Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) has been designing advocacy campaigns and advising governments for over 30 years. She is the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair and Founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. 

Dr. Berman publishes and speaks widely on fossil fuels and climate change. She is the author of "This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge", published by Random House. For six years she was the Executive Director of the Tarsands Network Strategy tasked with developing strategies for pipeline and tarsands campaigns and related grant dockets for philanthropic foundations. She has also held positions advising the British Columbia government and in Alberta Co-Chairing the Oil Sands Advisory Working Group tasked with making recommendations to implement climate change policy in the oilsands.  

Dr. Berman holds an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia and was an adjunct professor at York University for five years. In 2019, she was awarded the Climate Breakthrough Award of $2 million dollars to develop a bold new global climate strategy, and in 2021, she gave a widely viewed TED Talk presenting the case for a global treaty to phase out fossil fuels.