Future Economy Forum Pavilion Speakers at COP28
FUTURE ECONOMY FORUM AT COP28-UAE
| Full Name | Job Title |
|---|---|
| Adele Jones | Sustainable Food Trust |
| Agnes Bweye | Practical Permaculture Institutes of Zanzibar |
| Ahmed Rushdy | Advisor to Chairman for the Sustainable Development and heading the Regional Center for Sustainable Finance. |
| Aly Rahim | Program Manager, Global Partnership for Social Accountability, The World Bank |
| Andy Zynga | CEO, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT Food) |
| Angela Cooper | BEworks |
| Angela Pinhati | Head of Sustainability at Natura&co |
| Annelies Withofs | Programme Manager, IKEA Foundation |
| Antoine St.Affrique | CEO, Danone |
| Arunabha Ghosh | Commissioner of the Climate Governance Commission, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi |
| Aryn Baker | Senior International Correspondent, Rome, TIME |
| Asami Miketa | Head of Energy Transition Planning and Power Sector Transformation at IRENA |
| Asha Jadeja Motwani | Motwani Jadeja Foundation |
| Asif Saleh | Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, BRAC |
| Bertrand Loumaye | Country Manager UAE, Majid al Futtaim Carrefour |
| Bhadra Kanaiya | Managing Partner & Co-founder, Sunways Global |
| Blaine Merkel | Gehl |
| Bradley Rochlin | Director of Strategic Partnerships at Running Tide – Startup accelerating natural processes in the ocean. |
| Brittany Boettcher | Managing Director, Skoll Foundation |
| Bryan Walker | IDEO |
| Carina Pimenta | National Secretary for Bioeconomy, |
| Chris Adamo | Vice President Public Affairs & Regenerative Agriculture Policy, Danone North America, Danone |
| Chris Grantham | Creative Leader, Neol |
| Christine Nabwami | Ugandan small-scale farmer |
| Danielle Nierenberg | Food Tank |
| Daphne Ewing-Chow | Senior Correspondent, Forbes |
| Devendra Fadnavis | Deputy Chief Minister - Maharashtra. |
| Dietram Oppelt | Technology Executive Committee, UNFCCC, NDE Germany. |
| Dr. Éliane Ubalijoro | CEO |
| Dr. Mohamed Farid Saleh | The Financial Regulatory Authority |
| Dr. Pradeep Sharma | Director of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation |
| Dr. Rania El Mashat | Minister for international cooperation |
| Dr. Yasmine Foad | Minister of Environment of the Republic of Egypt |
| Eduardo Noboa | Member of the Board, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt |
| Emile Frison | Co-founder, Agroecology Coalition |
| Engin Ayaz | Atolye |
| Eric Soubeiran | Managing Director - Climate and Nature Fund at Unilever PLC and Vice-President Business Operation Sustainability- Non-Executive Board Member |
| Ertharin Cousin | Founder and CEO Food Systems for the Future |
| Ethan Soloviev | Chief Innovation Officer, HowGood |
| Fernanda Fachini | Head of Climate Change at Natura&co |
| Feroz Saleem | PEARL |
| Fiona Harvey | Environmental Journalist, The Guardian |
| Fritz Lietsch | NOW |
| Gary Belkin | Director, Billion Minds Project |
| Gonzalo Muñoz | Climate Champions |
| Gordon Bennett | ICE |
| Gulin Olcer | Atolye |
| Hani Sewilam | Minister of water resources and irrigation |
| Hanna Ojanen | Policy Lead at Carbo Culture – Startup building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution. |
| Hannah Heimbuch | US Fisherman |
| Heiner Baumann | Executive Director |
| Helle Soholt | Gehl |
| Helmy Abouleish | CEO, Sekem |
| H.E. Sheikh Dr. Majid Al-Qassimi | leads Soma Mater, served as the UAE’s Chief Veterinarian and designed its food security strategy |
| Hunter Lovins | Managing Partner, NOW Partners |
| Ira van Eelen | (not set) |
| Jamie Drummond | Co-Founder at ONE.org and Founder, Sharing Strategies |
| Jenny Davis-Peccoud | Partner, Founder of Global Sustainability & Responsibility Practice, Bain & Company |
| Jeremy Coller | Founder, FAIRR |
| Johan Falk | CEO Exponential Roadmap Initiative |
| Julia DeSantis | Director of Sustainability & Development Coordinator, The Farmlink Project |
| Julia Weatherhogg | Programme Officer Adaptation Division presso UNFCCC |
| Justus Harm | Co-Executive Director of Demeter Egypt & Head of EoL Standard |
| Karina David | Youth and female farmer, Rede Ecovida De Agroecologia, Brazil |
| Kenzie Wade | Food Tank |
| Kerem Alper | CEO, NEOL |
| Laura Santucci | fr. Chief of Staff of Pres. Obama’s political operations |
| Laura Anne Edwards | Climate/Space Tech Evangelist Data Oasis & NASA 2017 DATANAUT, NASA |
| Leon Lidigu | Science Journalist, Nation Media Group, Kenya |
| Leontino Balbo | co-leads Native, produces 1/3 of the world’s organic cane sugar and advises owners of millions of hectares across crops (video link) |
| Lubomila Jordanova | Founder at Plan A / Greentech Alliance – Startup combining advanced carbon accounting solutions with comprehensive decarbonization strategies / Greentech community. |
| Lucy Wallace | Chief of Staff of the European Union’s Innovation and Technology Institute EIT and leader of the COP28 Food System Pavilion |
| Luea Ritter | World Ethic Forum |
| Luis Cilimingras | IDEO |
| Ma Jun | Commissioner of the Climate Governance Commission, Director, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), Beijing |
| Mahesh Roy | Director, IIGCC |
| Mahmoud Mohieldin | Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund |
| Maja Groff | Convenor Climate Governance Commission, Senior Treaty Advisor |
| Manoel Lemos | Owner Farm Maringa in the State of Pará in Brazil |
| Marcia Toledo | Director, Adaptation & Resilience, High Level Climate Champions (Moderator) |
| Mark Kuschel | Head of International Standardization of Grid Technologies at Siemens Energy |
| Martin Stuchtey | The Landbanking Group |
| Martin Wainstein | Founder at Open Earth – non-profit organization building digital architecture and open source tech to scale climate action. |
| Martin Kruczinna | PEARL |
| Mauro O’ de Almeida | Secretary of Environment and Sustainability for the State of Pará, Brazil, host of COP30 and one of the world’s largest agriculture and ranching areas. |
| Max Cooper | Producers Trust |
| Merijn Dols | Managing Partner, NOW Partners and Future Economy Forum |
| Mert Cetinkaya | Atolye |
| Michael Jarvis | Executive Director, Transparency and Accountability Initiative |
| Michael Pirson | Area Chair, Professor at Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University President, International Humanistic Management |
| Michiel Bakker | Vice President, Global Workplace Programs at Google, founder Google Food Lab |
| Michiel de Ruiter | Chairman, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT Food) |
| Mikhael Cohen | Strategy Director, SYPartners |
| Miranda Schnitger | (not set) |
| Neelam Chhiber | Co-Founder and Managing Trustee, Industree Foundation |
| Nicolas Matriet | Managing Partner, SYPartners |
| Nyasebwa Chimagu | Director Of Crops Development at Ministry of Agriculture Tanzania |
| Osvaldo Stella Martins | Rizoma Agro leader, expert in large scale agroforestry systems, Amazon food production and climate solutions. |
| Owen Dubeck | Flunding Member, Creative Director, The Farmlink Project |
| Pankaj Sehgal | Private Equity: Head, Sustainability & Energy Transition, Amazon |
| Patrick Filius | Founder & Chief Impact Officer |
| Patrick Holden | Sustainable Food Trust |
| Paul Polman | Co-author, 'Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take' |
| Pavel Partha | Director, Bangladesh Resource Centre For Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) |
| Ralitza Ivanova | Founder, Lighthouse Trust |
| Rana Ghoneim | Chief, Energy systems and Infrastructure Division at UNIDO |
| Reema R. Nanavaty | Director, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) |
| Richard Edelman | President and CEO, Edelman |
| Richard Zaltzman | senior leader of European Union’s Innovation and Technology Institute EIT |
| Rie Norregaard-Madsen | Executive Director MENA & Partner, SYPartners |
| Robert Metzke | Philips, SVP & Global Head Sustainability |
| Robert E. Jones | (not set) |
| Rod Oram | New Zealand journalist and columnist, Newsroom |
| Roy Horgan | Group SEVP Strategy, Marketing & Communications, SES-imagotag |
| Ryan Murphy | Lexington |
| Sandrine Dixson-Declève | Co-President, The Club of Rome & Co-Founder Women Enablers Change Agent Network |
| Sarah Bartlett | Head of Middle East/ Director, Lexington |
| Sarah Roversi | Founder of the Future Food Institute |
| Seth Itzkan | Soil4Climate Inc |
| Sharan Burrow | Climate Governance Commission, Vice Chair, European Climate Foundation, Former General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation |
| Sheela Patel | Founder SPARC and Director, Roof Over Our Heads |
| Snehal Verma | Founder at Nature Dots - startup offering real-time water ecosystem monitoring for food & food-security. |
| Sonia Guajajara* | Brazil’s first indigenous Minister of Indigenous Affairs, who catalyzes a new era of inclusion and inspiration (tbc). |
| Stephan Guimbert | World Bank Country Director |
| Steven Lang | Pollination Group and Green Climate Fund |
| Sylvie Maalour | Earthna Institute, Qatar Foundation, Programs Manager, Policy Hub, CEO Office, on the new Arid Cities Network (ACN) and transformative education work |
| Tanja Faller | Global Leader Climate Finance at GIZ – German International Cooperation Agency for sustainable development. |
| Thomas Becker | Vice President Sustainability Mobility at BMW Group. |
| Thoraya Seada | Director of the Carbon Footprint Center, SEKEM |
| Tim Puko | Environmental Journalist, The Washington Post |
| Tobias Bandel | Co-Founder |
| Tobias Groeber | ISPO Group |
| Tu Doan Quynh Bui | (not set) |
| Upendra Poudyal | GABV |
| Vijay Kumar | Executive Chairman, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) |
| Walter Link | President, Future Economy Forum and NOW Partners |
| Wardah Malik | CEO, BEworks |
| Zitouni Ould-Dada | Deputy Director, FAO |
Curating Space for Connection & Deep Dialogues
The COP28 Future Economy Forum Pavilion served as an inclusive and collaborative sanctuary within the intensity of COP. In the spirit of an Emirati majlis, the Forum's pavilion provided a space conducive to deeper connections and solutions dialogues.
Through the sharing of information, deliberation and debate, tangible outcomes for climate related challenges like regenerative agriculture, the regenerative economy, the future of finance and many more can emerge and be catalyzed.
With our many partners we nourish dialogues by bringing together key leaders from business, finance, policy, civil society and academia in an atmosphere of constructive dialogue, defined by honesty, openness and ingenuity. We believe that this is how we can create deeper connections leading to concrete outcomes at COP28 and beyond.