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Speakers

Abigail Binay

Mayor, City of Makati, Philippines

Oliver Hillel

Programme Officer, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD)

Tunç Soyer

Mayor, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey

Tae-Young Yeom

Mayor, City of Suwon, South Korea

Vera Revina Sari

Acting Governor for Spatial Planning and Environment, City of Jakarta, Indonesia

Ahmad Zabri Bin Mohamed Sarajudin

Acting Director of Urban Services Department, Seberang Perai Municipal Council, Malaysia

Isabella de Roldão

Vice Mayor, City of Recife, Brazil

Ravi Bhalla

Mayor, City of Hoboken, USA

Sayda Melina Rodríguez Gómez

State Secretary of Sustainable Development, State of Yucatan, Mexico

Dr. Philipp Rode

Executive Director, LSE Cities, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, LSE

Geraldo Júlio de Mello Filho

State Secretary of Development, State of Pernambuco, Brazil

Gonzalo Muñoz

High-Level Climate Action Champion, Chile

Quamrul Chowdhury

Sustainable development and climate negotiator of LDCs and G-77 at UN/UNCSD/UNFCCC

Amanda McKee

Head of Knowledge Management, Head of CAEP, NDC Partnership

Anna Reynolds

Lord Mayor, City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Cheng Wen-tsan

Mayor, Taoyuan City, Chinese Taipei

Dr. Peter Kurz

Mayor, City of Mannheim, Germany

Manuel de Araújo

Mayor, Quelimane Municipality, Mozambique

Susan Aitken

Leader, Glasgow City Council, United Kingdom

Mami Mizutori

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR

Joseph Mithika Mwenda

Executive Director, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance

Jocelyn Blériot

Executive Lead - Institutions, Governments and Cities, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Joseph Muturi

Chair Management Board, Slum Dwellers International

Nigel Jollands

Associate Director, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Frank Weiler

Team Lead, Urban and Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, KfW Development Bank

Mauricio Rodas

Co-Chair, Global Commission for BiodiverCities by 2030 (World Economic Forum)

Armin Laschet

Minister-President, State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Dr Rainer Lassig

Ambassador, Head, Federal Foreign Office Liaison Office for International Organizations

Jürgen Zattler

Director General, German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development

Nicola Beech

Councillor, Bristol City Council, UK

Maimunah Mohd Sharif

Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

Parliamentary Secretary of State, Ministry of the Environment, Germany

Cheng-Ta Hsieh

Deputy Mayor, New Taipei City, Chinese Taipei

Cathy Yitong Li

UNFCCC Youth NGO Constituency (YOUNGO)

Talieh Wögerbauer

National Focal Point, ACE (Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action)

Johan Rockström

Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

Dr Rudiger Ahrend

Head of the Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship

Matthew Baldwin

Deputy Director General for Mobility and Transport, European Commission

Dr Shipra Narang Suri

Chief, Urban Practices Branch, Global Solutions

Luz Amparo Medina

Head of International Relations, Bogotà, Colombia

Lorna Slater

Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Scottish Government, United Kingdom

Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner

Minister for Federal, European and International Affairs, State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Patrizia Gragnani

Patrizia Gragnani, Co-Focal Points of UNFCCC Youth NGO Constituency (YOUNGO)

Margaret Hender

Co-founder, CEDAMIA, Australia

Aaron Hawkins

Mayor, City of Dunedin, New Zealand

Andreas Wolter

President, Climate Alliance, Germany

Cesar Carreño

Head of Climate Data, ICLEI World Secretariat, Germany

Monserrat Madariaga Gómez de Cuenca

Environmental Lawyer, Chile; Researcher, University College of London, United Kingdom

Stefan Wagner

Head, International Affairs and Global Sustainability, City of Bonn, Germany

Irene Knoke

Research associate, SÜDWIND, Germany

Christoph Bals

Policy Director, Germanwatch, Germany

Saúl Luciano Lliuya

Farmer and mountain guide, Peru

Bill Peduto

Mayor, City of Pittsburgh, USA

Ines Bresler

Communication Officer, SÜDWIND, Germany

Lars Gronvald

Head of Urban Section, DG INTPA

Giorgia Rambelli

Coordinator, ICLEI Europe; Coordinator International Dimension, Covenant of Mayors Office

Arthur Hinsch

Officer, ICLEI Europe and Covenant of Mayors Office

Silvia Assalini

Officer, ICLEI Europe and Covenant of Mayors Office

Risto Veivo

Climate Director, City of Turku, Finland

Ada Amon

Chief Advisor to the Mayor on Climate Affairs, City of Budapest, Hungary

Oliver Moran

Chair of Climate Action Committee and Deputy Lord Mayor, City of Cork, Ireland

Idan Sasson

Project Coordinator, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), UK

Bella Tonkonogy

Associate Director, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), USA

Maryke van Staden

Director of ICLEI’s Bonn Center for Local Climate Action and Reporting, ICLEI WS, Germany

Carmel Lev

Strategy and Partnerships Consultant, Global Infrastructure Facility, USA

Giulia Macagno

Head of the City Climate Finance Gap Fund Technical Secretariat, EIB, Luxembourg

Jaffer Machano

Global Program Manager, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), USA

Ariel Dekovic

Head of Global Communications, ICLEI, Bonn, Germany

Michelle Preen

Director: Communications, Knowledge Management & Research Coordination, ICLEI Africa, South Africa

Thea Buckle

Senior Communications Officer, ICLEI Africa, South Africa

Jarita Kassen

Senior Communications Officer, ICLEI Africa, South Africa

Matteo Bizzotto

Communications Officer, ICLEI World Secretariat, Germany

Everica Rivera

Communications Officer, ICLEI World Secretariat, Germany

Laura Parry

Senior Manager Partnerships and Fundraising, CDP

Carla Mariño Viteri

Officer, Climate Data, ICLEI World Secretariat

Angie Fyfe

Executive Director, ICLEI USA

Dr. Annabelle Houdret

Senior Researcher, German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Germany

Diego Jara

Environmental Law Center of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Germany

Abby Ortega

PhD student, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Germany

Dr. Simone Sandholz

Academic Officer, Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Germany

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kistemann

Deputy Director, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health (IHPH), Bonn University, Germany

Ruben Werchan

Senior Policy Officer for Sustainable Urban Development, Division 423 Environmental policy, BMZ

Matteo Schleicher

Junior Policy Analyst, Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division, OECD

Enrique R. Silva

Director, International Initiatives, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Amy Cotter

Director of Climate Strategies, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Ryuzo Sugimoto

Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Ladislas Ngendahimana

Secretary General, Rwanda Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA)

Takeharu Yamanaka

Mayor, Yokohama City, Japan

Emani Kumar

Deputy Secretary General and Regional Director for South Asia, ICLEI

Atishi Marlena

Member of Legislative Assembly, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India; Vice President, ICLEI

Edgar Villaseñor Franco

Director, ICLEI Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

Wolfgang Teubner

Regional Director, ICLEI Europe

Francesca Racioppi

Head of Office, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health; 2021 Chair of UN Agencies in Bonn

Roshanie Dissanayake

Municipal Commissioner, City of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Emilio Jatón

Mayor, City of Santa Fe, Argentina

Jyoti Mathur-Filipp

Principal Officer, Implementation Support Division, UN - Convention on Biological Diversity

Natalia Uribe

Secretary General, Regions4

Mauricio Vila Dosal

Governor, State of Yucatan, Mexico

Martina Otto

Head, Cities Unit, Economy Division, UN Environment Programme

Miriam Medel García

Chief of External Relations, Policy and Advocacy, UNCCD Secretariat

Minna Arve

Mayor, City of Turku, Finland; Vice President, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Alexandre Caldas

Director, Technology, Innovation and Big Data, UNEP, Kenya

Katherine Foster

Executive Strategy Officer, Open Earth Foundation, USA

Pourya Salehi

Senior Research Officer, ICLEI World Secretariat, Germany

Jorn Verbeek

Head of Research and Innovation, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM), Belgium

Koko Warner

Manager of "Impacts, Vulnerability, and Risks", UNFCCC, Germany

Timur Dogan

Asst Professor, Center for Cities, Cornell University, USA

Helen Watts

Senior Director of Global Partnerships, Student Energy, Canada

Victoria Beard

Professor, Director of Center for Cities, Cornell University, USA

Arminel Lovell

Cities Manager for Science-Based Targets, CDP

Hilary Meltzer

Chief, Environmental Law Division, New York City, USA

Saleemul Huq

Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

Malini Mehra

Chief Executive, GLOBE International

Rodrigo Corradi

Chief Executive, GLOBE International

Katja Dörner

Mayor, City of Bonn, Germany

Yunus Arikan

Director of Global Advocacy, ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability

Gino Van Begin

Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Frank Cownie

Mayor, City of Des Moines, USA; President, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Lawrence Mashungu

Climate Change Mitigation Expert, Ministry of Environment, Climate Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Zimbabwe

Kobie Brand

Regional Director, ICLEI Africa; Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI

Stephen Cowan

Councillor, Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, UK

Dmitry Mariyasin

Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Eszter Mogyorosy

Climate Finance Manager, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Alexander Kleibrink

Senior Policy Officer, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

Miroslav Polzer

Executive Director, International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI

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