High-Level Speakers
H.E. Minister Enrique Martinez y Martinez
Secretary of Agriculture, Mexico
H.E. Minister María Cristina Morales Palarea
Minister of Environment, Paraguay
H.E. Minister Lorena Tapia Núñez
Minister of Environment, Ecuador
H.E Minister Belete Tafere
Minister of Environment and Forestry, Ethiopia
H.E. Minister Gabriel Vallejo López
Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia
H.E. Minister Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini
Minister of Agriculture, Costa Rica
H.E. Minister Roberto Gabriel Delgado
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Argentina
Bianca Jagger
Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation
Paul Polman
CEO of Unilever and Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Mark Burrows
Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Global Investment Banking Credit Suisse
Martin Bwalya
Head of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, NEPAD
Pavan Sukhdev
CEO of Green Initiatives for a Smart Tomorrow (GIST) and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador
Clément Chenost
Investment Manager, Moringa Partnership
Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias
Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
Tony Simons
Director General, World Agroforestry Centre
Heru Prasetyo
Head REDD+ Management Agency, Indonesia
Paula Caballero
Senior Director, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice at the World Bank
David Cooper
Director Science, Assessments and Monitoring Branch, Convention on Biological Diversity
Evelyn Nguleka
Acting President World Farmers’ Organisation
Simon Buckle
Head of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Water Division, Environment Directorate, OECD
Muriel Saragoussi
Scientific Manager, Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment (LBA), Amazonia
Per Pharo
Director of the Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
Christian del Valle
Founder and Manager Althelia Climate Fund
Keith Alger
Senior Vice President Americas and Africa, Rare
José Joaquín Campos Arce
Director General CATIE
Fabiola Muñoz-Dodero
Executive Director, Peruvian National Forest and Wildlife Service
Cándido Mezúa Salazar
Chairman of the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of Panama
Tião Viana
Governor of Acre, Brazil
Milo Stanojevich
Director of CARE Peru
Ruben Echeverría
Director General, CIAT
Grethel Aguilar
Regional Director, IUCN
Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia
Executive Vice-President, Andean Development Corporation
Session Speakers
Djimé Adoum
Executive Secretary of the Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
Paola Agostini
Coordinator TerrAfrica
Richie Ahuja
Regional Director Asia, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Jorge Alberto Aldazabal Soto
President of the Regional Government of Madre de Dios, Peru
Ane Alencar
Director, Amazon Scenarios Program, IPAM
Ken Alex
Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor of California
Arild Angelsen
Professor of economics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Alejandro Argumedo
Program Director, Asociación ANDES
José Berley Arista Arbildo
President of the Regional Government of Amazonas, Peru
Maria Josée Artist
Association of Indigenous Village Leaders in Suriname
Greg Asner
Faculty Scientist, Carnegie Department of Global Ecology
Nigel Asquith
Scientific Advisor, Bolivia Nature Foundation
Pedro Bara Neto
International Consultant
Ramiro Batzin
Director, Cotzil, Guatemala
Margarita Benavides
Deputy Director, Instituto del Bien Común, Peru
Mona Betour El Zoghbi
Pitcher at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Environmental consultant
Deborah Bossio
Director of Soil Research, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Georges Claver Boudzanga
National REDD + Coordinator, Republic of Congo
William Boyd
Senior Advisor Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force
Susan M. Braatz
Senior Forestry Officer, FAO
Josefina Braña Varela
Policy Director Forest and Climate Program, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Doug Brown
Director Agriculture and Food Security, World Vision International
Alexander Buck
Executive Director, IUFRO
Paulo Canaveira
Lead Negotiator on LULUCF, European Union
Sarah Carter
PhD candidate, Wageningen University
Benjamin Cashore
Professor of Environmental Governance and Political Science, Yale University
Gonzalo Castro de la Mata
President, Inspection Panel of the World Bank
Diji Chandrasekharan Behr
PROFOR Manager, World Bank Group
Edie Chang
Deputy Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
Tim Christophersen
Senior Programme Officer Forests and Climate Change, UNEP
Natalia Cisneros
Vice-President of the International Forestry Students' Association
Harry Clemens
Programme Officer Carbon Finance, Hivos
Ayesha Constable
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: University of the West Indies
Pascal Corbé
Communications Consultant
Carlos Alberto Cuellar Medina
Director General, Corporación Autónoma Regional del Alto Magdalena, Colombia
Christian Dannecker
Director Forestry and Land Use practice, South Pole Group
Crystal Davis
Senior Manager, World Resources Institute
Mark De Claro
Head REDD+ Unit, Forest Management Bureau, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Philippines
Veronique De Sy
PhD candidate, Wageningen University
Karl Deering
Climate Change Coordinator for Africa, CARE International
Guilherme do Prado
Diplomat, Brazil
Kate Dooley
PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
Marc Dourojeanni
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural University La Molina, Lima
Joanna Durbin
Director, Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance
Leslie L. Durschinger
Founder and Managing Director, Terra Global
Dave Ellis
Head of the Genetic Resources-Genebank, International Potato Center (CIP), Peru
Danaé Espinoza
Co-Founder, National Youth Water Network, Mexico
Ana Euler
Head Forest Institute of Amapá, Brazil
Evert Thomas
Associate Scientist, Bioversity International
Philip M. Fearnside
Researcher, Departamento de Ecología, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones de la Amazonia (INPA)
Conrad Feather
The Forest Peoples Programme
Erick Fernandes
Agriculture Advisor, World Bank Group
Francisco Fonseca
Researcher and Advocacy Advisor sustainable farming CEDECO
Gustavo Fonseca
Head of Natural Resources, Global Environment Facility
Laura Fontaine
Advisor, Natural Environment and Climate Issues World Vision International
Paula Fuentes
Project and Network Coordinator, Grupo de Financiamiento Climático para América Latina y el Caribe
Jason Funk
Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists
Pedro Gamio
Energy Coordinator, Ministry of Energy and Mining, Peru
Toby Gardner
Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Azeb Girmai
Climate Change Advocacy and Campaign Advisor, LDC Watch International
Carlos Gomez
REDD+ Coordinator, Panama
Sonia María González Molina
Director General for Environmental Research and Information, Ministry of Environment, Peru
Peter Graham
Leader of the WWF Forest and Climate Programme
Giacomo Grassi
Scientific Officer, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Lee Gross
Senior Manager, EcoAgriculture Partners
Mariella Güisa
National Forest Conservation Programme Specialist, Ministry of Environment, Peru
Sandra Guzman Luna
Coordinator, Climate Finance for Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Hayo Haanstra
Senior Policy Officer for Agriculture and Innovation, Ministry of Economic Affairs of The Netherlands
Matthew Hansen
Professor, University of Maryland
Ricardo Hernandez Sanchez
Undersecretary of Forest Development, Secretariat of Natural History and Environment, Chiapas, Mexico
Martin Herold
Professor for Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University
Irene Hofmeijer Merkeli
Youth Liaison Officer Ministry of Environment, Peru
Gerardo Honty
Investigator, Energy and Climate Change, Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES)
Naoko Ishii
CEO Global Environment Facility
Peter Aarup Iversen
UNFCCC Negotiator, Denmark
Andy Jarvis
Director Decision and Policy Analysis, CIAT
Michael Jenkins
President and CEO, Forest Trends
Florent Kaiser
Former president of the International Forestry Students Association
Aloysius M. Kamperewera
Director, Department of Environmental Affairs of Malawi’s Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment.
Valerie Kapos
Head of Programme, Climate Change and Biodiversity, UNEP-WCMC
Harrison S. Karnwea
Director, Liberian Forestry Development Authority
Deuteronomy Kasaro
National REDD+ Coordinator, Forestry Department, Zambia
Edit Kiss
Director of Business Development and Operations at Althelia Ecosphere
Rajan Kotru
Head Innovative Regional Program, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Tony La Viña
Dean of the Ateneo School of Government, Philippines
William Laguado Cervantes
Director, Ecosystems and Global Change Research Center, Carbon & Forests
Anne Larson
Principal Scientist, CIFOR
Grégoire Leclerc
Senior scientist, French Agency for Agricultural Development Research (CIRAD)
Rodrigo C A Lima
General Manager of AGROICONE
Thomas Lingard
Director Global Advocacy, Unilever
Paul E. Little
International Consultant
Ivonne Lobos Alva
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Lourdes Adriana Lopez Moreno
Chairwoman, Environment Committee of the Mexican Congress
Magda Lovei
World Bank Practice Manager for Environment & Natural Resources, Africa Region
Lars Løvold
Special Advisor, Rainforest Foundation Norway
Stewart Maginnis
Global Director of the Nature-based Solutions Group IUCN
Ignatius Makumba
Director of Forestry, Government of Zambia
Francesco Martone
Policy Advisor, Responsible Finance Programme, Forest Peoples’ Program
Nur Masripatin
Director Centre for Standardization and Environment, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia
Claudio Castro
Pitcher at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: IICA
Tefera Mengistu
Advisor to the State Minister of Forest, Ethiopian Ministry of Environment and Forest
Leida Mercado
Leader Mesoamerican Agroenvironmental Program, CATIE
Alexandre Meybeck
Senior Policy Officer, FAO
Anggela Michi
Regional Environmental Authority of Madre de Dios, Peru
Edward Millard
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Rainforest Alliance
David Molden
Director General, ICIMOD
José Antonio Montero Solano
Leader of Public Policy Programs, Pronatura-Sur, Mexico
Juan-Cruz Monticelli
Senior Energy Specialist, OAS
Luis Gonzalo Moscoso Higuita
Director General, Forestpa
Benjamin Mugema
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Deloitte and Touche
Alexander Müller
Senior Fellow, Secretary General ad interim, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Charles Mwangi
Senior Program Officer, Green Belt Movement, Kenya
Daisuke Naito
Scientist, CIFOR
Evarist Nashanda
Evarist Nashanda, UN REDD+ Focal Point, Government of Tanzania
Robert Nasi
Deputy Director General Research, CIFOR
Henry Neufeldt
Head, Climate Change Unit, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Hambulo Ngoma
PhD candidate, School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Hlami Ngwenya
Manager for Communications and Knowledge, FANRPAN
Javier Ocampo Ruiz
Regional President, San Martin Regional Government
Diego Ortega
Director Social and Corporate Affairs, La Granja Project, Rio Tinto, Peru
Diego Pacheco
Head of the Bolivian delegation to the UNFCCC
Steve Panfil
Technical Advisor for REDD+ for Conservation International
Ana Karla Perea Blazquez
Director of Negotiation and Commercial Promotion, National Forest Commission, Mexico
Tanja Pickardt
Adviser for sustainable agriculture, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Edward Porokwa
Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania
Patricia Porras de las Heras
REDD+ safeguards Specialist, Regional Government San Martín, Peru
Klaus Quicque
President, Native Federation of the Madre de Dios River and tributaries
Gabriel Quijandría Acosta
Viceminister Strategic Development of Natural Resources, Ministry of Environment, Peru
Marleni Ramirez
Regional Director for the Americas, Bioversity International
Rosa María Román-Cuesta
Visiting Researcher, Wageningen University
Juan Reategui
Specialist on Intercultural Health and Climate Change, Directorate of Indigenous Policies, Vice Ministry of Inter-culturalism, Ministry of Culture, Peru
Omar Rengifo Khan
Natural Resources Manager, Regional Government of Madre de Dios
Claudia Ringler
Deputy Division Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
Tarcila Rivera Zea
President Centre for Indigenous Cultures of Peru (CHIRAPAQ)
Hernando Riveros Serrato
Representative, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Peru
Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
Raquel Rosenberg
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Engajamundo
Todd Rosenstock
Agroecologist, World Agroforestry Centre
Mariana Rufino
Senior Scientist, CIFOR
María Magdalena Ruiz Mejía
Secretary of Environment and Regional Development of the State of Jalisco, Mexico
Sassan Saatchi
Senior Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Yuki Sakamoto
Project Leader Global Environmental Forum
Maria Jose Sanz Sanchez
Programme Coordinator, UN-REDD Programme, FAO
Aristóteles Sandoval
Governor of Jalisco, Mexico
Lucio Santos
Agricultural Engineer
Sara Scherr
President and CEO, EcoAgriculture Partners
Laura Schuijers
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: University of Melbourne
Mina Setra
Deputy Secretary General, The Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelagos (AMAN), Indonesia
Frances Seymour
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Christopher Shore
Director, Natural Environment & Climate Issues, World Vision International
Allison Silverman
Attorney, Climate and Energy Program, CIEL
Hannah LoRene Smith
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Colorado State University
Juan Pablo Solis
Program Officer, Hivos
Bernadinus Steni Sugiarto
Lawyer, Earth Innovation Institute, Indonesia
Caleb Stevens
Property Rights Specialist, Land & Resource Rights initiative, WRI Governance Center
Claudia Stickler
Scientist at Earth Innovation Institute
Gustavo Suarez de Freitas
Executive Coordinator, National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Ministry of Environment, Peru
Levi Sucre Romero
Indigenous Leader, Costa Rica
Terry Sunderland
Principal Scientist, CIFOR
Krystyna Swiderska
Principal Researcher Agroecology, International Institute for Environment and Development
Cecilia Tacusi-Oblitas
Specialist Ecosystems and Rights program of Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR)
Alberto Tavares
Head of Compania de Desenvolvimento de Serviços Ambientais, Acre, Brazil
Austin Tibu
Land Resources Conservation Officer, Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture
Washington Alvarado Toledano
National Director, Ecosystem and Society Department, Chilean National Forestry Corporation (CONAF)
Camilla Toulmin
Director IIED
Cecilia Turin
Postdoctoral Fellow, CGIAR Research Program on Climate change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Roberto Ugas
Researcher at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru
Corinne Valdivia
Associate Professor, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri
Pieter van Midwoud
Director Business Development for Land Use & Forests, Gold Standard Foundation
Cora van Oosten
Senior Project Leader, Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University & Research centre (UR), Netherlands
Edwin Vasquez
Coordinator of COICA, the coordinating body of the indigenous organizations of the Amazon basin
Yván Vasquez
Peruvian politician
William Velásquez Carranza
Environmental Engineer, San Martin National University
Louis Verchot
Research Director Forests and Environment, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR )
Walter Vergara
Walter Vergara, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute
Karen Veridiano
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Fauna and Flora International
Rosa Maria Vidal
Executive Director, GCF Fund
Raffaele Vignola
Director, Latin American Chair of Environmental Decisions for Global Change (CLADA) at Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
Luz Gladis Vila Pihue
President, women's association ONAMIAP, Peru
Yolanda Ramírez Villacorta
Director, Research and Human Development, Asociación para la investigación y Desarrollo Integral (AIDER)
Víctor M. Villalobos
Director General, Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Alison von Ketteler
Consultant, Forest Stewardship Council
Wen-Yu Weng
Pitcher at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Development in Action
Andy White
Coordinator, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Novia Widyaningtyas
Head of Climate Change Division, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia
Christoph Wildburger
Coordinator Global Forest Expert Panels, IUFRO
Sven Wunder
Principal Scientist, CIFOR
Patrick Wylie
Senior Forest Policy Officer, IUCN Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
Gabriel Yarlequé
Facilitator at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: GIS consultant
Elizabeth Jimenez Zamora
Development Economist, CIDES-UMSA, Bolivia
Carlos Zapata
Head of Strategy and Planning, Rio Tinto, Peru
Beatriz Zavariz
Pitcher at youth session of Global Landscapes ForumOrganization: Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture
Sergio Zelaya-Bonilla
Special Advisor, UNCCD Secretariat