Speakers

President, UN Special Envoy
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), 2021 Food Systems Summit

CEO,CIFOR-ICRAF and Director General, ICRAF
CIFOR-ICRAF

Parliamentary State Secretary
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development of Luxembourg

Secretary General
Convention on Wetlands

Director General, CIFOR; Director of Science
CIFOR-ICRAF

Director General, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Executive Director, CIFOR-ICRAF

Executive Director
Crop Trust

Director
Land Degradation Neutrality Fund and Mirova

University of Bern

Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Musician
International Artist and Humanitarian

Chairperson
Osukuru United Women’s Network (OWN)

Chief, External Relations, Policy and Advocacy
UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

President & CEO
ONE Campaign

Director
South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO)

Executive Secretary
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Founder
LEAD Foundation

Director
Indigenous Information Network

Deputy Director-General and Chair
Collaborative Partnership on Forests, FAO

Senior Scientist and Project Leader
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Director, Adjunct Research Scholar
Eco-Innovation Foundation, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Author & Conservationist
Conservation Solutions Afrika

Professor
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Country Director
Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles, Eastern and Southern Africa, Africa, The World Bank

Community of Practice Coordinator, Africa Chapter Manager
GLFx

Program Specialist
Cadasta Foundation

Wildlife Management Expert and the founding Chief Executive Officer
Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA)

Advisor for Environmental Affairs
President of the Republic of Angola

Senior Environmental Specialist
Global Environment Facility

Team Leader, National Forest Monitoring
FAO

Team Leader, Trees Genetic Resources and Biodiversity
CIFOR-ICRAF

Senior lecturer
Centre for Applied Systems Analysis, Malawi

Senior Soil Scientist
Biodiversity-CIAT

Director
Eco-Innovation Foundation

Director and Founder
GreenHut Trust, Youth in Landscapes Initiative

Professor
Martin-Luther-University Halle

Senior Forestry Specialist
The World Bank

Natural Resources Officer
GEF Impact Programs Drylands / Food Systems, FAO

Regional Representative West and Central Africa
ENDA Energie

Award winning reporter, journalist
Mail & Guardian (M&G)

Executive Director
African Conservation Center, Kenya

Senior Scientist-Multifunctional Landscapes
Alliance and Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, Biodiversity-CIAT

Director General
Brazilian Forest Service

President
REFACOF

Land Health Scientist
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

President
SSC Forestry

Samburu herder

Professor
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

GHG/SLEEK Project Manager
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development

Dynamic Agro-pastoralist Development Organization (DADO) Kaabong, Uganda and CELEP Member

Chef de la Division Maitrise
l'Eau Lutte contre la Désertification (ME-LCD) du Centre Régional AGRHYMET( CRA)

Climate and environmental activist, Founder
Climate Operation

President
Allah Wallou, Burkina Faso

Programme Management Officer
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Co-founder
Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)

Program Director
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE), IWMI

Research Associate
World Resources Institute (WRI)

PhD candidate in Environmental Economics and Management
University of Agriculture Makurdi Benue State, Nigeria

Researcher
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Edinburgh

Independent researcher
CELEP

InsightShare

Research Program Director, Innovation Systems for the Drylands and Country Representative, Tanzania
ICRISAT

DGM Global Steering Committee member, President
League of Indigenous Pygmy Associations of Congo (LINAPYCO)

Director General ad interim
ICRAF

Ecosystem Ecologist
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Deputy Special Envoy
UN Food Systems Summit

Principal Researcher Ecosystems
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Assistant Director
Priceless Farms, YIL Alumni

Deputy Executive Secretary
UNCCD

Senior Innovation Advisor
Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

Researcher and lecturer
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Göttingen University, Germany

Co-Founder and Managing Director
Novastar Ventures

National President
NIWAAFA, Nigeria

Musician and climate change activist

Director of Programs
Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Principal Forestry Officer (AFR 100 National Focal Point)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Founder
PaTree Initiative, Kenya

Director, Multifunctional Landscape research area
Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Founding member, General Coordinator
African Women Collaborative for Healthy Food Systems, Via Campesina

Co-founder
Climate Change Africa and Seed Bomb Ethiopia

Fashion Designer turned Agripreneur

Technology for Development Advisor
Mercy Corps

Rural sociologist, Co-founder
Prolinnova

Co-CEO
Kijani Forestry

Head of the environment mainstreaming & circular economy sector, Directorate General
European Commission, International Partnerships (INTPA)

Environmentalist
Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)

Consultant
IUFRO

Coordinator of GLFx Nairobi
GLF

Global Drylands Coordinator / Senior Agriculture Advisor
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Founder and Director
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) Centre for Resilience Studies, India

Associate Scientist
Biodiversity-CIAT

Scientific Director
Mali Agricultural Research Institute (IER)

Founder
Clean Earth Gambia

Head of management of natural resources
Enda Energy Environment Development, Senegal

Economies & Livelihoods Thematic Working Group Lead
SPARC

Geographer
German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL)

Community leader
Tilli in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Regreening Africa Project Manager
Oxfam Mali