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