Plenary Speakers

Director General
Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUV)

Commissioner
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission of Ethiopia

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development of Luxembourg

Head of the scientific advisory group for the UNEP Global Assessments Synthesis Report

Secretary General
Convention on Wetlands

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam

Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

E3B Professor, Chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Colombia University

CEO and Chairperson
Global Environment Facility

Director
European Commission’s Directorate General for Development and Cooperation

President and CEO
Calvert Impact Capital

Executive Director
Greenpeace

Asháninka Community Leader
Terra Kampa do Rio Amônia

Mayor of Freetown
Sierra Leone

Mayor of Bonn
President of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

Director General
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad

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

Executive Director
Crop Trust

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

President
EcoHealth Alliance

Physician and Research Scholar
Program on Science and Global Security at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs

Director of Sustainable Financing
Credit Agricole of Morocco

Director
Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)

Senior Professor
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Co-Founder
Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) Related article

Ex Board member
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)

Lead Economist
The Nature Conservancy

Indigenous leader and innovator
UN Young Champion of the Earth finalist

CEO and Founder
Carico

Climate Asset Management

Founder and Executive Director
Conexsus - US

Executive Director
Fundecooperacion for Sustainable Development

Founder & Strategic Development Director
Fundo Casa Socio Ambiental

Sahtúgot’ine mother

Writer, poet and artist
NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow

Senior Policy Advisor
Forest Peoples Programme

Global Policy and Advocacy Lead
Nia Tero

Award winning author
Advocate of nature

Leader
Yaigoje Apaporis Indigenous Territory

Founder and Executive Director
Strong Roots Congo

Filmmaker, independent curator and film programmer from the IIPUANA Clan, Venezuela

Co-Founder and Director, Coordinator
Oceanus, GLFx Mindanao Chapter

Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (Funbio)

Professor, School of International Development
University of East Anglia

Senior Forest Policy Officer
IUCN

Program Director
Asociación ANDES

Director of Division of the Convention
Biological Diversity

Leader of the Resource Mobilisation and Program Development for WWF's global Food Practice
WWF

Additional Secretary
Ministry of Agricultural Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Government of India

Vice Minister
Ministry Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia

Associate Director
Wildlife Health Programme WCS

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

Executive Secretary
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)

Head Sustainability - Cocoa
Export Trading Group

Wildlife Biologist
Asociación Territorios Vivos El Salvador

Director
International Gorilla Conservation Programme

Board Member
Global Sustainable Tourism Council

Minister of Environment and Tourism
Republic of Congo

Project Coordinator
Public Foundation CAMP Ala-Too

Founder and team leader
Uplift the Rural Poor

Director
Wajari

Senior Scientist, Animal and Human Health
International Livestock Research Institute

Coordinator of the Centre for Conservation and Sustainability Science (CSRio), Executive Director of the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) and Assistant Professor §
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Professor
University of Alexandria, Egypt

Student majoring in Pre-Veterinary Microbiology and Animal Systems Biotechnology at Montana State University (MSU)

Field Manager
SAVE Rivers Network

Ecologist
YIL Alumni Representative

Deputy Director, Forest Conservation Programme
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Northwest Amazon Regional Director
Amazon Conservation Team

International Development Opportunities Manager
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) and The Borders Institute (TBI), Africa

Head of Unit F2 (Environment, Sustainable Natural Resources) – DG INTPA
European Commission

Deputy Director
Virunga National Park, DRC Government

Head of Programmes
Global Crop Diversity Trust

Executive Director
Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO)

CEO
Global EverGreening Alliance

Programme Officer
IUCN

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

Principal
Elements – Climate and Environment Finance

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

Scientist
CIRAD

Head of capacity development & education
CIFOR-ICRAF

Assistant Secretary-General
Department of Environment and Climate Action, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States

Senior Environmental Specialist
World Bank

GLF Community Specialist

President and Co-Founder
Food Tank

Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Country Director
WWF Uganda

Director
Conservation Measures, Wildlife conservation society (WCS)

Post doctorate researcher
University of São Paulo, Brazil

Chair of the Leadership Board
Global Virome Project

Senior Principal Research Officer and Director
Genetic Resources Research Institute Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization

Director of Environmental Control of the Ministry of Environment and Water
Government of Ecuador

Chinese Academy of Forestry

Data management analyst
COMIFAC

Chief for Wildlife
UN Environment Programme

Director for Macro Planning and Statistical Analysis
Indonesia Ministry of National Development Planning

Deputy Director General
ICIMOD

Coordinator
Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB)

Chairwoman
Mongolian National Federation of Pasture User Groups of Herders

PhD Candidate
University of Amsterdam and CIFOR

Senior Consultant
Climate Focus

Founder and Director
Levin Sources

Founding Partner
Posaidon Capital

Senior Scientist
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance

Country Representative
YPARD Bangladesh

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

Principal Executive
CAF

Senior Regional Technical Specialist, Rural Institutions for the Latin America and the Caribbean region
IFAD

Senior Scientist
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Senior Scientist
ILRI, Italy and Ethiopia

Communications and Project Manager
The Borneo Project

Managing Director
One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B)

Regional coordinator
OFAC support project (RIOFAC)

Head of District Government Sintang in West Kalimantan
Province of Indonesia

Director Corporates Africa
DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH

Head
Greifswald Mire Centre

Deputy Director, Forests Program
World Resources Institute (WRI)

Ethnobotanist

Vice Minister
Strategic Development of Natural Resources, Peru

Executive Director
Cultural Survival

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

President
Centre for Large Landscapes Conservation

Deputy Executive Secretary, Technical Coordinator Republic of the Congo
COMIFAC

Head of Secretariat
Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari

UNFCCC High-Level Champion of Chile

Programme Head
Climate-smart Land Use of Wetlands International

University of Bern

Researcher
Wageningen University & Research

Senior Vice President of Global Public Partnerships and Senior Vice President and Managing Director
Conservation International Europe

Commissioner for the Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development, Economic Community
Central African States (CEEAC)

Senior Advisor, Private Sector & Markets, Resilient Landscapes
Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Program Development Manager Sustainable Food
Hivos

Director for Natural Capital
European Commission, Directorate General for the Environment

Marien Ngouabi University, Republic of Congo

Chief Scientist
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Country Program Manager
TNF, Spain

Researcher
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Associate Lecturer
Royal University of Bhutan

Senior Vice President, Markets, Executive Director, Markets Institute
WWF

Director
Finance in Motion

Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Executive Director
The Borneo Project

YPARD Asia and Pacific Coordinator

China
Asia and Pacific Coordinator.
YPARD

Researcher
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Policy analyst
HoAREC&N - African Landscapes Dialogue

Managing Director
GLF

Director
South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO)

Post-doc researcher
University of British Columbia

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

The Steering Committee
The Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN

Indigenous and local youth representative
GYBN

Senior Associate
CIFOR

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

Research Fellow
University of Melbourne

Senior Manager, Social Research, Data and Innovation, Global Restoration Initiative
World Resources Institute

Senior Research Associate
World Resources Institute (WRI)

Chief Veterinary Officer and Leader of the Animal Health Programme at FAO
Director of the Joint Centre for Zoonoses and Anti-Microbial Resistance (CJWZ)

Secretary
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Cofounder and president, Tompkins Conservation
UN Patron of Protected Areas

Advocacy and Rights Coordinator
Amerindian Peoples Association

Researcher - College of Agriculture and Food Science
University of Los Banos - The Philippines

Co-Founder and Chief
Agriculture Neurafarm

Regional Manager Asia
PUR Projet

Genebank Manager
World Vegetable Center

Research fellow
Satoyama Initiative - United Nations University

Programme leader, International Biodiversity Policy
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Manager Biodiversity and Climate Change
Anglo American

Scientist and World Food Prize Laureate
International Potato Center

Kamentsa indigenous leader and traditional healer

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

Indigenous Cabécar leader

Associate Vice President for External Relations and Governance
IFAD

Deputy Head, ASTRE research unit
CIRAD

President and Board member
Amazon Conservation Team

Director Sustainability and Corporate Governance
DEG

Global Policy Manager, Food Practice
WWF International

Advisor and Non-Executive Director

Ecologist and Writer
Independent Consultant

Communications Coordinator
GLF

Director, Forestry Division
FAO

Head, Communications and Knowledge Management
International Livestock Research Institute

Deputy General Director & National focal point for the SWM Programme in Gabon - Wildlife and Protected Areas General Directorate (DGFAP)
Ministry of waters, forests, sea and environment, in charge of Climate Plan and Land Use Plan – Republic of Gabon (Central Africa)

Caribbean Network of Rural Women Producers
Farmers Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Assembly of Partners towards Habitat III (GAP)

Associate professor at the Department of Social Geography, Planning & International Development Studies
University of Amsterdam

National Coordinator
Biodiversity Finance Initiative, UNDP

Chapter Coordinator
GLFx Nairobi

Founder
ExploreSiak

Associate researcher - Site Coordinator SWM Programme Guyana
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

President & CEO
ONE Campaign

Partner & CEO
Conservation Capital, United Kingdom

Agricultural Economist

Current Toshao (indigenous village chief) for Shulinab village. Current chairman of the National Toshaos Council, the highest representative body for Indigenous Peoples in Guyana
Current chairman for the South Rupununi District Council (a representative body for the 21 Southern Rupununi indigenous communities)

Senior programme officer
UNEP-WCMC

Executive Director
The Tenure Facility

Head of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability
Unilever Indonesia

Lead Scientist
WWF/IUFRO-WFSE

CEO
Britt

Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist, Europe and Central Asia
World Bank

Director
SDG2 Advocacy Hub

Director General
ICIMOD

Chairman
SAVE Rivers

Director, Nutrition and Consumption
Cologne Climate Council

Head of sector Biodiversity and ecosystem services - Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO)
European Commission

Vice Deputy Director of the Center for Public Health and Ecosystem Research (CENPHER) Coordinator of the Vietnam One Health University Network (VOHUN)

Director of the Business & Biodiversity Programme
Flora and Fauna International

Technical Assistant
OFAC Information System (RIOFAC)

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Montana State University (MSU)

Executive Secretary
Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC)

Co-founder
Rewilding Britain

Special Advisor
Beijing Genomics Institute

Senior Scientist and Hub Leader
CIFOR

Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies )

Research and Consultant
Forestoration International

Technical Advisor to the Indigenous Forum
Abya Yala (FIAY) and International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)

Environmental Scientist and Activist

Chapter Coordinator
GLFx Veracruz

Chief of Staff to CEO
CIFOR-ICRAF

Environmental sustainability professional

Investment Director for SE Asia
Sail Ventures

Regional Director
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Executive Director
Environmental Action Germany (DUH)

Researcher
Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Theme Leader
Pre-breeding; and Senior Scientist – Genetic Resources at ICRISAT-Hyderabad

The Steering Committee
The Global Youth Biodiversity Network

Senior Manager, Youth Leadership Program
African Wildlife Foundation

Board Chair and President
Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Program Coordinator
Red Panda Network

Senior Programme Manager
LandScale, Rainforest Alliance

Coordinator, Natural Capital Finance Facility
European Investment Bank, Belgium

Senior Policy Analyst
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Senior lecturer
Centre for Applied Systems Analysis, Malawi

Satoyama Initiative - United Nations University

Policy Advisor
Oxfam Novib

The Global South Focal Point
The Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN)

Global South Focal Point
GYBN

Monitoring and data systems
Global Evergreening Alliance

Regional coordinator
BIOPAMA-IUCN program

University of British Columbia

Advisor
Peermade Development Society Organic Spices

"Godfather of Biodiversity" and University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
George Mason University

Award winning nature photographer

Community Relations
Fairventures Worldwide FVW Indonesia

Programme Manager, Business and Biodiversity
Global Nature Fund

Chief Executive Officer
Northern Rangelands Trust, Kenya

Director of Environment, Assembly
First Nations (Canada)

Lead Economist, Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy
World Bank

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

Director
Riak Bumi

Head, Genebank
ICRISAT

Moderator and biologist

Senior Land and Water Officer, Land and Water Division (NSL)
FAO

Senior Investment Manager, Sustainability Department
DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH

Regional Director for Asia-Pacific
Youth4Nature

Chairman
National Biodiversity Authority

Member of the World Commission on Protected Areas and the IUCN Task force on Primary forests and Intact forest landscapes

Chief Adviser on Forests
WWF-UK

Monitoring, Evaluation Evidence and learning Coordinator
Care Tanzania

Former Minister of Environment for Ecuador