CEO
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 […]
Advisory Board Member
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 […]
Advisory Board Member
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 […]
Member, Board of Advisors
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 […]
Advisory Board Member
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. […]
Senior Advisor, Ambassador at Large
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 […]
Intern
After witnessing the 2017 Napa County fires engulf her community in flames, Methane Action Intern and Napa High School Senior Liliana Karesh was inspired to take action on climate change. She expanded her knowledge in the environmental field through her participation in the Sonoma Ecology Center EnviroLeaders summer program, completion of an internship for the […]