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