All Speakers

Speaker EMILY MCKENZIE
EMILY MCKENZIE

Technical Director

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Emily McKenzie is the Technical Director at the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). She has worked for 20 years integrating nature in policy, finance, economics and decision-...
Speaker Maher ALGOTHMI
Maher ALGOTHMI

CEO

King Abdullaziz Royal Reserve Authority

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since January 2021 at King Abdul-Aziz Royal Natural Reserve Development Authority, was established in 2018. KARNR aims of preserving and developing nature and wildlife,...
Speaker Nadine MCCORMICK
Nadine MCCORMICK

Senior manager - Nature Action

WBCSD

Nadine leads on capacity building to accelerate business action on nature at WBCSD. WBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 240 leading businesses on sustainability headquartered in...
Speaker Marco BAROTTI
Marco BAROTTI

Artist

Studio Marco Barotti

Marco Barotti is a media artist. After music studies at the Siena Jazz Academy, he began merging sound with visual art. His work is driven by a desire to invent an artistic language in which a...
Speaker Juan Carlos JINTIACH ARCOS
Juan Carlos JINTIACH ARCOS

Indigenous Peoples Platform

Juan Carlos Jintiach Arcos, current Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities -GATC (https://globalalliance.me/), belongs to the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. He...
Speaker Benjamin Christ
Benjamin Christ

Alliance Manager

Global Mangrove Alliance

Benjamin Christ is a strategy facilitator with Impact by Design, Inc. working with global conservation organizations, largely focused on ecosystem restoration and coastal biomes. He manages the...
Speaker Yan ZHANG
Yan ZHANG

Country Coordinator

IUCN Secretariat

Speaker Raymond KLAASSEN
Raymond KLAASSEN

Researcher

University of Groningen

Speaker Gary MAIDMENT
Gary MAIDMENT

Communications Manager

Huawei

Gary Maidment has been with Huawei since 2014 and currently works as Communications Manager for Huawei’s TECH4ALL Program Office. He is responsible for promoting TECH4ALL projects, including the...
Speaker Rija Ranaivoarison
Rija Ranaivoarison

Executive Director

Fondation des Aires Protégées et de la Biodiversité de Madagascar

Rija Ranaivoarison is the Executive Director of the Fondation pour les Aires Protégées et la Biodiversité de Madagascar (FAPBM), the largest environmental trust fund in Africa dedicated to...
Speaker Daniel MARNEWICK
Daniel MARNEWICK

Programme Manager

IUCN

Daniel Marnewick is a conservation professional with over 27 years of experience leading strategic initiatives in biodiversity protection across Eastern and Southern Africa. He currently serves as...
Speaker Erustus KANGA
Erustus KANGA

Director General

IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025

Prof. Kanga has over twenty (20) years of experience in biodiversity conservation, climate change vulnerability assessment and mapping, bio-enterprises, and community livelihood support. He has a...
Speaker Cathy Yitong LI
Cathy Yitong LI

Climate Crisis Commission Deputy Chair | Global Climate & Energy Policy Lead

Climate Crisis Commission | BirdLife International

Cathy Yitong Li is the Deputy Chair of IUCN's Climate Crisis Commission. Cathy has been focusing on international climate and environmental policy, multistakeholder collaboration and civil society...
Speaker Wilhelm KIWANGO
Wilhelm KIWANGO

Researcher

The University of Dodoma

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Dodoma, Tanzania. I have a background in natural sciences having trained in wildlife conservation/ecology,...
Speaker Ana NIETO SERRADILLA
Ana NIETO SERRADILLA

Global Head, Species Conservation Action

IUCN Secretariat

Ana Nieto is Global Head, Species Conservation Action at IUCN. She is responsible for the delivery of conservation action for threatened species through an approach centred on Indigenous Peoples and...
Speaker Binbin LI
Binbin LI

Professor

IUCN Species Survival Commission 2021-2025

Dr. Binbin Li is the Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Environmental Research Center at Duke Kunshan University. She holds a secondary appointment with the Nicholas School of the...
Speaker Cheryl CHARLES
Cheryl CHARLES

President and CEO Emeritus

IUCN Commission on Education and Communication 2021-2025

#NatureForAll Co-Chair Cheryl Charles is an innovator, entrepreneur, educator, author and organizational executive. Throughout her career, Cheryl has focused on the well-being of children, families...
Speaker Cristina ROMERO
Cristina ROMERO

Programme Manager, BESTLIFE2030

IUCN

Senior Programme Manager for the Protected and Conserved Areas team at IUCN, with over 20 years of international experience in project and grant management, partnership building and stakeholder...
Speaker Philippe Mayaux
Philippe Mayaux

Senior expert

European Union

With a background in forest sciences (up to PhD level), I have dedicated 37 years of my career to the study and management of African forest ecosystems, including 30 years working for the European...
Speaker Jie FENG
Jie FENG

Shan Shui Conservation Center

Feng Jie is the project director and assistant researcher of the Shanshui Nature Conservation Center in Haidian District, Beijing. He is also a special researcher at the Sichuan Academy of Social...
Speaker Caroline POLLOCK
Caroline POLLOCK

Senior Programme Coordinator (Red List Unit)

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)

Senior Programme Coordinator for the IUCN Red List Unit, with 27 years’ experience of working in conservation science. My main focus is on extinction risk assessments for The IUCN Red List of...
Speaker Axel MOEHRENSCHLAGER
Axel MOEHRENSCHLAGER

Panthera Director of Small Cat Program; Conservation Translocations; Chair IUCN

Panthera; IUCN Conservation Translocation Specialist Group

Director of the Small Cats Program and Conservation Translocation Panthera; Chair IUCN Conservation Translocation Specialist GroupAxel Moehrenschlager, Ph.D., serves as Director of the Small Cats...
Speaker AZIZ MONIR
AZIZ MONIR

IUCN CEESP-CEO of Eco Build-Ingénierie

Eco Build ingénierie

I am a civil engineer, graduated from EMSI Rabat, with over 8 years of experience in construction, structural engineering, and sustainable building practices. In December 2023, I founded BET Eco...
Speaker Andre MADER
Andre MADER
Environmental management and policy professional with over two decades of international experience across research, programme management, and science-policy interfaces. Currently Principal Policy...
Arwa DIAB
Arwa DIAB
Speaker Michael NAGEL
Michael NAGEL

Head of Programme

GIZ