee Research Director for Energy, Environment and Resource Governance at Chatham House , UK
- Ole Lindefjeld Research Manager, ConocoPhillips, Norway
- Bert Metz Fellow at ECF and member of the Advisory Council, The Netherlands
- Hege Marie Norheim Head of Statoils Strategic Agenda of Arctic and Subarctic Business Development Activities, Norway
- Ragnvald Nærø Executive Vice president, Statkraft, Norway
- Knut M. Ore Chairman of Kings Bay AS and Ny-Ålesund Symposium Board, Norway.
- Gunn Ovesen President and CEO, Innovation Norway
- Pål Prestrud Senior Adviser, CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo, Norway
- Daniel Reifsnyder Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Development at the U.S. Department of State, USA
- Katherine Richardson Vice Dean at the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Jørgen C. Arentz Rostrup Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Hydro, Norway
- Christian Rynning-Tønnesen CEO Statkraft, Norway
- Kristin Seyboth Senior Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and IPCC, Germany
- Reier Søberg Secretary General, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Norway
- Johannes Teyssen Chief Executive Officer of E.ON, Germany
- Guri Tveito Head of Department for Environmental Protection at the Guvernor of Svalbard; Norway
- Fridtjof Unander Executive Director, Division for Strategic Priorities, Department for Energy and Petroleum Research. The Research Council of Norway.
- Bernd Utz Head of the Project Desertec Initiative, Siemens Energy Sector, Germany
- Gabrielle Walker Chief Scientist, Xynteó, UK
- Henriette Westhrin State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Norway
- Anders Wijkman Senior Advisor Stockholm Environmental Institute and former member of the European Parliament for Sweden. Member of the Advisory Committee for The Ny-Ålesund Symposium
- Daryl Wilson President and CEO of Hydrogenics, Canada
- Hans van Steen Head of Unit in the European Commission, DG Energy, Sweden
