Anton Root. Co-Founder and Head of Research, AlliedOffsets

Anton is the Co-Founder and Head of Research at AlliedOffsets, a data and tech firm focused on the voluntary carbon market and CDR. He has a Master’s degree in Economics with reference to the Middle East from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Simon Puleston Jones, Founder and MD, Emral Carbon

As a broker, lawyer and serial entrepreneur, Simon is active across carbon markets through his brokerage business Emral Carbon, his consultancy to Philip Lee LLP (Environmental Finance’s Best Law Firm in the VCM 2023 and 2024) and as founder of the global jobs board for carbon markets, Jobs in Carbon. Among other roles during his 25-year career to-date, he was previously a structured finance and derivatives lawyer at law firm Simmons & Simmons and at Barclays investment bank, CEO of one of Europe’s leading financial services trade associations, Chair of the Joint Trade Association Group and founder of the social media platform for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.