All Speakers

Megan Jungwiwattanaporn

Officer, Environment

Pew Charitable Trusts

Megan Jungwiwattanaporn supports Pew’s crosscutting environmental policy team, providing expertise and coordination to advance Pew’s engagement in multilateral forums, including the United Nations,…

Tamir SANSAR

Analyst

Office of the COP17 National Committee

Milan Gazdić

Director

Environmental Protection Agency

Forestry PhD with over 12 years of international experience in forest ecology, sustainable forest management, and nature conservation. Director of the Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro (…

seokwoo LEE

director general

Korea Arboreta and Gardens Institute

Saed HANANI

Founder and CEO

Foras Khadra

Saed is a 25-year-old Palestinian climate leader and advocate for sustainable entrepreneurship, with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy. With 24 recognized awards for…

Jampel LHENDUP

Forest Ranger

Department of Forests & Park Services, MoENR, Bhutan

Son of former poacher

Daouda SEMBENE

Founder and CEO

AfriCatalyst

Daouda Sembene is the CEO of AfriCatalyst, a global development advisory firm headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. He also serves as a Distinguished Non-resident Fellow at the Washington-based Center for…

Patricia SEWE

Chief Operations Officer (COO)

WildlifeDirect

Trish Sewe is a seasoned communications and results-driven development professional with over 20 years of experience leading complex, high-impact projects in conservation and sustainable development…

Xia WU

Chairperson

Yunnan Green Environment Development Foundation

Xia WU, female, Han ethnicity, born in January 1964 in Pei County, Jiangsu Province, holds a postgraduate degree while working. She is a senior forestry engineer and senior economist. Current she is…

Victoria LICHTSCHEIN

Directora Ejecutiva encargada

Fundación Biodiversidad Argentina

I am an Argentine biologist. In the early years of my career, I was a marine scientific researcher and worked mainly on whales, dolphins and penguins in my country. Later, I entered the national…

Piet THERON

Senior Director: Conservation Strategy & Development - Southern Africa

Conservation International

Piet Theron (B Landscape Architecture, MPhil Environmental Science) is a Landscape Architect working in the environmental planning and management field. He has more than 28 years’ experience working…

Suneetha MAZHENCHERY SUBRAMANIAN

Research Fellow

UNU-IAS

Suneetha M Subramanian is a Research Fellow with the United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. She has more than 20 years of experience in international and sub-…

Rinah RAZAFINDRABE

Directeur Général de la Gouvernance Environnementale

Ministère de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable Madagascar

Mr. Rinah Razafindrabe is the Director General of Environmental Governance within the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. He has 20 years of experience in the field of natural…

Barbara CHESIRE

Managing Director

AB Entheos

Barbara has been in the insurance industry for 18 years and is passionate to see insurance play a role in increasing financial resilience across the continent. She co-founded AB Entheos in 2014 and…

Karine Caussé

Programme Officer, Freshwater Biodiversity, NbS and Agroecology

French Water Partnership

Mon expertise se situe à la croisée de la gestion de l'eau et de l‘interface sciences - politiques. Mon parcours est marqué par un engagement pour la durabilité des stratégies vertes et bleues. Une…

Mirjam DE KONING

Executive Director

Prespa Ohrid Nature Trust

Mirjam joined Prespa Ohrid Nature Trust (PONT), a transboundary Conservation Trust Fund financing protected areas and CSOs in the cross border areas of Albania, Greece, and North Macedonia, as…

Kristen LEAR

Agave Restoration Program Director

Bat Conservation International

Dr. Kristen Lear is an internationally recognized bat conservationist advancing bat conservation, large landscape-scale restoration, and connectivity conservation. With over 15 years of global…

Mohammed ALNAAFA

Brief Introduction of Prof. Dr. Mohammad Abdulaziz Al Naafa,Prof. Mohammed AlNaafa holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals,…

Benjamin JONES

Chief Conservation Officer

Project Seagrass

I am the Chief Conservation Officer at Project Seagrass, an organisation I co-founded in 2013 after seeing need for greater science-based conservation action for seagrass meadows globally. I am ex-…

Jennifer DUNN

Green Cities Associate

AIPH

Jennifer Dunn is Green City Associate at AIPH. She manages the AIPH Green City Standard and the World Green Cities Award. In 2024, she was the Urban ReLeaf Research Officer at Dundee City Council.…

Andrew MOONEY

Senior Conservation and Science Officer

Dublin Zoo

Senior Conservation and Science Officer at Dublin Zoo, Ireland, and Coordinator for the IUCN Centre for Species Survival: Ireland.

Javokhir Abdukhalikov

Deputy Head of International Cooperation and Rankings Department

Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection, and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Javokhir Abdukhalikov is a Deputy Head of Department at the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan, working in the International Cooperation…

Julia SIGWART

Professor

IUCN Species Survival Commission 2021-2025

Elin THOMAS

Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative

Dr Elin Angharad Thomas is a deep-sea biologist and early-career researcher, currently working as Communications Manager for the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). Her role with DOSI supports…

Ali FARHADI

CEO

Ai2

Ali Farhadi is the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and a Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Ali has been a professor…

Philip MCGOWAN

Professor of Conservation Science and Policy

Newcastle University

My work has developed from species-specific fieldwork in the 1980s and 1990s on a highly threatened, yet little known, group of birds (Galliformes: pheasants, partridges and allies), mostly in Asia,…

Mark DAY

Head of Kazakh Steppe Programme

Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative

A biologist by training, my biodiversity conservation, strategic communications, and organisational development work since the 1990s have enabled me to lead the design and delivery of a range of…

Stella EGBE

Species Conservation Manager

IUCN Species Survival Commission 2021-2025

I am Dr Stella Egbe, a trained Conservation Biologist and well rounded in ornithology, ecology and general environmental biology. Apart from my educational training, in the last 10 years, I have…