Speakers

Adam Vink, Global Advocacy Manager, Plan International
Alaa Murabit, SDG Global Advocate and UN High Level Commissioner
Alex Thier, Executive Director, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Alex Wang, Secretary General, Youth4SDG
Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Managing Director, Prosperity Index, Legatum Institute
Alison Bellwood, Director, World’s Largest Lesson
Anand Kantaria, Global Programme Lead, My World 2030, Un SDG Action Campaign
Andrea Rübenacker, Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia, Deutsche Welle Akademie
Anastasiya Kostomarova, Project Manager, Sustainable Development Solutions Network Youth Initiative
Andrea Hurtado Epstein, Advisor to Presidency Office, Mexico
Ann-Kathrin Neureuther, Project Manager “Farming for Biodiversity”, Rare
Anna Leach, Deputy Editor, Global Development Professionals Network, Guardian News and Media
Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO, Plan International
Annika Lindblom, Secretary-General, National Commission on Sustainable Development, Finland
Arif Husain, Chief Economist, World Food Programme (WFP)
Ashok Sridharan, Lord Mayor, City of Bonn
Ayman Cherkaoui, Special Advisor for Negotiations and Climate Change to the COP 22 Presidency, Minister of Environment, Morocco
Beckie Malay, Vice President, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement
Benjamin Kumpf, UNDP Innovation Facility Lead, UNDP Innovation Facility
Bessie Schwarz, Co-Founder, Cloud to Street
Bruno Lepri, Head of Mobile and Social Computing Lab, FBK and Visiting Researcher, MIT Media Lab
Cameron Cross, Founder and CEO, Ubegin.Com
Carsten Tilger, Head of Communications, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Casper Sitemba, Executive Office of the Deputy President, Kenya
Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, Director General of Economic and Environmental Performance, Ministry of Agriculture, France
Celine Artal, Founder, Nexus Humani
Chernor Bah, Youth Advocate, Global Partnership for Education
Christian Henne, Geschäftsführer, Munich Digital Institute
Christian Kroll, Scientific Co-Director, http://www.sdgindex.org/and Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation
Chrysoula Exarchou, President, QualityNet Foundation
Claire Melamed, Executive Director, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Corentin Sivy, Head of Development, Baywa r.e
Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, UN
Daniel Thomas, Communications Director and Spokesperson, Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly
Daniel Vennard, Director, Better Buying Lab, World Resources Institute
Amb. David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations
Deborah Seward, Director, United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels
Diana Biggs, Global Speaker, Author and Consultant
Edda Hamar, UN SDG Young Leader and Founder/ Director Undress Runways
Elizabeth Stuart, Head of Growth, Poverty and Inequality, ODI
Emi Mahmoud, World Poetry Slam Champion
Emmanuel Letouze, Director, Data-Pop Alliance
Felix Zimmermann, Koordinator, OECD Development Communication Network
Florian Ramseger, Public Product Specialist, Tableau Foundation
Gibril Faal, Interim Director of ADEPT & Director of GK Partners
Gilberto Vieira, Project Manager, Observatório De Favelas
Gonzalo Fanjul, Policy Director, ISGlobal & Co-founder, Fundacion porCausa
Guillermo Correo, Executive Director, Red Argentina para la Cooperación Internacional
Hans Sakker, Head of department of European and International Affairs, City of Utrecht
Hugo-Maria Schally, Head of International Agreements and Trade Unit, Directorate General for Environment, European Commission
Frances Simpson-Allen, Programme Management Officer, 2030 Agenda And The Sustainable Development Goals, Office Of The Secretary-General’s Envoy On Youth
Hyoungmin Kim, Managing Director, Urban Youth Academy (UYA)
Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso, Director, African Monitor
Ingolf Dietrich, Commissioner for Agenda 2030, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Ishbel Matheson, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, ODI
Ivonne Lobos Alva, Project Coordinator, Renewable Resources and SDGs Forum, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Jacinthe Ibrahim, Program Area Manager, Plan International, Egypt
Jaime Lerner, President, Instituto Jaime Lerner, Former Governor Of Parana, Former Mayor Of Curitiba, Brazil
Jakob Trollbäck, Founder, Trollbäck+Company and The New Division by Trollbäck+Company
Javier Teran, Chief Data Officer, OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange
Jean-Martin Bauer, Senior Analyst, World Food Programme
Jennifer Uchendu, SustyVibes, Nigeria
Jens Müller, Unternehmensplanung, ZDF
Joanna Rea, Head of Public Affairs, ODI
Joern Geisselmann, Policy Advisor, GIZ
Jose Cuesta, Chief of Social and Economic Policy, UNICEF
Josep Roig, Secretary General, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Jost Köllner, Geschäftsführer, Zum Goldenen Hirschen GmbH
Jule Reimer, Redakteurin, Deutschlandradio
Jun Liu, Division Chief, China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchange, Ministry of Commerce, People’s Republic of China
Jürgen Kütemeyer, Geschäftsführer, trio-group GmbH
Justine Uvuza, Senior Gender and Land Tenure Specialist, Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights
Kanchan Lama, Chairperson, Women Leading for Change Nepal (WLCN) and Gender Expert
Karol Alejandra Arámbula Carrillo, International Affairs Consultant and MY World Partner in Mexico
Kartika Anggraeni, Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Expert, SWITCH-Asia Network Facility
Kathleen Zoonnekindt, Head of Sociological Studies, DREEAM Project and Research Consultant, Savills
Kenn Crossley, Deputy Director of Programme and Policy, World Food Programme
Kumi Naidoo, Launch Director, Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity
Lisinka Ulatowska, Coordinator, Commons Cluster of the UN NGO Major Group
Luis Neves, Group Sustainability and Climate Protection Officer at Deutsche Telekom
Luisa Emilia Reyes, Coordinator, Area of Gender Policies and Budgets, Equidad de Género, Mexico
Mario Céspedes Avalos, President, Network Of Citizen Control, Costa Rica
Mario Negre, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute
Marta Benavides, Board Member, Earth Rights Institute
Marta Foresti, Managing Director, ODI
Marte Torskenæs, Senior Advisor, Office of the Director General, NORAD
Mathilde Bouyé, Associate, SDG Delivery Team, WRI
Matthias Straub, Chefredakteur, FischerAppelt AG
Meng Zhaoli, Chief Economist, Tencent Institute
Mirko Heid, Bereichsleitung Konzernstrategie, Stadtwerke Bonn GmbH
Mitchell Toomey, Global Director, United Nations SDG Action Campaign
Nadira Hira, Festival MC, Public Speaker
Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso, Director, Africa Monitor
Natalie Robi Tingo, Accountability Advocate, Restless Development
Nina Schroeder, Innovation Accelerator, World Food Programme
Nick Nuttall, Head of Communications and Outreach & Spokesperson, UNFCCC
Nuria Oliver, Director of Data Science Research at Vodafone and Chief Data Scientist, Data-Pop Alliance
Patrick Haverman, Deputy Country Director, UNDP China
Patrick Reichenmiller, Deputy Head of Communication Management Unit, Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation
Patrick Vinck, Director of Research, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Co-Founder, Data-Pop Alliance
Paul Jansen, Moderator, Independant Consultant
Paul Okumu, Head of Secretariat, Africa Platform
Pedro Conceição, Director, Strategic Policy Unit, UNDP
Peter Maddox, Director of Government Programmes, WRAP
Philipp Schönrock, Director, CEPEI
Phuong Pham, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Rajita Kulkarni, President, World Forum for the Ethics in Business
Roby Fadillah, Deputy Director for Institutional, Marine Development and Maritime Affairs, Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia
Rosa Lizarde, ‎Global Director, Feminist Task Force / Co-Chair, World We Want
Rosamund Ebdon, Head of Policy, Plan International
Rosario Del Pilar Diaz Garavito, Founder, The Millennials Movement
Rose Bell, Director, Kusamala, Malawi
Ryan Hooks CEO & Founder, Huxley
Sabine Frank, Senior policy counsel, Google Germany
Sabine Werth, Founder, Berliner Tafel
Salina Sanou, Co-chair for Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
Sara Lengauer, Manager for Europe, Junior Chamber International (JCI)
Sarah Poole, Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP
Sascha Müller, Gründer, bridge-it! e. V.
Silke Thomas, Senior Expert, Group Corporate Responsibility, Deutsche Telekom
Sophie Romana, Director of Community Finance, Oxfam America
Søren Lundby, CEO, GlobalCitizen.net
Soumya Chattopadhyay, Senior Research Fellow, Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme, ODI
Sriganesh Lokanathan, Team Leader, Big Data Research, LIRNEasia
Stefani De La O, Creative Director, Nomadic Collector
Stefania Fabrizia, Deputy Unit Chief, IMF Strategy, Policy and Review Department
Stephan Kosch, Redakteur, Zeitzeichen gGmbH
Tauni Lanier, Executive Director, Impact 2030
Thomas Brose, Geschäftsführer, Klima-Bündnis der europäischen Städte mit indigenen Völkern der Regenwälder e. V.
Thomas Pallithanam, National Convenor, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan
Thomas Ravn-Pedersen, Director, World’s Best News
Uchita de Zoysa, Sustainable Development Advisor, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Wildlife, Sri Lanka
Valentina Hernandez, CEO, WeAppHeroes, UNDP RIO + Centre and Sunscious
Vinay D. Lall, Chairman & Director General, Society for Development Studies (SDS), New Delhi India
Wilfried Runde, Redakteur, Deutsche Welle
Wiltrud Terlau, Gründungsdirektorin, Internationales Zentrum für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (IZNE) / Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Xavier Vollenweider, Researcher, Flowminder
Yann Françoise, Head of Climate Protection and Energy Strategies Department, Paris City Hall, France
Zia ur Rehman, AWAZCDS Foundation