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