SPEAKERS
High-level speakers have already confirmed their participation. More announcements to come!
Ester Asin
Director for WWF’s European Policy Office
Pr. Edward B. Barbier
University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University
Nicolas Blain
Director for Institutional Relations of Reforest’Action
Nick Bridge
UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change
Kim Carstensen
Director-General of the Forest Stewardship Council
H.R.H. Charles
Prince of Wales
Michel Driessen
CEO of Verstegen
Thomas Friang
Founder & CEO, The Open Diplomacy Institute
Dr. Susan Gardner
Director of UNEP’s Ecosystems Division
Dr. Jane Goodall
DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
Elizabeth Gulugulu
Global Focal Point of the UNFCCC Youth Constituency (YOUNGO)
Stéphane Hallaire
President & CEO of Reforest’Action
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Founder of AFPAT
Pr. Naoko Ishii
Professor and Executive Vice-president of Tokyo University, Inaugural Director of the Center for Global Commons, Former Chair and CEO of the GEF, Former Japan’s Deputy Vice-minister for Finance
Dr. Agnes Kalibata
President of AGRA, Former UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit and Former Rwanda’s Minister for Agriculture
John Kerry
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
Dr. Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo
Director of Secretariat of the UN Forum on Forests and Former Benin’s Minister for the Environment
Dr. Kathy MacKinnon
Emeritus Chair of the World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN)
Saurav Malhotra
Co-Founder and Designer of the Rural Futures innovation at the Balipara Foundation (India)
Antony Mills
Chair, C4 Ecosolutions
José Gregorio Diaz Mirabal
Coordinator of the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)
Pr. Laurence Monnoyer-Smith
Chief Sustainability Officer of CNES
Dr. Musonda Mumba
Director of the UNDP’s Rome Center for Sustainable Development and former chair of the GPFLR
Dr. Robert Nasi
Director-general of CIFOR and Managing-Director of CIFOR-ICRAF
Dr. Zulkifli Nasution
Funder of Yakopi (Indonesia)
Dr. Marc Palahi
Director of the European Forest Institute and Coordinator of the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance
Virginijus Sinkevicius
European Commissioner for the Environment
Pascal Soriot
CEO of AstraZeneca
Rod Taylor
Global Forests Director of the World Resources Institute
Dr. Izabella Teixeira
Co-chair of the UNEP’s International Resources Panel and former Brazil’s Minister for the Environment
Lynette Thorstensen
Chair of the Board of Fair Trade International
Dr. Will Turner
Senior Vice President of Natural Climate Solutions of Conservation International
Dr. Tiina Vahanen
Deputy Director of the Forestry Department of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Adriana Vidal
Chair of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration and Senior Advisor at IUCN
Sir Robert Watson
Professor Emeritus at East Anglia University, former Chair of the IPCC and IPBES
Pr. Lee White
Gabon’s Minister of Forests, Oceans, Environment and Climate Change
Dr. Jonathan Woetzel
Senior Partner, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute
Chris Zink
Managing Director for Natural Climate Solutions Fund at Conservation International
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BRUSSELS | ONLINE | 24 MARCH 2022
