Christiana Figueres

Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican citizen and internationally recognized climate leader. She served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, where she played a central role in negotiating the 2015 Paris Agreement, which brought together 195 nations to commit to limiting global warming. She is co-founder of Global Optimism, co-host of the podcast Outrage and Optimism, and co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis published by Penguin Random House.