Ms. Baptistelle Paldino

Green Earth Action Foundation (GEAF)

Ms. Baptistelle Paldino is the Head of Projects at the Green Earth Action Foundation. Baptistelle brings extensive management experience, with a focus on strategic planning, training development, and fostering international collaboration. She excels in creating impactful capacity-building programmes, strengthening partnerships across public and private sectors, and ensuring initiatives align seamlessly with organizational objectives.

Previously, Baptistelle contributed to the Division for Multilateral Diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva. Within the UN, she led high-profile training programmes dedicated to diplomacy and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, underscoring her commitment to sustainability, climate action, and inclusive project leadership.

Baptistelle holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a Master’s in Public Management from the University of Geneva and Bocconi University in Milan. Her academic and professional journey reflects a deep dedication to international affairs, public administration, and advancing impactful environmental initiatives through strategic project management.

Professor Dr. Martin K. Patel

University of Geneva (UniGE)

Professor Dr. Martin K. Patel is a full professor (professeur ordinaire) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he has been holding the Chair for Energy Efficiency since September 2013. His research deals with energy savings and emission reduction in industry, the built environment and at the interface between energy supply and energy demand (most notably including energy storage). Together with his group he performs environmental and economic assessments of technologies, processes, products, and services as well as evaluations of policy programmes. Next to energy efficiency, bio-based products represent a particular focal area of research.

The main research methods applied by the group include techno-economic modelling (simulation), Life Cycle Assessment, economic assessment (micro & macro) and policy analysis.

Prof. Dr. Martin Patel and his group have co-ordinated and contributed to numerous national and international projects commissioned by a variety of organisations including national research funds (e.g. SNF), governmental bodies (e.g. SFOE), the European Commission, international organisations (e.g. UNECE, IEA, UNIDO and IRENA) and companies (e.g. SIG or Nestlé).

Martin Patel is member of several large research consortia (most notably SCCER-CREST, SCCER-FEEB&D, SCCER-EIP and SCCER-Storage) and associations (e.g. eceee and swissesco).

He is co-responsible for the Energy Track of the Environmental Master Programme (Master universitaire en sciences de l'environnement, MUSE) at University of Geneva where he also has a number of administrative tasks.

Mr. Nathan Masnada

2050Today

Mr. Nathan Masnada iis the Sustainability Manager, responsible for guiding 2050Today members in their decarbonization efforts.

He is specifically tasked with assisting members in developing action plans and implementing concrete measures to reduce emissions, as well as overseeing carbon footprint calculations.

He holds a Master’s degree in Energy Science and Technology from EPFL.

Mr. Chris Momo

Climate Neutral Sports

Mr. Chris Momo is the Founder and Lead Consultant at Climate Neutral Sports (CNS). Chris has extensive experience in project management, international cooperation, and media with stints in both private and nonprofit sectors.

Prior to founding CNS, Chris has worked with IOM, the UN Migration agency focusing on private sector partnership, where he contributed for the setting of the IOM Muslim Alms Fund, and coordinated the Global Diaspora Forum in Dublin, Ireland in 2022. He has also worked as a consultant for UNDP in Nigeria and Algeria on various development projects.

As a former sport journalist for various newspapers and Editor-in-chief for the first African magazine focusing on sustainable development “Villages d’Afrique”, Chris has always been a staunch advocate for the SDGs, hence his commitment to combine sport with sustainability. Chris holds a master’s degree in international policy and diplomacy from Staffordshire University, UK.