Speakers

Actor and Environmental Activist

Author, Educator, Activist, and Founder
Third Act

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

Parliamentary State Secretary
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

GLF Africa Coordinator
Greenpeace Africa

Secretary General
Convention on Wetlands

Managing Director, Climate and Water
Rare

President
Conservation International

Mayor of Bonn
President of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

Executive Director
Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar (AYCMQA)

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

Director General, CIFOR; Director of Science
CIFOR-ICRAF

Executive Director
The Tenure Facility

Joselyn Canfor-Dumas Foundation

Co-Convenor
Indigenous Peoples Major Group on Sustainable Development

President
Livelihoods Venture

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Director
Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD)

Director-General for Ontario and Northern Canada
David Suzuki Foundation

Producer
I See A Different You

Moderator and biologist

Land Use Fund Manager in the Funds & Platforms team
South Pole

The Program Director for the Global Tiger Center

Editor at Large
Grist

Senior Natural Resource Management Specialist in the Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Global Practice of the
World Bank

Co-director
Climate Litigation Network, Urgenda Foundation

CEO
Anno Agro Industry, Ethiopia

Wetlands International

National Project Coordinator for the Zambia Integrated Forest Landscape Project (ZIFLP)

Indigenous activist and researcher

Director, Ecosystems Division
UN Environment Programme

Senior Associate
Center for International Forestry Research Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Rights Activist
All India Forum of Forest Movements and the Global Forest Coalition

Indigenous politician and congresswoman
Brazil

Directora del Programa de Biodiversidad y Pueblos Indígenas de SPDA y Especialista en Derecho Ambiental y de los Recursos Naturales
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Director
Global Restoration Initiative, World Resources Institute

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

Secretary General
Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)

Indigenous Chamorro, advocate for Guam’s landscapes

Coordinator
Cocoa and Forest Initiative in Côte d'Ivoire

Policy Analyst of Sustainable Production Forest Management, The Ministry of Environment and Forestry Republic of Indonesia; Doctoral Student in Forest Management Science Program, Faculty of Forestry IPB University

Business Development Manager
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation

Founder and Executive Director
Msichana

Indigenous Baré of Brazilian Amazon

Dutch
Ministry of the Interior

Deputy Executive Secretary
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Director, Research Unit Forest and Societies
CIRAD

Director of Planning and Cooperation
Department of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR

Senior Science Policy Advisor
World Agroforestry

Social Development Specialist
World Bank Group

Researcher in forest ecology
CIRAD

Climate justice advocate in Nigeria & Founder
Surge Africa

Technical Director of Forestry at the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources
Ghana

Operations Officer
World Bank

YIL Alumna
Fellow at the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness

Deputy Special Envoy
UN Food Systems Summit

Climate Asset Management

Environmental Engineer of the Rural University of Guatemala
Specialist of Management of Protected Areas and Development of Sustainable Tourism of the Colorado State University, USA

Director
Plants for Life International

Fridays for Future

Coordinador de Comunidades Nativas

Economist
IUCN

Counselor-At-Law
Circuit Courts of Liberia

Co-founder
WUYLF

Executive Director
Community Initiatives (FCI)

Food Security
GIZ

Advisor
COICA

Senior Policy Advisor
UNDP

Graphic designer

GRASP Programme Manager and GRASP Coordinator (OIC)
UN Environment Programme

Coordinator
Yani Tundavii Dikuintii Collective

Manager of the Forest and Farm Facility
FAO

AMAN

Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank Environment and Natural Resource Management, Global Practice

Co-founder
I See a Different You

Producer
I See A Different You

Strategy Director
Futerra

Founder of InverPaisa Impact Fund; Founder of Loom Capital Mesoamerican Landscape Regeneration Fund

Secretary-General
International Mire Conservation Group

Director General de la Dirección General de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas del Ministerio de Cultura del Perú

Coordinator General
COICA

UNFCCC High-Level Champion of Chile

Founder & Director of Programmes
Climate Outreach

President
Association of Indigenous peoples of the Taymur area

Director General
Brazilian Forest Service

Co-founder and Chief Programs Officer
Cadasta Foundation

Advisor on indigenous peoples' rights
GIZ

Senior Scientist
ILRI, Italy and Ethiopia

Plant for the Planet

Director of Office
Justice and Peace of Archdiocese of Merauke, Papua, Indonesia

Lead environment and biodiversity specialist
European Investment Bank

Indigenous GIS specialist; Instituto del Bien Común (IBC), Lima, Peru

Priority Program Management Lead
Executive Office of the President of Indonesia

Founder & Director, Ranu Welum Foundation GLFx Kalimantan representative
Ranu Welum Foundation

Commissioner of Land Use and Management
Liberian Land Authority

Junior Advisor
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Lead
Department of Horticultural Sciences at the University of Bonn

Masai pastoralist

Lead Scientist, Value Chains, Private Sector Engagement and Investments
CIFOR-ICRAF

Senior Climate Advisor
Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Coordinator of the Global Peatlands Initiative
UN Environment

Co-founder
Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)

EthnoExpert

Coordinator of the Land Reform Coordination and Monitoring Unit
Ministry of Land Development, Housing and Public Works

Director of Livestock Department
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry (MoFALI), Mongolia.

Vice-president
IFAD

Head of capacity development & education
CIFOR-ICRAF

Cook Islands, Pacific

Mapuche People

Head of Forests Programme
BirdLife International

Project Leader
CATIE

Practice Manager for the Global Unit of the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy (ENB) Global Practice
World Bank

Programme Coordinator
Tropenbos International

Director DryDev programme
World Vision, Ethiopia

Principal scientist, Governance team leader
CIFOR-ICRAF

Coordinator
Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)

Project Specialist
Public Foundation CAMP Alatoo

Assistant Chief
Conservator of Forests

Policy officer
European Commission, Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development

Climate activist and poet

Senior Policy Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Ex-Secretary General
AMAN