Nick Carter is a research fellow focused on the Food, Agriculture, Land, Ocean, and Nature-Based Carbon Removal sectors at Project Drawdown. He has a decade of experience working with environmental organizations and is currently director of environmental science at the Game Changers Institute. He co-founded PlantBasedData.org, now evolving into IFFS.earth. He has authored reports on methane and food-system disinformation, guest lectured at Yale and Harvard University, and spoken on panels with experts from Oxford and the Center for Biological Diversity. He previously contributed to the planetary-crisis strategy game Play.Half.Earth and helped launch CLIMAtlantic, a climate adaptation data hub. Nick holds a master’s degree in environmental practice from Royal Roads University.

Al-Amin Bugaje is a scientist with a background in electrical engineering and experience in power systems modeling and applied machine learning. His research focuses on developing methods and tools that support the reliable and efficient operation of decarbonized grids. At Project Drawdown, he focuses on assessing climate solutions in the electricity sector. Previously, Al-Amin worked as a research engineer at EDF R&D UK and as a visiting researcher at the Delft AI Energy Lab. He is currently at Hitachi Energy Research Canada, where he works on scalable solution methods for continental-scale simulations. Al-Amin holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Imperial College London, where his work included synthetic data generation methods for training robust models for power system security-sensitive tasks.