Speakers

Minister of Environment and Tourism
Republic of Congo

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

Minister of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia

Chief Water Commissioner
The Anishinabek Nation

Founder and CEO
IIX (Impact Investment Exchange) View profile

GLF Africa Coordinator
Greenpeace Africa

Founder
Menos 1 Lixo

Founder and Chief Executive
Agrolay Ventures View profile

Secretary General
Convention on Wetlands

Executive Director
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)

Director General, CIFOR; Director of Science
CIFOR-ICRAF

Executive Director
Crop Trust

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

Global Director for the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice
World Bank

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

Convenor and Founder
The Green Republic

Co-Convenor
Indigenous Peoples Major Group on Sustainable Development

Prior Executive Director of the Peruvian Trust Fund
National Parks and Protected Areas (PROFONANPE)

Head Environmental Law Programme
IUCN

Executive Director
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

Founder
OpenForests

Vice President and Head of the Section "Conservation, Development and Sustainable Use of Nature"
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)

Forest Practice Lead
WWF International

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

Senior Manager Farming for Biodiversity
Rare

Principal scientist, Governance team leader
CIFOR-ICRAF

Senior Associate
CIFOR

Principal Program Officer Renewable Energy, head of the Bioenergy Section
ECREEE

Director of the Marine Policy Institute (MPI)
Mote Marine Laboratory

Lead Scientist
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Senior Environmental Specialist
World Bank

Division of Planning and Cooperation
the Peatland Restoration Agency of Indonesia

Senior planner at the Department of Physical Planning
Ministry of Local Government in Zambia

Pacific Indigenous & Local Knowledge Centre of Distinction

Researcher
German Development Institute

Biodiversity-CIAT

Founder & CEO
Ecosia GmbH

Head of Department of Studies, Projects and Cooperation
Ministry of the Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustain-able Development, Cameroon

Head of Spatial Planning for Wildlife Protected Areas for the Department of National Parks and Wildlife of the Ministry of Tourism and Arts in Lusaka, Zambia

Principal
Elements – Climate and Environment Finance

Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Olam International

Head of capacity development & education
CIFOR-ICRAF

Program Director Global Landscapes, Soy, Palm Oil & Tropical Timber
IDH

Executive Director
Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA)

Director of the Forest Management and Environmental Service Program
The Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP)

President 2018-2019
IFSA

Founder & CEO
The Good Heritage

Biodiversity Finance Specialist
Fauna & Flora International

Research Officer
CIFOR

Coordinator of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism
FAO

Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist
World Bank

Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
FAO

Researcher & Advocacy Officer on Climate Finance and Territorial Governance
The Centre for the Autonomy and Development of Indigenous Peoples (CADPI)

Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, and Climate Change
The World Bank

Project leader
ENABLE Consortium

Advisor - International Forest Policy
GIZ

Forest specialist
National Sustainable Development Fund, Mozambique

Plant for the Planet

Director of Science and Policy
Ramsar

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
University of Birmingham

Researcher, Ecosystem Management group
ETH Zürich

Coordinator of the Technical Secretariat, Commission of Territorial Order
National Department of Planning, Colombia

Head of Secretariat
Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari

Director of Sustainability of Golden Agri Resources (GAR) – Oil palm
Sinar Mas Group

Director of Enviromental Investigations Unit
Pulitzer Center

Director General
INBAR

Secretary-General
International Mire Conservation Group

Director
Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation

Head of Division Rural Development, Land Rights & Forests
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Head of OECD Centre Berlin
OECD

Assistant Director-General of Forestry Department
FAO

Co-founder
Biocarbon Engineering

Researcher
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Executive Manager of Forest Registry
Brazilian Forest Service

Head of EIB Regional Representation for West Africa
European Investment Bank (EIB)

Researcher
CIRAD

Director, Agua salud project, staff scientist
Smithsonian tropical research institute

Chief Marketing Officer
Forest Stewardship Council

President of Yong’an Institute of Bamboo Industry

Co-convenor
Indigenous Peoples Major Group for the SDGs

Natural Resources Management Specialist, Environment and Natural Resources Management Global Practice
World Bank

Project manager
GIZ

ZEF

Managing Director
Fairventures Worldwide

CIFOR

Visiting Professor
Estonian University of Life Sciences in Tartu, Estonia

Territorial Development Programme Manager
FAO

Director
Okavango Research Institute

Managing Director
Global Mechanism UNCCD

Professor for International Forestry and head of the research team on global forestry
Bern University, Switzerland

Head of the Independent Evaluation Unit
Green Climate Fund View profile

Professor, Kyoto University Japan & CIFOR board member

Environmental Specialist
World Bank

Advocacy Program Coordinator
NTFP-EP Philippines

Associate Professor and Head of the Forest Research Division
Research Institute of Forests & Rangelands, RIFR, Tehran, Iran

Director General
Forest Stewardship Council

Youth in Landscapes Representative

Senior Advisor
Tropical Trees and Landscapes at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

Founder and CEO
Springboard

President
National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS)

Chief Executive Officer
The Bamboo Trading Company

Director
IFOAM

Programme Coordinator
Tropenbos International

Senior Manager of the Sustainable Land and Water Management
NEPAD

Chief Executive Officer
Impaktum

Scientist
Bioversity International, FTA

Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Ramsar Secretariat

Managing Director
Frankfurt School Financial Services

Advisor
Global Project Mainstreaming Ecosystem-based Adaptation;

Director of the Laboratory for Landscape and Cultural Heritage
University of Florence

Federal Ministry of the Environment, Germany

Managing Director
Sail Ventures

Manager - Forest Landscape Restoration Opportunities Assessments with the Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
IUCN

Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies
University of Amsterdam

Senior associate
CIFOR

Director General
National Tree Seed Center (CNSF)

Acting Head of the Laboratory for Economics and Forestry at the Research and Production Center for Forest Research
Institute of Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic

DHAN foundation

Junior Advisor
GIZ

Chief Program Officer
Rainforest Alliance

Postdoctoral researcher
Wageningen

Director of forestry and water resource conservation
Ministry of National Development Planning in Indonesia (BAPPENAS)

Professor of Forest Environmental Sciences
National University of Mongolia

Young Maasai Leader
SORALO

Country Director
Fairventures Worldwide FVW Uganda

Policy Officer Rural Development, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
European Commission

ITF

Senior scientist, governance
CIFOR-ICRAF

Senior Associate, Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Development, CIFOR-ICRAF, Professor of Public Policy at Flinders University, Australia

Okavango Research Institute
University of Botswana

Director, Research Unit Forest and Societies
CIRAD

Head of the regional programme of transboundary Landscapes
Icimod

Principal Scientist and Leader
CIFOR-ICRAF

Deputy Mayor
Bonn

Chief Operating Officer
Katingan-Mentaya Project

Founder, Editor-in-chief and CEO
Mongabay

Programme coordinator
Tropenbos International

Senior Advisor, Division Climate Change, Rural Development, Infrastructure
GIZ

Chief of Staff to CEO
CIFOR-ICRAF

President & CEO EcoAgriculture Partners, USA
Landscapes for People Food and Nature Initiative

Founding Member
Youth in Landscapes

Assistant Secretary-General
UN Environment

Senior Sustainability Manager
The International Woodland Company (IWC)

Assistant Director of Operations
ITTO

Vice-chairman of China Paper Industry Chamber of Commerce, Deputy of People's Congress of Meishan City, and Member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Qingyang District Chengdu

Concept developer
WAAG

Charles Darwin University

Planning Commission, Tanzania

Advisor
International Forest Policy, GIZ

Managing Director
Finance in Motion

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

Professor of Tropical Forestry, Faculty of Forestry
University of British Columbia

VP, Climate Action
Salesforce

LEAD Transformation Initiative

Programme Advisor
FAO

Principal Natural Resources Advisor
World Vision Australia

Programme Coordinator of Global Assessment of Bamboo and Rattan for green development (GABAR)
International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR)

Scientific Director
International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS)

Moderator and biologist

Director of the Programme and Platforms Focal Point, Latin America
Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)

Senior Commodity Trade Specialist
IDH

Global Director
Mongabay

Alternate Nobel Prize winner & Farmer
Burkina Faso

president & chief engineer
Zhejiang Xinzhou Bamboo-based Composites Technology Co., Ltd

Coordinator, Climate & Forests Programme
Client Earth

Lecturer in the Department of Forest Resources and Game Management, Faculty of Forest, Land Resources and Phytosanitary
Kazakh National Agrarian University in Almaty

Communications Director
Forests International

Voices from the Landscape
NACOFA