Speakers

Aziz Abdukhakimov

Chairman of the National Committee on Ecology and Climate Change, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

National Committee on Ecology and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Caoimhe Adams

Chief Climate Officer

Robert Agenonga

Member of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Grethel Aguilar

Director General

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Malin Ahlberg

Deputy Head of the Division “International Climate Finance, Carbon Markets and Transformation Finance”

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Noor Ahmad Zidan

Thomas Alexander

Technical Input - Head of Department

Suleikha Ali Yusuf

Director of Partnerships and Resource Mobilization

Lutfihak Alpkan

Deputy Minister

Farheen Altaf

CDP's Climate and Resilience Lead

Carbon Disclosure Project

Hira Amjad

DASTAK Foundation

Alice Amorim

Programme Director

Tomas Anker Christensen

EU Special Coordinator for the Global Clean Transition

Isaac Anthony

Chief Executive Officer

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)

Irawan Asaad

Director of Resource Mobilization for Climate Change Management

Mirey Atallah

Head of Adaptation and Reslience Branch

UNEP

Marcelo Augusto Boechat Morandi

Head of Office of International Relations, EMBRAPA, Brazil

Mustafa Aydoğdu

Advisor

Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Türkiye

Lisa Badum

Spokesperson for climate policy, Alliance 90/The Greens

German Bundestag

Özlem Bakirel

Member of the Board of Directors, Kademir Çelik Sanayi

Florence Bauer

Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Martial Bernoux

Climate Change Team Leader and Senior Natural Resources Officer

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Caterina Bittendorf

PUSH Sweden

Bryan Bixcul

Director of Advocacy and Partnerships

SIRGE Coalition

Jill Blockhus

Senior policy leader African Wildlife Foundation

Robin Bohn Teixeira

Senior Cimate Risk Economist

Alexander Bonde

Secretary General

German Federal Environmental Foundation / Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Nataly Borges

Sustainability Director

AB InBev / AmBev

Marike Brady

Director

Global Shield against Climate Risks

Victoria Brandemann

Researcher, International Climate Policy Research Division

Katherine Braun

Senior Policy Advisor on Migration and Human Rights

Nordkirche

Tonni Brodber

Head of Secretariat

Clare Brosnan

Irish Ambassador to Türkiye

Rümeysa Çamdereli

Research Director

Guilherme Canela de Souza Godoi

UNESCO

Liliam Chagas

COP 30 Lead Negotiator and Director for Climate

Suman Chandra

Director

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)

Calvin Chong

Divisional Director, Energy and Climate Policy Division

Nikos Chrysogelos

City Councilor and Deputy Mayor for Climate Governance and Social Economy

City of Athens

Eugenia D'Asero

Student

Agnes da Costa

Director

Ugochi Daniels

Deputy Director General for Operations

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Sophia Dasch

Environmental Psychologist

ConPolicy

Selamawit Desta Wubet

Senior Policy Advisor for Ethiopian Government on COP31

Annette Detken

Head

Global Shield Solutions Platform (GSSP)

Manjeet Dhakal

Luca Di Mario

Principal Urban Development Specialist

Hauke Diederich

Head of Climate Innovations

Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Tuğba Di̇nçbaş

Director of COP31 Action Agenda and Deputy Director, Climate Change Directorate

Aïda Diongue-Niang

Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

Assistant Directors-General

UNESCO

David Döhrmann

Head of Sustainability

Marcel Dorsch

CODES Coordinator & Senior Researcher

Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)

Prof. Dr. Diana Pretzell

First Mayor of the City of Mannheim/Germany, responsible for Citizens' Service, Environment and Technical Operations

City of Mannheim

Sabine Drees

Manager for Foreign Affairs

Amy Duchelle

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Martin Eckert

Global Head Government Affairs, thyssenkrupp Decarbon Technologies

Mohamed EDABBAR

Policy Officer for Peace and Security

United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY)

Jörg Eigendorf

Chief Sustainability Officer

Mike Enskat

Director - Innovation and Technology Centre (IITC)

IRENA - International Renewable Energy Agency

Thomas Eriksson

Director of the Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East Region, Green Climate Fund

Green Climate Fund

Susanne Etti

General Manager Climate

Benoit Faraco

Ambassador for Climate Negotiations, Decarbonised Energy and Climate Risk Prevention

Katharina Fegebank

Second Mayor and Senator for the Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Bereket Fesehatsion

Minister

Francesco Flores

ALPICAM - GRUMCAM

Hellen Freitas

Katie Gallus

Moderator

Cristina Gamboa

CEO

World Green Building Council

Elena Georgiadi

LIFE - Bildung Umwelt Chancengleichheit e.V.

Meg Gingrich

Assistant to the National Director

Maria Juliana Gonzalias Mosquera

Barranquilla +20, Colombia

Thomas Guillot

CEO Clobal Cement and Concrete Association

Viktor Haase

State Secretary

Viktor Haase

State Secretary

Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Aljoscha Hartmann

Hazel Healy

UK DeSmog's Editor-in-Chief

Claudia Heidecke

Patricia Heimann

Head of international unit

Sarah Hendriks

UN Women

Heike Henn

State Secretary

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Kathrin Henneberger

Public Policy Advisor at Plant-for-the-Planet

Plant-for-the-Planet

Rachel Anne Herrera

Commissioner, Climate Change Commission, Philippines

Malte Heyne

CEO

Hamburg Chamber of Commerce

Sally Higgins

COP31 Presidency Youth Climate Champion

Wopke Hoekstra

European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth

European Commission

Stephanie Hohendorff

Team Lead Steering Sustainable Finance

KfW

Niklas Höhne

Co-Founder

NewClimate Institute

Diane Holdorf

Executive Vice President

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

Managing Director

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Jens Hürdler

Senior Expert Agricultural Emissions

Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Former Chair United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

Selen İnal

Solution Pitcher

Georgia Iordanescu

Chief, Sustainable Energy and Just Transition Unit, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Valerie Isaac

Division Chief, Environmental Sustainability Division

Caribbean Development Bank

Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva

Chair of the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee & Brazilian Diplomat

Johannes Jacob

Lead for Data and AI Innovation

BMZ Data Lab

Mariama Ndow Jarju

Director, Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU)

Jan--Moritz Jericke

Program Management Climate Protection

Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Dan Jones

Global Advocacy Lead

Somya Joshi

Research Director

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

Rolf-Dieter Jungk

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Max Jungmann

Executive Manager/CEO

Susanne Kadner

Co-Founder

Circular Republic

Hussein Kassim

National ACE Focal Point Ghana

Jürgen Kern

Chief Sustainability Officer

KfW

Ashish Khanna

Director General

Kathryn Kigaraba

CEO

Tanzania National Carbon Monitoring Centre (NCMC)

Göksel Korkmaz

President

Stefan Körzell

Vice President

Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB)

Thomas Kralinski

Director General for National and European Climate Action

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Patricia Kramarz

Senior Advocacy Manager Global Health

Save the Children Germany

Martin Krause

Director of Climate Change Division

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Edson Krenak

Indigenous Global Advocacy Coordinator and Brazil Program Manager

Cultural Survival

Elmar Kriegler

Head of Research Department "Transformation Pathways"

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Chetan Kumar

Global Head, Forest and Grasslands Team

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Vera Künzel

Germanwatch

Murat Kurum

Minister for Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Türkiye

Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Türkiye

Eleni Kyrou

Head of Sustainability and Inclusion, Green Climate Fund

Gernot Laganda

Global Practice Director for Climate & Environment

UNICEF

Uwe Lauber

CEO

Everllence

Mark Lawrence

Scientific Director, Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS)

Mark Lawrence

Research Institute for Sustainability RIFS

Emmanuel Letebele

Manager

Lina Liakou

Co-Managing Director

Resilient Cities Network

Holger Lösch

Deputy Managing Director

Federation of German Industries (BDI)

Jan Lublinski

Head of Department Policy, Dialogue and Education | DW Akademie

Petter Lydén

Head of Division – International Climate Policy

Germanwatch

Motsomi Maletjane

Manager, Review Subdivision Adaptation Division

Adalberto Maluf

National Secretary

Idrees Malyar

Water Resilience Tracker Director

Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

Hemant Mandal

Director of the Department of the Asia and the Pacific Region at the Green Climate Fund

Green Climate Fund

Eric Manzi

Deputy General Secretary

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Ricardo Marshall

Director of Programme

Chiara Martinelli

Director of CAN Europe

David Maslo

Chief Executive Officer

African Risk Capacity (ARC)

Katja Matthes

Director

Amanda McKee

Director

Sophia Mendelsohn

Chief Sustainability Officer

SAP

Grégoire Merrheim

Climate and environmental diplomacy officer, International relations delegation, City of Paris, France

Mathilde Mesnard

Deputy Director

OECD

Dirk Messner

President

German Environment Agency (UBA)

Marc Meunier

Policy Advisor Methane and Air Quality

Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)

Wendy Miles

Specialist in international arbitration

Gerald Miles

Vice President, Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Conservation Society

Wendy Miles

Vice Chair, ICC Global Environment & Energy Commission; Chair, ICC Carbon Pricing Working Group

ICC - International Chamber of Commerce

Sabine Minninger

Senior Policy Advisor on Climate Change

Brot für die Welt

Alisher Mirzabaev

Senior Scientist, Policy Analysis and Climate Change

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Frederik Moch

Head of the Structural, Industry and Service Policy Department

Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB)

Annett Möhner

Secretary of the IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC

Karabo Mokgonyana

Energy Co-Lead Power Shift Africa

Boitumelo Molete

Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Clare Colleran Molloy

Councillor

Aditi Mukherji

Principal Scientist - Climate Action and Lead - Livestock and Climate Solutions Hub

Felix Müller

Vice President Trading Regulatory Affairs

SEFE - Securing Energy for Europe

Mandakh Namkhairinchen

Director Policy and Planning Department

Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Mongolia

Marcos Neto

UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of Bureau for Policy and Programme Support

Robin Nowok

Specialist Data 4 Development

GIZ Data Lab

Marie Nyange Ndambo

Minister of Environment, Development & New Climate Economy Democratic Republic of the Congo

Claas Oehlmann

Managing Director of the BDI Circular Economy Initiative

Federation of German Industries (BDI)

Amanda Ohara

Senior Energy Advisor for COP30 Presidency of Brazil

Harsh Pati Singhania

Chair International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Dimitri Pescia

Director of Power System Transformation

Agora Energiewende

Mark Peters

CEO

Urban Water Catalyst Initiative

María Petrera

Team Lead - Climate Ambition, Department for Green Diplomacy and Climate

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Stefanie Pfahl

Head of Subdivision International and Bilateral Cooperation of the German Ministry of the Environment

Geraldine Pflieger

Prof

Revati Phalkey

Global Director

UNU Global Health

Vivian Phetla

Programmes Coordinator

Jan Philipp Rohde

Policy Officer for Enviroment, Climate and Sustainability

Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB)

Birgit Pickel

Director-General for Sustainable Development and Climate

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Joaquim Pintado Nunes

Chief, ILO Branch on Occupational Safety and Health and Working Environment

Hans-Otto Pörtner

Ecophysiologist and climate scientiest

German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

Janez Potočnik

Co-Chair

International Resource Panel (IRP)

Tabea Pottiez

Senior Expert Energy and Climate

Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)

Milena Pressentin

Senior Policy Adviser, Energy and Climate Protection

Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)

Dagmar Pruin

President

Babitha PS

Simon Rabaa

Senior Policy Officer for International Sectoral Climate Action

Viviane Raddatz

Klima-Allianz Deutschland e.V.

Ali Raza Rizvi

Director, Global Climate Change & Energy Transition Team

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Matias Rebello Cardomingo

Undersecretary for Sustainable Economic Development

André Riemer

Head of Unit

Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB)

Eva Riesenhuber

Global Head of Sustainability

Matt Robinson

Executive Director

Robert Robinson

Senior Advisor at Partners for Dignity and Rights, Adjunct Professor of Urbanism at the New School

Vera Rodenhoff

Deputy Director General for International Climate Action, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Carsten Rolle

Co-Director Energy, Transport, Environment

Federation of German Industries (BDI)

Carina Rolly

Head of Policy & Advocacy

ADRA Germany

Claudia Roth

Member of the German Bundestag

Anne Roth

Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH)

Dieter Rothenberger

Cluster Coordinator Global Water Programmes GIZ / Former member UWCI Supervisory Council

GIZ

Wara Iris Ruiz Condori

LAYCS Just Transition Fellow

Latin American Youth Climate Scholarship (LAYCS)

Johann Saathoff

Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Goksen Sahin

Policy and Advoacacy Lead

ICLEI Europe

Dr. Sandra Barteit

Sutanuka Sarkar

Deputy Director

Charlotte Scaddan

Senior Adviser on Information Integrity

Laura Schäfer

Co-Head of Division for International Climate Policy

Germanwatch

Gerhard Schlaudraff

Director-General International Environmental Protection and Climate Action

Stephan Schnabel

CEO

HELM AG

Carsten Schneider

Federal Minister

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Miranda Schnitger

Climate Lead

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Anne Schönhagen

Director of Goethe-Institut Izmir

Goethe-Institut e.V.

Janina Schreiber

Journalist

Jan Schwarz

Communication and Campaign Specialist

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

Parliamentary State Secretary

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Anja Schwetje

Scientific Officer, German Environment Agency (UBA)

Emmanuel Seck

Executive Director

Ali Segura Moran

Tewaney Seifesellassie Yohannes

Senior Climate Advisor and Head of the Peace, Advocacy and Ethics Department

Ethiopian Orthodox Church Development and Inter-Church Aid Commission

Veysel Selimoglu

Head of the Department of Technology and Green Transition

Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Türkiye

Shamini Selvaratnam

Director, International Climate and Clean Energy

Ocean Conservancy

Bahodur Sheralizoda

Chairman of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

Benedikt Signer

Chief Executive Officer and Board Director

SEADRIF Insurance Company

Erin Sikorsky

Director

Harjeet Singh

Strategic Advisor

Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative

James Skea

Chair

Gabrielle Sodré

LAYCS Just Transtion Fellow

Latin American Youth Climate Scholarship (LAYCS)

Vera Songwe

Chair and Founder

Marcus Stewart

Head of Secretariat

Tobias Stricker

Director Strategic Investments

Malcolm Stufkens

Vice Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Honduras

THA Suchart Chomklin

Minister for Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand

Niclas Svenningsen

Manager for mitigation at the UNFCCC Secretariat

United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Sostina Takure

National Coordinator

ACT Alliance

Maina Vakafua Talia

Minister for Home Affairs, Climate Change, and Environment of Tuvalu

Muluneh Tesfaye

Catholic Caritas Ethiopia

Akyl Toktobaev

Minister of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic

Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic

Hiparidi Top Tiro

General Coordinator of Rede Cerrado

Rede Cerrado

Maximo Torero

Chief Economist

Holger Treidel

Head of the Section Climate and Climate Policy

GIZ

Lilian Tschan

State Secretary

Raphael Tshimanga Muamba

Co-Chair: Congo Basin Science Initiative

Nicolai Tust

Chief Climate Officer

KfW Bankengruppe

Thomas Ungerbühler

Assistant Director

INTERPOL

Eric Usher

Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative

Fatma Varank

Deputy Minister and Chief Climate Negotiator

Heike Vesper

Chief Executive, Transformation & Policies at WWF Germany

Jose Villalobos

Kira Vinke

Co-Director

German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Janani Vivekananda

Director

adelphi

Christina Voigt

Professor - Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo

Johannes von Karczewski

Head of Government Affairs

Siemens Energy

Tania Vorwerk

Department Director General Climate, Environment and Health

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Hans-Jürgen Walter

Global Leader Sustainable Finance

Deloitte

Molly Walton

Director of Energy

Wen-Yu Weng

Executive Lead - Critical Minerals Mission

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Michael Werz

Senior Fellow

Sarah-Jane Wild

Operations Adviser to the CEO

Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC)

Stefan Wintels

CEO

KfW

Christoph Wolfrum

Director General Federal Foreign Office EU-Politics and Geoeconomics

Federal Foreign Office (AA)

Gloria Womitso

Head of Humanitarian Insurance

Frederic Ximeno Roca

Area Director for Climate Action & Metropolitan Agenda

Barcelona Metropolitan Region

Zafer Yenal

Sustainability and Food Security Studies Coordinator, Senior Scholar

Ulas Yildiz

Legal Advisor, Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations

International Organisation of Employers

Şenol Yildiz

General Directorate of Environmental Management, Deputy General Director

Jimmy Yoedsel

Connective Cities

Ming Zhang

World Bank Group Global Director for Urban, Subnational Finance, Tourism and Disaster Management

World Bank Group

Ting Jiang

Chairman of the Board

Guangdong International Engineering Consultant Co., Ltd

Shamsiyyah Umar

Founder

We are special Foundation

Oğulcan Christopher Coşkun

Partnerships & Resource Mobilization Lead, WFF Türkiye National Youth Chapter

World Food Forum Turkey Chapter