All Speakers

Speaker Julia SIGWART
Julia SIGWART

Professor

IUCN Species Survival Commission 2021-2025

Speaker HILLARY RENICK
HILLARY RENICK

Tribal Liaison Officer

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Hillary Renick, Tribal Liaison Officer, Office of Environmental Programs, leverages her extensive background in environmental and cultural resource management, Indigenous law, and public health to...
Speaker Michelle BENDER
Michelle BENDER

Legal Counsel and Head of Ocean Rights

Ocean Vision Legal

Michelle is the creator and leading expert in the movement towards "Ocean Rights," the application of Rights of Nature in the ocean policy seascape. She has provided her expertise to Rights of Nature...
Speaker Carla MANJATE ROMBE
Carla MANJATE ROMBE

Regional Gender Officer

IUCN

Carla Manjate Rombe is a Mozambican development professional with over 15 years of experience in program management, strategic planning, and gender equality in natural resource governance. She...
Speaker Dame Amelia FAWCETT
Dame Amelia FAWCETT

Co-Chair

International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits

Dame Amelia is a Non-Executive Director (formerly Lead Director 2019-2025) of State Street Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a Non-Executive Director and then Chair of Kinnevik AB in...
Speaker Alexandra LOCQUET
Alexandra LOCQUET

IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management 2021-2025

As a geographer, her work focuses on environmental conservation, and more specifically on strategies and methods for protecting the wilderness in France and Europe. After her PhD thesis on the...
Speaker James MUSINGUZI
James MUSINGUZI

Executive Director

Uganda Wildlife Authority

James has over 20 years in Conservation, particularly involved in Protected Area management, Community and species Conservation, Conservation Education among others. Holds a PhD in Wildlife...
Speaker Philip FRANKS
Philip FRANKS

Principal Researcher | Biodiversity

International Institute for Environment and Development

Email: phil.franks@iied.orgPhil Franks is an expert on the social dimension of natural resource management and conservation, with a particular focus on better understanding and applying...
Speaker Cristina ROMERO
Cristina ROMERO

Programme Manager, BESTLIFE2030

IUCN

Senior Programme Manager for the Protected and Conserved Areas team at IUCN, with over 20 years of international experience in project and grant management, partnership building and stakeholder...
Speaker Mauricio ALBORNOZ INIESTA
Mauricio ALBORNOZ INIESTA

Director de Cine

Cactus Cine

Mauricio Albornoz Iniesta studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). His experience includes directing, executive producing, editing, screenwriting, and assistant...
Eleonora De Falcis
Eleonora De Falcis
Speaker Adriana MOREIRA
Adriana MOREIRA

Division Head

GEF - Global Environment Facility

A Brazilian national, Dr. Adriana Gonçalves Moreira is an expert in biodiversity conservation, climate change and environmental sustainability. She is currently the head of the Global Environment...
Speaker Hari Krishna NIBANUPUDI
Hari Krishna NIBANUPUDI

Senior Climate Emergencies Expert

IUCN Climate Crisis Commission 2022-2025

Hari Krishna Nibanupudi is an international expert on climate change, humanitarian response, and sustainability with over two decades of leadership across Asia, Africa, and beyond. He currently...
Speaker Dana AHMED
Dana AHMED

Ocean Programme Advisor

Earth Law Centre

Dana Ahmed is a Law of the Sea Researcher, Ocean Rights Educator & Accessibility Advocate, working at the intersection of law, community, and ocean justice. Her foundation in common law sparked...
Speaker Leigh WINOWIECKI
Leigh WINOWIECKI

Global Research Lead of Soil and Land Health

CIFOR-ICRAF

Dr. Leigh Ann Winowiecki is the Global Research Lead for Soil and Land Health at CIFOR-ICRAF, based in Nairobi, Kenya. A soil scientist, her research focuses on scaling farmer-centered landscape...
Speaker Erik BERGLOF
Erik BERGLOF

Chief Economist

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Erik Berglof sets the vision and strategy for the Economics Department and leads the planning, implementation and supervision of its work plan in support of the Bank’s mandate as AIIB’s inaugural...
Speaker Dinesh Kumar AGRAWALA
Dinesh Kumar AGRAWALA

Scientist E

BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA

Dr. Dinesh Kumar Agrawala, Scientist E, Botanical Survey of India has been working on the systematics and conservation aspects of Indian Orchidaceae since past two decades. Apart from revising the...
Speaker HASHINUR RAHMAN PAVEL
HASHINUR RAHMAN PAVEL

Research Officer

Centre for Environment and Climate Change Research, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change-Bangladesh

Hi, I am Hashinur Rahman Pavel, a Research Officer at the Centre for Environment and Climate Change Research (CECCR) under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bangladesh. I...
Speaker Waleed HAMZA
Waleed HAMZA

Professor of Oceanography and Aquatic Ecology

United Arab Emirates University

Prof. Waleed Hamza has obtained his Ph.D. from Italy in Aquatic Ecology, in 1994. He has and is acting as principal investigator of different research projects in the field of Oceanography and...
Speaker Brian Juhyuk LEE
Brian Juhyuk LEE

Sustainability Lead

Google.org

Brian Juhyuk Lee serves as the Sustainability Lead at Google.org, where he is responsible for overseeing the organization's sustainability grantmaking, partnerships, and engagements. Before...
Speaker Hannah TIMMINS
Hannah TIMMINS

IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management 2021-2025

I am an ecologist with an interdisciplinary background in landscape-level conservation planning and management. I have researched and written about many topics including most recently the...
Speaker Swetha STOTRA BHASHYAM
Swetha STOTRA BHASHYAM

Youth Affiliate

IUCN Commission on Education and Communication 2021-2025

Chair - IUCN CEESP Young Professional Swetha Stotra Bhashyam is the Global South Focal Point of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN). GYBN is a youth network of more than 1 million members...
Speaker Beatriz NOBRE DA FONSECA
Beatriz NOBRE DA FONSECA

Senior Programme Officer | WALD-IF Grants Coordinator

IUCN

Speaker Faouzia CHARFI
Faouzia CHARFI

Présidente

Association Tunisienne de Taxonomie

Faouzia Charfi – CheikhrouhaCurrently Professor Emeritus, University Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Biology DepartmentFormerly Full Professor Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences...
Speaker Meshal ALHARBI
Meshal ALHARBI
Dr. Meshal Abdullah Alharbi is the Director General of the Rangelands Administration at the National Center for Vegetation Cover and Combating Desertification (NCVC). He earned his Ph.D. from King...
Speaker Rija Ranaivoarison
Rija Ranaivoarison

Executive Director

Fondation des Aires Protégées et de la Biodiversité de Madagascar

Rija Ranaivoarison is the Executive Director of the Fondation pour les Aires Protégées et la Biodiversité de Madagascar (FAPBM), the largest environmental trust fund in Africa dedicated to...
Speaker Reaksmey Luy
Reaksmey Luy

Executive Director

Culture and Environment Preservation Association

Speaker Liliana NÚÑEZ VELIS
Liliana NÚÑEZ VELIS

Presidenta

Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el hombre

Liliana Núñez Velis  Born in Havana, she graduated in History. Currently, she is the president of the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation (FANJ), which is based in Havana and has several...