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

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

Executive Director
Crop Trust

Chief Operating Officer, CIFOR-ICRAF Director General, CIFOR
CIFOR-ICRAF, CIFOR

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)

Co-founder and Executive Chair
Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition

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, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (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
WRI Africa

Policy Advisor
Oxfam Novib

Senior lecturer
Centre for Applied Systems Analysis, Malawi

Co-Founder and Managing Director
Novastar Ventures

Consultant
IUFRO

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

GLF Africa Regional Manager
GLF Africa Hub

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

Regreening Africa Programme Manager
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

Executive Director
African Conservation Center, Kenya

Director
Indigenous Information Network

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

National President
NIWAAFA, Nigeria

Professor in Environment and Development
University of York

Expert agronomist and Agricultural technologist
Food Security and Sustainable Agricultural Systems

Global Research Leader, Soil and Land Health and Co-lead
Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH)

GLFx Nairobi Coordinator
CIFOR-ICRAF

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

Founder
OKO Forests

Director
Eco-Innovation Foundation

Capacity development specialist
FAO

Secretary
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Digital Innovation Strategy Specialist (Consultant)
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO, Regional Office for Africa)

Director of the Environmental Mapping Domain
Spatial Informatics Group

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

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

Scientific Director
Mali Agricultural Research Institute (IER)

Research Associate & Country Program Manager
TMG Research

YIL Network Intern
YIL

Director General of Environmental Governance
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Madagascar

Team Leader, National Forest Monitoring
FAO

Senior Agricultural Economist
CIFOR-ICRAF

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

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

DGM Global Technical Director
Conservation International

Community leader
Tilli in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Global Food Practice Leader
WWF

Director General
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Community of Practice Coordinator, Africa Chapter Manager
GLFx

Head of Programmes
TMG - Think Tank for Sustainability

Technology for Development Advisor
Mercy Corps

Professor in Forest Economics and Management
Duke University

Ecosystem Ecologist
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

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

Chief Scientist
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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

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

Social Scientist, PhD Candidate
Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Environmental Science & Policy Program (ESPP), Michigan State University

Advisor for Environmental Affairs
President of the Republic of Angola

Co-founder
Climate Change Africa and Seed Bomb Ethiopia

Climate and environmental activist, Founder
Climate Operation

Executive Director
Agency for Inclusive Insurance Development (AIID)

Administrateur de programme adjoint
Programme de Neutralité en matière de Dégradation des Terres (NDT) du Mécanisme Mondial de la Convention des Nations Unies sur la Lutte Contre la Désertification (UNCCD)

Minister of State for Environment Nigeria

Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources of the Republic of Malawi

Director of Programs
Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Coordinator of the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub
FAO

Global Lead for Forests, Landscapes, and Biodiversity, ENB GP
World Bank

Global Coordinator
GEF-7 Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes, FAO

Chairperson
Zambia National Forest Commodity Association (ZNFCA)

Senior Scientist
ILRI, Italy and Ethiopia

Forestry Officer / Dryland Program
FAO

Pastoralists Focal Point, Rangelands Initiative Co-ordination Team
Rangelands Initiative

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

Malian singer-song writer / actress

Board member
Association Nourrir Sans Détruire, Burkina Faso

Founder
Clean Earth Gambia

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

Chairperson
Committee on Forestry Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems

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

Forest environmentalist
ELTI alumni

Land Health Scientist
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Regional Representative West and Central Africa
ENDA Energie

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

Chief Executive Officer of CIFOR-ICRAF and Director General of ICRAF
CIFOR-ICRAF

Executive Director
ODAM – NGO, India

Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
FAO

Researcher
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture

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

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

Program Specialist
Cadasta Foundation

President
Allah Wallou, Burkina Faso

CEO and Founder
Complete Farmer, Nigeria

Co-founder
Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)

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

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

Senior Project Leader
Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University

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

Director and Founder
GreenHut Trust, Youth in Landscapes Initiative

Senior Forestry Officer, Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism Forestry Division
FAO

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

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

Programme Officer
IUCN

Principal Researcher Ecosystems
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Chef and Founder
Midunu

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

Restoration Steward
Moilo Grass Seed Bank

Professor
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

President
REFACOF

Global Technical Advisor Livestock
SNV

Economies & Livelihoods Thematic Working Group Lead
SPARC

Professor
Martin-Luther-University Halle

Senior Programme Officer, Drylands
IUCN

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

Environmentalist
Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)

President
SSC Forestry

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

Research Associate
World Resources Institute (WRI)

Co-CEO
Kijani Forestry

Lead Scientist
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

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

MRV Coordinator
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mozambique

Coordinator of the networks of communities managing natural resources
WWF Madagascar

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

Rural sociologist, Co-founder
Prolinnova

Research scientist
Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)

Managing Consultant
Sozo Consulting

Forage Gene Bank Manager
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Project Manager
World Vision Rwanda

G20 Representative
Italian Sherpa office

Founder
ILead Climate

Reader
University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Programme Management Officer
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Director
Eco-Innovation Foundation

Head of Spatial Data Science and Applied Learning Lab (Spacial)
CIFOR-ICRAF