Ms. Ingvild Ombudstvedt is an economist and lawyer, and the owner and founder of IOM Law. She was born and raised in Norway and has been working globally on legal issues relating to carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture and utilization (CCU), carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and petroleum since 2012. She has extensive experience with capacity building, legal and regulatory gap analysis, developing and advising on regulatory framework for petroleum, CCS and CCUS globally. She works in the cross-section of law, policy, science and technology, and acts as strategic advisor to both private and public clients developing projects, business cases and value chains.

Ms. Ombudstvedt is appointed national expert and head of delegation for Norway to the ISO committee TC265, which is established to provide ISO standards for CCS and CO₂-EOR, and the European standardization committee for CCUS under CEN/TC 474. She holds a Master of Law from the University of Oslo (Norway), Faculty of Law (2011), a Master of Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon (USA) (Honors, 2024), and also studied Business Administration at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She is a member of the Norwegian Bar Association and the Cornelius Honor Society.

She is passionate about animal rights and nature conservation. In her spare time, she writes fiction for children, enjoys gardening and volunteers for local animal shelters, fostering and rehoming homeless, abused, and neglected cats. Not all the fostered cats moved on, and Sofie, Joey and Minsta are now permanent residents of her home.

Will Foiles is Project Canary’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Foiles is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, including supply chain management, field monitoring systems, new product development, growth strategy, partnership building, financial modeling, clean gas market development, operations, and long-term data projects. He plays a key role in coordinating company resources to fulfill the Project Canary brand promise and ensure customer success as the company grows. His background in energy finance and work developing data acquisition technologies is vital to Canary’s long-term technology goals.

Will holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, an MS in Finance from Villanova’s School of Business, and an BBA in Real Estate from The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder.

Danny Cullenward is an economist and lawyer focused on the scientific integrity of climate policy. His book, Making Climate Policy Work (with David G. Victor), shows how political forces make green industrial policy more effective than carbon pricing.

Dr. Cullenward is a Senior Fellow with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University, and the Vice Chair of California’s Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee. He previously held research and teaching appointments at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Stanford University.

His academic research has been published in Science and Nature as well as top field journals in ecology, energy economics, and climate policy. He has been involved in dozens of legal and public policy processes with state, federal, international, and private sector regulators, and has given invited expert testimony at ten legislative hearings in California. His research, public policy analysis, and commentary is often featured in leading media outlets, including nationally televised segments on HBO and CBS News.

Dr. Cullenward holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, where he also earned an MS in Management Science and Engineering and a BS with interdisciplinary honors in Earth Systems.