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Head, Climate-neutral industries research group, Chair of Operations Management, RWTH Aachen University
Dr Ali Abdelshafy is Head of the research group “Climate-neutral industries” at the chair of Operations Management – RWTH Aachen University and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He has worked on several energy transition and decarbonization projects in the industrial sector and academia. His main research areas are energy transition, infrastructure systems, transformation of energy-intensive industries, and sustainable supply chains.
Updated on 8 November 2023
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Co-President, Global Fund for a New Economy; former Special Advisor on international affairs, Brazilian Presidency; member, G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality
Adriana Abdenur is Co-President of the Global Fund for a New Economy (GFNE). Between 2023 and 2005 she was Special Advisor in international affairs in the office of President Lula. A Brazilian policymaker and scholar, she co-founded Plataforma CIPÓ, a think tank headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. Dr Abdenur earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has published widely on global governance and sustainable development. In August 2025, she was appointed to the G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality.
Updated on 14 April 2025
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Director, CAPRISA in Durban, and CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at Columbia University, New York
Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS, is Director of CAPRISA in Durban and CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at Columbia University, New York. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Harvard and Cornell University. He is member of the US National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Senior researcher, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre
Dr Ebun Akinsete is a senior researcher at ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre and Head of the Department of Stakeholder Analysis and Decision Support Systems at ICRE8 and UN SDSN Greece. She is also a founding partner of Nigerian-based consultancy GEN Sustainable Solutions. As an academic and a practitioner, her main interest lies at the intersection of sustainability and society; examining how stakeholders from various backgrounds and sectors can come together to build a sustainable future.
Updated on 2 November 2022
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Executive Director, Center for Ethics and Sustainable Development, Nigeria
Dr Olajumoke M. Akiode is the Executive Director of Center for Ethics and Sustainable Development (CESD), an independent, non-profit research organization. Olajumoke is a professional policy and socio-political researcher, Sustainability expert, trainer and consultant. She is also the founder of the Women in Infrastructure Community Africa (WICA), an advocacy and professional development platform for women engaged in the infrastructure sector in Nigeria and Sub-Sahara Africa.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Director, Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes (ALDC), UNCTAD
Mr Akiwumi, a national of Ghana, joined UNCTAD in February 2017. Before being appointed as Director of ALDC, he served as Director of the Economic, Social and Development Affairs Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN). He and his team were responsible for advising the UN Secretary-General on the development pillar and supporting the activities of the UN's development-related departments, funds and programmes, fostering policy integration and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Istanbul Programme of Action, the Technology Bank for LDCs and the New Urban Agenda. Prior to this role, Mr Akiwumi held the position of Chief of Staff in the Office of the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, where he played a critical role in strengthening the development pillar in the Office of the Secretary General. Earlier in his career, Mr Akiwumi served with the United Nations Environment Programme, where he held the position of Chief of Staff, developing institutional policy, managing the action plans and conventions related to SIDS, Eastern and Western Africa, as well as the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. He also worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization, working on rural development projects, and the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s natural resources division. Mr Akiwumi has also served as Senior Advisor to the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Chief Executive Officer and Secretary to the GEF Council in Washington D.C.
Updated on 13 June 2024
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Independent Researcher
Dr Angelos Alamanos is a Civil Engineer, PhD, specialized in Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Decision Support Systems, and Sustainability. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy (NIBIO), a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada, a Policy Analyst in Water Services at the National Water Forum of Ireland, based at the Dundalk Institute of Technology, and a research associate at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Updated on 27 January 2026
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences
Reem Alsalem (Jordan) has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, since August 2021. She holds a Masters in International Relations from the American University in Cairo, Egypt (2001) and a Masters in Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2003). She is an independent consultant on gender issues, the rights of refugees and migrants, transitional justice and humanitarian response.
Updated on 24 April 2023
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Senior Consultant, Trinomics
Mohammad Ansarin is a Senior Consultant at Trinomics. He primarily operates in the energy market and infrastructure field, including on topics of wholesale and retail market design, grid infrastructure investment planning and financing, renewables support schemes, and energy technology supply chains. He holds a PhD in Energy Economics from Erasmus University (Netherlands).
Updated on 21 November 2025
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Principal Humanitarian Adviser, UNICEF UK
Geraldine Anup‑Willcocks is the Principal Humanitarian Adviser for UNICEF UK and a practising International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). She has led community health and nutrition programmes in India and delivered humanitarian response programmes in Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Updated on 1 April 2026
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Visiting Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Dr Debisi Araba is a public policy, innovation and strategy specialist focused on the future of food, the environment, and entrepreneurship. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. He also serves on the Montpellier Malabo Panel of experts.
Updated on 21 November 2023
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Researcher, SDU, ATHENA Research Center, Athens; UN SDSN Global Climate Hub; Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES), Athens University of Economics and Business; AE4RIA
Dr Ioannis Arampatzidis is a postdoctoral researcher at the AE4RIA network, currently working in energy and socio-economic systems modelling. He holds a PhD in Energy Economics from the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics and the University of Duisburg-Essen, a M.Sc. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Macedonia. His research interests lie in applied econometrics, energy and environmental economics.
Updated on 27 January 2026
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Research Officer, International Economic Development Group, ODI Global
Bernardo Arce is a Research Officer in the International Economic Development Group at ODI, supporting the trade and environment workstream. He is an international trade lawyer with extensive experience as a trade negotiator on economic integration issues.
Updated on 25 November 2025
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Co-Chair, Science Panel for the Amazon
Dolors Armenteras is a Full Professor of Landscape Ecology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She focuses on conservation and sustainable use of tropical forests, including research on fire ecology, deforestation, forest degradation, modelling, and forest management. She was a Fulbright Regional Network for Applied Research (NEXUS) Climate Change and Biodiversity Scholar, and has been part of several UNEP GEOs, collaborated with the World Conservation Monitoring Center in Cambridge, UK, participated the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, and was an expert in the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services-IPBES. She currently serves as Vice-President International Association of Landscape Ecology IALE and as from September 2022 is the new Co Chair of the Scientific Panel for the Amazon.
Updated on 12 October 2022
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Senior Project Manager, Climateworks Centre
Dr Gill Armstrong works in Climateworks’ Cities team, leading the research and policy programs to decarbonise Australia’s buildings sector. She leads the Renovation Pathways program, and collaborates with researchers to produce a Sustainable Temporary Adaptive Reuse (STAR) toolkit. Gill worked as a registered architect (UK), and is research-trained, earning her PhD in regulation of adaptive reuse of vacant office buildings in Australian CBDs.
Updated on 10 November 2023
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Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University; Member of the Science Steering Committee of the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA)
Dr Athayde is an environmental anthropologist who has worked across the Amazon region for over 25 years, supporting the strengthening of self-determination for Indigenous peoples and local communities, sustainable livelihoods, and human and territorial rights. She is an Associate Professor at Florida International University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. She was a Coordinating Lead Author of the Assessment on Multiple Conceptualizations of the Diverse Values of Nature for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and a Lead Author of the Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA). Currently, she is a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), and a Fulbright Amazonia Program Scholar.
Updated on 20 November 2023
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Senior Research and Data Policy Specialist, UN Women
Ginette Azcona is a Senior Research and Data Policy Specialist at UN Women. She joined UN Women in 2010 as a core member of the Research and Data team. Ginette manages the data and statistics for UN Women’s flagship reports and has authored numerous publications on human development, human rights, social justice and gender and development data, including the annual Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot. Ginette is UN Women’s leading focal point on gender, data and the SDGs.
Updated on 14 March 2024
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, 2004-2007
His Excellency Mr Shaukat Aziz was elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan and served from 2004-2007, following five years as Finance Minister from 1999. Mr Aziz was the first Prime Minister of Pakistan to complete a full term in office. His policies were based on the principals of liberalization, deregulation and privatization, accompanied by strong regulatory oversight. After graduating from Gordon College, Rawalpindi in 1967, Mr Aziz gained an MBA degree from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Karachi. An internship at Citibank marked the beginning of a 30-year career in global finance, encompassing roles in Pakistan, Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Philippines, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. As Executive Vice President, he held several senior management positions in Citibank including head of institutional banking for Central Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, then later for Asia Pacific, followed by Chief Executive of the bank's global wealth management business.
Updated on 12 October 2021
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Director, SDG Academy and Vice President of Education, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Chandrika Bahadur is Director of the SDG Academy and Vice President of Education at SDSN. She is also Chair of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19 India Task Force. Previously, she was President of SDSN Association. From 2008-2011, she was advisor to the Chairman and Managing Director at Reliance Industries, where she helped set up Reliance Foundation. From 2001-2008, Chandrika worked with the UN in different roles. In her last assignment, she was a Policy Advisor at UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy in New York.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women
Sima Sami Bahous became UN Women’s third Executive Director on 30 September 2021. A champion for women and girls, gender equality, and youth empowerment, as well as a keen advocate for quality education, poverty alleviation, and inclusive governance, Ms Bahous has more than 35 years of leadership experience at the grassroots, national, regional, and international levels, coupled with expertise in advancing women’s empowerment and rights, addressing discrimination and violence, and promoting sustainable socio-economic development towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Ms Bahous most recently served as Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations in New York. Prior to this position, she served as Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme from 2012 to 2016 and Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Social Development Sector at the League of Arab States, from 2008 to 2012.
Updated on 7 March 2023
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Deputy Executive Secretary & Head Member Services/ DRM, African Tax Administration Forum
Mary Baine is the Deputy Executive Secretary of the African Tax Administration Forum, an African inter-governmental organization leading tax administration reform. Ms Baine is also responsible for heading Member Services, focusing on providing ATAF member countries with technical assistance in both domestic and international taxes, capacity building through the ATAF Tax Academy, and tax policy and administration programs. Prior to this, Ms Baine served as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation of the Republic of Rwanda and as Commissioner-General of the Rwanda Revenue Authority.
Updated on 2 June 2023
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President and CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Peter Bakker is President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. He is a distinguished business leader who, until June 2011, served as CFO and then CEO of TNT NV, the global transport and logistics company. At SDSN, Peter is Co-Chair for Redefining the Role of Business for Sustainable Development.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Director, Civil Society Division, UN Women
Lopa Banerjee is the Director of the Civil Society Division at UN Women. She helms UN Women’s strategic engagement with civil society to promote partnerships and influence global action for gender equality.
Updated on 13 March 2024
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Senior Research Fellow, Circular Economy, Chatham House
Dr Jack Barrie is an expert in the global transition to an inclusive circular economy, with a particular focus on international policy coordination, national roadmaps and strategies, the role of global trade, and the contribution of the circular economy to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Updated on 13 November 2024
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PHD Candidate, Leiden University Faculty of Global Governance and Affairs
Arindrajit Basu is presently a PHD Candidate at the Leiden University Faculty of Global Governance and Affairs.He is also a Digitalization and Human Rights Research Consultant with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).Previously, Arindrajit was Research Lead at the Centre for Internet&Society, an India-based research organisation focussing on technology policy issues where he led research agendas on data governance and India’s tech foreign policy. All views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of any affiliated institutions.
Updated on 26 June 2024
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Senior Scientist, CAPRISA; Honorary Lecturer, Department of Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Cheryl Baxter, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at CAPRISA and Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Public Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her primary research focus is HIV prevention, specifically strategies to reduce HIV acquisition among young women, and issues related to sexual and reproductive health.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Senior Lecturer, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland
Jacquie Bay is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute where she leads transdisciplinary research that engages communities in examining scientific, social, and local evidence to understand complex issues and promote community-based actions. Over the past decade, she has led a health-education-science partnership with the Ministries of Education and Health in the Cook Islands, leveraging opportunities in education and public health to engage adolescents and young adults in exploring the non-communicable disease epidemic affecting their community. Jacquie teaches in the University of Auckland’s Science in Society programme. She holds a Master’s degree in Science Education and a PhD in Health Science.
Updated on 26 June 2025
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Journalist, writer and feminist activist. Organizer of Argentina’s “Ni Una Menos” (Not One Less) movement
Ingrid Beck is a journalist, writer and feminist activist. She is from Argentina and was one of the organizers of the Ni Una Menos mobilization that changed the history of the women's and diversity movement in her country. She works in radio and print media and as a consultant for national and international organizations.
Updated on 7 March 2023
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Scottish Power Chair in Future Power Systems, University of Strathclyde
Keith Bell holds the Scottish Power Chair in Future Power Systems at the University of Strathclyde in the UK and is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a member of the UK’s Climate Change Committee and a co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and has advised the Scottish, UK and Irish governments and Britain’s electricity sector regulator on electrical energy and power systems issues.
Updated on 4 April 2022
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Director, Sustainable Finance Hub, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Tom brings to the position 25 years of development experience across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific. Prior to his global role in the SFH, Tom led the first UNDP SDG Finance team in Asia Pacific. Over 17 years, Tom has worked in UNDP in positions advising governments, the private sector and civil society on policies related to governance, climate change and development finance. Before UNDP, Tom worked for think tanks and NGOs as well as the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) as a Senior Governance and Social Development advisor with a particular role to bring a poverty focus to the UK government’s partnerships with International Finance Institutions. He also helped found the first UK government development initiative on socially responsible business practice in 1999. He has a MA in Anthropology from Cambridge University as well as an MSC Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics.
Updated on 11 November 2024
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Senior Specialist Blended Finance, Global Environment Facility
Avril Benchimol Dominguez is leading the blended finance initiative (Non-Grant Instruments) at the GEF with a portfolio of active projects above USD 250 million to de-risk private investment and help create innovative financial structures to combat global environmental degradation. Avril has 18 years of experience in capital markets and structured finance both in multilateral development banks and investment banking. She holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, where she graduated with honors.
Updated on 25 May 2023
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Energy Consultant, Trinomics
Csinszka Bene is an energy consultant at Trinomics, specialising in energy infrastructure decarbonization, regulation, financing, and market design. She brings diverse perspectives from advocacy, business and consulting into her advisory work, which complement her MSc studies in Environment and Resource Management. In the past years she has contributed to several industry and policy publications, including papers examining the role of flexibility sources in decarbonising energy systems.
Updated on 7 November 2023
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Head of Policy and Advocacy, Transform Trade
Ruth Bergan is Head of Policy and Advocacy at Transform Trade. She has worked on international trade policy and worker’s rights in international supply chains for over 20 years, including work on the impact trade rules have for climate goals, exposing the injustice in the international investment protection regime and campaigning for binding rules to protect workers.
Updated on 1 July 2025
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Economist, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Leslie Bermont Díaz is an Economist at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). She works on the production and analysis of indicators and indices to support progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and on projects related to SDG financing and climate finance, particularly in Small Islands Developing States. She holds a PhD in Economics from Université Paris-Dauphine PSL. Prior to her PhD, Leslie was a policy analyst at the OECD.
Updated on 16 May 2023
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PhD student, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Etienne Berthet is a Ph.D. candidate at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), focusing on developing methodologies for assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His research covers a broad array of techniques, including the integration of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models, Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) models, Life Cycle Impact Assessments (LCIA), and Machine Learning for constructing dynamic models of the SDGs. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he worked at PwC's Sustainability and Climate Change department in Berlin and Paris, where he developed a comprehensive model for quantifying and monetizing environmental and social impacts on a global scale.
Updated on 12 July 2023
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Deputy Director, Climate; Global Director, GHG Protocol, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Pankaj Bhatia is Deputy Director of WRI’s Climate Program and Global Director of the GHG Protocol. He is a leading expert on corporate, scope 3, mitigation action and city GHG accounting. He was previously the Vice President of Tata Energy & Resources Institute.
Updated on 29 October 2021
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Statistics Specialist, Research and Data Section, UN Women
Antra Bhatt is a Statistics Specialist in the Research and Data Section of UN Women. Before joining UN Women in 2017, she worked as an assistant professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and as a researcher at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, and at the University of Chicago Urban Poverty Lab. Antra has published several pieces on gender inequality in peer-reviewed academic journals, UN reports, books, editorials and blog series. She holds a Master of Science in Public Policy and a doctoral degree in Economics.
Updated on 14 March 2024
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Founding Director, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi
Dr Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Distinguished University Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Global Health and Development and the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, at the Aga Khan University. He also holds the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and is Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health. He also holds adjunct professorships at several leading universities globally.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Nussdorf Professor and co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania
Eugénie L. Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education. She teaches courses in global urbanization and the doctoral seminar and serves as chair, Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, co-director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, co-editor, City in the 21st Century Series, University of Penn Press and co-editor, SSRN Urban Research e-journal. With Penn IUR she recently completed a project “Entreprenuership & Innovation in Connecticut’s Higher Education System,” for the state of Connecticut.
Updated on 20 November 2023
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Head of Responsible Investment, Chronos Sustainability
Robert Black is Head of Responsible Investment at Chronos Sustainability. He works across Chronos' programmes as a responsible investment expert with a particular focus on sustainability data and reporting, issue specific environmental and social projects, and on policy at the entity and national level.
Updated on 24 May 2023
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Director, EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, and CEO, Scientific Infra
Frederic Blanc-Brude is the CEO of Scientific Infra, an index provider specialised in the provision of unlisted infrastructure equity and debt market indices and custom benchmarks. He is a regular contributor to the G20 working group on infrastructure investment, and represents EDHEC on the Advisory Board of the Global Infrastructure Facility of the World Bank.
Updated on 28 September 2022
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Project Lead, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research (PIK)
Julia M. Blocher is a Project Lead at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research (PIK). Her work explores social and political dimensions of climate-related population movements, for example, through the European Commission Horizon 2020-funded “HABITABLE” consortium. She is also President of the International Youth Federation (IYF), a global network of young people and youth empowerment organizations.
Updated on 17 October 2022
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Research Associate, Climate Program, World Resources Institute (WRI)
As a Research Associate in WRI's Climate Program, Sophie supports the Systems Change Lab. She examines historical systems change and its drivers – analysis that helps guide the Lab’s efforts to monitor, learn from, and accelerate the transformations needed to safeguard the global commons in a changing climate. She also leads on identifying key indicators and benchmarks of systems change across terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and food systems.
Updated on 5 November 2021
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Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Doreen Bogdan-Martin took office as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023, the first woman ever to head the organization. Ms Bogdan-Martin has held leadership positions in the field of international telecommunications policy for over two decades. As Director of ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau for a four-year term starting in 2018, she helped put sustainable digital development at the forefront of international cooperation, including with the private sector and civil society. She actively promoted the Partner2Connect initiative, which has mobilized unprecedented pledges of funding and support for meaningful Internet connectivity in developing countries. She was instrumental in establishing the ITU-UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development; contributed to the success of ITU's Global Symposium for Regulators as the pre-eminent worldwide meeting for digital policy makers; and led ITU's youth engagement strategy. She also pioneered ITU's ongoing contribution to the EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age and initiated ITU's collaboration with UNICEF on the Giga project to connect every school worldwide to the Internet. Within ITU, she has promoted gender equality and encouraged bringing more women into the workforce, as well as helping women grow professionally and contributing to networks of women pursuing gender-balanced participation in conferences and policy making. Before joining ITU in 1994, she worked at the US Department of Commerce as a Telecommunication Policy Specialist.
Updated on 4 July 2023
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Country Director, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Women for Women International
Rachel Boketa serves as the Country Director for Women for Women International – Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where she heads programs that have served more than 103,000 women since 2004. Rachel joined Women for Women International in 2021 with 21 years of experience in the development and humanitarian sector. In the past 15 years she has focused on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, working with UNICEF, USAID, UN Women and Sida. Rachel has extensive experience in strategy development, program design and implementation, grants management, as well as monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Rachel is a gender specialist, and certified GenderPro from the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University, and, has previously served in other leadership roles, including as Acting Country Representative for UN Women in the DRC and Deputy Team Leader with USAID. Rachel holds a master’s degree in Development Studies from the Catholic University of the Congo (Kinshasa, DRC).
Updated on 3 March 2023
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Associate Professor, Howard University
Dr Helen Bond is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Howard University in Washington D.C. She is also a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar to India and liaison to the Center for African Studies at Howard University. She co-chairs the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN-USA) and served as an expert with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministries of Education in Ethiopia.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Director of Knowledge and Learning, NDC Partnership Support Unit
Rob Bradley is the Director of Knowledge and Learning for the NDC Partnership Support Unit. He oversees knowledge products for the Partnership and is responsible for cultivating a community of learning for the partners. Rob has over 20 years' experience on climate, sustainable development, and related issues. Prior to joining the NDC Partnership, he was Senior Advisor to the Directorate of Energy and Climate Change at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He trained and supported UAE diplomats in UNFCCC negotiations, the Rio Earth Summit process, and at the International Renewable Energy Agency. He also acted as a ministerial advisor on energy and sustainability issues. Previously he served as director of international climate policy at the World Resources Institute (WRI).
Updated on 29 October 2021
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Global Director, Gender, World Bank
As Global Director for Gender, Hana Brixi leads a global effort to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. She sets the overall direction for the World Bank Group’s Gender knowledge agenda, drives Bank-wide efforts for results in closing gender gaps, and fosters partnerships with public and private sector stakeholders toward innovations at scale. In her career, Ms Brixi has contributed to advances in human development, public finance, and governance. As Manager of the Human Capital Project, she led a global effort to protect and invest in people with an emphasis on girls and women empowerment. Prior to this, she held managerial and leadership positions in the Social Protection & Jobs and Governance Global Practices and in the Middle East & North Africa, East Asia & Pacific, and Europe & Central Asia regions. Based in China during 2001-10, she also served as World Health Organization’s Manager and UNICEF Chief in China.
Updated on 12 March 2024
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CEO & founder, 2030beyond
Kirsten Brosbøl is the CEO & founder of 2030beyond, a do-tank for the 2030 Agenda working to accelerate action on the SDGs. She founded ‘Parliamentarians for the Global Goals’, a global network of parliamentarians who work on the 2030 Agenda. She is a former Minister of Environment and Member of Parliament in Denmark.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Director, Programme Division, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Julia Bunting has experience spanning over 25 years in both the public and non-profit sectors. As President and CEO of the Population Council (2015-2023), Julia spearheaded the development and implementation of a transformative strategic plan, significantly strengthened resource mobilization efforts bringing in new funders, and enhanced focus on research utilization and impact. From 2012-2015, Julia served as the Director for the Programme and Technical Division at the International Planned Parent Federation (IPPF) where she championed initiatives to expand service provision for SRHR and set vital technical guidelines. Between 2000-2012 Julia held multiple roles at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), most notably as the Team Leader of the AIDS and Reproductive Health Team. During her time at DFID Julia catalyzed the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning co-hosted by the UK Government, Gates Foundation, USAID and UNFPA. She has served on numerous global health boards including the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) – which she chaired for over 4 years.
Updated on 9 July 2025
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Deputy Director, Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Samantha Burgess is the Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). She has an extensive background in climate, ocean, and environmental sciences, and managing technical & strategic change. Future orientated, with a focus on climate and ocean risk, environmental governance, and international policy with an ability to successfully communicate science and policy issues to a wide range of audiences.
Updated on 25 October 2021
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Natural Climate Solutions Policy Lead, WRI
David Burns is WRI’s Natural Climate Solutions Policy Lead. He works to harness the power of nature to enhance global climate ambition. He previously focused on agricultural commodity supply chains at the National Wildlife Federation and worked as a climate change and land use consultant.
Updated on 29 October 2021
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Director of Campaigns, Open Society Foundations
Kizito Byenkya is the Director of Campaigns at the Open Society Foundations. He also serves as co-director of Open Society’s Washington Office. Previously, he was the Program Officer for Advocacy on Human Rights, served as Open Society’s US Policy Advisor for Africa, and also led a grant-making portfolio on engaging new allies inside and outside the human rights movement. Fostering new tools and networks to safeguard activism, advancing meaningful participation, and defend civic space.
Updated on 11 July 2023
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Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich
Livia Cabernard is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on the improved sustainability assessment of global supply chains chain, especially in the metals industry, the future bioeconomy, and with regard to the energy transition.
Updated on 13 October 2022
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Intern, International Economic Development Group, ODI
Mia Calle is an Intern in the International Economic Development Group at ODI. She is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree at Boston University in International Relations with a regional focus in Europe on foreign policy and security studies. Mia is also minoring in Gender Studies. Her research interests are centered on the ethics in international relations, feminist foreign policy, and the intersection between climate, trade, and gender.
Updated on 25 November 2025
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Director, SDSN’s Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS)
Grant Cameron is the Director of SDSN’s Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS). There, he oversees a work program that brings innovative approaches to lower-capacity countries to improve data for the SDG agenda. Until recently, Grant worked as a Manager at the World Bank for 15 years. Before joining the Bank, Grant held managerial and economist positions in the Government of Canada in policy development and at Statistics Canada.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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Policy Development and Coordination Expert, United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD)
Ms Emily Carroll has 20 years of experience with UN entities and international organizations in the field of food security and poverty reduction. She currently develops and coordinates evidence-based policy advisory services, capacity building, and publications on waste management, resource circularity, water and sanitation, and climate change response programs, fostering strategic partnerships to achieve the SDGs in developing countries. Emily holds an MSc in Poverty Reduction: Policy and Practice from SOAS, University of London.
Updated on 11 July 2024
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Consulting Editor, SDG Action
Fred Carver is a strategic consultant and researcher in the field of international relations, with specific expertise on the United Nations, Peacekeeping, Atrocity Prevention, civil wars, and political violence. He is a Director at Strategy for Humanity. He worked for four years as head of Policy for UNA-UK, implementing campaigns on UN reform, sexual violence prevention and UK foreign policy, and edited a magazine and two journals. Prior to joining UNA-UK, he ran the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice, a human rights NGO which campaigned for a lasting peace in Sri Lanka based upon justice and accountability for crimes committed in the course of Sri Lanka's civil war.
Updated on 7 August 2025
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Sustainable Development Officer, United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD)
Ms Sara Castro de Hallgren’s career spans 15 years in the United Nations System leading global policy advisory, programs, strategic partnerships and training on sustainable development. Sara is currently a Sustainable Development Officer at the UN Office for Sustainable Development under the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. She has led global research initiatives on circular economy, behavioral science for green growth, and areas related to consumption and production patterns. Sara has a Masters degree in Sustainability from Harvard University, and graduate and undergraduate degrees in economic development from Erasmus University Rotterdam and George Washington University.
Updated on 11 July 2024
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Founder Member, ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
Elizabeth Cecelski has worked for more than 30 years on energy, poverty and gender challenges in developing countries, in research, policy and operations, together with national experts. She is currently leading ENERGIA’s contribution to the ongoing effort by the SDG 7 TAG to develop indicators to measure the interlinkages between SDG 7 on energy and SDG 5 on gender equality.
Updated on 2 March 2023
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Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESA ESRIN establishment, European Space Agency
Simonetta Cheli is Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESA ESRIN establishment at the European Space Agency (ESA). Prior to her nomination she worked within ESA in International Relations, Strategy and Head of Public and Institutional Relations and Head of the EO Strategy, Programme Planning and Coordination Office. She has a degree in Political Sciences: International Law in the field of Direct Broadcasting Satellites, and a Master Degree In Diplomatic and Strategic Studies. She is a member of various international committees, lectures for international courses and has received numerous awards.
Updated on 7 November 2023
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Programme Specialist in Economic Empowerment, UN Women
Jocelyn Chu is a Programme Specialist in Economic Empowerment at UN Women, where she leads key policy and programmatic initiatives advancing women’s economic justice and rights globally. Her portfolio focuses on women and the world of work, including decent work, entrepreneurship and gender-responsive value chains. A recognized thought leader, she has been widely published and cited on issues shaping the future of women’s work. Previously, she held roles across international NGOs and the private sector, specializing in financial inclusion, land rights and business development. Jocelyn holds graduate degrees from Columbia University and Sciences Po, and an Honors BA from Northwestern University.
Updated on 11 March 2026
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Principal Advisor, Climate and Forests, United Nations Development Programme
Tim Clairs has more than 25 years experience with the UN. He has led the UNDP Climate and Forests team since its beginning in 2008, when he helped established the UN-REDD Programme. He has experience with many REDD+ initiatives – such as the FCPF; the Governors’ Climate & Forests Tasks Force; the GCF REDD+ Results-Based Payments; ART/TREES and Emergent. In addition, Tim has experience with Voluntary Carbon Markets, leading UNDP’s engagement with the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity initiative. He is often found riding his bike in the Jura mountains and Alps around Geneva.
Updated on 14 November 2023
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LobbyMap Director, InfluenceMap
Ed Collins leads InfluenceMap's research on lobbying and corporate influence (LobbyMap). Working with a team of dedicated analysts, Ed manages InfluenceMap's system for tracking and assessing the climate change lobbying of world's largest 500 industrial companies and their key trade associations. He represents the LobbyMap Platform to InfluenceMap's key stakeholders in the finance, corporate, civil society and policymaker sectors.
Updated on 13 November 2024
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Law Division, UN Environment Programme
Francisca Conejeros Martínez is a Chilean lawyer and member of the Chilean Bar Association, with expertise in international law, human rights, and environmental law. She has collaborated with institutions such as the United Nations Environment Programme, the Organization of American States, and the Constitutional Court of Chile, and has served as a legal advisor in both the public and private sectors. She holds an Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University and has completed specialized studies in human rights and environmental law.
Updated on 17 September 2025
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Research Fellow, Athens University of Economics and Business
Conrad Felix Michel Landis is a Post-Doc Researcher at the Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (RESEES), Athens University of Economics and Business, and a Researcher at ATHENA RC, Sustainable Development Unit. He is an Adjunct Professor at the MSc Banking and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business and Indian Institute of Management of Rohtak (IMM Rohtak). He holds a PhD in Financial Econometrics (Asset Pricing) from the Athens University of Economics and Business, a M.Sc. in International Economics and Finance and a BSc in Economics from the Department of International & European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business. His research interests lie in the area of econometrics, environmental economics, empirical finance, and numerical optimization.
Updated on 4 October 2023
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Executive Director, The South Centre
Dr Correa has worked with the Argentine government and at the University of Buenos Aires. He has been a member of international expert commissions convened by the World Health Organization. He has been a visiting professor in post-graduate courses of several universities, as well as consultant to various regional and international organizations. He is the author of several books and of numerous articles. He is a lawyer and economist with a PhD in Law from the University of Buenos Aires.
Updated on 4 July 2024
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Vice President for Networks, SDSN
María Cortés Puch is Vice President for Networks at SDSN. She joined SDSN in 2013 and currently leads the Networks Program, with over 41 regional and national networks and more than 1,400 institutional members. In this role she co-authored the guide Accelerating Education for the SDGs in Universities and contributes to a number of sustainable development global initiatives, including as Commissioner to the Pathfinder Lancet Commission. Prior to joining the SDSN, María worked for UNESCO at the Science Policy and Sustainable Development Division for two years.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Senior Research Coordinator, CGIAR Programme on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), Ethiopia; President, African Nutrition Society
Dr Namukolo Covic is Senior Research Coordinator at the International Food Policy Research Institute on the CGIAR Programme on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), Ethiopia. Her work includes engaging with Ethiopian Government and African Union efforts on food systems and nutrition. She is the current African Nutrition Society President.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Program Manager, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Elena Crete is a Manager for the SDSN, leading the climate and energy program including the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) and the Zero Carbon Action Plan (ZCAP). Elena also leads the annual Low-Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) hosted alongside the UNFCCC COPs. This work brings low-emission solutions to decision makers across networks and sectors to help implement the Paris Agreement.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Senior Vice President, International, The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Yamide Dagnet is responsible for leading the vision and strategy for NRDC's International program and maximizing its impact. Prior to joining NRDC, Dagnet worked in philanthropy, where she raised significant support for climate adaptation projects and efforts to tackle unavoidable losses and damages due to climate change. She focused on bridging and protecting diverse voices for just, equitable energy and industrial transitions, while promoting scaled-up and more accessible sustainable development and climate finance. She also fostered reflection and support on just green energy and industrial transitions. Dagnet also previously served as the director of climate negotiations at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., where she focused on the equitable implementation of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Dagnet earned a master in engineering degree from the University of Technology of Compiegne (France). She is based in Washington, D.C.
Updated on 21 November 2025
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Senior Advisor, University for Peace
Ramu Damodaran served as the first Director of the United Nations Academic Impact from 2010 to 2021; he was also secretary of the United Nations General Assembly’s Committee on Information from 2011. His 33-year association with the United Nations began as a delegate of India and then Secretariat assignments, including the Departments of Special Political Questions, Peacekeeping and Global Communications, as well as the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. As a member of the Indian Foreign Service, where he was promoted to the rank of ambassador, he served as executive assistant to the Prime Minister of India between 1991 and 1994.
Updated on 26 October 2021
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Assistant Professor, Division of Women and Child Health, and Section Head, Section of Public Health and Epidemiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi
Dr Jai K. Das works as an Assistant Professor for the Division of Women and Child Health and is the Section Head of the Section of Public Health and Epidemiology at the Aga Khan University. He is the author of more than 150 international peer-reviewed papers and has contributed to more than 15 book chapters. He is also the editor of the book ‘Pakistan, SDGs and Health’.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Head of International Programmes Impact, UNICEF UK
Meghna Das is Head of International Programmes Impact at UNICEF UK with over 23 years of experience across the UN, public, private, and charity sectors such as WWF. She has spearheaded UNICEF’s private sector engagement strategy on climate change, developed multi-million partnerships, influenced policies, and engaged communities globally to achieve impact for children and youth. Recognised as one of the Top 100 Women in Sustainability 2022, Meghna is a Chartered Fellow (FCMI), Chartered Manager (CMgr), Chartered Environmentalist, and holds a Masters in Environmental Biology. She is a Trustee at Zero Carbon Guildford and Board Member with the Society for the Environment.
Updated on 24 November 2025
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CEO, Global Witness
Mike Davis became Global Witness’s CEO in February 2020. This followed three years in the role of Director of Campaigns, Planning and Evaluation, during which he oversaw the development of a new Global Witness strategy with a strong emphasis on abuses of power and money driving climate crisis. From 2013 to the end of 2016, Mike was Global Witness’s Asia Director. In this role he oversaw the organisation’s work in China and conducted in-depth investigations into corruption in Myanmar’s multi-billion dollar jade business; writing a series of high impact publications that exposed, for the first time, the generals, drug lords and tycoons involved. Mike’s previous roles at Global Witness include managing the organisation’s work on forest protection and land rights across Africa, Asia and Latin America from 2012-2013, and leading its campaigns on conflict minerals, blood diamonds and other conflict resources in sub-Saharan Africa from 2007-2012. He ran the Global Witness office and its team of undercover investigators in Cambodia from 2003-2005 and wrote two ground-breaking exposés on high level corruption in the country which were both banned by the Cambodian government.
Updated on 8 November 2021
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Director, International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Luz Maria de la Mora is an expert in international trade policy, negotiations, analysis and promotion. At UNCTAD, she leads initiatives to promote the development of developing countries through international trade. She oversees a team that supports these countries in trade negotiations, strengthens their service-sector capacities, and integrates trade with environmental and developmental goals. The division also analyzes issues related to competition law and policy as well as consumer protection, and seeks to enhance the contribution of the commodity sector to development through diversification and risk management. As Vice-Minister from 2018 to 2022, she was responsible for overseeing Mexico's trade and investment policies and played a leading role in international trade discussions at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the Pacific Alliance, the G20, and the OECD. She also led policy dialogues, engaged with the private sector, and promoted sustainable and inclusive trade policies. Previously, she led Mexico’s Unit for Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Carleton University, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from El Colegio de México.
Updated on 13 November 2024
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MSc student, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Nigel Deans is an MSc student in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Updated on 13 October 2021
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Director of Global Advocacy and Engagement, SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
Chris Dekki is the Director of Global Advocacy and Engagement at the SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport. Chris leads the policy advocacy and outreach dimension of SLOCAT, engaging with a wide multi-stakeholder base and shaping intergovernmental spaces. Beyond SLOCAT, Chris has many years of policy experience, working for the UN system at the global and regional levels, civil society platforms and youth-led organisations. Chris is also a part-time professor of political science and law at St. Joseph's University and the City University of New York - Baruch College in New York City.
Updated on 18 October 2022
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Athens University of Economics and Business; Postdoctoral Researcher, SDU ATHENA
Konstantinos Dellis is a Researcher at the AE4RIA network, working in Sustainable Development, Climate Finance and Green Innovation. He holds a PhD from the University of Piraeus on Endogenous Growth and Knowledge Diffusion and has worked as a researcher for the European Central Bank, the Bank of Greece, and the London School of Economics.
Updated on 4 October 2023
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CEO, Fair Carbon
Diana Denke is the Co-founder and CEO of Fair Carbon, a non-profit initiative on a mission to unlock the full potential of blue carbon. Through practical training, expert technical support and catalytic finance, Fair Carbon is creating the conditions for high-quality coastal restoration to scale – helping communities, investors, corporates and philanthropies deliver lasting impact for climate, biodiversity and livelihoods. Previously, Diana led the Climate & Nature practice at KOIS, a global impact-investment advisory firm, and worked in management consultancy for SYSTEMIQ and Bain & Company. Diana holds a Master’s in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. Deeply passionate about nature, Diana is most often found outdoors, in the mountains or by the ocean. Visit: www.faircarbon.org
Updated on 12 November 2025
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Director, United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA)
Prior to joining UNU-INRA, Dr Fatima Denton worked with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), based in Addis Ababa. Her research has focused on climate change adaptation looking at resilience systems – sectors such as agriculture, water, and energy, principally in Africa. Dr Denton is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange(IPCC) special report on climate change and land, a Lead Author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group III, and was previously a Lead Author for the Working Group II Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports and for the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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African Union Special Envoy on Women, Peace, and Security
Mme Bineta Diop became the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women, Peace and Security in 2014. She is the Founder and Chair of the Board of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), an international NGO that seeks to foster, strengthen and promote the leadership role of women in conflict prevention and peacebuilding in Africa. Mme Diop played an instrumental role in achieving gender parity within the African Union Commission, the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003) and the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (2004). She led the setting up of the Gender is My Agenda Campaign Network (GIMAC). In 2011, Time Magazine declared her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Updated on 22 October 2021
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Deputy Director, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network; Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Dr Vidya Diwakar leads a suite of mixed methods studies on poverty dynamics, vulnerability and inequality reduction. Her work focuses on gender-disaggregated drivers of poverty escapes, armed conflict and intersecting crises as drivers of poverty traps, and the role of multi-sectoral programming in supporting sustained poverty reduction. Vidya has successfully fundraised for and led a range of large multi-country policy-oriented research and evaluation studies on poverty dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia for international organizations and bi-lateral aid agencies.
Updated on 16 September 2024
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Senior Programme Officer, Paris Office, SDSN
Eamon Thomas Drumm is a Senior Programme Officer in the Paris office of SDSN, in charge of launching and managing the SDG Transformation Centre. The Centre’s team of data scientists and economists publish SDSN’s flagship Sustainable Development Report as well as a growing range of geospatial and policy tracking data and insights for local and national governments, banks, institutions and civil society organisations. Eamon previously worked for the OECD's Public Governance directorate on policy coherence for sustainable development and at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Updated on 20 November 2023
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Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN Women
Sara Duerto Valero is UN Women’s Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics for Asia and the Pacific. She has published widely on gender statistics and development indicators. Before joining UN Women, she worked in the United Nations Statistics Division, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. She holds a post-graduate degree in Development Cooperation from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Updated on 14 March 2024
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Director of Thought Leadership, Batten Institute, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Rebecca Duff is the Director of Thought Leadership at the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, a Center of Excellence that supports Darden students and faculty through rigorous and relevant research on topics that impact business practice and policy, including sustainability. She has more than 20 years of experience conducting industry and technology research, with a particular focus on product development, emerging technologies, and policy and market interventions. Prior to Darden, she was a consultant to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Updated on 11 November 2024
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Head of Stewardship, EOS, Federated Hermes
Bruce Duguid is head of stewardship at EOS. As well as overseeing the team of engagement professionals, Bruce leads engagements with environmentally-exposed companies across the oil and gas, mining, and utilities sectors. Prior to joining EOS, he was head of sustainability at the UK Green Investment Bank, where he spent four years working on the project to establish the bank. This followed a variety of corporate strategy roles, including a management consultant position at the Boston Consulting Group.
Updated on 22 October 2021
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CEO and Founder, Safe Hands for Girls; UN Women Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Africa
Renowned activist Jaha Dukureh was designated Regional UN Women Ambassador for Africa in February 2018. Herself a survivor of FGM, and forced into child marriage at age 15, Ms Dukureh dedicates her efforts to support UN Women’s advocacy to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage in Africa, with focus on mobilizing youth, promoting their leadership voice and the development of sustainable livelihoods. Ms Dukureh is the CEO and Founder of the NGO “Safe Hands for Girls” that provides support to African women and girls who are survivors of FGM and addresses its lifelong, harmful physical and psychological consequences. Alongside women’s organizations and civil society, she contributed to the Gambian Government’s ban on FGM after youth mobilization and campaigning in the country and has been a leading voice in maintaining it in force in the face of a proposed repeal. She is the recipient of multiple global awards.
Updated on 16 September 2024
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Senior Vice President Europe, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Harlem Désir is the Senior Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Europe. From Brussels, he oversees the IRC’s work in offices in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, and Switzerland where he engages in high-level advocacy in Europe on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable. Prior to joining the IRC, he was the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 2017 to 2020. Désir was also French Minister of State for European Affairs from 2014 to 2017 and was a Member of the European Parliament for three terms from 1999 to 2014. In 1984, Désir co-founded the French not-for-profit association SOS Racisme with the mission to fight against racism, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of discrimination.
Updated on 7 July 2022
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Energy Consultant, Trinomics
Arne Ellerbeck has an BSc in Psychology, an MSc in European policy and has been an energy consultant at Trinomics since 2022. He has worked on several project related to energy and climate policy, such as European policies on renewable energy and the impacts of climate policy on international trade patterns. Next to his work as a consultant he works on issues such as artificial intelligence and communications.
Updated on 7 November 2023
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Chief Economist, WWF-UK
Karen Ellis is Chief Economist at WWF-UK, and oversees a cross-organisational programme of work focusing on how to transform the financial and economic system for sustainability. She has over 25 years’ experience as an economist in the public and private sectors. Karen previously worked for the UK Government at HM Treasury, and at the Department for International Development, with a focus on international economics, private sector development, growth, investment, financial regulation and macroeconomic policy issues. Karen also worked at the Overseas Development Institute, where she led the Private Sector and Markets Programme, focusing on the role of business in achieving sustainable development. Karen started her career as a consultant for London Economics, advising on financial regulatory issues for private sector clients.
Updated on 21 November 2025
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Statistician, UN Women
Ramya is a statistics consultant with the Women Count programme at UN Women. She is an applied econometrics policy researcher in a constant pursuit of interdisciplinary and pluralistic approaches to policy frameworks, exploring non-traditional data sources and methods. Over the past 10 years she has worked on a variety of macro-development areas within various international organizations, the Indian public sector and the UN.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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Inter-Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics, UN Women
Jessamyn Encarnacion is the Inter-Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics of UN Women’s global gender data programme, Women Count. She manages global projects on disaggregated gender statistics, including the rapid gender assessments on the socioeconomic impact of and violence against women during COVID-19. Prior to joining UN Women, she worked for 18 plus years with the Philippines National Statistical Coordination Board leading social statistics.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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President, Cities Alliance; Executive Director, GWL Voices; former President, United Nations General Assembly; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Defense, Ecuador
Her Excellency Ms Espinosa served as the 73rd President of the United Nations General Assembly, becoming the fourth woman and the first from Latin America and the Caribbean to hold this position. She served twice as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Minister of National Defense of Ecuador. She was Ecuador’s first female Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Today, Ms Espinosa continues to shape global agendas through her leadership and advisory roles. She is President of Cities Alliance and Executive Director of GWL Voices. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group and the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, and is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Human Security and the High-Level Advisory Council of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, among others.
Updated on 17 March 2026
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Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University; Co-Chair, SDSN USA
Daniel C. Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with appointments in both the Law and Environment Schools, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance. He is also Co-Chair of SDSN USA. Professor Esty has written or edited 14 books (including the prizewinning volumes Green to Gold and A Better Planet) and dozens of articles on environmental protection, regulatory reform, and sustainability - and their connections to corporate strategy, competitiveness, and trade. He served in various leadership roles at the US Environmental Protection Agency from 1989-93 and as Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from 2011-14.
Updated on 21 October 2021
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Executive Director, BankFWD; Principal, Investable Oceans
Vanessa Fajans-Turner is the Executive Director of BankFWD and a Principal with Investable Oceans. She was previously the Managing Director for SDG Financing for the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Associate Director for James Cameron’s Avatar Alliance Foundation, and a producer for Seasons 1 and 2 of National Geographic’s Emmy Award-winning documentary series, Years of Living Dangerously. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Explorers Club, and a VC Fellow with the Harvard Yard Venture Fund. She is a CNN Opinion contributor and sits on the advisory boards of The Resolution Project, Blue Chip Foundation, and Amazon Watch. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins-SAIS and a BA from Harvard.
Updated on 31 October 2021
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Partner, NewClimate Institute
Hanna works on the evaluation and quantification of climate action. She co-founded NewClimate Institute in 2014 and is part of the Climate Action Tracker, rating climate change mitigation action and providing benchmarks for Paris-compatibility. Hanna also works on the Paris-alignment of finance. Previously, Hanna worked for Ecofys, a leading consultancy in energy and climate policy, where she managed and contributed multiple projects related to international climate policies.
Updated on 5 November 2021
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Researcher, SDU, ATHENA Research Center, Athens; UN SDSN Global Climate Hub; ReSEES, Athens University of Economics and Business; AE4RIA
Dr Georgios Feretzakis is a researcher within the AE4RIA network and an Adjunct Faculty Member and Researcher at the Hellenic Open University’s School of Science and Technology. His work focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, with particular emphasis on their applications in socio-economic and environmental sustainability, healthcare and medical informatics, and privacy-preserving analytics. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, an M.Sc. in Biostatistics, an M.Sc. in Information Systems, and a Ph.D. in Machine Learning, and has co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He also contributes to European and national research initiatives, reflecting a sustained commitment to applied AI for climate resilience.
Updated on 27 January 2026
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Senior Policy Expert, SDSN
Marion Ferrat works as Senior Policy Expert at SDSN. She has over 10 years of experience working at the interface between climate change research, policy, capacity building and communications. She has worked for intergovernmental organizations, the French and British administrations, and research institutes. Marion holds a PhD in palaeoclimatology, a Masters in Geophysics and a Masters in Science Communication.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Global Director of Climate Change, UNDP
Cassie Flynn is the Global Director of Climate Change at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The portfolio supports over 150 countries to take bold climate action. She previously served as the Strategic Advisor on climate change to UNDP’s Administrator and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji as COP23 President. Cassie is an internationally recognized expert on the treaty negotiations on climate change and been a featured expert by CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, and other publications. Cassie earned her master's degree from Yale University and undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College.
Updated on 6 November 2023
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Visiting Professor, Georgetown Law; Senior Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice
Caroline Fredrickson is a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. She served as the President of the American Constitution Society from 2009-2019. In 2021, she was appointed a member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. She also served as the leader of the Progressive Team for the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project is a Senior Congressional Fellow at the Stennis Center. Fredrickson is a frequent guest on television and radio and regularly contributes to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets
Updated on 2 March 2023
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Process Engineering department, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
Andreas Frömelt is a tenure-track group leader at the Process Engineering department of Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology). His group 'Data&Information' specializes in mathematical modelling and advanced data analysis to support process control in water and wastewater treatment systems by transforming measurements into intelligent actions.
Updated on 13 October 2022
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Senior Manager, SDG Index, Data, and Statistics, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Grayson Fuller is the manager of the SDG Index and of the team working on SDG data and statistics at SDSN. He is co-author of the Sustainable Development Report, for which he manages the data, coding, and statistical analyses. He also coordinates the production of regional and subnational editions of the SDG Index, in addition to other statistical reports, in collaboration with national governments, NGOs and international organizations. Grayson received his Masters degree in Economic Development at Sciences Po Paris and holds a Bachelors in Latin American Studies from Harvard University. He speaks French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
Updated on 22 September 2025
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Director, Ecosystems Division, UN Environment Programme
Dr Susan Gardner is Director of the Ecosystems Division of the UN Environment Programme where she leads global programmes to promote nature-based solutions for sustainable development, including for food systems transformation, climate resilience, global biodiversity protection and disaster risk reduction. Her work on combating ocean pollution included leading the process that achieved a global agreement to negotiate a treaty to end plastic pollution. She has three decades of experience in international environmental policy working for both the Mexican and United States governments, including as a senior official in the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Deputy Director of the US Department of State’s Office of Science and Technology Cooperation, and as an environmental scientist at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste. In these positions Dr Gardner’s work has advanced women and girls in science and established the ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women. Based on her contributions to the Global Mercury Partnership and the Minamata Convention, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Exceptional Services from the US Environmental Protection Agency, the highest national honor award this agency bestows. Her research has generated over 30 publications including a book and book chapters on topics related to natural resource management and sustainable development.
Updated on 29 July 2025
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Marie Skłodowska–Curie Researcher, Scuola Normale Superiore, Reader in Digital Politics, King’s College London
Paolo Gerbaudo is Marie Skłodowska–Curie Research Fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore and Reader in Digital Politics at King’s College London. He is the author of The Digital Party (2019) and The Great Recoil (2021) and has written for various international news media, including The Guardian, el País, The New Statesman and Foreign Policy.
Updated on 6 June 2022
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Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
Michael Gerrard teaches environmental, energy, and climate change law at Columbia Law School, and founded and directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He formerly chaired the faculty of Columbia's Earth Institute. He practiced environmental law full-time in New York from 1979 through 2008. He is author or editor of 13 books on environmental law.
Updated on 11 October 2021
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Professor of Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Ken E. Giller is Professor of Plant Production Systems at Wageningen University. He is co-chair of the Thematic Network 7 on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) of the United Nations and a member of the Unilever Sustainable Sourcing Advisory Board.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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Head, Environmental Performance and Information Division Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Nathalie Girouard has been the Head of Division for Environmental Performance and Information in the OECD Environment Directorate since 2015. She oversees the Environmental Performance Review programme, the development of work on environmental information and indicators and the OECD Fossil Fuel Support Intelligence Unit. In 2021, she was appointed Senior Manager for the International Programme for Action on Climate (IPAC). Between 2009 and 2014, Nathalie co-ordinated OECD work on green growth and sustainable development. Prior to these responsibilities, Nathalie was an Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General and an Economist in the OECD Economics Department. Nathalie holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Montreal. Before joining the OECD, she worked as a Policy Analyst at the Bank of Canada.
Updated on 4 April 2022
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Senior Project Manager, Energy Systems, ClimateWorks Australia
Jannata is part of ClimateWorks’ Indonesia team, responsible for leading and managing energy and low-carbon development projects. As a climate and energy specialist, he has previously worked for the Institute for Essential Services Reform, USAID Indonesia Clean Energy Development Project, and Indonesian National Council on Climate Change.
Updated on 4 November 2021
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Policy Analyst, Economic Institutions, UN Women
Anna Gollub is the Policy Analyst of Economic Institutions within the Economic Empowerment section of UN Women. For nine years her focus has been on decent work, entrepreneurship, and gender-responsive procurement. Anna holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a B.A. in Women’s Studies and International Relations from Tufts University.
Updated on 2 April 2024
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Environment and Energy Economist and Coordinator, Clapes UC, Chile
Luis E. Gonzales-Carrasco is Environment and Energy Economist and Coordinator, Clapes UC, Chile. He previously worked as an advisor, consultant, and Head of Research Department to the Ministry of Finance of Chile.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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PhD Researcher, BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change
Sean is a PhD researcher whose work lies at the intersection of three of the biggest challenges facing our planet in the 21st century: climate change, rapid biodiversity loss, and social justice. His project focuses on understanding how “nature-based solutions” can be used in cities as a strategy to address each of these areas simultaneously and how they are reshaping the conversation around how urban climate change adaptation is understood and evaluated.
Updated on 6 September 2023
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Unit Head of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) and Health, World Health Organization
Bruce Gordon is the Unit Head of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) and Health at the World Health Organization. He oversees a portfolio of work that broadly falls under two pillars: the development of global guidelines on drinking-water, sanitation, and hand hygiene; and WHO’s global monitoring of the WASH enabling environment through the UN-Water GLAAS, together with monitoring of access to WASH through the WHO/UNICEF JMP, and WASH-related burden of disease. Current priority interests include strengthening WASH in healthcare facilities and in health programs, such as maternal health, infection prevention and control, antimicrobial resistance, neglected tropical diseases, and quality of care. Prior to joining the WASH unit at WHO in 2004, he contributed to the Organization’s work on sustainable development with a focus on children’s health and environment. He has an academic background in biochemistry and environmental management.
Updated on 4 July 2023
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Energy Consultant, Trinomics
João Gorenstein Dedecca has a PhD in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies and has been a senior energy consultant at Trinomics since 2018. João specializes in the regulation of energy infrastructures (electricity, gas/hydrogen and heat) and the planning and operation of the broader energy system, including aspects such as flexibility and system integration.
Updated on 7 November 2023
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Program Director, Global Issues and Institutions, International Crisis Group
Richard Gowan oversees Crisis Group’s work on geopolitics, global trends in conflict and multilateralism. He was Crisis Group’s UN Director from 2019 to 2025.. He has worked with New York University's Center on International Cooperation, the European Council on Foreign Relations and the UN University's Center for Policy Research, and taught at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Updated on 26 March 2026
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Economist, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Brazil
Carlos A. Grabois Gadelha is Coordinator of the Center for Strategic Studies of the presidency of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and Lecturer at the Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health, Fiocruz.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Rebeca Grynspan, of Costa Rica, is the first woman and Central American to be appointed as UNCTAD’s secretary-general. She is an economist and was formerly Ibero-American secretary-general. Ms Grynspan's career spans many years, during which she has held several high-level positions including, among others, former under secretary-general of the UN and associate administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). She has also served as UNDP’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, been a member of the High-level Panel on Financing for Development, and was vice president of Costa Rica (1994 to 1998).
Updated on 20 May 2022
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Senior Research Associate, The Alan Turing Institute
Dr Daniele Guariso is a Senior Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute. His research interests span various topics across political science, development economics, and political economy. He has been a technical consultant for different research centers and international organizations, such as The International Growth Centre (IGC), The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), The Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and The World Bank Group (WBG).
Updated on 1 July 2024
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Director, Illicit Finance Policy, The Sentry
Justyna Gudzowska has spent over a dozen years combating financial crime. She currently serves as the Director of Illicit Finance Policy at The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization that seeks to disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy. Prior to joining The Sentry, Justyna was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, leading and overseeing the implementation of sanctions for the bank’s offices across the globe. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Justyna was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to advise the Security Council on countering the financing of terrorism, in particular ISIS and Al-Qaida. Before serving at the UN, she was a legal advisor to the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the US Department of the Treasury.
Updated on 1 June 2022
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Senior Researcher, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security
Dr Flávia Guerra is an Associate Academic Officer at the Urban Futures and Sustainability Transformation Programme of the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). Her current research supports transformations toward socially just zero-carbon cities, with emphasis on participatory governance and social innovation processes in urban labs to shift individual and collective mindsets and narratives.
Updated on 13 July 2023
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Head of Computational Social Science Research, The Alan Turing Institute
Dr Omar Guerrero is Head of Computational Social Science Research at The Turing, the UK's national institute for data science and AI. His research covers methodology, large-scale data analysis, and different modelling flavours applied to economics. Omar enjoys translating this research into useful tools to help solving problems of public interest, leading him to work with various governments and international organisations around the world.
Updated on 1 July 2024
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Global Coordinator, Green Jobs Programme, International Labour Organization
Dr Moustapha Kamal Gueye is Global Coordinator, Green Jobs Programme, at the International Labour Organization. Previously, he served as Head, Green Economy Advisory Services at the UN Environment Programme and Senior Programme Manager at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva. Previously, he spent 12 years at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. Kamal started his career working for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on fisheries in West Africa.
Updated on 6 October 2022
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Council Member, Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET), and Associate Professor, Monash University Malaysia
Dr Emi Minghui Gui is an associate professor (practice, adjunct) at Monash University Malaysia, and a member of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) – an independent advisory body to the UN Secretary-General. She is an energy transition expert and interdisciplinary researcher, focusing on system-level transformative solutions and the research-policy-implementation interface in the nexus of energy transition and sustainable development. She works closely with policy makers, industry stakeholders, multilateral agencies, research communities and think tanks in Southeast Asia, Australia and globally, facilitating knowledge collaboration and capacity building, in net zero planning, climate-resilient infrastructure, energy connectivity, just coal transition, decentralised energy systems and consumer-centric service innovations.
Updated on 9 November 2025
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President, Foundation for studies and Research on International Development (FERDI)
Patrick Guillaumont is the Président of the Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), he founded in 2003. He is emeritus professor at the University of Clermont Auvergne. He aso fouded CERDI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International) and the Revue d'Economie du Développement. He was a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) from 1987 to 2009, where he chaired various working groups on the identification of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). He has worked for many international institutions and foreign governments and has published more than twenty books and 200 articles, mainly on development, many papers published in major developmen journals. His recent work is mainly about the allocation of official development assistance and vulnerabilities. His latest books include Out of the trap. Supporting the least developed countries 2019, Measuring vulnerabilities to improve aid allocation, especially in Africa (2020) and the works quoted in the text.
Updated on 15 July 2024
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Communications Lead, Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Isabel Hagbrink has worked with climate finance communications for over two decades. Previous to her current role at UN CTCN, she was Director of Communications at South Pole after more than a decade of championing climate finance at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and, before that, as Vice President of voluntary markets at the carbon project developer MGM International.
Updated on 19 February 2026
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Director, Action Labs, United in Diversity
Zakki is currently directing United in Diversity’s Action Labs and assisting the Special Advisor on Climate to Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investment, particularly on blended finance and private investment and technology transfer. He has also served as program director and corporate strategy general manager in a number of major Indonesian companies.
Updated on 4 November 2021
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Former President of Finland (2000 to 2012); Member, SDSN Leadership Council
Tarja Halonen served two terms as President of Finland from 2000 to 2012. Prior to her election, she held the office of Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Minister of Justice, and Minister for Foreign Affairs. She continues to work closely with the UN, and is currently member of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation; she is a UN Land Ambassador as well as a member of CTBTO Group of Eminent Persons. She continues to promote issues related to sustainable development in her many other roles, including, as a member of Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s Leadership Council. In Finland, she serves as the Chair of the Board of the University of Helsinki, is a member of the Board of SITRA and is also chairing the Board of the Finnish National Gallery.
Updated on 27 October 2021
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Director General, International Baccalaureate Organization
Olli-Pekka Heinonen is the 8th Director General of the International Baccalaureate Organization. Prior to this, Mr Heinonen was Director General of the Finnish National Agency for Education. Mr Heinonen had an active career in politics in Finland between 1994 and 2002: he was Minister of Education and Science from 1994-1999; Minister of Transport and Communication from 1999-2002 and a Member of Parliament from 1995-2002. From 2002 to 2012, Mr Heinonen was Director of Yle, the Finnish national public broadcasting company, before joining the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office in March 2012 as State Secretary.
Updated on 26 October 2021
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Chair of Ecological Systems Design, ETH Zürich
Stefanie Hellweg holds the Chair of Ecological Systems Design at ETH Zürich. She is the president of the International Society of Industrial Ecology and member of the International Resource Panel of UNEP.
Updated on 13 October 2022
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Expert Scientist, Predictability Research Group, Met Office
Leon Hermanson has a PhD in Meteorology and has worked on understanding and predicting annual-to-decadal climate variability since 2006. He is interested in creating user-relevant information suitable for climate services based on these predictions. He leads the work on developing the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO/OMM) Lead Centre for Annual-to-Decadal Climate Prediction, which is hosted at the Met Office. He also runs and develops the in-house decadal prediction system.
Updated on 2 November 2023
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Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Gilbert F. Houngbo was elected as the ILO’s 11th Director-General on 1 October 2022, the first African to hold the position. He is also Chair of UN-Water, the coordination mechanism of the United Nations for water and sanitation. A former Prime Minister of Togo (2008-2012), Houngbo has also served as President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and held numerous roles at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In 2021, Houngbo was invited to become a board member of the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), and to chair the Board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
Updated on 12 July 2023
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Research Analyst, UN Women
Brianna Howell is a Research Analyst at UN Women. She is currently co-leading the Gender Equality and Climate Policy Scorecard and contributes key research and data initiatives, including the forthcoming edition of Progress of the World’s Women focused on gender equality in the age of the climate crisis.
Updated on 26 March 2026
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Council Member, Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET), and Green Transition Consultant
Selen Inal is a Clean Energy and Green Transition Consultant and the founder of EcoMuse Consulting, established in 2023. She serves as a Member of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET), an independent advisory body to the United Nations Secretary-General, and as the Country Advisor for Türkiye at InnoEnergy, an independent entity of the European Union and the world’s largest sustainable energy innovation ecosystem. In addition, Selen is an official member of Canada’s Global Executives (CGE), an initiative by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, and part of a global network of strategic advisors.
Updated on 9 November 2025
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Research Associate, Climate Program, WRI
Joel is a Research Associate in the Climate Program. He leads WRI’s global research on green and inclusive recovery from COVID-19, including tracking green stimulus, evaluating job creation opportunities, and analyzing the lessons learned from green stimulus in 2008-2009. He also does research on the economics of climate policy in the United States, including co-leading the America's New Climate Economy project, and tracks global progress on low-carbon technologies against climate goals.
Updated on 5 November 2021
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Deputy Director, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecommunication Standardization Bureau and Chief, Study Groups & Policy Department (SPD)
Dr Bilel Jamoussi, a distinguished engineer and diplomat, is the Deputy Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau and Chief, Study Groups & Policy Department (SPD) in Geneva, Switzerland. His primary mission is to establish the international standards essential for ensuring global telecommunications and ICT interoperability, promote universal, meaningful connectivity and champion sustainable digital transformation. Key achievements under his tenure have been important new standards, ensuring increased industry engagement, bolstering cooperation with other standardization bodies, as well as leading in emerging tech discussions and building strategic partnerships. Before 2010, he held executive roles, including Director of Standards for Nortel, and contributed to over 90 international standards bodies. With a PhD in Computer Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, he is an IEEE Senior Member and has served on the IEEESA Board of Governors. A key voice in the global ICT arena, he is a regular keynote speaker at events like the Global Cybersecurity Forum and is frequently interviewed by top media outlets.
Updated on 13 November 2025
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Data Innovation Lead, Oxford Policy Management
Paul Jasper is a Principal Consultant and the Data Innovation Lead at Oxford Policy Management (OPM) in the UK. His work focuses on designing and implementing quantitative research projects in a broad range of sectors, including health, education, and social protection. Recently, this has meant developing and testing AI and Natural Language Processing techniques across OPM’s portfolio of projects.
Updated on 9 July 2024
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Associate Scientist, Bioversity International
Sarah Jones is an Associate Scientist in the Multifunctional Landscapes team at Bioversity International based in Montpellier, France. Sarah leads the WLE Sustainable Foods through diversity-based practices project. She also helped develop the Agrobiodiversity Index, which collates data on biodiversity in food and agriculture to inform food system policy; and co-leads the Alliance Agroecology Transitions Nexus, working on how to implement and scale agroecology for more sustainable food systems. Sarah is a researcher on the UN SDSN-led Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use and Energy (FABLE) initiative and part of the EU TRANSITIONS project.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Executive Director, Data2X
Krista Jones Baptista is the Executive Director of Data2X. She is a data and digital inclusion specialist with 20 years of experience in the global development sector. Previously, as Global Director of DAI Global LLC, she led the organization’s Center for Digital Acceleration (CDA). In that role, she led DAI’s work in data initiatives and digital development including with a gender lens. She oversaw a portfolio of digital projects and offerings across sectors and clients, including donors, private sector customers, and foundations.
Updated on 1 March 2023
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Consultant, Lancet COVID-19 Commission
Neena Joshi is a consultant at the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. She is also a research consultant at the University of California, San Francisco Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a Masters of Science in Global Health Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Associate Expert in Remote Sensing for Disaster Management, UN-SPIDER Program, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Jumpei Takami is a specialist in remote sensing and GIS, with a strong background in civil engineering and data analytics. He holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, where he focused on satellitebased environmental monitoring. With over ten years of academic and professional experience, he has contributed to international projects addressing natural hazards such as landslides, floods, droughts, and land subsidence. He has also supported forest monitoring efforts, including canopy height and aboveground biomass estimation.
Updated on 14 November 2025
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Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, UN
Mr Li Junhua was appointed the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs in September 2022. He advises the Secretary-General on issues related to the three pillars of sustainable development – social, economic, and environmental. Mr. Li heads the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), which delivers programmes on socioeconomic trends and policies, population dynamics, and environmental management in close partnership with governments, UN agencies and civil society organizations.
Updated on 14 June 2024
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Chief, Division of Digital Transfor-mation and AI Strategies, UNIDO
Marco Kamiya is Chief of the Division of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence Strategies at UNIDO (TCS). The Division works on frontier technologies, innovation ecosystems, and digital transformation. Kamiya was the Chief of the Urban Economy and Finance Branch at UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya. Previously he was a senior officer at CAF Development Bank for Latin America in Caracas, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Kamiya studied International Development at Harvard University, and holds a PhD in Economics.
Updated on 11 July 2023
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Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Dr Natalia Kanem currently serves as Executive Director of UNFPA, prior to which she was Deputy Executive Director (Programme), and earlier UNFPA Representative in the United Republic of Tanzania from 2014 to 2016. Before joining the United Nations, Dr. Kanem was Senior Associate at the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago from 2012 to 2013. From 2005 to 2011, she was the founding President of ELMA Philanthropies Services, a private institution focusing primarily on children and youth in Africa. She served The Ford Foundation from 1992 to 2005 in various capacities, including: Deputy Vice-President and Senior Director of the Peace and Social Justice Programme; Senior Director of the Office of Management Services; Representative for West Africa (based in Lagos and Dakar); and Programme Officer in the Nigeria Office for Women’s Reproductive Health and Sexuality.
Updated on 18 September 2017
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Professor, Keio University; Director, xSDG Laboratory, Keio Research Institute at Shonan-Fujisawa Campus; Co-Chair, SDSN Japan
Norichika Kanie serves on various committees and steering groups in Japan and other countries, including the SDGs Promotion Roundtable Meeting of the government of Japan under the SDGs Promotion Headquarters; and the Local Government SDGs Promotion Evaluation and Study Group, Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan. He is one of 15 independent scientists to be appointed by the UN Secretary-General to prepare the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report.
Updated on 27 October 2021
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Law Division, UN Environment Programme
Angela Kariuki is a Legal Officer in UNEP’s Law Division and interim team lead of the InforMEA Initiative. She previously served as Intergovernmental Affairs Officer in UNEP’s New York Office, supporting UNEP’s engagement in processes such as the Summit of the Future and the Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals. Earlier, as Programme Management Officer (Legal) in the Frontiers in Environmental Law Unit, she advanced work on Environmental Human Rights Defenders and UNEA resolutions on minerals and governance. Before joining the UN, Angela worked in South Africa, including at the Human Rights Commission on mining and environmental rights.
Updated on 17 September 2025
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Assistant Lecturer, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Dr Stella Kasiva is Assistant Lecturer and convenor, post-graduate committee in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. Currently, she is the Assistant Network Manager, SDSN- Kenya Chapter and Director, Policy in Poverty Eradication and Community Empowerment (PEACE) a Kenyan NGO.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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Principal Research Fellow, International Economic Development Group, ODI Global
Jodie Keane is a Principal Research Fellow with the International Economic Development Group at ODI. She leads on trade and the environment, including across issues at the nexus of climate and trade, greening trade and supply chains, and developing resilient value chains.
Updated on 17 September 2025
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Professor, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, DTU
Dogan Keles is a professor of Applied Economics at the Technical University of Denmark and Head of the Energy Economics and Modelling section. He holds a doctoral degree from the Management and Economics Department of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He led the EMESA research group at KIT from 2013 to 2020. He works on different projects about electricity market design and regulation, price drivers, and modelling energy systems.
Updated on 4 October 2023
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Biodiversity Analyst and Program Manager, SDSN
Micheline Khan works as a Biodiversity Analyst and Program Manager at SDSN. Micheline holds a Masters of Science in Climate, Land Use and Ecosystem Services from the Université Paris-Saclay and AgroParisTech, and an Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto.
Updated on 10 November 2021
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Chairman, Institute of Policy, Advocacy, and Governance (IPAG); Co-chair, G20 Task Force on Digital Transformation, G20 Leadership Summit 2021
An MBA from the Wharton School of Business, Professor Khasru heads the Institute for Policy, Advocacy, & Governance (IPAG). He is a Global Expert of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Member of SDG’s Global Councils, Council for Global Problem Solving (Germany), & Energy Leaders’ Forum, Asian Development Bank. Professor Khasru is Co-Chair of the G20 Task Force for Digital Transformation and has written six policy briefs for the G20 Leadership Summits 2017-2020.
Updated on 15 October 2021
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Co-founder and CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative
Sean Kidney is the CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative (CB), an international NGO working to mobilize global capital for climate action. Working with Climate Bond Partners in the investment and finance community around the world, CBI develops standards and "taxonomies", advocates for policy and regulator measures supportive of green capital flows, and promotes rapid creation of investible green assets.
Updated on 12 July 2023
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Research Associate, Stockholm Environment Institute
Dayoon Kim is a Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia office, based in Bangkok. Her research revolves around the issues of equity, identity, conflict, mobility and migration, and climate change, such as equity in climate diplomacy, environmental defenders, and climate change and migration. She is part of the ongoing research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the process and outcomes of climate negotiations together with Anisha Nazareth and Zoha Shawoo. Her previous experiences include a research project on climate change, gender equality, and human rights in Asia commissioned by UN Women that offers policy recommendations for gender transformative and human rights-based climate action.
Updated on 11 October 2022
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Environmental Specialist, Global Environment Facility
Teayeon Kim is Environmental Specialist at the GEF, responsible for the blended finance initiative and Integrated Programs coordination. She has six years of experience in climate and nature-related project development and management in consulting firms and United Nations agencies. Teayeon earned both her Bachelor and Master of Science in Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering from Korea University, with a focus on Forestry Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing.
Updated on 25 May 2023
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Branch Chief, Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, International Labour Organization
Chidi King is Chief of the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch, part of the Conditions of Work and Equality Department of the International Labour Organization. The Branch strives for the elimination of discrimination in the world of work, including based on gender, race, ethnicity, indigenous status, disability and HIV status and on the grounds of SOGIESC; utilising an integrated and intersectional approach. Chidi has worked for a number of trade union organisations at national and global levels, including the International Trade Union Confederation. A lawyer by background, she has over 20 years’ experience in providing legal and policy advice on issues of equality and non-discrimination with various private, public and voluntary sector organizations.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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Director of Global Programs, Namati
Erin Kitchell is the Director of Global Programs at Namati, where she leads learning and develops strategy for legal empowerment initiatives that support communities to know, use, and shape the law. She has nearly 15 years of experience leading research and supporting community-based programs on land rights and environmental governance.
Updated on 18 October 2021
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Co-Chair, SDSN Europe
Adolf Kloke-Lesch is a member of the global SDSN’s Leadership Council, Co-Chair of SDSN Europe, and former Executive Director of SDSN Germany. He has been an Associate Fellow and Senior Advisor with the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (D.I.E.) since August 2012. He has also served as Managing Director at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); and Director General (Global Policies; Multilateral Development Policy; Africa, Middle East) at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Updated on 15 June 2021
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Professor, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business; Visiting Professor (Department of Earth Sciences); Senior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Professor Dr Phoebe Koundouri is an economist renowned for pioneering human-centred, interdisciplinary, mathematical systems for sustainable nature–society–economy interaction. She holds an MPhil/PhD (Univ. of Cambridge) and has held positions at the Univ. of Cambridge, UCL, LSE, Univ. of Reading, and DTU. Currently, she is Professor at AUEB, Visiting Professor (Dep. Earth Sciences), and Senior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Univ. of Cambridge. Ranked in the top 1–2% of scientists (e.g., Stanford list) with 20 books, 700 publications, and has led 100 projects in 120 countries. She serves on the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics. She is a Fellow of Academia Europaea, World Academy of Arts and Sciences (Trustee), European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academy of Engineering & Technology of the Developing World, IAP, the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), and European Forest Institute. In 2025, she was invited by the UN to co-chair the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2027. Since 2019, she is the President of EAERE; President, World Council of Environmental Resource Economists Association; Chair, UN SDSN Global Climate Hub (2,000 universities); Co-chair, SDSN Europe (900 universities); Director AE4RIA (200 researchers). Major distinctions include the ERC Synergy Grant, the Academy of Athens Award, and the Award of the Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts of the Republic of Cyprus. She is an ERC Ambassador, EU Climate Pact Ambassador, member of the EIB Climate Leaders Network, and contributor to the IPCC. She advises the UN, G20, World Bank, EC, EIB, EBRD, OECD, WHO, and national governments.
Updated on 27 January 2026
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Policy Specialist, Sustainable Development, UN Women
Ms Carla Kraft serves as the Policy Specialist of Sustainable Development within the Economic Empowerment section of UN Women. Over the past nine years her work has focused on food systems, women’s rights to resources including energy, land and water, climate change and the climate-care nexus, gender-responsive green/blue economies, among other sustainable development themes. Prior to joining UN Women, Carla worked for the International Labour Organization in Santiago, Chile where she worked on gender equality in labour markets and social protection. She holds a Masters in International Development from New York University.
Updated on 22 March 2024
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Program Manager for International Cooperation, Igarapé Institute
Dr Giovanna Kuele is the Program Manager for International Cooperation at the Igarapé Institute. The program aims to promote more inclusive and effective multilateralism, focusing on UN and IFI reforms and sustainable finance for climate, nature and development. She supports the Institute’s Co-founder and President in her roles as a member of the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism and as a co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on the Future of Nature and Security. Dr. Kuele's contributions include coordinating civil society consultations for the Our Common Agenda process, supporting the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (2024), and both an M.A. (2017) and a B.A. (2014) in International Relations from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Updated on 12 September 2024
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Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Francesco La Camera has been Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since 2019 and has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of climate, sustainability, and international cooperation. Under his leadership, the Agency has forged a series of new strategic partnerships with UN organisations, including UNDP, UNFCCC, and the Green Climate Fund, among others. Previously, Mr La Camera served as Director-General of Sustainable Development, Environmental Damage, EU and International Affairs at the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land & Sea.
Updated on 5 May 2022
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Director, SDSN Paris
Guillaume Lafortune is the Director of SDSN Paris. He joined SDSN in 2017 to coordinate the production of the Sustainable Development Report and other projects on SDG data and statistics. Previously, he served as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and in the Government of Quebec (Canada).
Updated on 26 October 2022
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Director General, WWF International
Marco Lambertini became Director General of WWF International in April 2014, to drive the achievement of the global conservation organization’s critical mission to save life on Earth and to lead the secretariat team based in Gland, Switzerland. With 35 years of conservation leadership, Marco Lambertini began his association with WWF as a youth volunteer growing up in his native Italy. Prior to joining WWF, he served as Chief Executive of BirdLife International. That role saw him broaden BirdLife’s global reach and relevance, and develop decentralized structures for most effective global conservation impact. He managed a highly decentralized secretariat, overseeing a global partnership of over 120 civil society organizations based in countries and territories in all continents.
Updated on 9 March 2022
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Professor of Economics, Universidad Catolica de Chile; former Finance Minister of Chile
Felipe Larraín Bascuñán was Chile's Minister of Finance between 2010-2014 and 2018-2019. He is a Tenured Professor at Universidad Católica de Chile, a position he has held since 1996, and also a Member of the United Nations Leadership Council for Sustainable Development. In 2018 he founded and co-led the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, which today has more than 50 member countries. He has been an advisor to the governments of 18 countries in the Americas, and has extensive experience as an advisor to multiple international organizations, including the IMF, World Bank, IADB, and UNDP.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Administrative Assistant, United Nations Association – UK
Hayley is the Administrative Assistant for UNA-UK and provides support across the organisation. She completed her Honours Bachelors degree in International Relations at Western University in London, Canada. Before joining UNA-UK, she completed her Master's in Gender Studies at University College London where she focused on post-conflict justice mechanisms and their ability to comprehend gendered violence
Updated on 19 March 2018
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Head of Inequality Policy, Oxfam International
Max Lawson is Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International. He has worked for Oxfam since 2002, firstly in policy support to country programmes, and then in advocacy and campaigns. As part of his country support he has visited and worked with over 25 country programmes across the world.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Associate, Climate Program, WRI
Katie is an Associate in WRI's Climate Program where she works on research and analysis of technological carbon removal approaches and industrial decarbonization.
Updated on 5 November 2021
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Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
Wei-Jen Lee is a professor and interim chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has been involved in the revision and development of several IEEE Standards. He has performed power and energy systems related research. He has published more than 220 journal papers and 310 conference proceedings. Professor Lee is a Fellow of IEEE and registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He is also a council member of CEET.
Updated on 16 November 2023
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Professor, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Mike Lenox is the University Professor and Tayloe Murphy Professorship in Business Administration. He also holds an appointment as a Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy) at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His research has appeared in over 30 refereed academic publications and has been cited in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, the Financial Times, and The Economist. Professor Lenox has a long-standing interest in the interface between business strategy and public policy as it relates to the natural environment.
Updated on 11 November 2024
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Director of Sustainability Studies, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN); Professor, Sunway University
Professor Leong Yuen Yoong is Director of Sustainability Studies at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Professor of Practice at Sunway University. She co-leads SDSN’s ASEAN Green Future project, which involves decarbonizing technical systems and recarbonizing ecosystems, to accelerate action on climate change. She also supervises PhD students in energy transition, analyzes policies, writes, teaches and delivers keynotes on global issues of sustainability.
Updated on 7 November 2023
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Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University
Michael Levi has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff since 1991. His main work has been making sense of the linkages and differences between white-collar and organised crime and their public and private sector controls, intersecting with fraud, corruption, money laundering and terrorism locally and transnationally. He has major lifetime and other research prizes from the British, European and American Societies of Criminology, the lifetime Tackling Economic Crime Award in the UK 2019, and the UNODC/Al Thani Corruption Research and Education prize 2020.
Updated on 18 June 2024
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Chief of Science, Data, and Systems Change, Bezos Earth Fund
Kelly is Chief of Science, Data and Systems Change for the Bezos Earth Fund. In this role, she also co-directs the Systems Change Lab, which monitors, learns from and accelerates the transformational change required to protect people and the planet. Kelly also is a lecturer at Yale’s School of Environment and teaches about deep decarbonization science and solutions.
Updated on 5 November 2021
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Director of Programme Innovation and Planning, African Union Development Agency
Estherine Lisinge-Fotabong is the Director of Programme Innovation and Planning at the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD). She received an award of recognition from the Government of Egypt in February 2020, for her support to Africa’s development and women's empowerment. Before her appointment as Director at the AUDA-NEPAD, Mrs Fotabong was the UNEP Country Liaison Officer for South Africa and the Senior Environment and Tourism Adviser to the NEPAD Secretariat.
Updated on 22 April 2022
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Vice-Rector for Academic Strategy and Internationalization at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Julio Lumbreras Martín is Vice-Rector for Academic Strategy and Internationalization at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He is also Associate Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering (UPM) and serves as Spanish representative on the Task Force for Integrated Assessment Modeling within the UN Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). He is also a visiting scholar with the Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Yu Luo is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Updated on 13 October 2021
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Senior Research Manager, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Alainna Lynch is a Senior Research Manager at SDSN, where she considers the question: What will it take to achieve the SDGs in the United States? Alainna’s research interests also include understanding how poverty and inequality become entrenched in social systems, and how to prevent harm when designing policy and programs. Prior to SDSN, Alainna worked with Overseas Development Institute (ODI) on the Leave No One Behind Agenda.
Updated on 8 July 2022
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Research Group Leader, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi is a Research Group Leader at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia) and University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). He conducts multi- and transdisciplinary research covering sustainable and resilient food systems, global environmental change, and the water-energy-food nexus.
Updated on 4 July 2023
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Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures
Dr Jess MacArthur is a research consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, exploring the connections between water and sanitation programming and gender equality. Jess specialises in using creative and story-based approaches to investigate and foster transformative change.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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CEO, Digital Citizen Fund
Roya Mahboob is an entrepreneur and Afghanistan’s first female tech CEO, but her impact extends far beyond the sphere of business. Ms Mahboob has used her success and tech expertise to help educate and empower Afghan women and girls, and she has been an outspoken advocate for their rights. She founded the Digital Citizen Fund (DCF), which aims to increase Afghan women’s technological and financial literacy. She also co-founded and supports the Afghan Girls Robotics Team. Ms Mahboob has worked to build Innovation/Tech Centers across Afghanistan and has launched an online platform to strengthen the voices of Afghan women and journalists. Ancillary to this, she regularly speaks and writes eloquently about the vital importance of STEAM education and economic opportunity for women and girls as they pertain to human rights. Ms Mahboob was named to TIME’s 2013 list of 100 Most Influential People and received the 2014 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, The Advancement of Gender Equality through Education Award, Young Leader of World Economic Forum 2015 , Asia Game changer 2019, Doha forum award of 2022, LantosHumanRights awards, Courage in STEAM from Liberty Centers NJ, the prestigious Presidential Leadership Scholarship and is a founding Leader of The NewNow, a group of rising global leaders tackling global challenges.
Updated on 9 June 2025
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Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO
Eduardo Mansur started his career in 1981 as Researcher (Silviculture) in a collaborative programme of the Federal University of Paraná and the Eduardo Mondlane University of Mozambique. He worked as Project Officer in Mozambique and Ecuador, and served, from 1995 to 1996, as Regional Forest Conservation Officer for South America with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Mr Mansur joined FAO in May 1997 as Chief Technical Adviser in the FAO Representation in Mozambique. In 2002, he came to headquarters as Project Coordinator and then served as Forest Officer with the Forestry Economics and Policy Division. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as Senior Forestry Officer at the Regional Office for Africa in Accra, Ghana. In 2008, he served as Assistant Director with the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) in Japan. In 2012, Mr Mansur re-joined FAO as Director of the Forest Assessment, Management and Conservation Division, and, in 2016, he was nominated Director of the Land and Water Division.
Updated on 28 October 2021
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Senior Research Fellow, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, ODI Global
Rachel Marcus is a Senior Research Fellow in ODI Global's Gender Equality and Social Inclusion team, where she leads research on transforming gender norms, with a particular focus on the role of education, and prevention of gender-based violence. She has led research on nurturing gender equality in formal and non-formal education, backlash against gender equality in education, inclusion of refugee learners in national education systems, and the impacts of climate change on children’s learning outcomes. She is a lead advisor to the Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALIGN) platform, where she oversees and authors content and leads knowledge-sharing activities related to education. Upcoming research will focus on the potential of critical digital literacy skills to counter gendered misinformation and online misogyny.
Updated on 6 April 2026
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Head, Smart and Sustainable Cities, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Stefano Marta is Head of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Unit and oversees OECD work on A Territorial Approach to the SDGs, decentralised development co-operation and city-to-city partnerships, as well as smart cities for inclusive growth. He previously led the initiative “Adopting a Territorial Approach to Food Security and Nutrition Policy,” jointly developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), OECD and UNCDF. He also worked on various other projects, including on urban-rural linkages in Morocco and on territorial indicators in Tunisia. Prior to joining the OECD, Stefano worked at FAO on the territorial approach to food security and nutrition policy. In addition, he was part of the FAO Task Force for the formulation of the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy 2040 of Oman and he also participated in the FAO Al-Ghab Development Programme in Syria.
Updated on 10 July 2024
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Senior Economist at the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Dr Isabella Massa is a Senior Economist at the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in Paris, leading the work on the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index and financing for sustainable development. Prior to joining SDSN, she worked at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Isabella holds a PhD in Economics and Organization from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, and a MSc degree in Financial Markets and Intermediaries from the University of Toulouse.
Updated on 16 May 2023
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Director, Innovation and Technology for Development Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM)
Carlos Mataix Aldeanueva is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He directs the Innovation and Technology for Development Centre (itdUPM) at the same university. He was previously Assistant Director of Student Affairs and university extension of the School of Industrial Engineers at UPM. He joined the Office of the Director at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation in 2008, tasked with launching the Planning and Quality Unit, and since then he has worked as an expert adviser to the cooperation council.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Principal Programmes Adviser (WASH & Climate), UNICEF UK
Mariana Matoso is Principal Programmes Adviser (WASH & Climate) at UNICEF UK, with 15 years’ experience advancing water, sanitation, hygiene, and climate resilience across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She has held managerial, advisory, and coordination roles with the UN (UNICEF, IOM), INGOs (Oxfam, Concern Worldwide), research institutes (Overseas Development Institute), and global partnerships (Sanitation and Water for All), across humanitarian and development contexts. Mariana holds a PhD in Urban Water Governance and champions UNICEF’s commitment: “For Every Child, a Liveable Planet” – working to put children at the heart of climate action.
Updated on 24 November 2025
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Associate Teaching Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego
Gordon C. McCord is Associate Teaching Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. He is also Senior Advisor to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations and co-chair of SDSN-USA. Gordon has an extensive background in sustainable development and works at the intersection of development economics, public health, and the environment.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Regent’s Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Jennifer McCoy, PhD, is Regent’s Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as Research Affiliate at CEU’s Democracy Institute in Budapest. Her areas of expertise include democratic resilience, erosion and recovery; and political polarization and depolarization. Dr McCoy was named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her project, “Mitigating Pernicious Polarization through Innovative Civic Educational Interventions.” Her current book project is Depolarize Politics and Remake Democracy with Murat Somer and her recent published volume is Polarizing Polities: A Global Threat to Democracy (2019).
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Sustainability Director, Ever Sustainable by Design Portfolio
Martha McPherson is Sustainability Director, Ever Sustainable at corporate consultancy Design Portfolio, working with companies around the world to build sustainability strategies which are more resilient, innovative and impactful. She is a policy associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), and was formerly head of Green Economy at IIPP, where her role involved co-ordinating the institute's research and policy engagement activity on the green transition. Her own research focuses on institutional investment in renewable energy, and the concept of the ‘Just Transition’. She acts as a trustee for governance and diversity charity Getting on Board and for the International Sustainable Finance Centre. She tweets about sustainability, climate and corporate responsibility at @MarthaMcph.
Updated on 27 October 2022
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Jonas Mehr studied environmental engineering at ETH Zurich. He is now involved in projects in the gastronomy sector and additionally works as a freelancer environmental consultant.
Updated on 13 October 2022
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CEO, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Dr Claire Melamed is the CEO of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. This growing network brings together several hundred members - governments, private sector, and civil society - to harness and leverage data and data technology towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Claire was previously Managing Director of the Overseas Development Institute, and in 2014, she worked in the office of the UN Secretary General, writing the report of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution, “A World That Counts”. Claire is based in London and heads up a global team based in six countries.
Updated on 25 October 2021
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Practice Lead, Organisational Change and Governance, Aktis Strategy Ltd
Arthur Mellors is Practice Lead, Organisational Change and Governance at Aktis Strategy Ltd. He specialises in reforming security sector institutions in fragile and conflict-affected environments. Before joining Aktis, he worked for Coffey International and Atos Consulting.
Updated on 1 March 2016
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Chief Executive Officer, We Mean Business Coalition
María Mendiluce is Chief Executive Officer of the We Mean Business Coalition. She was formerly managing director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, guiding over 200 member companies on transformative climate policy, energy transition, plastic waste and urban mobility to influence the global climate landscape. Ms Mendiluce has 25 years’ experience working in sustainable development, energy and climate action.
Updated on 29 October 2021
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Senior Advisor (TCS), UNIDO
Alla Metelitsa is ONUDI Senior Advisor. Over more than a 20-year career at the United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, she serviced negotiations on the Paris Agreement on climate change, led global partnerships and pioneered multi-stakeholder initiatives on environmental sustainability.
Updated on 11 July 2023
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Acting Director of Origin Green and Sustainable Quality Assurance, Bord Bia
Mick Houlihan is Acting Director of Origin Green and Sustainable Quality Assurance, Bord Bia.
Updated on 23 September 2025
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UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. She was sworn into office on 19 August 2013 and brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this position, having devoted her career to issues of human rights, equality and social justice. Ms Mlambo-Ngcuka has worked in government and civil society, and with the private sector, and was actively involved in the struggle to end apartheid in her home country of South Africa. From 2005 to 2008, she served as Deputy President of South Africa, overseeing programmes to combat poverty and bring the advantages of a growing economy to the poor, with a particular focus on women.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston
Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston, which she joined in January 2012. Previously she directed women’s studies programs at Purdue University and Illinois State University, and she was a section chief at UNESCO and a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER. Born in Iran and the author of many publications, her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and feminist networks, and gender, politics, and development in the Middle East and North Africa.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations; Chair, United Nations Sustainable Development Group
Amina J. Mohammed is the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group. She served as Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from November 2015 to December 2016. Prior to this, she served as Special Adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Post-2015 Development Planning, where she was instrumental in bringing about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the SDGs.
Updated on 29 October 2021
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Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat)
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, who comes from Malaysia, was appointed as UN-Habitat Executive Director by the Secretary-General in December 2017. She previously served as Mayor of the City Council of Penang Island, Malaysia. In 2011, she was the first woman to be appointed as President of the Municipal Council of Seberang Perai after serving as Director of Planning and Development at the Municipal Council of Penang Island.
Updated on 10 October 2022
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UN High-Level Climate Action Champion of Egypt, COP27
Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin is an economist with more than 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He is an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. He has been the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda since February 2020. He was Minister of Investment of Egypt from 2004-2010, and most recently served as the World Bank Group Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations and Partnerships. His roles at the World Bank also included Managing Director, responsible for Human Development, Sustainable Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, and the World Bank Institute; World Bank President’s Special Envoy on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Post-2015 Development Agenda (later, the Sustainable Development Goals), and Financing for Development; and Corporate Secretary and Executive Secretary to the Development Committee of the World Bank Group’s Board of Governors.
Updated on 17 October 2022
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High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)
H.E. Mr Miguel Ángel Moratinos is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General holding the post of High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) since January 2019. In February 2020, Mr Moratinos was designated by the United Nations Secretary-General as the UN Focal Point to monitor Anti-Semitism and enhance a system-wide-response. He carries out this portfolio in addition to his other responsibilities.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Technical Director, Innovation and Technology for Development Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM)
Jaime Moreno Serna is Technical Director of the Innovation and Technology for Development Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM). In his work at the itdUPM he accompanies various teams and projects with an interdisciplinary and multi-actor approach, to accelerate innovations in policies that facilitate the achievement of the SDGs.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Senior Advisor, Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi global
Dr Beatrice Mosello is a Senior Advisor on climate diplomacy and security at adelphi global, specialising in climate- and conflict‑sensitive approaches that strengthen resilience and peace. She previously advised the mining and energy sectors, researched pro‑poor climate‑resilient water management, and holds a PhD from the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Updated on 11 November 2025
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Scientific Director, FABLE (Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy) Consortium
Aline Mosnier is the Scientific Director for the FABLE (Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy) Consortium and co-manages the Food/Land team at SDSN. She works with researchers from 20 countries to develop long-term quantitative national pathways towards sustainable land use and food systems in a globally-consistent framework. For this purpose, she has developed the FABLE Calculator. Prior to joining SDSN, Aline worked for 10 years at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) where she contributed to the development of the global partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM.
Updated on 18 March 2022
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President and CEO, ClimateWorks Foundation
Helen Mountford is the President and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation. Before joining ClimateWorks, Helen was Vice President of Climate and Economics at the World Resources Institute. She was also the Program Director for the New Climate Economy project, a flagship initiative of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. Helen previously was Deputy Director of Environment for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She worked at OECD for over 16 years.
Updated on 4 July 2023
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Oxford Martin Fellow, University of Oxford and Advisor, Smart Trade Africa
Dr Tedd Moya is a legal professional and consultant in energy, environment and natural resources, climate change, sustainable development, governance, climate finance, education, and technology. He is currently an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Oxford University, UK.
Updated on 21 November 2023
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Executive Manager, Water Research Commission of South Africa (WRC)
Sylvester Mpandeli is an Executive Manager at the Water Research Commission of South Africa, Adjunct Professor at the University of Venda, Vice President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and the South African National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (SANCID) Chairman. He is a member of the Gauteng Province Premier’s Advisory Team and a South African Weather Services board member.
Updated on 4 July 2023
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Lead Economist, Gender Group, World Bank
Ana Maria is a Lead Economist with the Gender Group at the World Bank. Previously she was part of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice and co-led the Mind, Behavior and Development Unit. She has over 15 years of experience across world regions leading analytical and policy work on poverty, gender and equity. She holds graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and the University College of London.
Updated on 12 March 2024
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Country Director for Women for Women International, Palestine
Amani Mustafa is a Palestinian activist who has courageously confronted the entrenched social and cultural oppressions experienced by many Palestinian women. Educated at Bethlehem University, she holds degrees in English Literature and International Cooperation and Development. With a fervent belief in the empowerment of women to reclaim their rights, she embarked on a journey dedicated to fostering resilience and independence among her fellow Palestinian women. With an astute grasp of Middle Eastern politics, international relations, and humanitarian rights-based programming, Amani leverages her public speaking skills to advocate for the rights of Palestinian women on both national and international platforms. Armed with a profound understanding of the socio-political landscape, she began her career with a Palestinian NGO addressing women’s needs and worked tirelessly to uplift Bedouin Palestinian women in accessing essential services and basic necessities in the Southern Slopes of Hebron Governorate. Transitioning to International agencies, Amani has over 16 years of experience leading programs aimed at bolstering Palestinian women’s social power and economic autonomy across the West Bank and Gaza.
Updated on 12 March 2024
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Chancellor, United in Diversity
Dr Suyoto serves as Chancellor at United in Diversity. He works on building trust, cultivating leadership, and promoting development to leaders in business, government, and civil society. He is also a professor of sociology at the University of Kebomas and was the Regent of Bojonegoro District, East Java.
Updated on 4 November 2021
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Director, UN Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Dr Rose Mwebaza is the Director of the United Nations Climate Technology Centre & Network (UN-CTCN). She brings over 20 years’ experience on climate change and sustainable development. She has previously served as Chief Natural Resources Officer at the African Development Bank and held leadership positions within the UN Development Programme. She is a former Lecturer and Deputy Dean of the Law School at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Rose holds a PhD from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Updated on 21 October 2021
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Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Malawi
Dr James Mwololo is a scientist, based at the ICRISAT ESA Breeding Hub in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He is currently leading the ICRISAT’s research on groundnut breeding, targeting ESA countries. Mwololo specialized in plant breeding in his PhD studies from Makerere University, Uganda, and MSc crop science and BSc Agriculture from the University of Nairobi. He is a member of the American Society of Crop Science.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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Senior Director, External Affairs, TB Alliance
Liz Métraux is a writer and medical anthropologist, with more than two decades of experience around the globe helping individuals and organizations share their stories. Beginning her career in political movements - most notably in the Middle East and former Soviet Union during the Iraq War and Arab Spring - she moved from the frontlines of war to the frontlines of healthcare after seeing the critical role of public health in civil society development. Liz led communications at the National Institutes of Health's Office of Scientific Diversity, spearheaded comms for USAID's TB and infectious disease projects in the Central Asian Republics, and undertook a multiyear national research project on joy, trauma, and loneliness in the American healthcare workforce. In 2024, she transitioned from head of engagement strategy at the UN Foundation's Better World Campaign to TB Alliance, where she supports efforts to treat the world's deadliest infectious disease.
Updated on 16 September 2024
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Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Gerd Müller was appointed Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on 10 December 2021. He has many years of experience in the fields of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and innovative agriculture. Key focus areas of his work are the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on climate change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Beijing Declaration on Gender Equality. Furthermore, he is a strong advocate of fair trade, and initiated legislation in Germany and the European Union on social and environmental standards along supply chains. Between 1980 and 1989, he was a teacher at vocational schools and a civil servant at the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 1989 to 1994, he served as a Member of the European Parliament, during which time he was a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Between 1994 and 2021, he served as a Member of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, and as a member of the Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2005, he was appointed Deputy Minister at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, in charge of international relations, development projects and world food affairs. In 2013, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, a position he held until 2021.
Updated on 6 November 2024
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PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Rumi Naito is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (UBC)
Updated on 13 October 2021
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Director, The World in 2050 initiative
Prof. Dr Nebojsa Nakicenovic is a member of the Group of Seven Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission and Emeritus Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He is the Director of The World in 2050 initiative, former Deputy Director General of IIASA, and former tenured Professor of Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology.
Updated on 19 July 2021
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Associate Scientist, Equitable Transitions program
Anisha Nazareth is an Associate Scientist with the Equitable Transitions program. Most of her work focuses on the interactions between climate crises and global and local inequalities. She uses political ecology, political economy and critical climate justice framings to understand the power dynamics that create and maintain injustices in climate governance and climate action. Anisha has contributed to SEI’s work on carbon inequality, exploring how different income groups make starkly different contributions to global carbon emissions. Along with Zoha Shawoo and Dayoon Kim she has also studied equity in the international climate space: the impact of the pandemic on equitable climate negotiations and the equity implications of prominent anti-fossil fuel norms.
Updated on 11 October 2022
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Assistant Director-General for the Division of Healthier Populations; Director Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization
Dr Maria Neira is WHO’s Assistant Director-General for the Division of Healthier Populations. She leads the Organization’s efforts to achieve one billion more people enjoying better health and well-being through interventions relating to the environmental, social, and economic determinants of health (e.g. climate change, tobacco control, chemical safety, road safety, food systems and nutrition, physical activity, air pollution, radiation) through a One Health approach. Dr Neira has served as Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health (formerly Public Health and Environment) since 2005. Previously, Dr Neira was Vice-Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain for three years and President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency (AESAN). She has worked in Mozambique, Rwanda El Salvador, and Honduras. A medical doctor by training, specialized in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, she has received multiple awards and merits, including the “Médaille de L'Ordre National du Mérite” by the Republic of France.
Updated on 4 July 2023
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Director, United Nations Development Programme Sustainable Finance Hub
Marcos Athias Neto is Director of UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub. With more than 25 years’ experience in development finance and private-sector development, Marcos leads UNDP’s work on sustainable finance in more than 140 countries in collaboration with other UN agencies and partners. Head of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group Secretariat, Marcos also co-chairs the executive boards of the Business Call to Action and the Connecting Business Initiative. Apart from his role at UNDP, Marcos is on the Supervisory Board of CARE International. Prior to joining UNDP, Marcos served at CARE International for 17 years, in roles including Regional Manager for Asia and Latin America at CARE UK, Executive Director of CARE Brasil, and Program Director for Central America.
Updated on 16 May 2023
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Perth
Professor Peter Newman is Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He has written 20 books and over 350 papers on sustainable cities and has worked to deliver his ideas in all levels of government. He is the Co-ordinating Lead Author for the UN’s IPCC on Transport. In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport. In 2018/19 he was the WA Scientist of the Year.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Research Manager, Water Research Commission of South Africa (WRC)
Luxon Nhamo is a Research Manager at the Water Research Commission of South Africa (WRC) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). His research interests include agricultural water management, GIS and remote sensing, water-energy-food (WEF) nexus, climate change adaptation, and transformative and circular modelling.
Updated on 4 July 2023
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Anti-Corruption Coordinator, Resource Matters
Sara is Anti-Corruption Coordinator at Resource Matters, where she works on several investigative dossiers concerning corruption issues in the Congolese cobalt mining sector. Her work is focused not only on the actors directly operating in the DRC, but also on ensuring accountability along the whole supply chain. She has also contributed to the development of the cobalt supply chain online platform with her research work.
Updated on 13 June 2024
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Director, Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Ariesta Ningrum has over 20 years of professional experience in the fields of climate change, environment and energy, of which the last 15 years with the UNFCCC Climate Change secretariat in Bonn, Germany. Most recently, Ariesta worked as the Manager of Technology subdivision at the UNFCCC, leading the Technology Executive Committee.
Updated on 25 June 2025
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Chief, Economic Empowerment, UN Women
Dr Jemimah Njuki, Chief of the Economic Empowerment section at UN Women, is a globally recognized leader in gender equality and women’s empowerment. She manages UN Women’s work on jobs and entrepreneurship, transforming care systems, gender responsive climate action, macro-economics and financing for gender equality. Her impactful career spans over 20 years, during which she played a pivotal role in the UN Food Systems Summit as Custodian for Gender Equality, establishing the Coalition to Make Food Systems Work for Women and Girls and spearheading the Global Food 5050, an essential accountability tool for organizations engaged in global food systems.
Updated on 2 April 2024
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Co-Chair, Science Panel for the Amazon
Carlos Nobre is an Earth System scientist from Brazil, currently associated with Institute for Advanced Studies, USP. Nobre’s work mostly focuses on the Amazon and its impacts on the Earth system. He chaired the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). He has been author of several IPCC reports, including the 2007 report that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was director of Center of Weather Prediction and Climate Studies (CPTEC-INPE), and the creator of Center for Earth System Science (CCST-INPE) and of the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN). He was National Secretary for R&D Policies at Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation and President of Brazil’s Agency for Post-Graduate Education (CAPES). He is co-chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon and the director of the Amazonia 4.0 project to promote a standing forest bioeconomy for the Amazon. He was International Secretary of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, and full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences.
Updated on 12 October 2022
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Chair and Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Canberra
Professor Barbara Norman is Chair and Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra, Australia. Professor Norman’s has a combined professional and academic background as a former national president of the Planning Institute of Australia and a current leader in urban and regional research. Professor Norman’s next book is Urban Planning for Climate Change (Routledge, 2022).
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Coordinator, SDGs Hub, University of Indonesia
Triarko Nurlambang is Coordinator of the SDGs Hub at the University of Indonesia, and a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and School for Environmental Science. He has worked on a number of international cooperation projects for a range of organisations, including: UNDP (2006 and 2012/3), UNEP (2007), GTZ (2008), World Bank (2009), JICA (2010-2011, 2017-2018), DANIDA (2006-2012), and Geo-Cap: the Netherland and the Indonesia consortium for Geo-thermal development (2016-2018.) He is also a member and committee member of the Indonesian Disaster Experts Association (IABI).
Updated on 18 October 2022
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Special Advisor on Climate, Government of Indonesia, International Chamber of Commerce and Giti Group Vice Chairman
Cherie Nursalim is Vice Chairman of GITI Group and International Chamber of Commerce. She is appointed as the Special Advisor on Climate to the Government of Indonesia, Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment. She chairs the Southeast Asia Chapter of United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and is co founder of the United in Diversity Foundation and Tri Hita Karana Forum on Sustainable Development with global partners.
Updated on 20 January 2022
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Professor, Department of Crop Production, University of Agriculture, Nigeria
Mrs Ngozi Ifeoma Odiaka is a Professor in the Department of Crop Production, College of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. She has extensive experience spanning over 30 years in Crop Production. She is Co-Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Nigeria; Coordinator of SDSN North Central Zone; State Team Leader of the Post-harvest Research Team for Feed the Future USAID project; and Secretary, Board of Trustees of Association of Deans of the Faculty of Agriculture.
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Climate Information Services Expert, IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)
Dr Linda Ogallo is a climate scientist with over a decade of experience focusing on climate change adaptation. Presently, in her role as a Climate Change Information Expert at the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre, she is responsible for mainstreaming climate information into all sectors at a regional, national, and sub-national levels.
Updated on 21 November 2023
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CEO, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy
Damilola Ogunbiyi is a global leader and advocate for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for access to reliable, affordable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Ms Ogunbiyi is one of the Commissioners for the Global Commission to end energy poverty which is an initiative driven by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Rockefeller Foundation. She is Co-Chair of the COP26 Energy Transition Council, a member of the Development Advisory Council of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), a member of the Clean Cooking Alliance advisory board and a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Oxford – Future of Cooling Programme, among others.
Updated on 20 April 2022
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Assistant Secretary-General and CEO of the United Nations Global Compact
As the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, Sanda Ojiambo launched an ambitious new UN Global Compact Strategy to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through accountable companies and ecosystems that enable change. During her tenure, she has also promoted stronger business engagement with UN partners to deliver and finance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sanda Ojiambo brings to the UN Global Compact more than 20 years’ experience in the public, multilateral and private sectors including as Head of Sustainable Business and Social Impact, Safaricom Plc in Kenya; and capacity development work in CARE International and United Nations Development Programme Somalia. Throughout her career, she has cultivated and managed relationships with key business entities and civil society organizations and led the implementation of several public-private partnership initiatives.
Updated on 17 May 2023
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Director, ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
Sheila Oparaocha has over 20 years of experience working at the intersectionality of gender equality, women empowerment and energy access. Executive Director of the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, Sheila is the co-chair of the Technical Advisory Group for the Sustainable Development Goal 7 convened by UNDESA, and member of the Steering Committee of the Health and Energy Platform for Action and the High Level Coalition on Energy and Health that operates under the auspices of WHO.
Updated on 2 March 2023
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Head of Secretariat, Climate and Clean Air Coalition, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Martina has some 25 years of experience in Environmental Policy and Programme Management, with a focus on climate and clean air, energy, buildings, transport, and sustainable urban development. In the UN Environment Programme, she has served in different functions out of Paris and Nairobi, now heading the Secretariat of the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition.
Updated on 22 June 2022
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Chief Impact Officer, Science Based Targets initiative
As Chief Impact Officer of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), Maria Outters drives the initiative’s strategic engagement worldwide, strengthening governance and accelerating the exponential growth of corporate climate action through science-based targets. With more than 20 years' experience leading corporate strategy and sustainability, Maria brings extensive expertise of shaping business behaviors to reflect core ESG principles.
Updated on 16 November 2023
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Associate Professor, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, USA
Rajat Panwar, who comes from India, is an associate professor in the College of Forestry, Oregon State University, USA. His research expertise lies at the intersection of sustainable business and natural resources. Rajat holds two earned doctoral degrees: in forest products and business administration. His current research is on Forest-based Bioeconomy, Circular Economy, Net-zero Carbon Emissions and Nature-based Solutions. Rajat can be accessed here
Updated on 7 October 2021
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Managing Director, Enel Foundation
Carlo Papa serves as Managing Director of Enel Foundation. Holds an MSc in Economics, a PhD in Management Engineering and the TRIUM MBA. Having started his career at IBM, Dr Papa joined the Enel Group in 1997 and has served in various positions, including as Chief Innovation Officer of Enel Green Power.
Updated on 4 November 2021
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Head, UN Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD)
Mr Chun Kyoo Park is the Head of UN Office for Sustainable Devel-opment. Prior to joining UNOSD, Chun Kyoo Park served as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea. He has more than 30 years of experience at the Ministry of Environment in the field of climate change, sustainable development, air and water quality management, nature conservation, waste management, chemicals management, and sewerage systems. Mr Park graduated from Yonsei University, majoring Public Administration and holds a Master’s degree in Development Policy and Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Updated on 11 July 2024
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Head of Sustainability and Stakeholder Management, Unipol Group
Marisa Parmigiani is Head of Sustainability and Stakeholder Management for the Unipol Group, and General Manager of the Unipolis Foundation. Since 2018 she has been Executive Director of Sustainability and Business Innovation at Bologna Business School.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Director, Subregional Office for Central Africa, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Antonio M.A. Pedro is a mineral exploration geologist and development practitioner with more than 30 years of broad experience at national, sub-regional, and continental levels. He joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in 2001, where he is currently the Director of ECA’s Sub-regional Office for Central Africa.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Special Assistant to the Global Director for Advocacy, Open Society Foundations
Chanu Peiris is the Special Assistant to the Global Director for Advocacy at Open Society Foundations. Prior to joining Open Society, Chanu was Assistant Director of the International Law Programme at Chatham House where she played a critical role in establishing and growing the department. She also lead several cross-departmental and multidisciplinary initiatives on the future of human rights and global governance.
Updated on 11 July 2023
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Executive Director, UNA-USA
As Executive Director of UNA-USA, Rachel leads a grassroots advocacy movement of more than 20,000 Americans in 225+ chapters who are dedicated to supporting the work of the United Nations in their communities, on campuses, and on Capitol Hill. She guides the UNA-USA’s strategic work and key partnerships, oversees membership expansion, and spearheads important advocacy initiatives to help the United States advance the far-reaching goals of the United Nations.
Updated on 16 September 2024
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Economist, SDU, ATHENA Research Center, Athens; UN SDSN Global Climate Hub; ReSEES, Athens University of Economics and Business; AE4RIA
Dr Angelos Plataniotis holds a PhD in the Economics of Sustainable Development, with a research profile at the intersection of sustainability economics, ESG integration, and climate-related risk analysis. His academic work focuses on the evaluation of sustainability policies and the alignment of the European Green Deal with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has experience in applied research and policy-oriented analysis, actively contributing to large-scale European research initiatives funded under Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, LIFE, PRIMA, and ERASMUS programmes. He collaborates with leading research networks and institutions, including AE4RIA, ATHENA Research Center, SDSN Greece, and Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES) at Athens University of Economics and Business. Alongside his research activities, he serves as an Insurance Supervisor at the Bank of Greece, bringing strong policy relevance and real-world applicability to his academic work.
Updated on 27 January 2026
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Founder and Chair of the Board, Center for American Progress
John Podesta is the Founder and Chair for the Washington, D.C- based think tank Center for American Progress and a Founder and Chair of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Podesta served as counselor to President Barack Obama, where he was responsible for coordinating the administration’s climate policy and initiatives. In 2008, he served as co-chair of President Obama’s transition team. He was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to President William J. Clinton. He chaired Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president in 2016. A Chicago native, Podesta is a graduate of Knox College and the Georgetown University Law Center, where he is currently a visiting professor of law.
Updated on 24 February 2022
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Distinguished University Professor of Economics, and Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also the founder and President of PEAR (Pollin Energy and Retrofits), an Amherst, MA-based green energy company operating throughout the United States. He has worked as a consultant for the US Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and numerous non-governmental organizations in several countries. He has also directed projects on employment creation and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa for the United Nations Development Program.
Updated on 2 July 2021
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Professor of Forest Economics and Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University; and Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network Nigeria
Labode Popoola is Professor of Forest Economics and Sustainable Development at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is currently President, of the West African Research and Innovation Management Association; Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN)-Nigeria; and member of the Leadership Council of the UNSDSN. He is a multiple award winner, a community worker, and leader, and currently the Vice- Chancellor of Osun State University, Nigeria.
Updated on 28 October 2021
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Director, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat
Dr Joanne Raisin brings over 25 years of humanitarian and development experience to the SUN Director role, including more than two decades with the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and its successor, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Her work has spanned a broad range of food security and nutrition agendas. She has led food and nutrition programmes, policy reforms, and advocacy in fragile, humanitarian, and development contexts, with field experience in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, and Malawi. Most recently, she headed the UK’s humanitarian, food and nutrition security, and human rights portfolio in Myanmar, where she championed nutrition and supported platforms for local leadership. An early pioneer of cash transfer and safety net programmes across Africa and Asia, she has consistently sought to leverage these approaches for stronger nutrition outcomes. Throughout her career, she has worked with governments, the UN, civil society, and the private sector to mobilize greater focus and financing for nutrition, while promoting national ownership of food and nutrition security. She holds a PhD in famine studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Development from the University of Bradford’s School of Peace Studies.
Updated on 17 September 2025
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Founder, The Strategic Priorities Hub, and Peace and Security Expert and Youth Advocate, UN Women
Samira Rashwan is an expert in peace and security and a passionate advocate for youth. She holds advanced degrees in International Law and Development Cooperation, using her expertise to champion gender equality, social justice, and the critical advancement of humanitarian law and civilian protection. Rashwan has consistently demonstrated leadership in key initiatives, including those focused on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), climate change, and combating cyber-violence against women. Her deep understanding of international legal frameworks, particularly those related to humanitarian law, informs her strategic contributions to these vital areas. As the Founder and Managing Director of the Strategic Priorities Hub (SPH), Samira drives tangible positive change. She achieves this by integrating meticulous analysis, adaptable policy models, research, advocacy, and strategic partnerships. Under her leadership, SPH tackles complex policy challenges, with human rights forming a core area of focus. Beyond her work with SPH, she is an active researcher and advocate with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). She contributes to CEDAW's ongoing work and promotes its broader implementation, especially concerning WPS and cyber-violence against women and girls. Her expertise also extends to supporting significant national and regional strategies across Egypt and the Arab world.
Updated on 16 June 2025
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Managing Director, Aktis Strategy Ltd; Honorary Visiting Professor, Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter
Andrew Rathmell is Managing Director of Aktis Strategy Ltd and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter's Strategy and Security Institute. An experienced public policy practitioner and scholar, he has led strategic analysis and planning for the UK Foreign Office, US Department of Defense, coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and to leading private sector organisations.
Updated on 1 March 2016
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President, Public Health Foundation of India
Professor K. Srinath Reddy is President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Under his leadership, PHFI has established five Indian Institutes of Public Health to advance multi-disciplinary public health education, research, health technologies, and implementation support for strengthening health systems.
Updated on 8 July 2022
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Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) , and Trustee for Bioversity International UK/USA
Juan Lucas Restrepo is the Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) , and Trustee for Bioversity International UK/USA. A Colombian and French national, he worked in the agricultural domain, both in the public and private sectors, for the past 25 years. He has significant experience in policy, value chains, markets, and leading agricultural research. He has supported the work of CGIAR through the various governance roles he held over the years in the Committee of Genetic Resources Policy, Oversight and Executive Committees, and as the representative of the Colombian Government on the CIAT Board of Directors as an ex-officio member. Among other positions, in Colombia, he served as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as the Executive Director of AGROSAVIA, the largest agricultural research organization in the country, and as Chief Commercial Officer of the National Federation of Coffee Growers. As its Chair, he also led the Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR), hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and its efforts to better integrate the agricultural research for the development community, with change and innovation by farmers.
Updated on 18 November 2025
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founding Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Aromar Revi is the founding Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). He is a global practice and thought leader, educator and institution builder with four decades of interdisciplinary experience in sustainable development, governance, economics and finance, sustainable cities, climate change and disaster risk reduction. He is a Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Leadership Council. He is an expert on global environmental and climate change. He was a CLA of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C and of the AR6 WGII synthesis chapter on Climate Resilient Development Pathways , and helped bring the global urban & climate agendas together, via an independent Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC AR6 cycle, to be released at COP27. Aromar has led over 220 major consulting and research assignments, is a widely cited scholar across multiple fields, has lectured at 100 of the world’s leading universities across six continents; and helped structure, design and review development investments of over $ 15 billion.
Updated on 12 October 2022
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Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of the Government of Spain
Teresa Ribera is the Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of the Government of Spain. Prior to that, Ms Ribera was Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) from 2014 to 2018, and enabled the Institute to play a key role in the negotiation of the Paris Climate Agreement and the transition towards sustainable development.
Updated on 17 June 2021
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Senior Associate, WRI
David Rich is a Senior Associate in WRI’s Climate Program. He focuses on greenhouse gas emissions measurement and reporting, including developing Greenhouse Gas Protocol standards and guidance for countries, companies, and organizations.
Updated on 29 October 2021
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Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Director, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Penn State University
Tom L. Richard is a professor of agricultural and biological engineering and the Director of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State University. His research focuses on applications of engineering science to living systems, developing market-based strategies for a more sustainable agriculture and the emerging carbon negative bioeconomy.
Updated on 10 November 2021
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Professor in Biological Oceanography and Leader of the Sustainability Science Centre, University of Copenhagen
Katherine Richardson is a professor in biological oceanography, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre, and Leader of the Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir's Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society at the University of Copenhagen. Katherine is also a core developer of the Planetary Boundaries framework that attempts to identify a safe operating space for humanity in its impact on global resources. She was Chairman of the Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy that reported in 2010 and presented a roadmap for how Denmark can become independent of fossil fuels by 2050. She is at present a member of the Government-appointed Danish Climate Council and was a member of the 15-person Independent Group of Scientists appointed by Ban Ki-moon to draft the 2019 UN Global Sustainable Development Report.
Updated on 28 February 2022
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Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Professor in Earth System Science, University of Potsdam
Professor Johan Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues. He led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Rockström is active as a consultant for several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at international meetings, including the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC).
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Visiting Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania; Former Mayor, Quito, Ecuador
Mauricio Rodas served as the mayor of Quito, Ecuador from 2014 to 2019. Alongside his position at Perry World House, he is a visiting scholar at Penn’s Institute for Urban Research and Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. He is also a senior fellow at the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Commission on BiodiverCities by 2030. Rodas is a member of the United Nations’ Committee of Experts on Public Administration; a distinguished fellow on global cities at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and a member of the advisory committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors.
Updated on 20 November 2023
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Senior Climate Change Specialist (retired), Global Environment Facility
David Elrie Rodgers has been Senior Climate Specialist at the GEF on a portfolio emphasizing energy efficiency, renewable energy, innovation, and blended finance for eight years. Prior to the GEF, David served with the United States Department of Energy for 23 years, rising to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary. David received degrees in chemical engineering and computer science from Washington University, and a masters in public management from the University of Maryland.
Updated on 25 May 2023
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President, US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Dr Debra Rowe convenes leaders internationally across business, education, and community sectors to create integrated SDG solutions. Debra runs multiple higher education networks for sustainability, supporting curricular change and climate solutions. She also works on workforce development for an inclusive and green economy. Dr Rowe heads the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium, the Disciplinary Associations’ Network for Sustainability and co-created Sustainability Improves Student Learning. She received the Energy Education award from the U.S. Department of Energy, MIT and Stanford.
Updated on 2 November 2021
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Director, SDGs Initiative, Tecnológico de Monterrey; Co-Chair, SDSN Mexico
Ambassador Miguel Ruiz Cabañas Izquierdo is Director of the SDGs Initiative at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Co-Chair of the Mexican chapter of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Mexico). He is a career diplomat (Ambassador) and has served as Mexico’s Ambassador in Japan, Italy, and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations based in Rome (FAO, IFAD and WFP). He also served as Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights (2015-2018). He holds a degree in International Relations from El Colegio de México (1974-1978) and a master’s degree in Political Science from Columbia University in New York (1986-1988).
Updated on 28 October 2021
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Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Dr Vladimir Ryabinin is the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, an oceanographer, marine engineer, climatologist, and meteorologist. His current focus is on the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development as a source of science-based solutions for integrated ocean management.
Updated on 29 June 2021
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Director of Sustainability and Quality Assurance, Origin Green
Deirdre Ryan joined Bord Bia in 2020. Prior to this, Deirdre was Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Lidl Ireland and Northern Ireland, where she led the development and implementation of Ireland and Northern Ireland’s sustainability strategy.
Updated on 20 September 2024
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Researcher and Campaigner, Corporate Europe Observatory
Pascoe Sabido is a researcher and campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), focusing on lobbying by the oil and gas industry. He has been following the topic of conflicts of interest at the UNFCCC for the past decade.
Updated on 27 September 2022
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Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University; President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership, and many other international awards and honors. Professor Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is University Professor at Columbia University, the university’s highest academic rank. During 2002 to 2016 he served as the Director of the Earth Institute. Sachs served as Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on both the SDGs and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the MDGs. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Sachs is currently President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the auspices of UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Updated on 31 October 2021
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Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), Columbia University
Lisa Sachs is Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) at Columbia University, where she also teaches a masters seminar on Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development. Lisa is a co-chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s thematic group on the Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Executive Managing Director, CGIAR
Claudia Sadoff is a globally-recognized leader in water management for international development. She most recently served as the Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a CGIAR Center headquartered in Sri Lanka working globally to find water solutions for sustainable, climate-resilient development. She also served as a member of the CGIAR System Management Board, acting as CGIAR Gender Champion. Prior to joining IWMI, she spent over 20 years at the World Bank where she held multiple positions. She currently serves as a Member of the Scientific Group of the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit and was recently named an Honorary Member of the International Water Resources Association.
Updated on 10 October 2022
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Global Director for Advocacy, Open Society Foundations; former CEO, United Nations Association–UK
Natalie Samarasinghe is Open Society’s global director for advocacy. She is a respected thought leader on the subjects of multilateralism, human rights, and civil society. Her expertise helps the Open Society Foundations challenge the complex political and cultural factors that obstruct meaningful change. Samarasinghe previously served as CEO of the United Nations Association–UK and co-founded the 1 for 7 Billion campaign, which sought a fair, open and inclusive process to select the UN Secretary-General. She also worked for the United Nations in the Office of the President of the General Assembly, and as chief of strategy for the organization’s 75th anniversary initiative, which reached more than 900 million people.
Updated on 15 June 2022
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Chief Technology Officer, Renewables Global Business Unit, ENGIE
Jaideep is an engineer and power industry veteran with over thirty-five years’ experience in the industry. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Global Business Unit Renewables at the French Energy company, ENGIE SA, with whom he has been working for over 28 years. He works in Paris, France. Jaideep has worked in the UK, India, Kazakhstan, Middle East, Africa, and France. He is also a council member of CEET.
Updated on 16 November 2023
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Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alejandro Saniger is a Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is an academic member of the Department of Systems Engineering, Planning and Transportation of the School of Engineering and collaborates with the Mobility and Green Infrastructure Laboratory of the School of Architecture. He has worked in both academia and the private sector on new mobility and related business models.
Updated on 7 September 2021
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Partner, SYSTEMIQ Ltd
Dr Guido Schmidt-Traub is Partner at SYSTEMIQ Ltd. where he drives work on natural climate solutions, biodiversity, sustainable finance, and policy. He is also a Trustee of WaterAid UK; Board member of the Friends of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Europe; a member of the SDSN Leadership Council, and an Associate Adjunct Professor at Sunway University (Kuala Lumpur).
Updated on 10 November 2021
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Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House; PhD researcher, The Center for Sustainable Design
Dr Patrick Schröder is an expert in the global transition to an inclusive circular economy, with a particular emphasis on international policy coordination, bridging the investment gap and the contribution of the circular economy to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Currently, he serves as the Coordinating Lead Author for UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook 7 and is a member of the International Science Council’s expert group on plastic pollution.
Updated on 13 November 2024
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Former Research Trainee, European Affairs Programme at Egmont
Alicia Scodanibbio has a strong background in EU policy analysis, with expertise in migration, climate justice, and sustainability. Most recently, she was a Research Trainee in the European Affairs Programme at Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. Alicia has authored work on climate justice and human mobility, focusing on EU policy responses to climate-induced migration. Currently, she is volunteering with the European Solidarity Corps. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from the University of Trento and a Master’s in European Studies from Université catholique de Louvain.
Updated on 27 November 2024
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Professor and Director, Laboratory of Construction Materials in the Department of Materials, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Karen Scrivener has been Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Construction Materials in the Department of Materials of EPFL for the last 20 years. She is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and author of over 200 journal papers. Her research focuses on understanding the chemistry and microstructure of cement-based materials and improving their sustainability. In 2008, she came up with the idea for LC3 cement, this material has the potential to cut CO2 emissions related to cement by more than 400 million tonnes a year.
Updated on 18 October 2022
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Chief, Research and Data Section, UN Women
Papa Alioune B. Seck is the Chief of UN Women's Research and Data section, where he has been leading statistics since 2009. He spearheaded the development of Women Count, UN Women's global gender data programme in 2016, to improve the production and use of gender data and to help countries monitor the Sustainable Development Goals from a gender perspective.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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Assistant Director-General, Jobs and Social Protection Cluster, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Mia Seppo joined ILO on 1 February 2023 as the Assistant Director-General for the Jobs and Social Protection Cluster. Mia has over 20 years of experience with the UN, serving in progressively responsible positions both in the field and in Headquarters. Her field assignments include Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. During her long UN career, Mia has worked in post-conflict and peace-keeping contexts, managed UN support for complex elections and coordinated humanitarian crises and responses. Prior to joining the UN, Mia worked for civil society and think tanks, including the Finnish Committee for European Security.
Updated on 11 July 2023
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Senior Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Programs Adviser, UNICEF UK
Óscar Serrano Oria is a clinical nurse, and the Senior Nutrition and ECD programmes adviser for UNICEF UK, with a decade of experience delivering humanitarian interventions in conflict and disaster settings.
Updated on 1 April 2026
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Lawyer and Senior Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health and The Australian Human Rights Institute, University of New South Wales
Dr Janani Shanthosh is Program Manager of the Health and Human Rights Programme at the Australian Human Rights (AHR) Institute. She is also a global health lawyer and Senior Research Fellow based at The George Institute for Global Health. Janani’s research interests are at the intersection of health systems and international human rights.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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Visiting Fellow, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School, and Senior Expert, Musawah (the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family)
Dr Marwa Sharafeldin is an Egyptian scholar activist. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in Harvard Law School's Program for Law and Society in the Muslim World. She has a PhD in Law from the University of Oxford and is the Senior Advisor in Musawah. Her work covers the intersection between Islamic law, international human rights law, and feminist activism. She has been published in a number of academic books and media platforms covering those topics. She co-founded and/or served on the Advisory Boards of several feminist organizations worldwide such as Musawah the Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family, the Global Fund for Women, the Young Arab Feminist Network, and the Network for Women’s Rights Organisations in Egypt. She contributed to publications such as the UN's flagship Progress of the World's Women Report and the UN's Gender Justice and Law Arab Region Report. She believes in the power of art for social transformation, and is a story collector, performer, and writer.
Updated on 7 March 2023
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Climate Technology Specialist and Gender Focal Point, Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN)
Molly is a seasoned Climate Technology Specialist with over 5 years of experience in climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate finance, and environmental and social safeguards, particularly in developing nations. In her current role at the United Nations Climate Technology Centre and Network, she supports the design and implementation of technical assistance in developing countries as well as overseeing CTCN's work on Gender and Technology Needs Assessments. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master's in Sustainable Environment and Energy Systems both from Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Updated on 19 February 2026
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Chief Strategy and Engagement Officer, Plan International
As Plan International’s first Chief Strategy and Engagement Officer, Kathleen drives the All Girls Standing Strong strategy, boosting impact and sustainability through partnerships, advocacy, and aligned digital, brand, and resource efforts. She leads initiatives like the Global Girls Foundation, supports projects such as EM2030 and the Adolescent Girls Investment Plan, and applies over 20 years of advocacy experience from roles at Women Deliver and Planned Parenthood. Guided by feminist leadership, Kathleen prioritizes power-sharing and co-creation with girls to deliver Plan’s global strategy by 2027.
Updated on 22 August 2025
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PhD candidate, ETH Zurich
Rhythima Shinde is a PhD candidate at ETH Zurich in Department of Environmental Engineering (D-BAUG). She also helps co-organize events at Data Science for Machine Learning at D-BAUG (DSML@D-BAUG) and ‘Better Consumer’ to put sustainable consumption research into practice.
Updated on 13 October 2022
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Director of Global Policy and Advocacy, Women for Women International
Stephanie is the Director of Global Policy and Advocacy for Women for Women International. She has extensive experience in humanitarian, development and peacebuilding policy, advocacy and programming; a deep understanding of the women, peace and security and sustainable development agendas; and a track record of working with (I)NGOs, women’s rights organisations, academics, multilaterals and governments. Stephanie sits on the Management Board of the UK Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) Network and acts as an advisor to the Women 7 as part of the 2023 G7 process. Stephanie has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and War Studies and a master’s degree in Conflict, Security and Development, both from King’s College London.
Updated on 3 March 2023
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PhD Researcher, DRIFT (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions)
Thomas Siderius is a researcher working at the City of Amsterdam, for the Community Wealth Building team in the Nieuw-West district. This approach places a strong focus on the local circulation of money flows and the creation of a more resilient local economy, enabled by democratic ownership and progressive procurement. Additionally, he is a PhD candidate at Drift (Dutch Research Institute For Transitions, Erasmus University), researching the transformative potential of local currency systems. In other words: how does a local payment system influence the fundamental dynamics of a (local/regional) economy? In what ways do they contribute to social and economic transitions, and what can we learn from existing examples? Thomas is a structuralist and systems thinker: always seeking new ideas that challenge the foundations of the current economic model and inspiring examples of alternative currencies or other ‘system bridges.’
Updated on 6 November 2024
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Executive Secretary, UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Preeti Sinha is Executive Secretary of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). A globally experienced investment and development banker, she has a 30-year track record associated with raising and managing institutional public and private development capital. Ms Sinha’s role as CEO and President was built upon her experience as a pioneering Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum, on the Financing for Development Initiative, with the UN FFD Office.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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Thematic Specialist on Migration, Environment, Climate Change and Risk Reduction, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Ileana Sînziana Pușcaș is a Thematic Specialist on Migration, Environment, Climate Change and Risk Reduction at the IOM in Geneva. She has been working on migration, environment, climate change, and risk reduction issues since 2016, with IOM and the state-led Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD). She has been leading activities on policy, research, communication, and operations, including in the context of the Global Compact for Migration, the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement, and Regional Consultative Processes on Migration.
Updated on 9 November 2023
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Doctoral Researcher, Energy Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Joanna Sitarz is a Doctoral Researcher in the Energy Systems group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, studying policy instruments for Europe's transition to climate neutrality. Her recent work has focused on the EU Emissions Trading System, examining how policy credibility influences its effectiveness. Joanna holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University.
Updated on 11 November 2024
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Director, Centre for Environmental Management, and Coordinator, Institute for Sustainable Development, The University of the West Indies
David C. Smith coordinates the Institute for Sustainable Development at The University of the West Indies. He was an author of the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Report 2019. and sits on the Science and Policy Advisory Committee of the Interamerican Institute for Global Change Research.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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SDG Integrator, Innovation and Technology for Development Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM)
Miguel Soberon is part of the integration team at itdUPM. He has been involved in multiple organizational change and partnership facilitation processes for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Currently, he is an integrator of the platform of El Día Después, a multi-stakeholder initiative that arises to provide SDG-oriented responses to the crisis triggered by Covid-19.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Regional Principal Officer, African Development Bank
Dr Olufunso Somorin leads the African Development Bank’s work on climate change and green growth in East Africa. He specializes in climate governance, adaptation policy and carbon markets. He is an Eisenhower Fellow and gives guest lectures on Politics of Climate & Development in several universities. He holds a PhD from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Updated on 21 November 2023
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Director, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, UN-DESA, United Nations
Ms Spiegel previously served as Executive Director of IPD, a think-tank at Columbia University founded by Joseph Stiglitz. Previous private sector positions include Principal at New Holland Capital (an advisor to APG, the Dutch Pension Fund) and Director of fixed income emerging markets at Lazard Asset Management. In the early 1990s, she co-founded and was CEO of Budapest Alapkezelő, which launched the first domestic investment funds in Hungary.
Updated on 29 July 2025
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Senior Research Specialist, UN Women
Silke Staab is a Senior Research Specialist at UN Women, New York, and co-author of several of the organization’s flagship reports, including Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice (2021) and Women’s Rights in Review 25 Years after Beijing (2020) and Turning Promises into Action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2018).
Updated on 3 July 2025
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Consultant, Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi global
Alexandra Steinkraus is a Consultant in climate diplomacy and security at adelphi global. Her work focuses on how to better communicate the impacts of climate change on international peace and security through diplomacy and development approaches.
Updated on 11 November 2025
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President, UN Economic and Social Council
Her Excellency Lachezara Stoeva was elected the 78th President of the Economic and Social Council on 25 July 2022. Ambassador Stoeva is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations in New York. HE Stoeva assumed her duties as Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations on 16 February 2021. Before this, she headed the Department of Economic, Financial and Administrative Affairs of the United Nations, in Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She served as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2016 to 2019, prior to which she was Acting Deputy Permanent Representative and Counsellor, responsible for issues including international security and disarmament. Prior to her posting in New York, Ms. Stoeva headed the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Arms Control and Non-Proliferation from 2013 to 2014, and the Department of International Development Cooperation from 2012 until 2013.
Updated on 26 May 2023
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CEO, Chronos Sustainability; Visiting Professor in Practice, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment and the London School of Economics (LSE)
Dr Rory Sullivan is CEO, Chronos Sustainability and a Visiting Professor in Practice in the Department of Geography and Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Rory is an internationally recognised expert on climate finance and climate policy and has written/edited ten books and many papers and articles on these and related issues.
Updated on 6 November 2024
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Chairman, Research Center for Climate Change, University of Indonesia
Professor Jatna chairs the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Indonesia. He is also a chairing the Research Center for Climate Change and directing Biodiversity and Conservation Studies at the University of Indonesia. In addition, he has served several assignments by the Government of Indonesia.
Updated on 4 November 2021
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Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank
Bambang Susantono is the Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank, responsible for Departments of Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation, and External Relations. He is former Vice-Minister of Indonesia's Ministry of Transportation and Deputy Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development.
Updated on 27 February 2022
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Managing Director, Climate Solutions and Networks team, C40 Cities
Cassie is the Managing Director for the Climate Solutions and Networks team, leading the development and delivery of sector programmes and support to cities in energy and buildings, food and waste, transport, urban planning, air quality, and climate resilience. Cassie started at C40 as the Director for Energy and Buildings, supporting cities to reduce energy consumed by existing buildings, ensure new buildings are efficient from the start, and clean up the energy supply to buildings and beyond. Prior to joining C40, Cassie was at the Greater London Authority (GLA) where she was the project manager for the London Environment Strategy; launched in 2018, it is a world-leading strategy for environment ambition at the city level. She was also leading the climate adaptation and sustainable development team, working to manage London’s climate risks and impacts and improve quality of life.
Updated on 12 October 2022
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Indonesia Country Lead, ClimateWorks Australia
Guntur leads ClimateWorks’ Indonesia team. This team enhances stakeholders’ understanding by providing context about policy and the economic landscape and acting as a trusted advisor to leverage the country’s climate actions. Guntur’s interest covers topics such fiscal policy, climate finance, environmental economics, and most recently gender and social inclusion.
Updated on 4 November 2021
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Senior Legal Researcher, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Sam Szoke-Burke is a senior legal researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), where he leads collaborative research and provides advice and support to civil society, government, and other actors on legal and policy issues relating to land governance, human rights, investment, and climate change.
Updated on 18 October 2021
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Research Fellow, Bioversity International
Andrea Sánchez is a Research Assistant in the Multifunctional Landscapes team at Bioversity International, based in Paraguay. Her research focuses on understanding how diversified farming systems can be beneficial for biodiversity and farmers, promoting sustainable food production. As part of the WLE Sustainable Foods through diversity-based practices project, Andrea is currently conducting two global meta-analyses aiming to quantify the impact of diversified farming systems on biodiversity and the costs of transitioning from simplified to diversified farms.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Scientific Director, Innovation and Technology for Development Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM)
Teresa Sánchez Chaparro is Scientific Director, Innovation and Technology for Development Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM). She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at UPM. Before joining UPM, she held various positions in organizations linked to quality assurance in higher education, including ANECA, CTI, and ENQA.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Statistics Specialist, UN Women
Rea Jean Tabaco is a Statistics Specialist for Women Count programme. She provides technical support to global projects on disaggregated gender statistics, including the rapid gender assessments on the socioeconomic impact of and violence against women during COVID-19. Prior to joining UN Women, she supported national statistical systems on survey research and methodologies.
Updated on 6 March 2023
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Research Specialist, UN Women
Constanza Tabbush is a Research Specialist at UN Women. As part of her most recent work, she has co-authored the latest editions of UN Women’s flagship reports, including Feminist Climate Action: A Framework for Action; and Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice. In addition, she has published extensively on gender, feminist movements and social policy.
Updated on 19 March 2024
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Partner and Co-founder, WhiteLabel Impact; Chief Executive Officer, Preventable Surprises
Jerome is a Partner at WhiteLabel Impact and the CEO of Preventable Surprises, a think tank sparking difficult conversations about responsible finance. He was a founding COO of the Principles for Responsible Investment, an executive at the Global Impact Investing Network, Head of Research at Eurosif, and Chief Revenue Officer at ImpactAlpha. He is an advisor to investors, businesses and advocacy organizations in social impact and sustainable finance.
Updated on 16 November 2023
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Senior Director, Integrated Communications, UN Foundation
Sueann Tannis is Senior Director, Integrated Communications at the UN Foundation. In this role, she leads on content and campaigns for the Foundation’s online community of two million, in support of the UN’s objectives. Most recently, Sueann was Head, Corporate Communications at the Caribbean Development Bank.
Updated on 23 October 2020
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Director, Access & Project Management, Medicines for Malaria Venture
André-Marie Tchouatieu is Director, Access & Project Management, Medicines for Malaria Venture. After serving as a local field doctor for MSF-France in Burundi, he joined Sanofi where he spent 12 years serving respectively in Burundi as Country Representative, in Kenya as Medical Advisor for Eastern Africa, and then in France as Senior Medical Manager for malaria within the Corporate Social Responsibility division.
Updated on 17 November 2023
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Associate Professor, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University
Fei Teng is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy in Tsinghua University. He serves as a lead author of the IPCC's 5th and 6th assessment reports in Working Group III. He is the lead author of the second, third and fourth of China’s National Assessment Reports on Climate Change, as well as a member of the drafting team for several vital national documents, including the National Plan on Climate Change and White Paper on Climate Change.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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Chief Economist, SACE
Chief Economist at SACE (the Italian Export Credit Agency), Alessandro Terzulli has previously worked as an economist at the Confindustria Center of Studies and has collaborated with several Italian universities as part of master's programs by giving lectures on issues regarding international economics, Italian economics and country risk assessment. He is a lecturer in Analysis of International Markets and Country Risk at the School of Economics and International Relations of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Vice President of the Executive Council of the Business Economist Group. He graduated in Economics at the LUISS University of Rome, where he also worked as an assistant for Economics courses at the Faculty of Political Sciences
Updated on 4 November 2021
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Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Ibrahim Thiaw of Mauritania was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General as Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) on 31 January 2019. Mr Thiaw brings to the position almost 40 years of experience in sustainable development, environmental governance, and natural resource management. In 2018, he was Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for the Sahel. Prior to this position, he served as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where he played a key role in shaping the organization's strategic vision and mandate. Mr Thiaw joined the United Nations in 2007 as Director of UNEP’s Division for Environmental Policy Implementation. Before joining the Organization, he was the Regional Director for West Africa, and later Acting Director General, of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Updated on 14 November 2023
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Professorial Fellow, Monash University; Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute and ClimateWorks Australia; Co-Chair, SDSN Leadership Council
John Thwaites is a Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is also Chair of Melbourne Water and a Director of Fairtrade Australia New Zealand. John was appointed Member of the Order of Australia for “significant service to the environment and to the people and Parliament of Victoria” in the 2021 Australia Day Honours. He was Deputy Premier of Victoria from 1999 until his retirement in 2007.
Updated on 28 October 2021
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Associate Director, Climate Finance, Climate Policy Initiative
Bella Tonkonogy is a sustainable finance expert who leads Climate Policy Initiative’s US-based team, as well as several key CPI programs such as the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance and the Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity. She is a member of the GFANZ Advisory Panel, the C40 Cities Finance Advisory Group, and WRI’s advisory committee for the Solar Investment Action Agenda and Roadmap, in support of the International Solar Alliance.
Updated on 27 October 2021
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Associate Professor, Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jessika E. Trancik is an associate professor in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the impacts of technologies and the reasons behind technological change. She has developed theory and predictive models to understand why some technologies improve faster than others, and what technology features enable rapid innovation.
Updated on 27 April 2020
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Senior Policy Officer, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Mariam Traore Chazalnoel is a Senior Policy Officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva. She specializes in climate change and migration global policy discussions. She has been working over the last ten years to promote the inclusion of climate mobility issues in the global policy arena. She has written and edited over 40 chapters and publications on the governance of climate mobility and is a frequent speaker on these issues worldwide.
Updated on 9 November 2023
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CEO, Liechtenstein Bankers Association
Simon Tribelhorn is Managing Director of the Liechtenstein Bankers Association (LBV). After completing his studies at the University of St Gallen, he worked as a lawyer in the banking sector for six years, most recently as a legal consultant for the Raiffeisen Banking Association. He joined LBV in February 2006, initially as a lawyer and later as Deputy Managing Director. In January 2010, he was appointed Managing Director.
Updated on 31 May 2023
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President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Brazil
Dr Nísia Trindade Lima is President of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the first woman to occupy this position in its 120-year history. Lima is also a member of the Lancet Covid-19 Committee, and co-chaired the Economic Recovery Steering Group, one of five steering groups created to assist in the development of a UN Research Roadmap for the recovery of COVID-19.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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Research Fellow, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne
Dr Alexei Trundle is a Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Melbourne’s Connected Cities Lab. His current research focuses on the way that cities are contributing to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as urban climate resilience and adaptation planning in Pacific Small Island Developing States. Alexei is a Scientific Advisor to the UN-Habitat Cities and Climate Change Initiative in the Pacific region.
Updated on 15 June 2021
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CEO, European Climate Foundation; Co-Chair, SDSN Leadership Council
Laurence Tubiana is CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF). In addition to her role at ECF, she is the Chair of the Board of Governors at the French Development Agency (AFD), and a Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. She is also a Co-Chair of the SDSN Leadership Council. Before joining ECF, Laurence was France’s Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21, and as such a key architect of the landmark Paris Agreement. Following COP21 and through COP22, she was appointed UN High Level Champion for climate action.
Updated on 27 October 2021
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Policy Advisor and Deputy Chief, Research and Data team, UN Women
Laura Turquet is Deputy Chief of Research and Data at UN Women. She leads major research and data initiatives that inform the organization’s advocacy objectives and empower civil society and governments to seek and implement change, including three editions of Progress of the World’s Women and most recently Feminist Climate Justice: A Framework for Action.
Updated on 26 March 2026
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CEO, Dimeta
Frankie Ugboma is CEO of Dimeta. He is an experienced leader with a strong track record across the energy, infrastructure and sustainability sectors. In previous roles, he led the successful development, financing and operations of energy infrastructure projects across both the public and private sectors. Notable recent achievements include the commissioning and operation of the world’s first mass transit waste heat network, linking the London Underground to 1,500 homes and businesses.
Updated on 16 November 2023
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Professor of Education and International Development, University College London
Elaine Unterhalter FBA is Professor of Education and International Development at University College London. Born and educated initially in South Africa she has taught and researched in a wide range of education settings, with a special interest in projects on the policy and practice of the MDGs and SDGs.
Updated on 1 March 2023
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Human rights lawyer; Member, UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
Melissa Upreti is an internationally recognized human rights lawyer and Member of the U.N. Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, a Special Procedure of the Human Rights Council. Upreti holds law degrees from India and the United States. Her professional experience and activism span the globe.
Updated on 7 March 2023
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Chief Executive, Forum for the Future
Sally Uren OBE is Chief Executive of Forum for the Future, with overall responsibility for delivering Forum’s mission to accelerate a big shift towards a sustainable future. From offices in the UK, US, Singapore and Mumbai, Forum works through partnership and collaboration to deliver practical systems change for sustainability. In December 2017 Sally received an OBE in the Queen’s New Years’ Honours List for services to sustainability in business.
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Acting Director, African Natural Resources Management and Investment Centre, African Development Bank (AfDB) Group
Vanessa Ushie is Acting Director of the AfDB’s specialised department for natural resources management and investment, and Manager of the division for policy analysis on natural resources. She leads the AfDB’s strategy, programmes, and policy engagements to catalyse natural resource investments for sustainable development in Africa. Vanessa has worked for over 20 years on sustainable development. She holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, University of London.
Updated on 7 November 2023
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Senior Policy Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
Anna Valero is a Senior Policy Fellow at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), Deputy Director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute. Anna is a member of the Steering Group of the Resolution Foundation-CEP Economy 2030 Inquiry, and was previously a Research Director for the LSE Growth Commission.
Updated on 27 September 2022
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Secretary, Global Soils Partnership, FAO
Ronald Vargas is a soil scientist with over 20 years of working experience in natural resources management, with a focus on sustainable soil management for food security and ecosystem services. He joined FAO in 2011 as a Land and Water Officer and has been the Secretary of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) since its establishment in 2012. He promoted the UN International Year of Soils in 2015 and managed the publications of a wide range of soil-related publications. Since its official endorsement by the UN General Assembly in 2014, he coordinates the World Soil Day annual campaigns.
Updated on 28 October 2021
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Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, and President, Bureau of Women Parliamentarians, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Lesia Vasylenko is a Ukrainian MP. In Parliament, she chairs the Subcommittee on Climate Change. At the outset of the escalation of Russian aggression on 24 February 2022, MP Vasylenko’s strong international background allowed her to quickly become one of Ukraine's strongest voices on various international platforms.
Updated on 1 March 2023
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Founder of Mangara Innovation and Sustainability; Member of the Science Steering Committee of the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA)
Dr Villa Nova is a Pharmacist with master’s degree in Sustainability on Socio-Bioeconomics, who has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of innovation, research and development of products and packaging, management of scientific networks and sustainability, having worked mainly at the company Natura Cosmetics. Over the last 15 years, she has developed an executive career in sustainability management, in the areas of strategy, bioeconomy and biodiversity, and socioeconomic impact generation, mainly for the Amazon biome. She served as leader of the Brazilian Global Compact/UN SDG Action Platform for two years. Since 2020, she has also served as co-leader of the CBCFA Bioeconomy Task Force and is a member of the Science Panel for Amazon.
Updated on 20 November 2023
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Head, Center for Climate and Foreign Policy, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Dr Kira Vinke heads the Center for Climate and Foreign Policy at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). She co-chairs the Advisory Board to the German Federal Government on Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding and is affiliated as a scientist with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Her latest book "Sturmnomaden" addresses the nexus of climate change and migration.
Updated on 17 October 2022
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Commissioner, Spanish Financial Markets Authority; Chair, EU Platform on Sustainable Finance
Helena is commissioner of the Spanish Financial Markets Authority (CNMV) and Chair of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance. She is also a member of the EIB´s Climate and Environment Advisory Council and formerly of the UN Secretary-General High-Level Expert Group on Net Zero Pledges. Helena was co-rapporteur of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (2020-2022) and had previously been a member of the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. Prior to the CNMV, Helena was Senior Policy Adviser on Sustainable Finance for BNP Paribas and Global Head of Stewardship and Policy for BNP Paribas Asset Management. She was a board member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), a member of the AMF Comite de Climat et Finance Durable and represented BNPP AM in the EFAMA committee on Stewardship and ESG. She sat on a number of additional committees, including the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Green Finance Advisory Group, PRI Policy Reference Group and the Technical Advisory Group of the LSE-led Transition Pathway Initiative. Previously, Helena led Oxfam's advocacy work on responsible investment and engagement with institutional investors in support of poverty reduction. She is the author of numerous papers and articles, book chapters and a book. She earned a BA in Economics and a postgraduate in Latin American Economics from the University of Barcelona (Spain), followed by an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Updated on 20 November 2023
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Executive Director, WWF-Brazil
Mauricio Voivodic has been Executive Director of WWF-Brazil since 2017. A forestry engineer from the University of São Paulo (USP) with a master’s in Environmental Sciences, he specialized in non-state governance and the institutional dynamics of voluntary certification systems. He built his career at the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Management and Certification (Imaflora), where he held several leadership roles. Voivodic has also served on the boards of ISEAL and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), on the Steering Committee of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, and as a fellow of the Climate Strategies Accelerator program. (Headshot copyright @Guilherme Kardel Miracena/WWF-Brasil)
Updated on 30 October 2025
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System Lead, Food, Land & Oceans, ClimateWorks Australia
Liam Walsh currently leads ClimateWorks’ efforts to reduce emissions within the Food, Land & Ocean system across Australia, South-East Asia and the Pacific. Liam has worked on issues relating to agriculture, nature conservation and business for over 10 years in Australia, Vietnam, Kenya, Liberia and the UK. He has worked for a number of high profile Not-For-Profits and research institutes, including the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, WWF, Conservation International and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Updated on 28 October 2021
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Vice President of Education, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and Director, SDG Academy
Patrick Paul Walsh is the Vice President of Education at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and is the Director of the SDG Academy. He is on secondment from University College Dublin where he is a Full Professor of International Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies in UCD, Dublin. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has held academic positions in Trinity College Dublin, K.U. Leuven, Harvard University, and Columbia University. He has also held positions in the United Nations, European Commission, IMF, and World Bank. His current focus is on Sustainable Development Education that is informed by Science, Practice, and Policy.
Updated on 9 September 2022
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Head, Chair of Operations Management, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr Grit Walther is a full professor and head of the chair of Operations Management at RWTH Aachen since 2012. The chair's research projects are carried out in interdisciplinary collaboration with research institutes from the engineering and natural sciences, as well as in cooperation with industrial companies and policymakers. Her research focuses on application-oriented, techno-economic modelling and evaluation of logistics and production systems as well as supply chains.
Updated on 8 November 2023
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WJM MacKenzie Chair in Government, University of Manchester
Georgina Waylen is the WJM MacKenzie Chair in Government at the University of Manchester. She writes and researches primarily about gender and politics, including transitions to democracy and more recently democratic erosion and backsliding and how they are gendered.
Updated on 15 July 2025
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Postdoctoral researcher, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Silvia Weko is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research focuses on the politics of sustainability transitions, and the different actors that aim to shape how economic value is created and distributed. From 2019-2023 she worked as a research associate with the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) on topics including the geopolitics of green hydrogen, technology transfer and innovation, data and intellectual property in transitions, and EU sustainability policy. She received her PhD from the University of Erfurt in 2023.
Updated on 10 July 2024
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Climate and Energy Policy Analyst, Climate Analytics
Ryan is a Berlin-based Climate and Energy Policy Analyst at Climate Analytics. He contributes to the Climate Action Tracker and various economy-wide and sectoral 1.5°C pathway analyses. Ryan has a science and economics background with a MSc in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy and has previously worked in energy market analysis and sustainability.
Updated on 5 November 2021
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Data Scientist and Analyst, SDSN
Finn Woelm is a data scientist and analyst at the SDG Index at SDSN. He focuses on statistical analyses, data visualization, and web development. Prior to joining the SDSN, Finn co-founded a startup and worked for a number of organizations, including the International Panel on Social Progress.
Updated on 16 June 2021
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Team Leader – Climate and Security Risk, United Nations Development Programme
Catherine Wong is Team Leader for Climate and Security Risk and the technical lead on climate change, peace, and security in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Global Policy Network. She is matrixed to the Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions Team – Crisis Bureau and the Climate Strategies and Policy Team – Bureau of Policy and Programme Support. Catherine possesses more than 15 years’ experience working on climate change and the environment at headquarters and in the field. She is UNDP’s focal point on the Climate Security Mechanism and the UN Water-led core group on Leveraging Water for Peace. Catherine was recognised as one of 25 Young Leaders by the Government of Germany, Körber-Stiftung and the Munich Security Conference (2021–22), and is an observer of the International Military Council for Climate and Security.
Updated on 19 October 2022
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara
Grace Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara. Before joining UCSB, Grace was a Smith Conservation Fellow at The Nature Conservancy and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. She was also a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis. She was trained in systems thinking and interdisciplinary approaches in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.
Updated on 5 April 2022
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Global SRHR Programme Lead, Plan International
As Plan International’s Global SRHR Programme Lead and a Baring Foundation trustee, Emebet Wuhib-Mutungi advances sexual and reproductive health and rights through research-driven, practical interventions focused on health and gender equity. With 19 years of experience, including roles at BBC Media Action and as Programme Manager at Plan International overseeing SRHR projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, she fosters collaboration and applies insights from Africa and Asia. A London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine graduate, Emebet drives impactful, creative programs.
Updated on 22 August 2025
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Director, Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks, International Energy Agency
Mechthild Wörsdörfer joined the IEA on 1 October 2018 as Director of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks (STO). Ms Wörsdörfer plans and co-ordinates the IEA’s work on energy sustainability, encompassing clean energy technologies and climate change policy. Previously, Mechthild held several senior management positions in the European Commission, where she coordinated the work on the 2030 Energy and Climate Framework, the Clean Energy Package and the 2050 Energy Roadmap.
Updated on 14 June 2021
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China Policy Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Lucie Qian Xia is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work intersects diplomacy, development and global governance. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford and has previously served the UN Representation Office to the EU, contributing to UN-EU climate cooperation; and the EU Delegation to China, fostering EU-China climate and trade relations. She has also worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and taught at the University of Oxford.
Updated on 27 October 2022
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Director, Policy Outreach and Strategic Communications, SLOCAT Partnership
Alice Yiu is a passionate advocate for climate and sustainability issues. As the Director of Policy Outreach and Strategic Communications at the SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport, Alice develops actionable policy recommendations, advocacy campaigns and knowledge products to enable passenger and freight transport systems for equitable, decarbonised, resilient pathways.
Updated on 18 October 2022
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Communications Officer, Medicines for Malaria Venture
Doreen Akiyo Yomoah is Communications Officer at Medicines for Malaria Venture. She worked at the UN in Geneva from 2015 to 2022 and spent four years at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) as part of the Communications and Outreach Unit. She also worked at the International Telecommunication Union, where she was the communications lead for the secretariat of the EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age.
Updated on 17 November 2023
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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Sustainability, University of British Columbia
Dr Jiaying Zhao is the Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Sustainability, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Updated on 13 October 2021
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Deputy to the Director General, and Managing Director, Directorate of Sustainable Technical Coop-eration (TCS), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Ciyong Zou is a Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development (TCS). Ciyong Zou is also the Director General’s Special Representative for the G77 and China. Before joining UNIDO, he performed multiple roles, including Deputy Director General of International Department at the Chinese Ministry of Finance, Alternate to the Chinese Executive Director at the World Bank, and Focal Point to the Global Environmental Facility for China.
Updated on 11 July 2023
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