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H.E. Dr. Rosalía Arteaga, Former Constitutional President of Ecuador | Ecuadorian, the first woman to have held the positions of Constitutional President and Vice President of the Republic of Ecuador. She was the Former Secretary-General of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization and was also Deputy Minister of Culture and Minister of Education. Lawyer, Doctor of Jurisprudence, has a degree in Journalism and MA in Anthropology. Currently, Ms. Arteaga is a member of the World Academy of Art and Science, serves as a member of the Board of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, and is also a member of honor of the Royal Academy of doctors of Europe, CEO of FIDAL Foundation, and High Commissioner of Panamazonia in Manaus- Brazil. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of International Relations at the University of Miami and a member of the Board of Women Political Leaders WPL. |
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Dr Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez | Born in Victoria de Durango, Durango, he is a distinguished Bacteriologist Chemist and Parasitologist graduated from the National School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute. Dr. began activities in the area ofEcology and Environment in 1951 as Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Soil and Plant Chemistry at the ENCB (IPN, 2009). Similarly, he served as Undersecretary of Technical and Higher Education, promoted the creation of an Agricultural Technology Education System. As Constitutional Governor of the State of Durango, between 1974 and 1979, together with Dr. Gonzalo Halffter, General Director of the National Institute of Ecology, AC, created the first two Biosphere Reserves of Mexico in Michilia and Mapimi, of the State From Durango. As General Director of the National Polytechnic Institute, from 1979 to 1982, he founded the second CIIDIR in Jiquilpan, Michoacán. The Dr. also held the General Directorate of the National Council of Science and Technology, between 1983 and 1988. In 1988, in the Senate of the Republic, he was President of the Energy Commission and Secretary of the Commission for Human Settlements and Ecology. He was also the Technical General Director of the Federal District Rural Development Coordinating Commission. He was Director of Environmental Education of the Department of the Federal District and of the Directorate of the Center for Environmental Education "Ecoguardas". For his actions, Dr. Mayagoitia has received multiple distinctions in the area of Ecology and Environment, such as the Recognition for the Conservation of Nature by SEMARNAT (2003) and the Special Award for Ecological Merit by SEMARNAT (2013). From the Coordination of the Environmental Program, and currently from the Polytechnic Coordination for Sustainability, with the active participation of 100 Environmental Committees, Academic, Environmental Management and Diffusion actions are developed to contribute to the formation of an Environmental Culture in the Polytechnic Community and in its sphere of influence to participate in the Sustainable Development of Mexico. |
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H.E. David Puig | H.E. David Puig was born in Santo Domingo on May 23, 1980. He joined the Dominican Foreign Service in 2004 and has been posted in France, India, Egypt and Belgium. He holds two bachelor degrees, in political sciences and international relations from Sciences Po Paris and in philosophy from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as a Master’s in political thought from Sciences Po Paris. Throughout his diplomatic career he has worked in both bilateral and multilateral settings, and has represented the Dominican Republic in negotiations and international fora.After two years as Counsellor in Paris, he served from 2006 to 2010 at the Dominican Embassy in India. He contributed in that capacity to the establishment of the Dominican Embassy in New Delhi and worked on the development of the bilateral political, economical, cooperation and cultural agendas between India and the Dominican Republic. From 2011 to 2017, David Puig was Deputy chief of mission in Egypt. Between 2017 and 2020, he was charged with political affairs at the Dominican Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium and Mission to the European Union, and formed part of the negotiating team for a post-Cotonou Agreement. To his command of English, Spanish and French, he has added, through his time in India and the Middle East, conversational skills in Hindi and Egyptian Arabic. Beyond his work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, he has been active in the cultural and literary scene in the Dominican Republic as a publisher, translator and author. In 2010, he launched Ediciones De a Poco, a publishing house focused on contemporary literature and art books from the Caribbean region.In his free time he likes to practice yoga, explore cities on foot and follow walking trails in the countryside. |
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Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI | Dr Vibha Dhawan has been associated with The Energy and Resources and Institute since 1985. She also served as the Vice-Chancellor of TERI School of Advanced Studies from 2005-2007. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Dr Dhawan is actively involved in research as well as policy development, both at the national and international level. She is a task force member of a number of committees of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), the Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL) etc. She is currently serving as Adjunct Professor, Consul General South Asia Partnership, Michigan State University. She has successfully completed a number of international assignment such as co-ordinator for the Asia Pacific Consortium on Agriculture Biotechnology (APCoAB); Advisor to Director General, The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT); and Deputy Director, Research Partnerships & Co-ordination with the Borlaug Institute for South Asia. She has served on the boards of prestigious organizations in India and overseas including JawaharLal Nehru University, Ambedkar University, Ayurvet Foundation and Centre for Bioscience and Agriculture International (CABI).
Dr Dhawan as a researcher was instrumental in the establishment of the highly successful Micropropagation Technology Park at TERI. Her other major achievements include developing e-contents for the post-graduate programme in biotechnology for the University Grants Commission. Her recent research interests are in the area of biofuels. She is currently the coordinator of the DBT-TERI Centre on Integrated Production of Advanced Biofuels and Biocommodities. She was Advisor, Bio-resources & Biotechnology, to the Late Tarun Gogoi, the former Chief Minister of Assam. She is the winner of Indian Women Achievers Sammaan 2017 by NRI Achievers; Women Leadership Agriculture Award 2016 by the Indian Council of Food & Agriculture; First Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialization Award of the Department of Biotechnology in 2000, the Kamal Kumari National Award for Science and Technology and the first All India Biotech Association (AIBA) award in 1998. She has authored 6 books and over 50 publications. |
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Dr. Norma Patricia Muñoz Sevilla, Chairperson, Climate Change Council for the Presidency of the Mexican Republic | A renowned biologist, with a PhD in biological oceanography and marine biochemistry specialty, Dr. Norma Patricia Muñoz Sevilla is the head of Climate Change Council for the Presidency of the Mexican Republic. Currently a researcher of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research and Studies on Environment and Development at the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico she is affiliated with several prestigious environmental organizations. She is a member of the group of ocean experts in UNESCO-IOC, and also of the National Network for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change among several other global councils. With around 60 scientific articles and 15 books on coastal zones, environmental deterioration and climate change to her credit, Dr Muñoz also co-authored the National Seas and Coastal Policy of Mexico. In addition to authoring the chapter on ocean, marine ecosystems and their services for the IPCC, Dr. Muñoz has participated in Marine Management of the Gulf of California, Regional Marine Ecological Management of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea., Regional Marine Planning of the North Pacific and South Central Pacific, Mexico., and National Policy of Seas and Coasts. She is an external advisor for international organizations such as UNESCO, UNEP, UN and UNIDO. She has approximately 41 awards for her professional performance, including the ‘Order of the Academic Palms’, awarded by the Government of the French Republic in 2011. |
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H.E. Dr. José Rosas Aispuro Torres, Governor of Durango | José Rosas Aispuro Torres is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the National Action Party who is currently the governor of Durango. From 2012 to 2015, he served as senator in the LXII and LXIII Legislatures representing Durango. He also was Municipal President of Durango, Durango from 2001 to 2004. |
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Dr. Ash Pachauri, Senior Mentor, POP Movement | Dr. Ash Pachauri has a PhD in decision behavior and master's degree in international management. Having worked with McKinsey & Company before pursuing a career in the social development arena, Dr. Pachauri’s experience in the fields of development and public health management emerged from a range of initiatives including those of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN, and CDC-funded interventions in the US. Dr. Pachauri has been leading initiatives on climate action and sustainable development and their linkages with public health and human rights through both the POP Movement and the World Sustainable Development Forum. With expertise in the use of information technology for development, research, and capacity building of communities in social mobilization and behavior change communication, Dr. Pachauri has been promoting leadership across every field including youth in every part of the world. Widely published, winner of the prestigious Overseas Research Scholarship, awarded for advanced studies in the U.K. and recognized for his academic achievements, Dr. Pachauri pursues interests in research and teaching through ongoing collaboration with academic institutions. Dr. Pachauri has also been recognized by UNAIDS for his dedication to fighting AIDS through its “Portraits of Commitment”. Dr. Pachauri is on the Boards and Advisory groups of several organizations. |
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Dr. Richard Munang, Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) | Dr. Richard Munang is currently the Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). He is responsible for guiding the actualization of UNEP’s climate resilient development strategy for Africa in a manner that ensures human wellbeing through coordinating implementation of diverse projects. He is leading a continental wide strategic and innovative approach to climate action implementation ensuring agro-industrialization is achieved and wealth opportunities created for the youth and women as well as climate aims of mitigation & adaptation are realized simultaneously with leading socio economic priorities of countries. He is also the Africa Ecosystems Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly (EBAFOSA) coordinator in-charge of the strategic and operational roll-out in over 40 countries. He spearheaded the conceptualization, planning and creation of this EBAFOSA which harmonizes decentralization of policy and implementation actions toward up-scaling Climate Action with the end goal to actualize sustainable agro-industrialization powered by clean energy.
He has won many awards including: the first person to win the prestigious Africa Green Champion Award 2020, African Environmental Hero Award 2016, he is the 2016 winner of UNEP's recognition highest award, the Baobab staff awards for Programme Innovation. He has been involved in enhancing skills retooling of youth through a mentorship tool he founded called Innovative volunteerism which is a structured innovative approach to guide and inspire youth to turn their passion into profits through driving climate action enterprises. With rich knowledge, diversified experience, policy formulation and sustainability of projects amongst others, Dr. Munang pioneered the 1st UNEP Africa Adaptation Gap Report 1 & 2 which helped galvanize a coherent continental strategic climate policy position, resulting in the elevation of adaptation to a par with mitigation in global climate negotiations. He has participated in a wide variety of research projects and has published over 500 articles in both international peer reviewed journals and magazines. He is the author of the book –Making Africa work through the Power of Innovative Volunteerism. This book outlines practical policies that countries in Africa should take to accelerate climate action and sustainable agro-industrialization. Dr. Munang holds a PhD in Environmental Change & Policy from the University of Nottingham and an Executive Certificate in Climate Change and Energy Policy from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. |
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Dr. Erik Solheim, Founder, World Resource Institute, Washington and Former Executive Director, UNEP | Erik Solheim is a well-known global leader on environment and development as well as an experienced peace negotiator. He served as the Norwegian Minister of Environment and International Development from 2005 - 2012. During that period, he initiated the global program for the conservation of rainforests. He brought Norwegian development assistance to 1 percent, the highest in the world. Dr. Solheim has been chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (the main body of world donors) as well as Executive Director of UNEnvironment. He led the peace efforts in Sri Lanka as the main negotiator of the peace process and has played a vital role in peace efforts in Nepal, Myanmar, and Sudan. Currently, he is a senior adviser at the World Resource Institute and Convener of the Global Coalition for Green Belt and Road and also serves as the CEO of the Plastic Revolution Foundation. The latter is a newly found initiative that aims to eliminate plastic waste and pollution, beginning in Accra, Ghana. Dr. Solheim also advises and leads Green private sector investments. |
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Prof. Richard B. Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center, Stanford University | Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University since 1994, Dr. Dasher also serves on program and review committees for government and private sector science and technology, funding programs, and research institutes in Japan and Thailand. He is an advisor to start-up companies, business accelerators, venture capital firms, and nonprofits in Silicon Valley, China, India, Japan, and S. Korea. From 1998 to 2015, he concurrently served as the Executive Director of Stanford’s Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), and he was an outside board director and member of the Management Council of Tohoku University from 2004 - 2010. From 1986 - 90, Dr. Dasher was Director of the U.S. State Department’s advanced training centers in Yokohama and Seoul that provided full-time language and area studies curricula to the U.S. and selected Commonwealth country diplomats. From 1990 - 93 he developed new international business lines as a board director of two startup companies in Tokyo. He received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University, and his undergraduate degree is in clarinet and orchestra conducting from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. |
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Karina L. Weinstein, Program Strategy and Innovation Director, FXB International | Karina joined FXB USA in 2015 where she leads the organization's climate change strategic programs. Previously, she was a Program Associate with the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. where she built the capacity of Junior Leagues in their community impact programs. From 2008 to 2012, she lived in Mexico and held leadership positions in various social change organizations dedicated to poverty alleviation. Karina holds a BA in International Relations from Tufts University and an MA in Public Policy from Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government. She is a former Fellow of We Are All Brooklyn and the Council of Jewish Emigrant Community Organizations BluePrint Fellowship. |
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TJ Higgins AO FAA FTSE, Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Agriculture and Food | TJ Higgins is an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture and Food. His current research focus is the application of gene technology for plant improvement. He is particularly interested in protecting food legumes from insect pests and enhancing photosynthesis in cowpeas for increased grain yield for food uses. Most of his current work is aimed at increasing food security in Africa and South Asia. His earlier work was on the biochemistry and molecular biology of legume seed proteins and their sulfur-containing amino acids.
Originally from Ireland, Higgins’ first degrees were in agricultural science from the National University of Ireland. He gained a PhD from the University of California, Davis and moved to Australia as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. Shortly after, he joined CSIRO Plant Industry, from which he retired as a Chief Research Scientist and Deputy Chief. |
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Mrs. Habiba Al Mar’ashi, Co-founder and Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group (EEG)
United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
Habiba Al Mar’ashi is the Co-founder and Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group (EEG). EEG, is a pioneering non-government organisation established in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1991. She single handedly established the Arabia CSR Network in 2004, as the MENA region’s pioneering and only multi-stakeholder platform with local and multinational entities. Under her leadership, both organisations achieved tremendous success and repute, emerging as preferred partners across sectors. She guided EEG to become the first environmental NGO in the world to receive An ISO 14001 certification. She also co-founded the Emirates Green Building Council in 2006 and serves as its Treasurer and Board Member. Mrs. Al Mar’ashi has been actively associated in leadership roles in global bodies such as UN Global Compact, UNEP (civil society representative), Global Reporting Initiative Stakeholder Council (GRI), World Green Building Council (WGBC), a member of the Advisory Committee of the Det Norske Veritas (DNV-GL) Certification Advisory Board for the Middle East. She is currently a Vice Chair of the Global Urban Development and Patronage Committee of myclimate. More recently Ms Habiba has been selected to come on board as a member of a high level Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance at the invitation of the UN Secretary-General. GISD Alliance was formed in 2019 to unlock impediments and promote solutions for mobilising long-term private investment for sustainable development. Mrs. Al Mar’ashi also serves as a member of the advisory Board for several Academic Institutions. She also sits on a number of boards that deal with Women and Sustainability in the Region and Globally. |
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Mr. Neeshad Shafi, Executive Director, Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar | Neeshad is the Founder and Executive Director at Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar. In this role, he manages the Strategic Management and Executive Direction of all programs and activities of AYCM QA. Neeshad works closely with the team and partners of AYCM QA to secure increased support for our initiatives in Qatar and around the world. He commits time to tell our story and believes this is critical in understanding the importance of AYCM QA’s mission and vision.
In March 2019, Neeshad was named in the Apolitical’s List of the 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy. He has written numerous articles on the role of youth and non-profit organizations and he is a frequent speaker at professional conferences. He sits on World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Steering Committee for Climate Action, Steering Committee Chair at CoalitionWILD and is also a founding member of the Climate Action Network (CAN) Arab World. He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering. |
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Dr. Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez | Professor, National Polytechnic Institute, Interdisciplinary Center for Marine Sciences. Currently, it leads and promotes the integrated approach to the management of fishing resources where criteria on populations and natural ecosystems subject to exploitation are combined, with aspects of the economy of fishing, social welfare, and governance to define the scientific bases of strategies. sustainable and viable management under criteria of adaptability to climate change. Since 2015, he has been involved in the study of sargassum bangs in the Caribbean, addressing mesoscale hypotheses related to climate change, and local processes such as estimation and prediction of massive bangs on the beach.
He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, National Researcher Level 3 of the National System of Researchers; Advising Professor of East China Normal University. He was director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Marine Sciences of the IPN (2001-2004).In 2010 he received the Lázaro Cárdenas Presea, the highest recognition for research by the National Polytechnic Institute and delivered by the President of the Republic. In the same year he received the State Award for Science and Technology and the Medal of Scientific and Technological Merit, awarded by the Congress of the State of Baja California Sur. In 2019 he received the National Award for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture. He collaborates as an international consultant with FAO on scientific fisheries research policy, as well as on sustainable development, fisheries management, impact of fishing on socio-ecological ecosystems and training of human resources. He has participated as an expert in thematic meetings invited by the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission and by FAO. Likewise, he has acted as a director, member of governing bodies and of various scientific committees convened by Government entities, as well as Research Institutions. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the National Fisheries Institute (2003-2007); and has been a jury of the National Prize of Sciences and Arts 2009 and 2015; the National Award for Ecological Merit 2016, 2017; and the 2018 Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Award. Member of the Science and Technology Subcommittee of the Caribbean Sea Commission of the Association of Caribbean States. In the academic field, it has more than 320 scientific publications and is among the 200 most cited Mexican scientists worldwide. He has participated in nearly 400 scientific meetings. He has directed more than 50 research projects; 20 of them with international collaboration. He has taught more than 130 courses at the postgraduate level, and has directed 75 theses, 26 doctoral, 34 master's, 15 undergraduate. |
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Mtro. Roberto Ayala
Director de Investigación y Postgrado, Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes |
Mgtr. in Arts Education Sciences, Dtor. Research and Postgraduate-ISBA, Dtor. from the Mother Earth Association, Sculptor, Full Professor de Escultura-ISBA, Researcher on Indigenous Peoples in Paraguay and Ethnodesarrollo. |
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Shailly Kedia, POP Motivator Mentor, POP Movement | Shailly Kedia is a multidisciplinary professional who has more than sixteen years of experience in policy research, advocacy and capacity building on sustainable development and climate change. She is a Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi where she is a researcher with the Integrated Policy Analysis Programme and is also leading the organization's flagship Track II initiative (World Sustainable Development Summit). She is a Board Member of the World Sustainable Development Forum and is an Honorary Mentor Motivator with the POP Movement. In the past, she was briefly with the World Bank in Washington, DC; and with Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. |
| Dieudonne Nguitchon,United voices to Serve Forest and Environment, Cameroon* | ||
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Mindahi C.Bastida Munoz | Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz is the Director of the Original Nations Program at The Fountain and a member of the Mother Earth Delegation. He is an executive member of the Alliance Guardians of Mother Earth and a spokesperson of the recently created Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor. He is also the General Coordinator of the Otomi Regional Council of the High Lerma River Basin, Mexico, that promotes the rights of nature and Mother Earth as well as the rights to self-determination of original nations. Mindahi has served as a delegate to various commissions and summits on indigenous rights and sustainability, including the 1992 Earth Summit and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD, 2002). He was director of the Original Caretakers Program at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City between 2015 and 2020 and has been invited to partake in several advisory councils. |
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Victoria Conde Avila | Victoria holds a degree in Agrotechnology Engineering (Polytechnic University of Tlaxcala UPT). She is a master in Biological Sciences (CTBC UAT-UNAM and Doctorate in Biotechnology (Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla UPAEP. She has participated as a research intern at the Center for Research in Biological Sciences (CICB UAT-UNAM) and in Biocatalysis Lab (IBT-UNAM). She also has a Diploma in biotechnology (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain. UCAM). Her lines of investigation are degradation of pesticides by rhizobacteria, bioremediation of soils contaminated with pesticides and microbial immobilization methods and their applications in bioremediation. |
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Tricia Brown
Director of Education & Engagement, The Climate Museum |
Tricia Brown is the Director of Education and Engagement at the Climate Museum. In that role, she creates programming for education and youth engagement, collaborates with nonprofit and educational partners, and manages outreach and marketing communications. A member of the senior leadership team, she also helps shape the strategic priorities and programs of the museum, and contributes to hiring and operations issues. She has a background in program development, experiential learning, partnership development, student advising, cross-cultural advising, and public relations through her experiences working for US and overseas universities, educational non-profits, and the Tokyo government. She has a B.S. from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She’s equally happy exploring the cultural richness of cities and meandering along a hiking trail in the woods. |
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Lic. Hilario Poot Cahun
Hablante nativo del maya yucateco, Traductor y docente, Marine Conservation without Borders |
Born in Tihosuco, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Native speaker of Yucatecan Maya. He has a degree in Language and Culture from the Mayan Intercultural University of Quintana Roo (UIMQRoo). It has the specialty of Teaching English as a Second Language by the UPN. In the summer of 2010 she participated in the Seminar "Indigenous Youth Leadership" at the University of Arizona, USA. In July 2014 he took the workshop: "Documentation and Revitalization of Indigenous Languages" at the University of Texas Arlington, USA. In the fall of 2014, he spent a research stay at the Center for Mayan Studies of the UNAM. Currently collaborating with the international organization "Marine Conservation without Borders", its main task is to prepare, translate and apply educational materials on marine and terrestrial conservation |
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Funmilola Ademola-Aliu | Ademola-Aliu, Funmilola is an Accountant, a proactive young lady passionate about SDGs. She got her AAT Certification in June 2017, BSc. Accounting (Unilag) 2018 and her ACA Qualification in 2020. She volunteered for several outreaches during her undergraduate days. Also,during her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) period she worked with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) Group for her Community Development Service (CDS) where she was trained as a Development Knowledge Facilitator (DKF) and in turn, reached out to secondary school students to enlighten them about the United Nations SDGs and the parts we all have to play to achieve it.She is currently the Financial secretary of Global Environmental and Climate Conservation Initiative (GECCI) Lagos. GECCI has been working tirelessly to ensure we raise awareness amongst the youths most especially, starting from our immediate community. She is also a team member and Accountant of Stories Of Home (SOH) NGO, A Charity and Hope giving Organisation.She has attended several programmes in line with the SDGs physically and virtually to gain more knowledge. |
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Elizabeth Bagley
Director of Drawdown Learn Project Drawdown |
As Director of Drawdown Learn at Project Drawdown, Dr. Elizabeth Bagley connects people with the most impactful climate change solutions. Through a diverse portfolio of programming, Bagley creates relevant, researched, and relatable sustainability content and initiatives that inspire audiences to take action to help people and the planet thrive together.
Before joining Project Drawdown, Bagley directed sustainability efforts at the California Academy of Sciences and designed the science content for video games at LeapFrog. Bagley has experience studying coral reefs, sea turtles, and butterflies in Kenya, and has worked as a naturalist in Glacier National Park. |
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Louise Yeung
Director of Resiliency NYC Department of Transportation |
Louise Yeung is the Director of Resiliency at the NYC Department of Transportation, where she focuses on transforming social and physical systems to address the climate crisis. A dedicated public servant, Louise has worked to reduce carbón emissions, support the Green New Deal through offshore wind projects, and strengthen community resiliency to sea level rise, heat, and coastal storms. Louise also serves on the Board of Directors for SustainUS, a youth-led climate justice organization that empowers youth to advance justice and sustainability. |
| Tracey Ritchie, EARTHDAY.ORG, Washington, DC, USA | Tracey joined EARTHDAY.ORG as the director of education in January 2018. Most recently she was adjunct faculty at the University of Florida and has held positions from Florida to North Carolina, managing and facilitating environmental education programs. Tracey holds a PhD from the University of Florida, where she focused on developing systems-thinking skills in students and teachers to more effectively communicate about complex environmental issues such as climate change. | |
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Lic. Mario Gómez Monroy, Secretary of Education in the State of Tamaulipas. | Originally from Reynosa Tamaulipas, with extensive experience in the areas of administration and finance as well as in public service, graduated from prestigious institutions of higher studies among which are, the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and the Institute of University Studies (IEU), has a Master's Degree in Administration from ITESM. In public service he has held various public positions within which we can mention the following: Secretary of Administration in the Municipal Government of Reynosa in the period from 2005 to 2007. Director of Administration and Finance of CORETT (Commission for the Regularization of Land Tenure) from 2010 to 2013. At the beginning of the current administration, he was appointed as General Director of Human Resources of the Secretary of Administration of the State Government. Undersecretary of Administration in the Secretary of Education of Tamaulipas from 2017 to 2019. He currently works as Secretary of Education in the State of Tamaulipas. |
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Luis Betancourt | Researcher of Indigenous and Environmental Rights of the Venezuelan Amazon, General Coordinator and Founder of the Research Group on the Amazon. Training in the area of human rights of indigenous and environmental peoples. Speaker at various national and international forums on the social conditions of the indigenous peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon and the impacts generated by mining activities and the presence of irregular armed groups in their territories. 20 years of field work in indigenous communities of the Venezuelan Amazon. |
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Norberto Fandos, Member of Madre Tierra Organization | |
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Dr. Silvio Calgaro, Professor at the Federal University of Sergipe (Campus Sertão). | Degree in Forest Engineering, Master in Rural Extension, Doctorate in Rural Extension at the Federal University of Santa María, in the area ofconcentration in Rural Extension and Development, and PhD in Economics, Business and Social by the University of Seville, in the line of research in Anthropology and Sociology. The emphasis of the works are in the fields of studies and practices of Sustainable Development, Rural Development, Territorial Development, Public Policies, Ethnodevelopment, Participatory Methodologies, Participatory Social Management, Environmental Management, Extension and Rural Communication. In addition, it is dedicated to the construction of extension curricularization strategies in universities through comprehensive practices in training in Agricultural Sciences. He is currently Professor at the Federal University of Sergipe (Campus Sertão) in the careers of Agroindustry, Agronomy, Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics. |
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Eleonora Insunza | Eleonora Isunza de Pech worked at Morelos Radio and Television in 1988 as a writer, producer and presenter of several radio and television programs. In 2009 she co-founded Cinema Planeta, the International Film and Environmental Festival of Mexico which she co-directs since then. She is a founder and member of the board of directors of the Green Film Network where 42 festivals from 38 countries participate. In 2016 she co-produced and co-directed her first feature film Nahui Ollin, Sol de Movimiento and in 2018 "Mar Incendiado" both documentaries that drew attention to the impacts of climate change in Mexico. |
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CEFERINO KREIGI DUARTE, DOCENTE/DIRECTOR, COMUNIDAD YPETIMI ABAI, ABAI, PARAGUAY | |
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Diana Escobedo Urías,Professor-Researcher, IPN-CIIDIR Sinaloa | Biologist from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Sinaloa. México. She obtained a Master of Science degree with a specialty in marine resource management and a Doctorate in Marine Sciences at the Marine Sciences Research Center (CICIMAR) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Baja CaliforniaSur, Méxic. Professor-Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Integral Regional Development Sinaloa Unit (CIIDIR Sinaloa). He has directed 40 research projects and participated as an adjunct researcher in around 30 projects in collaboration with national and international institutions on relational issues with his area of expertise. He has published 32 research and dissemination articles and 13 book chapters, and supervised 14 master's theses and 3 doctoral theses. In her academic-administrative work at the IPN, she has been head of the Department. of the Environment, in charge of the Office of Collaboration and Technical Support, and Director of CIIDIR-Sinaloa. Member of the National System of Researchers (Level I), of the Sinaloense System of Researchers and Technologists, Member of the Citizen Council of Ecology of the state of Sinaloa, Member of the State Council on Climate Change of Sinaloa and Coordinator of the IPN Environment Network . |
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Silvia Guadalupe Garza Galvan | Biologist graduated from the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. He is an honorary member of the College of Biologists of Mexico. At the local level, she has held various positions, including that of Director of Ecology, Parks and Gardens and Agricultural Development of the Municipality of Monclova, Coahuila, her hometown. Likewise, she was a Delegate of the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection in Coahuila.She began her legislative career in the H. Congress of Coahuila de Zaragoza, serving as Deputy in the LVII Legislature (2006-2008), at the federal level she served as a Member of the Consultative Council for Sustainable Development-Northeast Region and Central Region of the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (2003-2004), and held the position |
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María del Carmen Martínez Valenzuela | Research Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (UAdeO), Sinaloa. México, attached to the Department of Natural and Exact Sciences, Educational Program of Biology, Academic Training: Doctorate in Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Teaching courses at Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate levels: Cell Biology, Genetics and Toxicology. Member of the Academic Body of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, topics: Detection of DNA damage through the use of biomarkers in people exposed to xenobiotics. In the field of Professional Experience: she has collaborated as Head of the Academic Department of Biological Sciences, Director of the Institute for Research in Environment and Health and currently serves as Academic Vice-Rector at UAdeO. Publications: 35 scientific articles in indexed journals, 12 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 1 Book and 10 book chapters. Thesis Direction: 3 Doctorate level Thesis, 8 Master's Thesis and 27 Bachelor's Thesis. Recognitions: Member of the National System of Researchers Level II, Honorary Member of the Sinaloa System of Scientists and Technologists and Recognition of the Desirable Profile PRODEP-SEP (Ministry of Education). |
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Gabriel Castro | Secondment:Autonomous University of Occident, Genotoxicology Laboratory, Academic training:Doctorate in Medical Sciences, Field of Knowledge in Clinical Research. Experimental in Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the National UniversityAutónoma de México (UNAM, in progress). Holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Faculty of Chemical Biological Sciences of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) and Bachelor's Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemist Biologist at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences. |
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Dr. Adrián Fernández- Bremauntz, CEO, Climate Initiative of México | Adrián Fernández Bremauntz holds a degree in Biology-Ecology from the Metropolitan Autonomous University, as well as a Master of Science in Environmental Technology and a Doctor of Environmental Science from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He did a postdoctoral degree at the Harvard School of Public Health and was a winner of the Robert McNamara Scholarship and the Joan Daisey Young Scientist Award for his pioneering research on personal exposure to air pollution in México City. He is the author of numerous popular publications and referred scientists, including articles and book chapters, and for several years he was a non- resident instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health, an institution where he created a master's program for Mexican professionals. He has given numerous conferences in national and international universities. He was General Director of Air Pollution and Climate Change issues for 11 years and subsequently was President of the National Institute of Ecology from 2005 to 2010. He created the National Center for Environmental Research and Training (CENICA) and raised the topic of General Management of Climate Change within the National Institute of Ecology. He is currently the founding Executive Director of the Ms of climate mitigation efforts in our country |
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Mauricio Bonilla | Mr. Mauricio Bonilla is a corporate sustainability professional with more than 14 years of experience building alliances, raising awareness and designing strategies in companies, government, media and civil organizations. As a passionate promoter of corporate responsibility and sustainability, he enjoys developing programs that improve the competitiveness of organizations. He has served as the sustainability leader of the Dutch fashion company C&A in México, and was the global head of sustainability at Grupo Bimbo. Mr. Bonilla has developed independent projects of civil organizations, consulting and communication and also worked in the federal government in the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris). He has been a university teacher at UNAM and the Iberoamerican University on business sustainability. Mr. Bonilla is a graduate of UNAM and Master of Science in Business Sustainability by Imperial College London. |
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Mtro. Leonardo Beltrán, Board Member of SEforALL, Board Member of Fundacion Por Mexico, Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of the Americas, Executive Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary | Leonardo Beltran is a non-resident fellow at the Institute of the Americas, and an executive fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. He is also serving his second three-year term on the Administrative Board of Sustainable Energy for All. Mr. Beltran has had a distinguished 13-year career in public service in the government of Mexico, including as the longest serving Deputy Secretary of Energy (2012-2018). Mr. Beltran is currently also a member of the Advisory Board of the Just Transition Initiative (partnership between the Climate Investment Funds and the Center for Strategic and International Studies), a member of the Board of Fundación Por México (NGO focused on providing educational services to underserved communities), a member of the IPS International Association (global news agency) and is a member of the expert´s network of the World Economic Forum. He is also consulting the Inter-American Development Bank, the Latin American Energy Organization, and the World Bank on issues surrounding the energy transition. Mr. Beltran is a leading expert in the energy transition, he has been named several times as one of the most influential leaders in the energy sector in Mexico and personality of the year in renewable energy (including in 2018). |
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Raúl Eric Talán Ramírez | Engineer in Electrical and Electronic Communications from the Institute National Polytechnic IPN.Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the CINVESTAV of the IPN.Doctorate Ph.D. in Engineering in the specialty of Research of Operations by the University of California Los Angeles UCLA. In the Education Sector, he has been General Director of the National Polytechnic Institute and Undersecretary of Education and Technological Research. He has been an external consultant of the World Bank supporting reforms to the technological education systems of several Latin American countries. In the last eight years he has served as General Director of the Trust for the Saving of Electric Energy. He has participated as a speaker in different national and international congresses in the specialties of education, transportation engineering and energy efficiency; has several publications in these professional fields. He is a full member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering participating in your industrial engineering coordination. |
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Rodolfo Romero | Rodolfo Romero, Comunidad Jaguati, Pueblo Pai Tabyterā ,Departamento del Amambay.Paraguay
From the Pai Tavytera people, Jaguati community, of the Amambay Department in Paraguay, I would like to share with you about our culture, about the culture of the Pai peoples, we recently culminated with the baptism of children, culturally speaking, here we are always strengthening our culture, the culture of the Pai peoples. For more or less three years we have been strong in our culture again and after the arrival of the nuns who tried to end our culture and we resist. Now again all those in the community have left and we began to perform rituals again, the baptisms of the children and we began to strengthen ourselves again, we are going to continue stronger each time. For our community the environment must be conserved, luckily we do not have monocultures and we are always conserving our rivers, streams, our hills and forests. Always trying to conserve to strengthen our culture because we, the indigenous, have a close relationship with nature. We indigenous peoples are nothing without nature! |
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Dr. Manuel Diaz, Director, FUNVIVE | President of the International Green Life Foundation (FUNVIVE Global Director of the Green Citizen Foundation and of the POP Movement (Protect Our Planet) Global Director of the Global Green President of FUNSEIN and Vice President of IUTSI Environmental Volunteer of the Embassy of Activists for Peace. Former President of the Association of Executives of the Carabobo State AEEC He was General Manager of Ecovisión, the regional ecological channel of Venezuela • Former President of the Environmental Foundation AVE Kathy Pheps Former President of IAMCORENA and IAMCREDIGUA. Former Vice President of the Venezuelan Society of Environmental Law, National Prize for Environmental Conservation, Founder of the Venezuelan Ecological Movement (MOVEV). NOHE Honorary Ambassador. Former Executive Co-president of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas. Environmental Person of the Year in the Virtual Congress Another World is Possible. Diversity winner of more recognitions, with his natural green chemistry, his gift of good people, his capacity for sustainable work, a friend of the environment, ecological professor, Ecological Ambassador, environmental lawyer and Green Citizen. |
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Nayelly Hernández Crespo | Nayelli has a background in BSc Business Management and Leadership, and an MBA in International Business Management and Leadership. She is an entrepreneur and has over 14 years of experience in the Renewable Energy field. She has dedicated her personal life to social and environmental activism. She is the former National Vicepresident of Social Responsibility and Sustainability of Young Entrepreneurs in the Mexican National Chamber of Commerce. She has been National Delegate of G20 YEA. She is the former Vicepresident of the Mexican National Council of Public Policy Development for Youth. She is a Latin American mentor for the Climate Reality Project. She has been awarded with the Green Ring by Al Gore, for her impact-focused commitment to climate change activism. She is the Ambassador of the WED (Women’s Entrepreneurship Day) movement for the Southeast region in Mexico.
As National Projects Director of the organization Social Enterprise Communities (CREA for its acronym in Spanish), her actions have benefited more than five thousand women-led SMEs in the region. This experience has allowed her to specialize in the generation, application and evaluation of methodologies for the economic empowerment of women, in collaboration with international organizations such as the World Bank. She holds an SBE Social, Behavioral, and Educational certification. |
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M. en C. Luis Omar Masias Ambríz
Unidad de Investigación en Ambiente y Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente |
Graduate in biology from the University of the West, collaborating member of the Environmental and Health Unit of the Autonomous University of the West in the line of monitoring damage due to exposure to pesticides, first graduate of the UAdeO from the multi-site plan of the Master’s and Doctorate Program in Medical Sciences, Dentists and health of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and currently a PhD student in Sustainability of the Autonomous University of the West Regional Unit Guasave. |
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Mtro. Raúl Montiel Calderón
Fundador y Director Ejecutivo de GreenPretzel |
Engineer by the Metropolitan Polytechnic University of Hidalgo with studies at Texas A&M University, the School of Government of the Organization of American States and Harvard University. She is currently a master in Socio-environmental Business Administration at the University of the Environment.
He is the Founder and Executive Director of GreenPretzel, Agencia de Innovación Socioambiental, also Ambassador of MY World Mexico, an official initiative of the United Nations Action Campaign for the Sustainable Development Goals.He has mentored various projects in spaces such as Startup Weekend, Talent Hackathon, Hult Prize and MassChallenge, also collaborating as a judge for Enactus, CONIES and Posible Mexico. Lecturer in innovation, social entrepreneurship and development |
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Dr. Alisson Oliveira
Profesor adjunto de la Universidad de Sergipe, Campus Sertao, BRASIL |
Graduated in Agronomic Engineering from the Federal University of Sergipe, with a master’s degree in Agroecosystems from the Federal University of Sergipe as well, and a Phd in Agronomy/Phytotechnics from the Federal University of Lavras. He is currently Associate Professor A of the Federal University of Sergipe/Campus of Sertão. |
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Chief Diego Toj | Active Member of the CRIMMS and Director of Art, Culture and International Tourism. Age: 60 a. native from the world. Proud of his identity and Indigenous roots, according to the 2nd Constitution. Trainer and speaker of the Mam 'language of the Sierra Coast and Southern Border of Mexico. Cultural Promoter and Independent Pre-Columbian Researcher. Defender of Human Rights of the Maya Mam 'Ethnicity of Soconusco Chiapas that are on the way to extinction. Active Member and Advisor of CIESEM. Mission of Life: Claim to promote, Empower and Strengthen Ancestral Science in all Fields of Knowledge and apply them in daily Living. Preserve and disseminate the material and intangible Autochthonous Heritage of humanity, through a real and sustainable Tourism. Empower the good Living and well-being of the Original families of the planet through a better distribution of Wealth. Prepare, Obey and Spread the teachings of the Wise Grandparents of the Stars for these generations. Given in the Year: 5,129 of the Mayan Era. Today is the AjawKawoq .Xhj'ontyaQ'ma God tun ta atwiye 'tsalu', Thank you TataDios for being here ... In Mam 'language ... TlazokamàtyÓmeteotl .GrcsÓmeteotl in Nahoa language. |
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Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, Mexican Politician | He is a Mexican politician and economist. From September 9, 2011 to December 1, 2012, he was head of the Ministry of Health of his country. 1 He was also in charge of the Secretariat of Economic Development of Mexico City from December 5, 2012 to December 9, 2017. |
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Dr. Chris Dickey | Dr. Chris Dickey leads the Global and Environmental Health Program (GEPH) at NYU’s School of Global Public Health (GPH). GEPH is the largest academic entity within GPH, with more than 220 students, 3 MPH degrees, 3 Certificate Programs, and 9 faculty members.
Dr. Dickey is an international development innovator and public health entrepreneur whose work seeks to develop sustainable public health models and to forge bonds between the academic community and practitioners in the field. He sees the challenges facing public health - vast health inequities, applied skills gaps among public health professionals, weak community health systems, and shrinking research budgets - and seeks to reimagine sustainable solutions through a multidisciplinary approach. Through a learning model that combines systems thinking, bottleneck analysis, innovation, and implementable projects - in partnership with WHO, UNICEF, WFP, and several universities in the Global South - Dr. Dickey leads[a] a series of courses in which international public health professionals and public health students learn and work together on real world problems. Additionally, Dr. Dickey founded and mentors the Applied Global Public Health Initiative, where students have the opportunity to work on a series of projects on behalf of Global Health sponsors. Dr. Dickey has a DrPH from the Mailman School at Columbia University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier in his career, he co-founded a company that provides clean water and primary care in villages in Northern India. |
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Dr. Raghavan Seetharaman, Doha Bank | Dr. Raghavan Seetharaman is the Group CEO of Doha Bank (DSM:DHBK). Set up in 1978, Doha Bank is one of the largest commercial banks in Qatar. In 2015, business magazine Forbes ranked Seetharaman 6th in the Forbes’ Top Indian Leaders in the Arab World 2015 list. |
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Professor Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State | Prof. Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC).
Mann is the author of several books including his most recent work, The New Climate War, which shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. |
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Dr. Belko Abdoul Aziz Diallo, WASCAL | Diallo Belko Abdoul Aziz, PhD (male) is a geomatics and big data management scientist. He joined WASCAL in May 2016 as senior data manager and head of IT. He is now a data management scientist and head of the Data Management Department. He is experienced in planning and coordination of data management strategies and activities, supervision, and implementation of IT infrastructure for data management and the installation of data management software. He also has experience in the development of databases and data sharing policies and initiatives, supervision of data collection from national meteorological agencies and data provision to internal and external researchers and stakeholders. Thus, he is lead administrator of the WASCAL Data Infrastructure (WADI) repositories and Portals (WADIREP), which are used for the collection, storage, management, discovery, access, sharing, and dissemination of data. He also leads the provision of IT expertise and support services to administrative and scientific staff of WASCAL. He has cumulated, in Burkina Faso and Canada, more than fifteen years’ experience in IT, geoinformatics, big data sciences (Data Management, Business Intelligence, and Data Mining), software development, as well as web and mobile computing. He has publications in several international peer-reviewed journals and has presented at many conferences. Dr. Diallo is a trained drone pilot. |
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Dra. Izarelly Rosillo Pantoja, Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico (Pantokha) | A Doctor of Law from the Autonomous University of Querétaro, Dr. Izarelly Rosillo Pantoja is a researcher, and trial lawyer in human rights, climate change, and environment. She is a part of the WSDF local organizing Committee and during her career, she holds the record for the development of 20 local laws and 3 international laws for México, as well as their impact on the development of various plans and programs in the field of environment. She has worked for various international and national organizations and authorities such as World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Germany Agency for International Cooperation GIZ, Japan. International Cooperation Agency JICA, Ministry of Environment of Peru, Dominican Republic, Semarnat, Chamber of Deputies in México, local governments and much more. She has received various distinctions due to her experience in the field of environment. They include Ignacio Ruíz Calado Presa distinction awarded to distinguished Queretaro people, in the year 2019 by H. Municipality of the Municipality of Querétaro, México and Honorable Mention of the 1st National Prize of Research “Women's Rights and Equality of Gender ”, the distinction made in the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican state. She has authored various books and articles published in national and international journals and is currently a member of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) in México. |
| Dr. Isidro A. Gutiérrez Álvarez, Director of the AGPHI UAQ Satellite | Dr. Isidro Gutiérrez was born in Mexico City, trained at the National Autonomous University of Mexico at the undergraduate level graduating in 1982, continued his specialty studies in the HR November 20 of the ISSSTE doing the specialty in Pediatrics, with subspecialty in Pediatric Hematooncology. Se settled in the city of Querétaro, where he combined his medical professional activity with the practice of teaching both at the upper secondary level and in different faculties of our University. Theauthor of several scientific articles and publications | |
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Jessica Castro, co-chair Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (JHBSPH CCP) Climate Action Community of Practice, Grants & Contracts Manager. | Ms. Jessica Castro has 15 years’ experience in International Development, managing grants and contracts on project areas ranging from Environment, Family Planning, to Tropical and Infectious Diseases implemented globally and most recently focused in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia. Throughout her career, she has worked to marry her background in Finance with her passion for the environment. Jessica has a background in International Business and an MSc in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University.
She is a founding and current co-Chair of Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Climate Action Community of Practice. In this role, she works to develop strategies on how Social and Behavior Change and Knowledge Management practices can be applied to support communities to adopt healthy behaviors that will contribute to more sustainable environmental practices. She works heavily with donors such as USAID, BMGF, Bayer Foundation and Merck to create more efficient financing and co-funding strategies in project implementation. She is the former co-Chair of the Sierra Club’s Cool Cities climate chapter in Washington, DC where she worked to advocate for the city to adopt more sustainable and eco-friendly transportation methods, as well as to engage the city’s youth in the process. She is also the former co-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Environmental Stewardship Committee. Her passion for environmental awareness and curation carries through to her personal life. In 2007, her wedding was featured in the Washington Post and on CNN as pioneering “green”/eco-friendly weddings – promoting the reduction of waste, carbon footprints and negative environmental impacts in the wedding industry. |
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Dr. Charles Rolsky, Plastic Oceans, Microplastics and Oceans | Dr. Charlie Rolsky is Director of Science, North America, for Plastic Oceans International. He serves as the host of Breaking It Down, a YouTube series from Plastic Oceans in which he simplifies science in fun and engaging way. He also conducts research at the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering where he works on marine and aquatic plastic pollution, a major concern within many ecosystems and environments around the world. Their identification, fate and impact are only now beginning to be understood, and Dr. Charles has developed several analytical tools to help improve this further. He collaborates with ASU’s Fulton School of Engineering on several microplastics projects, in addition to many groups worldwide, including Plastic Oceans. Dr. Charles also works on using non-invasive research methods to collect species health information, including fecal samples from wild species like killer whales. Having this information provides significant knowledge pertaining to stress, reproduction and overall species health. |
| Mauricio Rodríguez De la Cruz, Medicine student and active member of the Satelite Lab AGPHI - UAQ | Medicine student in the Autonomous University of Querétaro. She was part of the project “Integrated control of COVID-19 through immunomolecular diagnosis and vaccination” in the medical follow up area, from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro Integral Attention COVID Clinic. Active member of the Satellite Lab of Applied Global Public Health Initiative (AGPHI) - UAQ in the Climate Health area. Project leader of the “1st AGPHI International Summit of Public Health and Climate Change” of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and the NYU School of Global Public Health. | |
| Mtro. Oscar San Román Orozco | Born in Queretaro, Mexico; Oscar received his Medical Doctor degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro. There, he was President of the Student Council and the Students Federation. During his time there, he saw the relevance of PH Interventions and how important it is to innovate and be part of them. Oscar began to get involved with NGOs like the Newborn Foundation and implemented the BORN Project in Mexico. With this perspective, he decided to pursue a Master in on Global Public Health and an Advanced Certificate in PH Disaster Science. He co-coordinated, and now advises the Applied Global Public Health Initiative from the NYU School of Global Public Health; the AGPHI built satellite labs at NYU-Abu Dhabi and Queretaro, a Climate Change Task Force, and the most recent project, the International Summit on Climate Change and PH. His commitment to making a change is a value that has been reinforced throughout these projects, highlighting that every intervention must be built from a local perspective. | |
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Alexia Muñoz, Pharmacist Biology and Chemistry Student, CUCEI, University of Guadalajara | Student of chemistry pharmacy and biology at CUCEI University of Guadalajara. She is interested in climate change and public health. |
| Javier De La Llata Septién (Havier del yata), A law student from Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro | A law student of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ), participated in the Eighth Student Human Rights Olympiad, I took the diplomat named “México ante el Sistema Interamericano de DDHH”, I was staff in the Global Forum of Sustainable Development 2020, I got second place in the “Semillero de Investigadores 2020”, in the frame of the International Congress, Foreign Trade, Human Rights and Administrative Law. He is a nature and environmental lover, working every day to make this world better. | |
| Izarelly López Rosillo, Medicine Student, University of Queretaro | Medical student at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, she has participated as a speaker at various international conferences on Sustainable Development and Climate Change. At the age of 11, she wrote her first project on denim recycling to avoid the contamination of rivers and damage to health due to the ingestion of contaminated water, which was accepted in the International AIDIS Congress and for the first time a girl was given the opportunity to exhibit, from there on this congress opened the door for boys and girls to exhibit. | |
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Dr. Dina Mandour, Cairo University, Egypt | Dina Atef Mandour is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University. She obtained her PhD from Germany (University of Bonn) in 2006. Mandour’s main fields of interest include computable general equilibrium (CGEs) models, food security, gender, political economy and health policy. She has published on such topics in well reputed periodicals and worked in economic policy oriented centers and think tanks like the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies and Social Research Center at the American University in Cairo. |
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Bachelor of Law and Social Sciences, AD2 IPADE, 46 years old, father of 3 children, living in Monterrey, N.L. Mexico. I am a serial entrepreneur, I like to work in the telecommunications, fintech, artificial intelligence and clean energy industries. I really enjoy the initial stage of entrepreneurship as it is the first critical stage of any business where adversity and the desire to succeed bring out the best part of each person. | |
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Emmanuel Michael Emechete, Nigeria | Emmanuel Michael Emechete is an SDGs Advocate and a Technology enthusiast, He is the founder of a business and career Consulting firm called An-ointed Consult, and Orupa a renewable energy and climate change organization, which focuses on the use of technology in achieving the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and solving global issues; one of his recent initiatives is called STEM for SDGs (#STEM4SDGs). He is the Regional Focal Point for SDG8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) and SDG7 Clean and Affordable Energy United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth, and a project officer at Global Schools Program for the United Nations Sustainable Development Solution Network (UN SDSN).
Over the last three years, he has been actively involved in the technology, and Innovation sectors, and empowering young people with digital skills. He strongly believes in the use of sustainable technology and Innovative tools, in achieving the SDGs, reducing climate change and improving economic growth across the nations. His works have reached over 10,000 young people within and outside of Africa. |
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Dr Juan Carlos A. Sandoval Rivera | Analysis of socio-ecological learning processes in traditional sustainable practices of indigenous contexts through audiovisual methodologies.
The ESD Expert Net links experts from Germany, India, Mexico and South Africa in a global partnership. Driven by a joint vision of Education for Sustainable Development, we are working on the implementation of sustainability topics in the educational landscapes of individual countries. Our experts represent the widest variety of institutions in the network. Network partners include education and environment ministries, universities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). |
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TJ Higgins AO FAA FTSE, Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Agriculture and Food | TJ Higgins is an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture and Food. His current research focus is the application of gene technology for plant improvement. He is particularly interested in protecting food legumes from insect pests and enhancing photosynthesis in cowpeas for increased grain yield for food uses. Most of his current work is aimed at increasing food security in Africa and South Asia. His earlier work was on the biochemistry and molecular biology of legume seed proteins and their sulfur-containing amino acids.
Originally from Ireland, Higgins’ first degrees were in agricultural science from the National University of Ireland. He gained a PhD from the University of California, Davis and moved to Australia as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. Shortly after, he joined CSIRO Plant Industry, from which he retired as a Chief Research Scientist and Deputy Chief. |
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Ms Pauline Laravoire, Chief Sustainability Officer | Pauline hails from Paris. She holds a master’s degree in Sustainability and Social Innovation from HEC Paris and has developed her expertise in strategy consulting, social entrepreneurship and impact assessment, especially as the co-founder of non-profit AQWA, which supports social enterprises and NGOs through social impact assessment studies. In 2018, Pauline moved to Kolkata, where she joined Techno India Group as Sustainability Director. As such, she is striving to create more learning and professional opportunities for students in the sustainability sector, especially through her network-based venture Y-East. Overall, Pauline has developed expertise and passion for building communities of organisations towards sustainability, being notably associated with the following community-based ventures: Y-East, Youth for Sustainability India Alliance and #LearningPlanet |
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Vandana Saxena, Principal | With a career spanning over 30 years, Vandana Saxena’s journey has been diverse: as a teacher, a trainer, a manager in the corporate world and currently as the Principal of Tribune Model School, Chandigarh. Educated with masters in Zoology and a degree in Education from the University of Delhi she is a trained teacher counselor from the Institute of Counselor Training, Research and Consultancy, Bangalore.
Honing her skills of leadership from organizations such as the IIM, Ahmedabad she collaborated with global organizations such as Harvard University, Ashoka and the Global Education Leadership Foundation to deliver holistic learning programmes in the school. Driven by a vision for education reforms, she has designed tools and practices for an inclusive and stress-free learning environment conducive for developing 21st century skills. During her tenure, Ashoka elected Tribune Model School as one of the leading ‘Change Maker’ institutions. The ecosystem of the School featured in a documentary produced by India Today.Bestowed with the ‘Search Impact Award’, by The Energy Resources Institute, Gurgaon, she engaged with over 120 leading experts in the field of global education through the Round glass International community to co-create a curriculum for holistic wellbeing of school students. She is an avid yoga practitioner and prescribes mindfulness as a self-coaching tool to bring out the best version of us. |
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Mr Bernard Combes | Bernard Combes coordinates the implementation of UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for 2030 priority action areas on Accelerating local level actions and on Empowering and mobilizing youth to foster local networks and platforms for lifelong learning and multi-stakeholder collaboration to better integrate ESD programmes and perspectives into inter-generational dialogues, communities’ planning and decision-making processes. He is also the Education Sector focal point for biodiversity and UNESCO focal point for the Earth Charter, and among other things, works to reinforce cooperation with other agencies and stakeholders in Communication, Education and Public Awareness in the areas of biodiversity, water, oceans, cities and sustainable lifestyles. This has focused on providing technical advice and support for capacity building activities, and developing learning, teaching and awareness raising materials, in cooperation with UNESCO Associated Schools, UNESCO Chairs, other UNESCO sectors (notably Natural Sciences, Communication, Culture and World Heritage), other agencies (notably UNEP, UNU, CDB, FAO) and stakeholders (such as IUCN, WWF, IOC, youth groups, media and private sector). |
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Prof. Dr. Robert O'Donoghue, Emeritus Professor | Rob O’Donoghue is Professor Emeritus at the Environmental Learning Research Centre (ELRC), Rhodes University. In his research in environment and sustainability education, he has given close attention to indigenous knowledge practices and inclusive, action learning in post-colonial curriculum and community contexts. Recent work on transformative agency positions ESD as evaluative learning-to-change through co-engaged, ethics-led learning in the Handprint-CARE initiative with Engagement Global and CEE, Ahmedabad. This resource-based initiative with real-life story circles of care was undertaken in collaboration with colleagues in Mexico, Germany, India, Norway, Malaysia and Japan. The open-ended research and materials development work is centred on ‘learning to look after others to best care for ourselves and the surroundings we all share,’ the current challenge of learning to transition to a more just, peaceful and sustainability world together. |
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Norberto L. Fandos | Former teacher of the following houses of study: Higher Institute of the Teaching Staff of Art of Formosa. Argentina. Director - Prof. Of Engraving 3rd and 4th Year. - Work Composition and Analysis System. - Drawing - Morphology - Painting - Didactics of Children's Graphic Expression.National Institute of Art Teachers - Formosa.(Rector Normalizer - Prof. Of Drawing - History of Art.) Formosa Polyvalent Art Center (Head of the Ceramics Department - Professor of Drawing - Molding - Pottery and Decoration). Faculty of Humanities - National University of Formosa. (Professor of Art History in the Careers of History and Letters - Artistic Education in Special Education - Literature Expression Workshop) Robustiano Macedo Martínez Institute - Formosa.(Professor of Design and Plastic Arts.) Private School "Spaces" - Formosa (Prof. of Plastic Arts), Escuela Normal Superior "República del Paraguay" - Formosa. (Professor of Didactics of Plastic - Prof. Of Education). Higher Institute of Fine Arts - Asunción - Paraguay (General Coordinator of Careers - Professor of Didactics of Plastic Arts - Drawing - Morphology - Engraving.) Provincial Institute of Visual Arts “Gral. Manuel Belgrano ”Reconquista - Santa Fe - Argentina. (Professor of Drawing - Painting and Engraving.) Santa Catalina Labouré Private Institute - Clorinda - Formosa. (Professor of Art History.) - Other employment history : Secretary of Culture of the Municipality of Reconquista (SF), (Advisor in the Area of Plastic Arts. Ad-honorem.)Directorate of Culture of the Province of Formosa.(Ad-honorem Advisor, period 1994-1997.), SIPREFOR Teaching Guild - Formosa. (Coordinator of the interdisciplinary group of teachers in the artistic areas 1994-1995 and 1996 - Contract.) Society for the Protection of Education "Carlos Cleto Castañeda" - Formosa.(Secretary of Culture - mandate 1994-1995. Ad-honorem), National Secretary of Culture - Republic of Paraguay (Chief of Cabinet - 2003-2004-2005- 2006-2007-2008), Undersecretary of Culture. Province of Formosa.(Member of the advisory team). |
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Rajiv K Srivastava, Environmentalist, Act Now | Rajiv K Shrivastava is an educator, environment and climate activist. For almost 25 years he has been contributing to the field of education and environment. An educationist by profession, Rajiv founded Act Now (www.actnow.org.in), a global network for environmental awareness, climate action, sustainable development, and peace.
He has been Country Coordinator for Environment Online (ENO- www.enoprogramme.org) since 2000. ENO is a global virtual school and network for sustainable development based in Finland, and has presence in over 120 countries. Rajiv is Director, Glamanand Entertainment Pvt Ltd. Glamanand is currently one of world’s largest beauty pageant organizations that sends national winners to Miss International, Miss Earth, Miss Teen International, Miss Teen Diva, Miss Teen Universe and other International beauty pageants. Rajiv is one of Co-Founder, All Intellectuals Edu Leaders Society (AIELS). With a network of over 2000 educational leaders, AIELS is envisaged to nurture advocacy, development, and research of holistic and learner centric education systems of the country. |
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Mtro. Roberto Ayala
Director de Investigación y Postgrado, Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes |
Mgtr. in Arts Education Sciences, Dtor. Research and Postgraduate-ISBA, Dtor. from the Mother Earth Association, Sculptor, Full Professor de Escultura-ISBA, Researcher on Indigenous Peoples in Paraguay and Ethnodesarrollo. |
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Blanca Estela Gutierrez Barba | Doctor of Biology and Doctor of Education. Postgraduate teacher: Environmental Education, Sustainable Organizations and Institutions; Design and evaluation of educational innovation projects. She has eleven books as an author or co-author and one as a coordinator. She also has published seventeen chapters in other works and seventeen articles. She has supervised 20 graduate theses and 15 bachelor's theses. She has been a consultant for GIZ and CIBNOR of the conacyt. She has a patent and utility design for teaching materials. She has been an official and authority in the public and private sectors. She belongs to the Mexican Council for Educational Research (COMIE), the National Academy of Environmental Education (ANEA), she is a member of the National System of Level I Researchers and two Conacyt networks. She is currently researching on emotionality, spirituality, aesthetics, training of researchers. Third place in the national recycling competition 2011 and second in the 2012 science stage competition. |
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Dr. Christine | Christine is a marine conservation biologist and ocean advocate who is passionate about conserving sea turtles, fighting plastic pollution, and empowering women in STEM.
For over 15 years, Christine has applied her research globally to the conservation of sea turtles. She was thrust into the international spotlight in 2015 when she captured her research team in Costa Rica removing a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nose on film. The video quickly went viral and was a leading catalyst for the global anti-straw movement. As a result, global businesses, including Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, and Disney, removed plastic straws from their product offerings. In 2018, Chris was named a Next Generation Leader by TIME Magazine for her outreach work and was a finalist for Texan of the Year. Her work and research has been featured in documentaries, TV shows, public press articles and podcasts, including on BBC, National Geographic, ARTE, Science vs, and others. She is the director of science and education for the Footprint Foundation, where she inspires each one of us to help eliminate plastic from the environment and food chain by making everyday changes. She is still actively involved in sea turtle conservation through her Costa Rican non-profit, COASTS. |
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Dr. Arlene Blum | Arlene Blum PhD., biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer is Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute and a Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley. Blum’s research and policy work has contributed to preventing the use of flame retardants and other harmful chemicals in children’s sleepwear, furniture, electronics, and other products world-wide. Her current “mountain” is to educate decision makers and the public to reduce the use of entire classes of harmful chemicals in everyday products. |
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Olusola Oresanya
Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Malaria Consortium |
Dr Olusola Oresanya is Malaria Consortium’s Country Technical Coordinator in Nigeria. She provides technical oversight and support to all of our programmes in the country. This includes the DFID-funded SuNMaP 2. Olusola is presenting on an assessment of quality of delivery of seasonal malaria chemoprevention using low literate community health workers in Nigeria and on examining the feasibility of Community Health Worker delivery of Severe Acute Malnutrition treatment using an innovative simplified low-literacy protocol in Nigeria. |
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Dr. Saroj Pachauri, Public Health Specialist | As a public health physician, Dr. Pachauri has been extensively engaged with research on family planning, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and AIDS, and poverty, gender and youth. In 1996, she joined as Regional Director, South and East Asia, Population Council and established its regional office in New Delhi which she managed until 2014. In 2011, she was awarded the prestigious title of Distinguished Scholar, an honor rarely bestowed.
She worked with the Ford Foundation’s New Delhi Office (1983-1994) and supported child survival, women’s health, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV and AIDS programs. She worked with the International Fertility Research Program (IFRP) which was later renamed Family Health International (1971-1975) and the India Fertility Research Programme (1975-1983). She designed and monitored multi-centric clinical trials globally to assess the safety and effectiveness of fertility control technologies. During 1962-1971, as faculty of the Departments of Preventive and Social Medicine at the Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi and the Institute of Medicine Sciences, Varanasi, she helped to develop this new discipline. She has published 5 books and contributed chapters to 20 books. She has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and several articles in print media. |
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Wanjira Mathai | Wanjira Mathai is the Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at WRI. She formerly served as Co-chair of WRI’s Global Restoration Council and a Senior Advisor to the Global Restoration Initiative. She is the current Chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation and the former Chair of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. An inspiring leader, Wanjira has over 20 years of experience advocating for social and environmental change on both local and international platforms. Over the years, Wanjira has also served important strategic and advocacy roles raising the prominence and visibility of global issues such as climate change, youth leadership, sustainable energy, and landscape restoration, at Women Entrepreneurs in Renewables (wPOWER), the Wangari Maathai Foundation (WMF), and the Green Belt Movement (GBM) the organization her mother, Wangari Maathai (2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) founded in 1977. Wanjira currently serves on the Board of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and as a Leadership Council member of the Clean Cooking Alliance. Wanjira is one of a few Six Seconds EQ Practitioners in Kenya and was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Women in 2018 and 2020. |
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Madhubala Nath, Gender Specialist | Madhu Bala Nath started her career in the early eighties as a Women in Development Officer with the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) in India. She moved on to working at the policy level with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) as its Regional Director for in India and Indo China. In 1994, Madhu started work on HIV/AIDS with UNDP and later with UNAIDS as its Regional Policy Advisor. In the new millennium, she worked with UN Women in South Asia as its Regional Policy Advisor on issues of violence against women, gender responsive governance, women, peace and security, economic empowerment, and gender responsive planning and budgeting. Madhu also served as Regional Director for South Asia for the International Planned Parenthood Federation and as Country Director for Engender Health.
She has authored three books entitled, ‘….and then she stirred’, ‘From Tragedy Towards Hope’, and ‘May I Have Your Attention Please?’ She has developed two capacity building tools namely a training manual on ‘Gender, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights’ and a resource guide on ‘How to Empower Women to Negotiate Safe Sex’. Madhu is currently serving on the board of directors of four organizations namely Havells Electronic Private Limited (HPL) Power, Charities Aid Foundation, HIV/AIDS Alliance India, and Population Services International. She is on the advisory committee of ‘Roshni’, a project being implemented by Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi. |
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Prof. Mila Popovich, Founder, Evolving Leadership | Prof. Mila Popovich is the voice of the emerging global standards and ethical leadership in the fields of science and technology, education, economy, and democratic systems. She is the Founder of EVOLving Leadership (https://milapopovich.com/), a transformational program and consultancy for business and social leadership. An international lecturer and speaker, Prof. Popovich specializes in ecological literacy and sustainability, value drivers of the new economies, peace and cultural diplomacy, new paradigm of human development, and creative sides to future making. She is the Chair of the Nominations Committee at the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) and a Director on the Board of the World University Consortium. Prof. Popovich is an Associate Expert at the European Commission and is appointed the Head of Research and Development on Global Leadership in the 21st Century, a joint project by the United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Academy. As a futurist, she is a member of the Millennium Project, a renowned global futures think tank. As a proponent of eco-conscious and socially responsible business, she is a Member of the Executive Committee of Ethical Markets Media and an Expert at the Katerva Award, the so-called Nobel Prize in Sustainability. |
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Diels Ludo | Prof. Ludo Diels, Dr. in chemistry & biotechnology, is active as professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp. He teaches environmental stress, water treatment and coping with global change.
He is the chairman of the Industrial Research and Innovation Agenda Group of the Public – Private – Partnership SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry by Resource and Energy Efficiency) bringing together 10 large industrial sectors (chemistry, steel, cement, minerals, non-ferrous, engineering, ceramics, water, refining, pulp & paper) and chairing these sectors towards climate neutrality, circularity and competitiveness via the Processes4Planet Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. He is strongly involved in the set up of a biobased economy in Flanders and Europe, and the collaboration between Europe and India on bio-economy and water business. He is a founding father and now chairman of the advisory board of the Shared Research Centre on Bio-aromatics (BIORIZON). He is also founding father of the BioInnovation for Growth Cluster of the trilateral alliance between Flanders, the Netherlands and NordRhein Westfalia and the Vanguard Initiative on Interregional Smart Specialisation for bio-aromatics. He is also working on the combination of bio-economy and circular economy with a strong emphasis on the use of wood and wood residues (strong focus on lignin) for integrated applications in many sectors with a first focus on construction materials. He is senior advisor Sustainable Chemistry for the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) in Mol, Belgium and supports the G-STIC2021 conference in Dubai. |
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Professor Michael Mann | Prof. Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC).
Mann is the author of several books including his most recent work, The New Climate War, which shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. |
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Heidi Cuppari, Dream Tank | She is the Founder & Executive Director of Dream Tank, a public speaker, mentor, and impact investing advisor at Heidi Cuppari LLC, a Council Member at The Digital Economist, a mother of two, and an advisor/board member to social enterprises. Dream Tank is a social entrepreneurship accelerator and think tank for youth to unleash their creative genius and collaborate with leaders across sectors to create a more just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of youth innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. The Digital Economist is a global impact organization with the mission to drive technological convergence for a human-centered Digital Economy by bringing investable opportunities, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, to the fore. Her activities in tech, entrepreneurship, impact investing and more are designed to bridge traditional financial client support approaches and relationship-based innovations. She activates — and supports maximizing the global impact of — Millennials and women investors through strategic collaboration and collective paradigm alignment, and social entrepreneurs of all ages - all towards the end of achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. While at UBS, her meta-niche was increasing global systems shifts through broadening the scope of investment opportunities and retargeting their financial resources specifically on constructive social change. Prior to this, she was the creatrix of the iDE Ambassador Group: a consortium of high net-worth benefactors who invested time, capital, and skill directly into the iDE. She believes in blockchain and cryptocurrency for social impact, NFTs for artist empowerment and more, metaverse creation and interconnection for education and more, and helps steward Investor Relations for a carefully curated and vetted set of ventures. In her career, volunteerism, devoted motherhood, and relationships, Heidi walks her mission’s talk: manifesting a healed planet and a peaceful world by aligning global social impact with collaborative and collective action. |
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