2023 Speakers

Speakers

Razan Al Mubarak

President

IUCN

Bertrand Piccard

Chairman

Solar Impulse Foundation

Zaya Guarani

Indigenous model and activist

from the Brazilian Amazon

Patrick Odier

President, Swiss Sustainable Finance, and Chairman

Building Bridges

Patricia Danzi

Director-General

Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Antoine Sire

Head of Company Engagement

BNP Paribas Group

Anderson Tanoto

Managing Director

RGE

Beatrice Atim Odwong

Minister of State for Environment

Republic of Uganda

Zakia Khattabi

Federal Minister of Climate, the Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal

Belgium

Rob Cameron

Vice President Global Head of Public Affairs and ESG Engagement

Nestlé

Sylvie Goulard

Co-Chair

International panel on Biodiversity Credits

Kirsten Schuijt

Director General

WWF

Grethel Aguilar

Director General

IUCN

Yutaka Matsuzawa

Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs

Japan

Carlos Jack López-Moctezuma Jassán

CEO

Bancoppel

Yann Wehrling

Vice-President in charge of Ecological Transition, Climate and Biodiversity

Ile de France Region

Tamer Abogharara

Advisor to the Minister of Environment

Egypt

Craig Bennett

Chief Executive

The Wildlife Trusts

Ignace Beguin Billecocq

Oceans and coast zones lead and acting nature head

UN HIGH level climate champions

Claudine Blamey

Group Director of Sustainability

Aviva

Helena Boniatti Pavese

Head of Environment

Suzano

Stephen Browne

Vice President, Wildlife & Natural Heritage

Royal Commission for AlUla

Pierre-Yves Burlot

Sustainability Director

Séché Environnement

Regina Cervera

Project Coordinator

AI for Climate / C Minds

Kevin Chang

Executive Director

Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo

Seong-hyun Cheon

Senior Vice President

Posco Holdings

Saber Hossain Chowdhury

Special Envoy to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for Environment & Climate Change

Bangladesh

Ingrid Coetzee

Director of Biodiversity

Nature & Health, ICLEI Africa

Linden Coppell

Vice President Sustainability & ESG

MSC Cruises S.A.

Marine De Bazelaire

Group Advisor on Natural Capital

HSBC Holdings

Sophie Dejonckheere

Partner and Associate Director

Boston Consulting Group

Celeste Drake

Deputy Director-General

International Labour Organization

Dan Esty

Hillhouse Professor

Yale University

David Gadsden

Director Conservation Solutions

Esri

Elaine Geyer-Allély

Leader

WWF International’s Governance Practice

Joel Andres Rojas Gonzalez

Dominican Biologist

Autonomous University of Santo Domingo

James Hardcastle

Head, Protected and Conserved Areas Team, IUCN

IUCN

Masami Hasegawa

Director of the Environment and Energy Policy Bureau, Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)

Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation (KCNC)

Adonai Herrera-Martínez

Director of Environment and Sustainability Department

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Bettina Hoffmann

Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection

Germany

Diane B. Holdorf

Executive Vice President

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Ian Hudson

Head of Nature & Ecosystems

Anglo American

John Kamanga

Director

South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO)

Yangbo Kim

UNESCO dispatched cooperation officer

Jeju Special Self-Governing Province

Rachel Kolbe Semhoun

Head of Sustainability

InVivo Group

Mirela Kumbaro

Minister of Tourism and Environment

Albania

Michèle Lacroix

Group Head of Sustainability

SCOR

Fabien Laurier

Managing Director

Deloitte

Maud Lelievre

Chair

IUCN National Committee of France

Nathalie Lhayani

Chief Sustainability Officer

Group Caisse des Dépôts

Cecilio Solís Librado

Founder

Centro Cultural Ixtlamachiliztli

Jacob Martin-Malus

Assistant Deputy Minister, in charge of Biodiversity, Wildlife and Parks

Ministry of Environment. Quebec

Onel Masardule

IIFB member, Latin America and the Caribbean

IIFB

Rosalie Matondo

Minister

Forest Economy, Congo

Emily McKenzie

Technical Director

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Flávia de Souza Mendes

Program Manager, Forest & Land Use

Planet Labs Germany GmbH

Sylvie Motard

Deputy Regional Director and Representative for Europe

UNEP Regional Office for Europe

Lucy Mulenkei

Executive Director

Indigenous Information Network (IIN)

Christophe Najdovski

Deputy Mayor

City of Paris

Maria Neira

Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health

World Health Organization

Gim Huay Neo

Managing Director

Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum

Bianca Nijhof

Associate Director – Nature & Water

Anthesis

Agnes Leina Ntikaampi

Founder & Director

Il’laramatak Community Concerns

Mya Mya Nue

Advisor, Gender and Community Cohesion

GRAUS Indigenous Organization (Gram Unnayon Sangathon)

Angelica Nunez

Practice Manager

The Urban, Resilience, and Land Global Practice The World Bank

Peter Odhengo

Senior Policy Advisor on Climate Finance

National Treasury

Wilber Ottichilo

Governor of Vihiga County

Kenya

Teresa Parejo Navajas

Head of Sustainability

Iberia

Evan Paul

Director of Innovation

Salesforce

Rodrigo Pimentel Pinto Ravena

Secretary of the Green and Environment

São Paulo

Matthias M. Pitkowitz

Founder & CEO

EQX Biome

Hacina Py

Group Chief Sustainability Officer

Société Générale

Golestan (Sally) Radwan

Chief Digital Officer

UNEP

Marc Reinke

Head of Sustainable Finance Office

De Nederlandsche Bank

Marina Robles

Secretary of Environment

Mexico City

Yvan Rytz

General Secretary

Department of Youth, Environment and Security, Canton Vaud

Katrin Schneeberger

Director of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)

Switzerland

Sébastien Soleille

Global Head of Energy Transition and Environment

BNP Paribas

Peng Song

Senior Vice President

HUAWEI

Courtney Thompson

Executive Director and Head of Sustainable Product & Solutions

Morgan Stanley

Vassilis Venizelos

Councillor of State

Canton de Vaud

Thomas Wagner

Deputy Permanent Representative

EU Delegation in Geneva

Xueman Wang

Senior Urban Specialist and Program Manager

Global Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC), The World Bank

Dominic Kailashnath Waughray

Executive Vice President

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Cathy Yitong Li

Deputy Chair

IUCN Climate Crisis Commission

Vriko Yu

Co-Founder & CEO

Archireef

Simon Zadek

Executive Director

Nature Finance

Young Changemakers

Sheherazade .

Co-Executive Director

PROGRES (Sulawesi Regional Ecological Conservation Initiative)

Stanley Anigbogu

C.E.O. and Founder

LightEd

Youssef Bouzariata

Co-founder and CEO

Wayout

Isaac Brenya

Co-founder & CEO

Ecovon

Carlo Charles

Co-founder

Flint

Augusto Facundo Diaz

Co-founder

HD Photovoltaics

Theophilus Dumenyo

Co-Founder

Ento Farms

Suman Ghimire

CEO/Founder

PlantSat by Seed Innovations

Brigitta Gunawan

Young explorer

National Geographic Society

Emmanuel Kodua

Chief Marketing Officer

ECOVON

Havyas Kudupaje Somappa

CEO & Co-Founder

Beegle Agritech & Agriproducts

Amanda Magalhães

Knowledge and Technology Manager

Climate Ventures

Ismaela Magliotto Quevedo

Head Coordinator

Climatech

Elena Martinez

Chief Technology Officer

SOS Biotech

Reine Metlej

Founder

Biowayste

Gloria Amor Paredes

Co-founder

Salumayag Youth Collective for Forests

Moderators

Eva Zabey

CEO

Business for Nature

Diana Garlytska

West Europe Regional Vice Chair

IUCN CEC

Fiona Harvey

Environment Editor

The Guardian

Luther Anukur

Regional Director

Eastern and Southern Africa (ESARO)

Giulio Berruti

Director, Climate Change

BSR

Thomas Brooks

Chief Scientist

IUCN

Seonmi Choi

Senior Advisor, Climate and Environment

The Global Fund

Katie Critchlow

Advisor

Nature Data and Metrics

Valerie Dekimpe

Environment correspondent

France 24

Gavin Edwards

Director, Global Nature Positive Initiative

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International

Minna Epps

Head, IUCN Ocean Center for Conservation Action

IUCN Ocean Program

James Hardcastle

Head, Protected and Conserved Areas Team

IUCN

Diane B. Holdorf

Executive Vice President

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Akanksha Khatri

Head of Nature and Biodiversity Initiative

World Economic Forum

Kristin Komives

Director of Programmes

ISEAL

SungAh Lee

Deputy Director General – Corporate Services

IUCN