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