All Speakers

Thiri Dawei Aung

Executive Director

Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association (BANCA)

Dr. Thiri Da Wei Aung serves as Executive Director. She received Ph.D (Ornithology) from University of Yangon in 2012. A large part of her work is to provide leadership to BANCA (internally and…

Shereefa Al-Salem

Environment Public Authority

Head of wildlife monitoring section, Kuwait focal point for CITES, working as Wildlife Enforcement Officer, follow up and implement biodiversity related conventions, responsible of wildlife…

Jessica Judith GREFA HUATATOCA

Piatua Resiste

I am an indigenous Kichwa woman from the town of Santa Clara, Ecuador. I trained as a biologist at the Amazonian State University and currently hold a master's degree in Political Ecology and…

Sawyer KUHLKEN

Youth Humboldt Scientist

Families in Nature

Sawyer Kuhlken is a youth leader, diver, artist and conservationist. He has collaboratively contributed to research projects in Tela, Honduras aimed at discovering the biotic and abiotic factors…

Myriam Patricia LOPEZ YANEZ

Founder

Specialized Lighting Advisors

Myriam Patricia Lopez Yanez is a Dubai based architect and lighting designer specializing in biodiversity-conscious, low impact lighting strategies. With over 20 years of experience across the Middle…

Alex ROGERS

Deputy Director of Strategic Science Programmes and Partnerships

National Oceanography Centre UK

Professor Alex Rogers is a marine ecologist of more than 30 years’ experience who is interested in how biodiversity is distributed in the ocean, especially in the deep sea and on mesophotic tropical…

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…

Frédéric CASTELL

Senior Natural Resources Officer

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Frédéric Castell is a Senior Natural Resources Officer at the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) within the Food and Agriculture Organization (…

Charlotte KARIBUHOYE SAID

CEO & Founder, Interface pour la Nature

Interface pour la Nature

Charlotte is CEO and Founder of Interface pour la Nature, an advisory and consulting company for environmental sustainability. She worked previously as Head of strategic alliances and West Africa…

Ana NUNES

Senior Programme Officer (Invasive Species)

IUCN

I am a biologist with over 17 years of experience working on invasive alien species, mainly in freshwater ecosystems. At IUCN I work on policy support and implementation, primarily in projects…

Patrick KIMANI

Director

Coastal and Marine Resource Development

Dr. Patrick Kimani (PhD) is a co-director at Coastal and Marine Resource Development (COMRED- https://comred.or.ke/ ). He serves as the Technical Advisor on Fisheries Governance, Livelihoods and…

Tony NELLO

Senior program coordinator Urban

IUCN

Tony Nello is a French economist based in Costa Rica since 2013. He currently serves as Senior Programme Coordinator – Urban within IUCN’s global programme staff, leading international efforts to…

Ana SALCEDA

Filmmaker, Journalist, Impact Producer

BelugaSmile Productions / Big Fish Initiative

For more than two decades, Ana Salceda has worked as a journalist, communication strategist, and Emmy-nominated director/producer of internationally award-winning documentaries. Her work draws on the…

Kelly DE BIE

Manager Management Effectiveness

Parks Victoria

I lead the Management Effectiveness team for Parks Victoria. I was previously a Research Fellow in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, University of Melbourne, with expertise in the…

Leander RAES

Senior Economist

IUCN Secretariat

Leander specializes in the socio-economic and environmental evaluation of nature-based solutions (NbS), supporting the development of policies, action plans, and business cases to implement and…

Helen SENN

Head of Conservation And Science

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

Helen manages the RZSS Conservation department. She has worked at RZSS since 2011, including managing the RZSS WildGenes lab. She is a specialist in conservation genetics. She also works on species…

Carlos Manuel RODRIGUEZ ECHANDI

CEO & Chairperson

Global Environment Facility

Lawyer by profession, politician by choice, and conservationist at heart, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez was elected as CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility by its governing body, the GEF…

Noelle KUMPEL

Senior Policy Advisor

BirdLife International

Noëlle has over 25 years’ experience in conservation research, project/programme management and policy, including five years in the field in Africa and Asia and doctoral/postdoctoral research on the…

Iain STEWART

Director, Membership and Commission Support Unit

International Union for Conservation of Nature

Iain Stewart joined IUCN in 2022 and is the Director of Membership, Commissions and Communications. This role sees Iain working closely with IUCN Commissions, Members and Secretariat to develop and…

Jaime QUISPE

Director Ejecutivo

ONG CENTRO DE APOYO A LA GESTION SUSTENTABLE DEL AGUA Y EL MEDIO AMBIENTE "AGUA SUSTENTABLE"

Jaime Prudencio Quispe Poma, an agricultural engineer by profession, has been working since 1998 on climate change, integrated water resource management, and integrated watershed management projects…

Emily RENN

Graduate Research Assistant

Northern Arizona University

Emily is a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Sustainability at Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include seeking innovative, inclusive, and interdisciplinary approaches to…

Tammy DAVIES

BirdLife International

Dr Tammy Davies is the Marine Science Coordinator at BirdLife International - a global Partnership of over 120 national conservation organisations. Tammy oversees the science work that underpins…

Maria Jovita LAMBERT

Associate Director of International Affairs and Graduate Admissions; Adjunct Pro

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Maria Jovita Lambert is the Associate Director of Graduate Admissions and International Affairs and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Her work…

Cynthia BARZUNA

Deputy Director

WRI

Cynthia Barzuna Gutiérrez is the Global Deputy Director of the Ocean Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), where she provides strategic leadership across a global portfolio that connects…

Chandni NAVALKHA

Director, Conservation and Stewardship

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Chandni Navalkha is Director of Conservation and Stewardship at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, where she leads initiatives that advance and accelerate the…

Lukasz CZERWINSKI

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…

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…