All Speakers

Speaker Carla DANELUTTI
Carla DANELUTTI

Mediterranean program coordinator

IUCN

 15 years of progressively responsible experience in environmental conservation, project management, and internationalcollaboration, aligning closely with the responsibilities and objectives...
Speaker Jonathan Magnus LEDGARD
Jonathan Magnus LEDGARD

CEO and co-founder

Tehanu-Interspecies Money

Jonathan Ledgard leads Interspecies Money, a concept he invented to enable nonhuman life to participate in the market economy. A longtime foreign and war correspondent for The Economist and a...
Speaker Séverine GINOT
Séverine GINOT

GCELS Staff Intern

Center for Environmental Legal Studies

Speaker Samisoni RAKABU
Samisoni RAKABU

Technical Officer

IUCN

I am a development professional with over 15 years of experience working with communities across Fiji and the Pacific, specializing in program management, MEAL, and research with a focus on food...
Speaker JENEEN GARCIA
JENEEN GARCIA

SENIOR EVALUATION OFFICER

GEF IEO

Jeneen R. Garcia is a Senior Evaluation Officer with over 10 years’ experience in evaluating environmental programs at the Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO). Her...
Speaker PARANY LILIANE
PARANY LILIANE

Program Coordinator

Madagascar National Parks

Liliane Parany is Head of the Department of Quality, Resource Mobilization, and Monitoring & Evaluation at Madagascar National Parks, the institution responsible for managing 43 protected areas...
Speaker Alec CRAWFORD
Alec CRAWFORD

Director, Nature for Resilience

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Alec Crawford is the Director of Nature for Resilience at IISD. Within this role, he oversees the Resilience Program’s work on nature, undertaking and supervising research, policy, and practice that...
Speaker Fabio VAZ RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA
Fabio VAZ RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA

Executive Coordinator

ISPN

Anthropologist and executive coordinator of the Institute for Society, Population, and Nature (ISPN) in Brazil, a non-governmental organization for the development of social equity and environmental...
Speaker Roaa Al Mohaisen
Roaa Al Mohaisen

Membership and Liaison Associate

IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature

Speaker Natalia NILES ARGUELLO
Natalia NILES ARGUELLO

Intern

Families In Nature

Natalia Niles Arguello (Lexi) is a high school Senior in McCallum High School's Fine Arts Academy in Austin, Texas.  Lexi has a passion for environmental climate justice and international...
Speaker Claudine BLAMEY
Claudine BLAMEY

Chief Sustainability Officer

Aviva

Currently Chief Sustainability Officer at Aviva. Claudine was previously the Director of Sustainability and Digital Strategy at Argent LLP for 3 years. Claudine delivered the net zero carbon...
Speaker CELINE KOOI HUA LIM
CELINE KOOI HUA LIM

Managing Director

SAVE Rivers

Celine Lim is an Indigenous Kayan from Baram, Sarawak Borneo, and is the Managing Director of SAVE Rivers, a local Non-profit and Civil Society Organization (CSO) championing Indigenous Peoples' (IPs...
Speaker Lucy APLIN
Lucy APLIN
I currently hold joint positions as a SERI Professorial Fellow at the University of Zurich and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. Previously, I held a Max Planck Research...
Speaker Rakeshni LATA
Rakeshni LATA

Training and Capacity building Officer in Nature-based Solutions

Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Programme, Pacific Community (SPC) Pacific Community (SPC)

I am a passionate advocate for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the Pacific, currently working as a Training and Capacity Building Officer at the Pacific Community (SPC), based in Suva, Fiji. My work...
Speaker Anupama Rajya SHAHI
Anupama Rajya SHAHI
I am a young enthusiastic Environmentalist doing my Masters degree in Environmental Science in Pokhara University and working in various NGOs as Freelancer Environmentalist in numerous Environmental...
Speaker Gerry CREIGHTON
Gerry CREIGHTON

Curator of Elephant Care and Conservation

Al Ain Zoo

Gerry Creighton has spent over 25 years working with elephants and has nearly 40 years of experience in a professional zoo environment. Gerry started work in Dublin Zoo in 1983 as a trainee keeper,...
Speaker Lina OSMAN
Lina OSMAN

Head, Sustainable Finance - Middle East, Africa & Pakistan

Standard Chartered Bank

Lina is the Regional Head of Sustainable Finance, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan at Standard Chartered Bank. She has over 19 years of banking experience across Sustainable Finance, Corporate...
Speaker Vinod MATHUR
Vinod MATHUR

IUCN Strategic Advisor ( Biodiversity) APAP

IUCN

After serving for 33 years at the prestigious Wildlife Institute of India (WII), a globally acclaimed scientific institution of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of...
Speaker Hind AL AMERI
Hind AL AMERI

Acting Section Head Marine Biodiversity Assessment & Conservation

IUCN Species Survival Commission 2021-2025

Dr. Hind Al Ameri is a marine conservation scientist and has joined the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) in 2014. Dr. Al Ameri has a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Exeter and...
Speaker Grethel AGUILAR ROJAS
Grethel AGUILAR ROJAS

Director General

IUCN

Dr Grethel Aguilar, born in Costa Rica, assumed office as Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in October 2023. Dr Aguilar brings with her thirty years of...
Speaker Jordan REEVES
Jordan REEVES

Program Director, Landscape Connectivity

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation

Jordan leads the Landscape Connectivity Program through deep collaboration with Y2Y’s talented staff, sovereign First Nations and Tribes, rural communities, government agencies, and a breadth of...
Speaker Rym DEKAR
Rym DEKAR

Multi-Faceted performance manager

VEOLIA Near Middle East

Junior ALBERTO
Junior ALBERTO
Speaker Duncan LEADBITTER
Duncan LEADBITTER

Director

Fish matter

Duncan Leadbitter is a director of Australia based fisheries and natural resource consulting company, Fish Matter. The role of Fish Matter is to provide practical advice to international...
Speaker Helena ATKINSON
Helena ATKINSON

Senior Programme Manager

Peace Parks Foundation

Speaker Hori Orlando Salanic Xec
Hori Orlando Salanic Xec

Licenciado en Trabajo Social

Asociación SINERGIAS

Hori Orlando Salanic Xec, Guatemalan, K'iche Maya indigenous people. I have a degree in Social Work. For the past 15 years, I have worked for territorial development for Indigenous peoples and local...
Speaker Borja DE LA PEñA ESCARDó
Borja DE LA PEñA ESCARDó

Global Policy Officer

International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR)

Partnership Development Specialist with 10+ years of experience in developing and managing partnership and institutional engagements with bilateral and multilateral agencies. including the three...
Speaker Aziz Abdukhakimov
Aziz Abdukhakimov
Aziz Abdukhakimov currently serves as the Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a position he has held since December 30, 2022. Born in 1974...