Please find below a list of speakers for our event in Kyoto and the Digital Edition livestreamed from around the world. For more information on when and where they will be speaking from, check out the agenda.
- Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Environment And Forestry
Kenya - Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Republic of Ireland - Mayor of Kyoto
- Vice Minister
Ministry Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia - Founder
Menos 1 Lixo - President and CEO
Kiko Network, attorney at Law, NPO法人気候ネットワーク代表・弁護士 - Chief, Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit (TEU)
UN Environment - Director General
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) - Managing Director, Climate and Water
Rare - Mayor of Bonn
President of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability - Co-Chair, Climate Action Network, Sinks Working Group
Coordinator of the Forests, Climate and Biomass Energy working group of the Environmental Paper Network - Executive Director
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) - Executive director
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition - Executive director
Environmental Justice Foundation - CEO
1 Million Women Solitaire Townsend - Video address
Co-Founder
Futerra- Co-founder
Fashion Revolution - Executive Director
Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar (AYCMQA) Matthieu Rytz - Video address
Visual Storyteller & Producer- Director General, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Managing Director, CIFOR-ICRAF - Founder
Khetee - Co-founder
Too Good To Go - Director of external affairs
Restorasi Ekosistem Riau - Deputy, Research and Development
Peatland Restoration Agency, Republic of Indonesia Emil Fischer - Video address
Co-Founder
Bamboo for Integrated Development Ghana- Director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program
Griffith University Nev Kemp
Deputy Chief of Party
USAID Lestari Project- UN Environment Deputy Executive Director
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations - Founder
Shimei Eco-Gardens - Chairperson, Osukuru United Women’s Network (OWN)
Climate Wise Women - Co-Convenor
Indigenous Peoples Major Group on Sustainable Development - Lead Coordinator
International Tropical Peatland Center - UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Senior Researcher
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) Toru Hayami
Representative director
Forest Revitalization Systems Co. Ltd. Deputy representative of FSC Japan- Agroforestry Business and Project Developer
ReNature - Professor of Psychology
Knox College - University of British Columbia
- Secretary General
Kiko Network Tokyo office - Senior Deputy Director General
Group Director for Forestry and Nature Conservation, Global Environmental Department, JICA - Scientist
CIFOR - Senior Policy Analyst
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) - Junior researcher in the Resilience Programme
European Forest Institute Samuel Adeyanju
MasterCard Foundation Scholar
University of British Columbia- Senior learning officer
Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) - Research Associate
University of Freiburg - Head of working group on Sustainable Resource Management and Global Change
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Rupesh Bhomia
Independent Consultant
India- In-Country Lead, Kenya
Women’s Climate Center’s International - In-Country Lead, Kenya
Women’s Climate Center’s International Roopa Davé
Senior Manager, Sustainability Services
KPMG Canada- Director
Pivot Point Peter Andrews OAM
Chair
TALS Institute- Head of Training and International Cooperation Division
Forest Inventory and Planning Institute (FIPI) Naw Ei Ei Min
Director
POINT- Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change and Food Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability
University of British Columbia - Professor Emeritus
Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University - Professor Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management - Professor of Tropical Silviculture, Director of Viikki Natural Resources Institute
University of Helsinki - Funder and coordinator
Modefica - Sustainability Coordinator
C&A - Peatlands forestry officer
FAO Marc Dumas-Johansen
Forest and Land Use Specialist
Division of Mitigation and Adaptation, Green Climate Fund- Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion Wageningen
- Senior Forestry Officer, REDD+ Team Leader
FAO/UN-REDD - Programme Manager
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) - Wageningen University & Research
- Scientist, Climate Change, Energy and low carbon development (CCE)
CIFOR Kosuke Mizuno
Professor of Development Studies
Kyoto University, Research Institute for Humanity and NatureKomal Kumar
Youth Competition Winner
GLF Kyoto 2019Koichi Kaizawa
Representative, Chikoronai Forest Trust, FSC PIPC member- Professor, Kyoto University Japan & CIFOR board member
- United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) - Executive Officer
CSR & Communication, AEON Co., Ltd. - Technical Assistant
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - Junior researcher
European Forest Institute - Scientist
Earth Innovation Institute Joan Tonui
Founder
Green Towns Initiatives- Junior researcher
European Forest Institute - Trainee
European Forest Institute Intu Boedhihartono
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia- Assistant Director-General of Forestry Department
FAO - Vice Chairman
Matsushita Gobel Foundation - In-Country Lead, Uganda
Women’s Climate Center’s International - Deputy Coordinator
Tebtebba - In-Country Lead, Uganda
Women’s Climate Center’s International Gabrielle Kissinger
Principal
Lexeme Consulting- Wageningen University & Research
- Youth in Landscapes/reNature Foundation
- Farmer
Slow Food Network Netherlands - Communications Specialist
European Forest Institute/EUFORGEN - CEO & Executive Director
Ranu Welum Foundation - Forest and Climate Change portfolio manager
UN Environment Elsie Attafuah
Technical Advisor
UNDP/REDD- Head of Climate Change and Forestry Programme
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) - Principal Scientist
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) - Senior Policy and Technical Advisor the Climate and Fores
UNDP - Professor
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University - Professor of anthropology
University of British Columbia - Regional Stakeholder Engagement Specialist and Regional Technical Advisor for REDD+ in the Asia-Pacific region
UNDP Climate and Forests - Artist, designer, writer
- Research Manager
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Ben Aschenaki
East Africa Regional Manager, Partnerships for Forests
McKinsey & CoAnita Diedrichsen - Video address
Nature Conservation Coach and Chevening Ambassador
WWF- Senior Scientist in the Climate Change, Energy & Low Carbon Development Team
CIFOR - Representative of the government of Indonesia, ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
- Advisory council
The Borneo Project - Secretary
IPCC - Masters student in Land and Water Management
Wageningen University & Research
We are adding new speakers everyday, do keep checking for latest updates.