Jochen Flasbarth

State Secretary

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

Afua Hirsch

Award-winning writer & journalist

Lyla June

Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages

Wanjira Mathai

Africa Managing Director and Global Partnerships

World Resources Institute (WRI)

Bill McKibben

Founder

Third Act

Yamina Saheb

Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) & Senior Energy Policy Analyst, OpenExp

Otto Scharmer

Senior Lecturer at MIT and Founding Chair of the Presencing Institute

Vandana Shiva

Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author

Environmental Activist

Ayisha Siddiqa

Co-Founder

Polluters Out

Marina Silva

Minister of the Environment and Climate Change

Government of Brazil

Ibrahim Thiaw

Executive Secretary

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Eliane Ubalijoro

Chief Executive Officer of CIFOR-ICRAF and Director General of ICRAF

CIFOR-ICRAF

Vivienne Yeda

Director General

East African Development Bank

Rodrigo A. Medellin

Senior Professor

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Mahamat Abakar Assouyouti

Senior Climate Change Specialist

Adaptation Fund

Salina Abraham

GLF Africa Regional Manager

GLF Africa Hub

Mr Isaac Acquah Jnr

Director and Head

Natural Resource Department of the Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana

Tristan Ahtone

Editor at Large

Grist

Sunday Aladele

Research Director

Genetic Resources Conservation and Utilization at National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), Ibadan, Nigeria

Jessica Aldred

Ocean Editor

Pulitzer Center

Gloria Amor Paredes

Co-founder

Salumayag Youth Collective for Forests

Inger Andersen

Executive Director

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Risper Arose

Program Coordinator

TandaNET

Åsmund Asdal

Coordinator of Operation and Management

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Yodit Balcha

Climate Adaptation research officer

Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT-Africa Hub in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Irene Baños Ruiz

Project Officer

DW Akademie

Rushank Bardiola

Founding Partner

Green Earth Agro

Camilla Becket

Co-director and co-producer

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva film

Hidde Boersma

Writer

Paved Paradise film

Apoorva Bose

Programme Coordinator

G20 Global Initiative, UNCCD

Ana Bueno

Environmental reporter

Univision Houston

David Chapoloko

Land Hero

UNCCD

Akinyi Chemutai

Coordinator

GLFx Nairobi

Tim Christophersen

VP, Climate Action

Salesforce

Mario Coto Hidalgo

Director Técnico

Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación (SINAC) del Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía de Costa Rica (MINAE)

Karsten de Vreugd

Director and researcher

Paved Paradise film

Pauly Denetclaw

Political Correspondent

Indian Country Today

Sandrine Dixson Decleve

Co-President of the

Club of Rome

Bwire Douglas Ombogoh

Research Officer

CIFOR-ICRAF

Mr. Jayaraman Durai

Director of Global Programmes

INBAR, Beijing, China

Christina Ehlert

Head of Programmes Agriculture and Forestry Value Chains

ADA Microfinance

Samuel Ekomol

Producer

Between the Rains film

Mario Elie Ratovonirina

GIZ ProSoil Madagascar

Natasha Elkington

Independent multimedia journalist

Reba Elliott

Senior Director for Strategy, Planning, and Special Projects

Laudato Si’ Movement

Eden Flaherty

Landscape News assistant

Global Landscapes Forum

Rufo Gano

Research Scientist at Kenya Forestry Research Institute

Kenya Forestry Research Institute

Gambura Ganta Mengesha

Gamo Zone - Forest, Environment and Development Office

Biodiversity Conservation Team Leader

Andrew H. Brown

Co-director, director of photography, producer and editor

Between the Rains film

Mashrur Hossaon Shurid

President & CEO

Ipage Global Inc, Bangladesh

Iyenemi Ibimina Kakulu

Senior Expert on Gender and Land

G20 Global Land Initiative, UNCCD

Ma. Eliza J. Villarino

Research Fellow

Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Maimuna Jawara

Coordinator

GLFx Banjul

Benji Jones

Senior Reporter

Vox

Agus Justianto

Director General of the Sustainable Forest Management

Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia

Susan Kaaria

Director

African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)

Samuel Kabiru

Manager of The Land Accelerator

WRI Africa

Annie Kairaba

Founding Member and Coordinator

Center for Inclusive and Sustainable Development (CISD)

Arouna Kande

Protagonist

The Letter, A Message for Our Earth film

Kritika Kapadia

Senior Manager - Climate Change and Sustainability Services

EY

Natasha Kimani

Head of Partnerships and Research

Africa No Filter

Ngugi Kimani

OFESA Team Leader

RCMRD

Magnus Kossmann

Program Director, Colombia, Ecuador & Peru

DW Akademie

Joab Langi Osumba

Agriculture Lead

Adaptation Consortium (ADA)

Joseph Lee

Journalist

Grist

Joann Lee

Programme Officer - Stakeholder Engagement

G20 Global Land Initiative, UNCCD

Duncan Lukoye

Correspondent

Voice of America (VoA)

Daniel M. M'Mailutha M. M'Mailutha

CEO

Kenya National Farmers’ Federation (KENAFF)

Juma Majanga

Producer

Eco-Warriors of Africa film

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

CEO and Chairperson

Global Environment Facility

Workwoha Mekonnen

Gender Specialist, Part-time consultant

Landesa on Women Land Right in Ethiopia

Peter Minang

Director of Africa

CIFOR-ICRAF

Mr. Gitonga Mugambi

Principal Secretary

State Department of Forestry, Government of Kenya

Laura Mukhwana

GLFx Nairobi Coordinator

CIFOR-ICRAF

Musonda Mumba

Secretary General

Convention on Wetlands

Aaron Munzaa

Strategy and Finance Director

Soil-Carbon Certification Services (SCCS)

Kennedy Muthee

Research Associate, Africa Directorate

Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)

Robert Nasi

Chief Operating Officer, CIFOR-ICRAF Director General, CIFOR

CIFOR-ICRAF, CIFOR

Noah Nasiali

CEO and founder

Afarmers Media

Beatrace Ndisha

WWF Kenya