Palm Global Technologies and TEAL Chairman & CEO; EP3 Sustainability Fellow, 5 accelerators; the introduction to Tracy J. Wang and the summit's VIP invitations
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One of the ten EP3 Sustainability Fellows, per the accelerators site (documented). In Jonathan Hare's account (S-188) Peter Knez is how the record reached the Nobel Sustainability Trust: he was to attend the November 2024 summit himself, arranged a courtesy VIP invitation for Hare's friend Karla Brollier, and introduced Hare to Tracy J. Wang, the Trust's chief executive, to make it. When Karla went to a venture event in Santa Fe instead, Hare took the slot. Knez had been speaking at COP in Baku just before; flying back he stopped in Dubai, met its senior royals, and was recruited as Chairman of Palm Global, into which he then pulled the UAE's royals and sovereign-wealth sources, forming Palm Promax Investments.
Knez had worked closely with Bruno Wang and the Trust's leadership; in Hare's account the two fell out for economic and trust reasons, and Hare reconnected Knez with the sustainability people he knew and with the head of the Cambridge laboratory — Simran Chana — confirmed by Hare on 1 September 2026: his buddy (S-192). Hare has since pulled Knez into his conversations with the Milliman climate and microinsurance leadership and the rest of the Fellows. Both men's accounts of the falling-out are open.
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San Francisco with UC Berkeley, November 2024; Miami, 5 December 2025; Doha next — the sustainability-finance room the record's Sustainable Markets work runs through
Open →introduced Hare to herCEO, Nobel Sustainability Trust; introduced to Hare by Peter Knez for the November 2024 VIP invitation
Open →the VIP invitation, firstVelveteen Ventures principal investor, climate; Alaska Native advocate for indigenous peoples; a career in sustainability, impact ventures and climate — Al Gore, the UN, Patagonia; EP3 Sustainability Fellow
Open →ChairmanChairman Peter Knez, recruited by Dubai's senior royals after COP29; Palm Promax Investments formed from UAE royal and sovereign-wealth sources
Open →worked closely; then a falling-out, in Hare's accountMet at the November 2024 summit; worked closely with Peter Knez, then — in Hare's account — a falling-out for economic and trust reasons
Open →Fellow — five acceleratorsPeter Knez, Marcelo de Andrade, Karla Brollier, Michael McCord, Nancy Watkins, Jeff Weiss, Ed Barbier, Mathis Wackernagel, Paula Ehrlich, Emily Weeks — the Sustainability Fellows of the QPN accelerators site
Open →pulled into the climate conversationsNamed in the ARPA-H joint response alongside ICON, Datavant, WebShield and Safe Health; the fuller page is owed
Open →reconnected by HareThe Cambridge lab head of the Knez reconnection — confirmed by Hare, 1 September 2026: 'I was just messaging him on WhatsApp. He's my buddy.'
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