Speakers

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

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

CEO
CIFOR-ICRAF

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

Executive Director
Crop Trust

Director General, CIFOR; Director of Science
CIFOR-ICRAF

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

Forestry Officer
FAO

Director of Ecosystem Assessment, Planning and Audit
Kenya Water Towers Agency

Deputy Vice-Chancellor
University of Eldoret

Africa Managing Director and Global Partnerships
World Resources Institute (WRI)

Agricultural Officer and Policy advisor
FAO

Research Scientist
Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics

Senior Manager, Restoration Finance
Global Restoration Initiative (GRI), World Resources Institute

International consultant, Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism, Forestry Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Senior Environmental Specialist
Global Environment Facility

Senior Forestry Specialist
The World Bank

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

Regional Coordinator, West Africa
Groundswell International

Principal Natural Resources Advisor
World Vision Australia

Vice President of Corporate Finance & Strategy
Komaza

Deputy Executive Secretary
UNCCD

Deputy Director
Forestry Division, FAO

Professor
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Fashion Designer turned Agripreneur

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

UNCCD Focal Point
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Burkina

Executive Director
GreenAid

Director of Vital Landscapes
World Resources Institute (WRI)

Policy Advisor
Oxfam Novib

Senior lecturer
Centre for Applied Systems Analysis, Malawi

Co-Founder and Managing Director
Novastar Ventures

Consultant, Environment and Development
CIFOR-ICRAF

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

Director
UNDP RSCA

Chief Sakoya Traditional Area of the Mion district in Northern Region
Ghana

Programme Management Officer
UN Environment

Senior Programme Officer
Environment and Climate Change at Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Technical Coordinator
Africa Adaptation Initiative

Founding member
Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW)

Executive Secretary
Groupe de Recherche et D'Action sur le Foncier (GRAF), Burkina Faso

Independent researcher
CELEP

Agroforestry Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Edinburgh

Chief of Staff to CEO
CIFOR-ICRAF

Research Associate, West and Central Africa Lead
World Resources Institute (WRI)

Social Scientist - Institutions and Innovation
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Associate Professor
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Research and Consultant
Forestoration International

Gender and environment scientist
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Executive Director
SOS Sahel

Director General ad interim
ICRAF

Chef, Founder
Yolele Foods

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

Director for Action Learning and Advocacy for West Africa
Groundswell International

Africa Project Manager
One Tree Planted

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

Founder
PaTree Initiative, Kenya

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

Departmental Director
Environment in the commune of Illéla in Niger

Assistant Director
Priceless Farms, YIL Alumni

Musician and climate change activist

Farmer, Food Processor
Anambra State Woman Leader YOSHOFA

Research Scientist
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

InsightShare

Brazilian Tree Industry

Associate Scientist
Biodiversity-CIAT

Alumni of the Restoration Factory
PDG Centre Africain d’Agrobusiness (CAAB)

Author & Conservationist
Conservation Solutions Afrika

Engagement with Restoration Evidence and Regreening Africa lead
CIFOR-ICRAF

Director, Forestry Division
FAO

Natural Resources Management Specialist
World Bank

CEO
Kalahari Honey

Researcher
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Samburu herder

Global Policy Manager, Food Practice
WWF International

Deputy Special Envoy
UN Food Systems Summit

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

Practice Manager
World Bank

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

Geographer
German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL)

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

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

Vice-president
Cooperative “saving for change called Gnabene”

Senior Manager of the Sustainable Land and Water Management
NEPAD

Founder and Managing Director
E3D-Niger, UNITRAM

Regreening Africa Project Manager
Oxfam Mali

Founder of Fledge and CEO of Africa Eats

Senior Soil Scientist
Biodiversity-CIAT