Speakers

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

Author, Educator, Activist, and Founder
Third Act

CEO
CIFOR-ICRAF

Secretary General
Convention on Wetlands

CEO and Chairperson
Global Environment Facility

Director General, CIFOR; Director of Science
CIFOR-ICRAF

Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages

Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Senior Professor
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Senior Advisor, Climate Change, Energy and Low-Emission Development
CIFOR-ICRAF

Director for Africa & Global Coordinator
CIFOR-ICRAF

Executive Director
Forestry and Climate Change Fund

Executive Secretary
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Coordinator & President
Rights and Resources Initiative

Coordinator of Operation and Management
Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Writer, poet, performer and storyteller

Protagonist
The Letter, A Message for Our Earth film

Associate Editor, Indigenous affairs desk
High Country News

Executive Director
Initiative for Climate Action and Development (ICAD)

Sustainable Finance Expert
LuxDev

Senior Environmental Specialist, FOLUR and Food Systems Programs Lead
Global Environment Facility

Social Entrepreneur

Head of Natural Capital
Treeconomy

INUKA Project coordinator
Youth4Nature

Senator

Executive Director
Policy Action Initiative

Coordinator of GLFx Nairobi
GLF

Global Research Leader of Soil and Land Health at CIFOR-ICRAF and Co-lead of the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Research Associate
TMG Research

Indigenous activist and artist from the Tuxá people of Rodelas, Bahia, Brazil

Correspondent
Voice of America (VoA)

CEO
Kenya National Farmers’ Federation (KENAFF)

Chairperson
Kwale County Natural Resources Network

Senior Manager - Climate Change and Sustainability Services
EY

Environmental journalist
Earth Journalism Network (EJN)

Co-founder & Managing Director
Viva Organica

Artist

Oceans Restoration Steward 2023
Global Landscapes Forum

Founder
Viwandani Social CBO

Founder & CEO
Mabele Agric

Climate Smart Agronomist
ADAPTA.EARTH

Senior Lecturer at MIT and Founding Chair of the Presencing Institute

Senior Climate Change Specialist
Adaptation Fund

Founding Partner
Green Earth Agro

Lecturer, Department of Zoology
Makerere University

Director in the Food Initiative
The Rockefeller Foundation, Africa Regional Office

Executive Director
Initiatives for Community Development and Forest Conservation

Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs
Indonesia

Africa Regional Coordinator
ILC

Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF

Program Manager
GLFx Nkambe

Chair
CGIAR System Board

Climate Adaptation research officer
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT-Africa Hub in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Senior Reporter
Vox

Strategy and Finance Director
Soil-Carbon Certification Services (SCCS)

Media Relations Coordinator
Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)

Consultant, Environmental and Social Management Specialist
UNFCCC Steering Committee Member, EADB

Associate Professor
School of Natural Resources, Copperbelt University

CEO
Horizon Business Ventures

Coordinator
GLFx South Cost Guatemala

Conservation International

Global Advocacy Director
Stand for Her Land (S4HL) Campaign

Founder and CEO
Springboard

Youth Program Coordinator
Global Landscapes Forum/Youth in Landscapes Initiative

Music-maker and Illustrator

Project Officer
CIFOR-ICRAF

Environmental reporter
Univision Houston

Assistant Principal Research Scientist
Kenya Forestry Research Institute

Research Fellow
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Executive Chair, Earth4All and Founder, System Transformation Hub

Programs Manager
Green Africa Foundation

Executive Director
Goshen Global Vision

Poet and Writer

Communications Coordinator
GLFx Mindanao

Acting country representative
CIFOR-ICRAF, Mali country office

Lead Scientist
WWF/IUFRO-WFSE

Conservation Photographer and Filmmaker
TonyWild Foundation

Coordinator
GLFx Nairobi

Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) & Senior Energy Policy Analyst, OpenExp

Research Scientist at Kenya Forestry Research Institute
Kenya Forestry Research Institute

Directora Ejecutiva
Fundación Pro Eco Azuero

Policy and Impact Innovator
Clim-EAT

Deputy Director General
International Bamboo and Rattan Organization(INBAR)

Executive Chair
Community Land Action Now (CLAN)

Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Agriculture, Policy and Development - University of Reading

Senior Associate Communications, External Relations & Knowledge
Partnerships for Forests, West and Central Africa

Lead Community Engagement
Ceriops Research Organization

Coordinator
Great Green Wall Initiative, African Union Commission

Senior Scientist and Country Director
CIFOR-ICRAF Indonesia

South Africa
SouthSouthNorth/CDKN

Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF

Producer
Between the Rains film

Project Officer
DW Akademie

Director Técnico
Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación (SINAC) del Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía de Costa Rica (MINAE)

CEO and founder
Afarmers Media

Director of Global Programmes
INBAR, Beijing, China

Community and Action Communications Officer
GLF

Director of Asia
CIFOR-ICRAF