Methane Action Team Members

Daphne Wysham is the Chief Executive Officer of Methane Action and Coordinator of the Methane Emergency Brake campaign.  Starting in early 2021, in response to the methane emergency, she and her team at Methane Action campaigned for the need to curb rapidly rising sources of methane, a climate super-pollutant, via a just, binding global methane agreement. Such an agreement would require deeper reductions than the current Global Methane Pledge, announced in November 2021, under which over 150 nations agreeing to voluntarily curb their methane emissions by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030. The global methane agreement Methane Action advocates would far exceed those ...

Nnimmo Bassey is an architect, writer and director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) based in Nigeria and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International – a network resisting the expansion of fossil fuels extraction in the Global South. He chaired of Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012). He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award also known as the “Alternative Noble Prize.” In 2012 he received the Rafto Human Rights Award. Bassey received honorary doctorate degrees from University of York (UK) in 2019 and from York University (Canada) in 2023. Bassey’s books ...

Dr Stephan Singer of Germany has worked for the Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I) secretariat since 2016. The CAN community has almost 2000 members in more than 130 countries composed of environmental, developmental, science, climate and social justice, faith, regional and local CSO. Stephan is Senior Advisor for CAN-I's Climate Science and Global Energy Policy. He is a regular external reviewer of the IPCC documents and the IEA World Energy Outlook. Stephan works with his team on science-based policy in line with equity and a Just Transition for deep global emission reductions of 50% in this decade until 2030 in line ...

Dr. Rob Jackson is a member of the advisory board of Methane Action, and Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He and his lab examine the many ways people affect the Earth. They seek basic scientific knowledge and use it to help shape policies and reduce the environmental footprint of global warming, energy extraction, and other issues. They're currently examining the effects of climate change and droughts on forest mortality and grassland ecosystems. They are also working to measure and reduce ...

Melissa Shackleton Dann has been a leader across the nonprofit, philanthropic, government and corporate sectors, specializing in a range of issues that include Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, climate strategy, and impact philanthropy.  Melissa particularly focused on the unintended consequences of large-scale infrastructure projects funded by subsidies from export credit agencies and international financial institutions. Her work linking financial systems to social and environmental goals set the stage for what eventually became MSCI ESG Research.   As Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund, Melissa oversaw all aspects of a $300 million private foundation, managing both programmatic and financial operations. She ...

Bill Drayton is a senior advisor and ambassador at large to Methane Action. A social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service, Bill Drayton is the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Bill has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs, Ashoka Fellows, who work together to create an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world. Ashoka Fellows bring big systems change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Over half have changed national policy within five years of launch. As a student, he founded organizations ranging ...

Narayani Sharma, a recent graduate of Woodstock School and based in India, has worked on projects in environmental research, sustainable design, and community-based development, focused on learning how sustainable materials can be developed and adopted at scale while contributing to circular systems. Her academic and project work includes developing and testing sodium alginate-based biowraps as alternatives to conventional packaging. She also participated in the International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC) proposal, where her team proposed a closed-loop resource management and CO₂-capture systems to create a sustainable long-term space habitat design. Previously, she worked with an environmental consultant on research related ...