GLF Africa 2026: Speakers

State Secretary
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), Germany

CEO
CIFOR-ICRAF

Director General, CIFOR; Director of Science
CIFOR-ICRAF

Director General
FSC International

President
Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initative and Global Ambassador of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity

Director
Agenda Propia

Founder & Executive Director
Future Generations Tribunal

Director of Science
Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)

Director General
Ministry of Environment, Climate and Biodiversity, Luxembourg Government

Founder & Cultural Director
Lacitatá Amazônia Viva Institute

Chapter Coordinator
GLFx Yaounde

Founder
Climate Diva

Co-Chair Indigenous Peoples Caucus of the COP 30 Special Envoy and Environmental Manager and Coordinator
Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR)

Executive Chair, Earth4All and Founder, System Transformation Hub

Country Director
PELUM Kenya

Senior Advisor at the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Head of the International Model Forest Network (IMFN) Secretariat
Canadian Forest Service (CFS), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

Deputy Ambassador
Embassy of Switzerland in Brasília

State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Federal Government of Germany

President Director at Ecologia e Ação (ECOA) and Member of the Pantanal Model Forest

Project Manager
FOLUR Ethiopia, Ministry of Planning & Development

Programme Manager
Biovision Foundation

Manager at EcoAgriculture Partners and Member at International and Latin American Model Forest Networks (IMFN and LAMFN)

Program Director for Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
DW Akademie

Co-Chair of Science Panel of the Amazon, and Professor on Ecology of Tropical Managed Rainforests
Wageningen University

Education Program Manager
Pulitzer Center

Deputy Director, Directorate of Crop Services
Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana

Director
Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA)

Bonn Sustainable AI Lab Researcher
University of Bonn

Co-Chair of Sistema B International and Lead of NATIVA Latin America

Director of Enviromental Investigations Unit
Pulitzer Center

Chief of Education and Engagement
Pulitzer Center

Journalist / Rainforest Fellow
Folha de S.Paulo / Pulitzer Center

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Guatemala

Managing Director
Healthy Earth - Healthy People Foundation

Journalist, Ocean Fellow
Pulitzer Center

Principal Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF

Senior Officer on Land/UNCCD
BMZ

Global Head, Forest and Grasslands Team
IUCN

Communication Coordinator, Secretariat of Innovation
Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul

Journalist and Zio Bain Indigenous leader
Red Tejiendo Historias

Theme Leader, Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Development Team
CIFOR-ICRAF

Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Mongolia

State Minister of the Ministry of Planning and Development for Environment, Climate Change and Demography
Ethiopia

Senior Forestry Officer and Forests & Climate Team Leader
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Partnerships
Global Affairs Canada