Speakers

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

CEO
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 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, Environment and Development
CIFOR-ICRAF

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

Minister of State for Environment Nigeria

Global Policy Manager, Food Practice
WWF International

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

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

Researcher at Right Livelihood College at the Center for Development Research
University of Bonn, Germany

Forestry Officer / Dryland Program
FAO

CEO and Founder
Complete Farmer, Nigeria

Executive Director
Agency for Inclusive Insurance Development (AIID)

Lecturer
Faculty of Natural Resource and Environment, University for Development Studies, Tamale Ghana/PhD student at Rhodes University, South Africa

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

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

Brazilian Tree Industry

Founder
ILead Climate

Chief Scientist
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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

Founder of Fledge and CEO of Africa Eats

Forestry Officer
FAO

Agroforestry Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF

Global Technical Advisor Livestock
SNV

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

Vice-president
Cooperative “saving for change called Gnabene”

Practice Manager
World Bank

Special Adviser on Africa to the United Nations Secretary-General
United Nations

Programme Management Officer
UN Environment

Co-founder, Regional Director for Africa
Kenya Environmental Action Network (KEAN), Youth4Nature

Secretary
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Chef and Founder
Midunu

Executive Director
GreenAid

CEO
Kalahari Honey

Director of the Environmental Mapping Domain
Spatial Informatics Group

Senior Agricultural Economist
CIFOR-ICRAF

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

YIL Network Intern
YIL

Farmer, Food Processor
Anambra State Woman Leader YOSHOFA

DGM Global Technical Director
Conservation International

Engagement with Restoration Evidence and Regreening Africa lead
CIFOR-ICRAF

Head of capacity development & education
CIFOR-ICRAF

Principal Natural Resources Advisor
World Vision Australia

Senior Scientist
ILRI, Italy and Ethiopia

Programme Officer
IUCN

Chef, Founder
Yolele Foods

Regional Lead- Forests, Landscapes and Livelihoods Programme; Country Representative for Rwanda
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Global Cluster Leader
Genomics, Pre-breeding and Bioinformatics, ICRISAT

Professor in Forest Economics and Management
Duke University

Stakeholder Approach to Risk-informed and Evidence-based Decision-making (SHARED) Lead
CIFOR-ICRAF

Natural Resource Management Specialist
FAO – Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa

Research scientist
Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)

Research Associate & Country Program Manager
TMG Research

Natural Resources Management Specialist
World Bank

Chief of Staff to CEO
CIFOR-ICRAF

Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
FAO

Director of Vital Landscapes
World Resources Institute (WRI)

Senior Forestry Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Research Scientist
Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics

Senior Expert for Landscape Restoration, Associated Researcher
Forest and Environment Programme at German Cooperation (GIZ), CIRAD

Executive Director
SOS Sahel

Vice-chairperson, CIRAD
Committee on Forestry Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems

Project Manager
World Vision Rwanda