Fair Ideas - Speakers

Lennart Ackzell, Vice-chair, the International Family Forestry Alliance, Sweden
Sessions:  Locally controlled farm-forestry: A firm foundation for fair green economies?

Silvia Alcântara, Executive Secretary, Fórum Brasileiro de ONGs e Movimentos Sociais para o Meio Ambiente e o Desenvolvimento, Brazil
Sessions:  Shaping a new economy: how can innovative governance work for sustainable development?

Sergio Andrade, Executive Director, Agenda Pública, Brazil
Sessions:  Reflecting on a decade of mining, minerals and sustainable development

Marcos Apurinã, General Coordinator, Coordenacão das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira (COIAB), Brazil
Marcos has spent more than a decade working with indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon, advocating both for their rights and the protection of their environments, cultures, and physical wellbeing. He has represented indigenous peoples in regional, national and international decision-making forums and advised on appropriate policy and legislation — for example, helping to draft the Proposed People's Cinta Larga for Exploration of Natural Resources pertaining to their lands.
Sessions:  Spotlight: Brazilian priorities for Rio+20, The Amazon Lecture

Glauco Arbix, President, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Ministério de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Brazil
Sessions:  Transforming innovation for sustainability

Ida Auken, Minister of the Environment, Denmark
Actively involved in Danish politics for many years, Ida is currently the country’s Minister for the Environment. As former Environmental Affairs spokeswoman in the Danish parliament and member of the Energy Policy Committee and the Environment and Regional Planning Committee she has played a vital role in shaping Danish environmental policies since 2007. Ida is a member of the non-partisan think tank Forum Europa and has a strong track record in academia, having taught at the Peoples University in Copenhagen and the Øresund Summer University, and the University of Copenhagen.
Sessions:  Green economy and developing countries

Christian Friis Bach, Minister for Development Cooperation, Denmark
Christian has extensive knowledge of global sustainability, green growth and development economics. Most recently he was the Special Advisor for EU Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, assisting on the UN Global Sustainability Panel. He has also been International Director of DanChurchAid (2005–2010) and CEO of ViewWorldApS (2010–2011). An experienced academic, he holds a PhD in International Economics from the Royal Danish Agricultural University and has worked in several universities in Denmark.
Sessions:  Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future

Maureen Ballestero, President, Fundación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de la Provincia de Córdoba (FUNDECOR), Costa Rica
Sessions:  The know-how of PES in Costa Rica: a dialogue with practitioners

Manish Bapna (TBC), Acting President and Managing Director, WRI, USA
Sessions:  Building Inclusive Green Economies: Towards a Shared Policy Agenda

Steve Bass, Group Head, Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, UK
Steve is responsible for IIED’s work in economics, business and market governance mechanisms. He is a forester and environmental scientist with 30 years experience, principally in Southern Africa, Southern Asia and the Caribbean, and in international policy processes. Steve co-founded the Green Economy Coalition and sits on its Steering Committee. He also chairs the UK’s Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research programme, is a Fellow of WWF-UK, and Honorary Senior Fellow of UNEP’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Sessions:  Business models for sustainability, Reflecting on a decade of mining, minerals and sustainable development, Is Green Growth different for developing countries?  Sharing Ideas and Experiences, Shaping sustainable markets

Aron Belinky, International Processes Coordinator, Instituto Vitae Civilis, Brazil
Aron is an expert in sustainability, social responsibility and ethical consumption. As International Processes Coordinator of the Vitae Civilis Institute, he is responsible for the organisation’s activities related to Rio+20 and other policy processes, such as the Brazilian National Dialogues on Green Economy. Aron is co-founder and executive secretary of EcoPress and of GAO — the Group for Articulation of Brazilian NGOs in ISO 26000, the international standard on Social Responsibility.  He is an invited professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Fundação Dom Cabral, and Instituto Ethos.
Sessions:  Shaping a new economy: how can innovative governance work for sustainable development?, Spotlight: Brazilian priorities for Rio+20

Emma Blackmore, Researcher, Sustainable Markets Group , IIED, UK
Sessions:  Shaping sustainable markets

Silio Boccanera, London correspondent, GloboNews, Brazil
Silio has been a foreign correspondent for the Brazilian media for more than 30 years, covering events all over the world. He now works mostly for Globonews, the all-news Brazilian television channel, where he participates in two current affairs programmes: Millenium and Sem Fronteiras (Without Borders). He was a moderator in three discussions promoted in Rio de Janeiro by the Brazilian environmental organisation Funbio — the last one just last month at the Forte Copacabana — all with a focus on the economic aspect of environmental issues.
Sessions:  Green economy and developing countries

Rubens Born, Institutional Coordinator, Instituto Vitae Civilis, Brazil
Sessions:  Shaping a new economy: how can innovative governance work for sustainable development?

Steve Bradshaw, former BBC Panorama reporter
Sessions:  Reframing Rio: can film make a difference?

Eduardo Braga (TBC), Senator and leader of the Senate, Brazil
Eduardo is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and a businessman. Throughout his career he has held many government positions in Manaus, Amazonas: as councillor (1981–1985), state deputy (1987–1991), representative (1991–1993), vice-mayor (1993–1994) and mayor (1994–1997). In 2002, he was elected governor of Amazonas and today represents the state as senator.
Sessions:  Plenary: Shaping sustainable development goals

Paulo Branco, Programme Coordinator, Centro de Estudos em Sustentabilidade, Inovação e Sustentabilidade na Cadeia de Valor (GVces), Brazil
Sessions:  Planetary and social boundaries: can we live in the safe and just space for humanity?

Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy and Capacity Building, Natural Sciences, UNESCO, Mozambique
Sessions:  Transforming innovation for sustainability

Gib Bulloch, Executive Director, Accenture Development Partnerships, Switzerland
Sessions:  Social enterprise for a green economy

Abbi Buxton, Researcher, Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, UK
Sessions:  Reflecting on a decade of mining, minerals and sustainable development

Paula Caballero, Director of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Colombia
Paula leads a multidisciplinary team that covers major multilateral negotiations and agreements in sustainable development. She is the main proponent of the Sustainable Development Goals initiative proposed by the Colombian government as a post-2015 framework. Beyond working with government, Paula’s career has included years of work with the UN Development Programme — where she managed diverse projects on biodiversity, land degradation and territorial approaches to climate change — as well as a wide range of posts within academia and the nongovernment sector. 
Sessions:  Plenary: Shaping sustainable development goals

Sandy Cairncross, Research Director, SHARE, UK
Sessions:  Sanitation: The key to helping cities and their communities achieve sustainable development

Camilo Capiberibe, Governor, Amapá, Brazil
Camilo was State Deputy for the Brazilian Socialist Party from 2007 to 2010. In 2010, he was elected governor of Amapá state. Born in Santiago, Chile, Camilo graduated in law from the Catholic University of Campinas and studied political science at the University of Montreal in Canada.
Sessions:  Green economy and developing countries

Diana Cariboni, Associate Editor-in-chief, IPS
Sessions:  Reframing Rio - Sustainable development: what's the story?

Liz Carlile, Director of Communications, IIED, UK
Sessions:  Access to energy: Beyond 2012, Open Space: Do we need Sustainable Development Goals? What do you think?, Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Édison Carlos, Executive President, Trata Brasil, Brazil
Sessions:  Sanitation: The key to helping cities and their communities achieve sustainable development

Fernanda Carvalho, Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Change, The Nature Conservancy, Brazil
Sessions:  REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon: accomplishments and next steps to conservation and poverty alleviation

René Castro, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
Rene has, in his career, held various positions in the Costa Rican government, including Minister of Environment and Energy, Deputy-Minister of the Ministry of Governance, National Director of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works, and President of the San José City Council. He has led Costa Rican delegations to international conventions on biodiversity, climate change and ozone. Rene was also instrumental in creating the payments for environmental services (PES) programme in Costa Rica during the 1990s, and has been critical to building the country’s role as a pioneer in developing and selling emission reduction credits in global markets.
Sessions:  Plenary: Better lives, smaller footprints, When one size is not enough: a South-South dialogue on PES experiences in Costa Rica and Brazil

Mariano Cenamo, Deputy Executive Director, Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Amazonas (Idesam), Brazil
Sessions:  REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon: accomplishments and next steps to conservation and poverty alleviation

Achala Chandani, Researcher, Climate Change Group, IIED, UK
Sessions:  Ensuring equity in global policy processes: lessons from the climate change regime

Vijay Chaturvedi , Senior Program Director, Business Development and Partnership Management, TARA, India
Sessions:  Social enterprise for a green economy

Sekai Catherine Chiremba, National Coordinator, the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation’s Leadership Council, Zimbabwe
Sekai has assisted groups negotiating for secure land with cities in Zimbabwe and currently leads the movement’s technical component where she is responsible for general oversight of all building projects undertaken by the federation across the country.
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds, Urbanisation and the green economy

Lina Villa Córdoba (TBC), Executive Director, Alliance for Responsible Mining, Colombia
Sessions:  Reflecting on a decade of mining, minerals and sustainable development

Thais Corral, General Coordinator, Rede de Desenvolvimento Humano (REDEH) , Brazil
Sessions:  Mainstreaming climate change into sustainable urban planning

Alessandra da Costa Lunas, Vice President, Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG), Brazil
Alessandra Lunas has been active in the peasant movement since a young age. Born to a farmer father in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state, her political activism was influenced by her mother -- a teacher involved in union issues. From 1999-2002 she worked for FETAGRO/RO – the Federation of Agricultural Workers of Rondonia, the state where she has lived for the past 11 years. In 2005 she became the federation’s President and in the same year became Secretary for Social Politics with CONTAG – the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers. She took part in major protests such as the historic milk strike that paralysed dairy production across Rondonia in 2002. Lunas has been a vocal advocate on complex issues that include rural education, health, youth welfare and workers’ rights. She says the environment is a priority for the rural labour movement as it is critical to the survival of family farms.
Sessions:  Making agricultural investments work for small scale farmers

Roberto Laureano da Rocha, Cooperativa de Reciclagem Unidos Pelo Meio Ambiente, Brazil
Roberto is a waste picker, and a representative of the National Commission of Brazilian Movement of Waste Pickers. He is a coordinator and educator on the Cata Forte project, which gave technical assistance to 170 waste pickers’ organisations, and from which 1,500 waste pickers graduated.
Sessions:  Urbanisation and the green economy

Walter De Simoni, Chief Executive Officer, Anglo American Nickel Business Unit, Brazil
Sessions:  Reflecting on a decade of mining, minerals and sustainable development

Josafá Carlos de Siqueira (TBC), Rector, PUC-RIO, Brazil
Sessions:  Plenary: Shaping sustainable development goals

Estebancio Castro Diaz, Executive Secretary, International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, Panama
Sessions:  Locally controlled farm-forestry: A firm foundation for fair green economies?

Caroline Digby, Sustainability Director, Eden Project, UK
Sessions:  Reflecting on a decade of mining, minerals and sustainable development

Professor Ladislau Dowbor, Professor of Economics, Catholic University of São Paulo
Sessions:  Making it happen: implementing the principles for green economy

Sue Edwards, Director, Institute for Sustainable Development, Ethiopia
Sessions:  Agricultural biodiversity acknowledged

Maria Sonia Vicenta Fadrigo, Western Visayas Regional Coordinator, Homeless Peoples Federation, The Philippines
From 1997 to 2002 Sonia was President of Kabalaka Homeowners Association, a founding member of the Homeless Peoples Federation Phillippines Inc. Since 1998 Sonia has been a board member of Slum Dwellers International (SDI), and since 2000 she has been Regional Coordinator for the Visayas of the Homeless Peoples Federation Phillippines Inc.
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds, Urbanisation and the green economy

Fabio Feldmann, Environmentalist, Consultant, Lawyer, Company Manager, Brazil
Fabio is former Executive Secretary of the Paulista Forum on Climate Change and Biodiversity, founding member and first president of  S.O.S. Mata Atlântica Foundation and winner of the Global 500 prize. He served as Secretary for the Environment of the State of São Paulo from 1995 to 1998, represented the Brazilian president in Rio+10. Fabio has authored some parts of the Brazilian environmental legislation, including the chapter about the environment in the Federal Constitution Text. Today, Fabio Feldmann directs Fabio Feldmann Consultores, a consulting firm that specialises in sustainable development and environmental issues.
Sessions:  North-South and South-South Dialogue: the role of key actors in achieving poverty eradication and green economy, Spotlight: Brazilian priorities for Rio+20

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Christiana has been involved in climate change negotiations since 1995, first as part of the Costa Rican negotiating team to both UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol negotiations and then as the representative of Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism. Christiana has served on several boards of nongovernment organisations involved in climate change issues; she is also a widely published author on the design of climate solutions, and has been a frequent adviser to the private sector on how to play a leadership role in mitigation.
Sessions:  Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future

Alex Forbes, Programme Specialist – Assessments, UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Facility, Kenya
Sessions:  Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Joseph Foti, Senior Associate, The Access Initiative, World Resources Institute, USA
Sessions:  Defending the public: participation, future generations, and sustainable development

Tara Garnett (video recording), Food Climate Research Network and Research Fellow, University of Surrey, UK
Sessions:  Shaping sustainable markets

Dikalala Gaseitsiwe, Deputy Permanent Secretary (socio-economic policy), PEI, Botswana
Sessions:  Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Purushottam Ghimire (TBC), Joint Secretary, National Planning Commission, Nepal
Sessions:  Is Green Growth different for developing countries?  Sharing Ideas and Experiences

Bishwadeep Ghose, Knowledge Officer, Green Entrepreneurship, Small Producer Agency in Globalised Markets, Hivos, Netherlands
Sessions:  Changing mindsets: Small-scale farmers in the globalised market

Tim Gore, International Policy Advisor — Climate Change, Oxfam International Advocacy Office, USA
Sessions:  Ensuring equity in global policy processes: lessons from the climate change regime

Heather Grady, Vice President for Foundation Initiatives, Rockefeller Foundation, USA
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds

Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Director, Environment and Climate, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Sessions:  Building Inclusive Green Economies: Towards a Shared Policy Agenda

Oliver Greenfield, Convenor, Green Economy Coalition, UK
Sessions:  Making it happen: implementing the principles for green economy

Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Green Economy Initiative, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Sessions:  Building Inclusive Green Economies: Towards a Shared Policy Agenda

Falguni Guharay, Coordinator, Servicio de Información Mesoamericano Sobre Agricultura Sostenible (SIMAS), Nicaragua
Sessions:  Changing mindsets: Small-scale farmers in the globalised market

Joydeep Gupta, Project director, Third Pole Project, India
Sessions:  Reframing Rio - Communicating Rio issues

Miguel Haddad, City Mayor, Jundiai, Brazil
Sessions:  Sanitation: The key to helping cities and their communities achieve sustainable development

Tenaw Hailu, Director, Sustainable Land Use Forum, Ethiopia
Sessions:  Agricultural biodiversity acknowledged

Karen Hamilton, Vice President Global Sustainability, Unilever, UK
Karen joined Unilever in 1988 and has played a series of global marketing and strategic roles since then, helping develop Unilever’s global deodorants business and leading the company’s global personal care strategy. Today, Karen is vice president of Global Sustainability at Unilever, supporting a large team to embed sustainability into innovation and marketing, and working with Unilever’s country managers around the world to drive sustainable growth with consumers and retailers. Karen and her team design the tools, scorecards and training to make it easier for Unilever managers to integrate sustainability into their day-to-day decision-making.
Sessions:  Business models for sustainability

Peter Hazelwood, Director, Ecosystems and Development, World Resources Institute, USA
Sessions:  Social enterprise for a green economy

Adrian Henriques (video recording), Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, UK
Sessions:  Shaping sustainable markets

Carlos Herrera, Executive Director of FUNDECOR
Sessions:  When one size is not enough: a South-South dialogue on PES experiences in Costa Rica and Brazil 

Nick Holland, Chief Executive Officer, Gold Fields, South Africa
Nick has led Gold Fields — the world’s fourth largest gold miner — since 2008.  An all-or-nothing approach to safety — “we will not mine if we cannot do so safely” — underpins the company’s production, and stands alongside a strong emphasis on sound community relations and significantly reducing the company’s environmental footprint. Before joining Gold Fields Nick held senior positions in other South Africa mining companies, including Impala Platinum and Gencor. He joined the mining industry in 1990 from accounting firm Deloitte where he spent the first 11 years of his professional career after graduating from Wits University in Johannesburg.
Sessions:  Business models for sustainability

Richard Howitt MEP, European Parliament Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility, UK
Sessions:  Making it happen: implementing the principles for green economy

Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow, Climate Change Group, IIED, UK
Saleem is a Bangladeshi scientist based in London. His work emphasises the links between climate change and sustainable development, with a focus on the perspectives of developing countries. A pioneer in climate change adaptation, Saleem was awarded the Burtoni Award in 2007 for his work in this area. Today, he is the lead author of the chapter on adaptation and mitigation in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Saleem has also long helped build negotiating capacity and engagement of least developed countries in the UN climate negotiations. 
Sessions:  Green economy and developing countries

Ari Huhtala, Director of Policy and Programmes, CDKN, Finland
Sessions:  Mainstreaming climate change into sustainable urban planning

Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey, UK
Sessions:  Planetary and social boundaries: can we live in the safe and just space for humanity?

Ruud Jansen, Chief Technical Advisor, PEI, Botswana
Sessions:  Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Juan Carlos Jintiach, Coordinator, Coordinadora de Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica, Ecuador
Juan Carlos has spent more than twenty years working to improve social and physical wellbeing of indigenous peoples in the Amazon — researching diseases prevalent in these communities, documenting case studies on indigenous governance and rights, and advising a range of national and international organisations on how best to support the sustainable development of indigenous peoples.
Sessions:  Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future

Ma Jun, Director, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, China
Sessions:  Cleaning up China's supply chains

Sivan Kartha (TBC), Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute US Center, USA
Sessions:  Ensuring equity in global policy processes: lessons from the climate change regime

Isabell Kempf, Deputy Director PEI, UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Facility, Kenya
Sessions:  Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives, India
In 1982, Ashok founded the Development Alternatives (DA) Group in New Delhi, pioneering the concept of ‘social enterprise’. Today, Ashok continues to lead the DA Group and is also president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature; co-president of the Club of Rome, and co-chair of the International Resource Panel. From helping to design the world’s first university course on the environment in 1965 at Harvard University to acting as Special Advisor to the Brundtland Commission to chairing the NGO Forum at Rio92, Ashok has been instrumental in shaping the international agenda on sustainable development.
Sessions:  Business models for sustainability, North-South and South-South Dialogue: the role of key actors in achieving poverty eradication and green economy

Rachel Kyte, Vice President of Sustainable Development, World Bank, USA
Rachel has overall responsibilities for the World Bank’s global work in climate change, agriculture, environment, infrastructure, urban development, disaster management, and social development. Before taking up her current role, Rachel worked at the International Finance Corporation — first as Director for Environmental and Social Development and later as Vice President for Business Advisory Services. Rachel has held elected positions in Europe, and founded and led nongovernment organisations focusing on women, the environment, health, and rights.
Sessions:  Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future

Glenn-Marie Lange, Program Leader, WAVES, USA (+  representatives from WAVES projects in Costa Rica and the Philippines)
Sessions:  Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Luiz Fernando Laranja, Executive Director, Ouro Verde Amazônia, Orsa Group, Brazil
Sessions: The Amazon Lecture

Melissa Leach, Director, STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK
Sessions: Transforming innovation for sustainability

Henrique Lian (TBC), Manager for Institutional Affairs, Instituto Ethos, Brazil
Sessions:  Shaping a new economy: how can innovative governance work for sustainable development?

Clemente Ganz Lucio, Council member and chair of the working group on sustainable development and Rio+20, Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social da Presidência da República do Brasil, Brazil; and Technical Director of DIEESE (Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconomicos).
Sessions:  Spotlight: Brazilian priorities for Rio+20

Duncan Macqueen, Principal Researcher, Natural Resources Group, IIED, UK
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds, Locally controlled farm-forestry: A firm foundation for fair green economies?

Lara Maggiore, Expo 2015, EXPO Milano 2015, Italy
Sessions:  Planetary and social boundaries: can we live in the safe and just space for humanity?

Olajobi Makinwa, Head, Transparency & Anti-Corruption Initiatives, Global Compact
Sessions:  Making it happen: implementing the principles for green economy

Bazileu Margarido, Coordinator, Instituto Democracia e Sustentabilidade, Brazil
Sessions:  Shaping a new economy: how can innovative governance work for sustainable development?

Kathleen Martin (joining by VC), Floral buyer, Sam’s Club, USA
Sessions: Business models for sustainability
 

Laura Martin (TBC), Director, International Labour Foundation for Sustainable Development, Spain
Sessions:  Shaping a new economy: how can innovative governance work for sustainable development?

George Martine, Technical Director, Dhemos Consulting, Brazil
George is a Canadian sociologist and demographer whose life work has centred on development issues in Latin America, especially in Brazil. He has written extensively on social, demographic and environment topics. He currently heads Dhemos Consulting, an independent firm that provides technical support to international organisations.
Sessions:  Urbanisation and the green economy

Julia Marton-LeFèvre, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Switzerland
Sessions:  Plenary: Better lives, smaller footprints

Jan McAlpine, Director, UN Division on Forests, and head of the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat, USA
Sessions:  Locally controlled farm-forestry: A firm foundation for fair green economies?

Gordon McGranahan, Principal Researcher, Human Settlements Group, IIED, UK
Gordon spent the 1990s at Stockholm Environment Institute, in charge of their Urban Environment Programme. Since 2000, he has been in the Human Settlements Group at IIED, where he works on urban environmental issues — focusing on how to address poverty and environmental problems in and around the home, and how urban environmental burdens change as cities become wealthier.
Sessions:  Urbanisation and the green economy

Bihunirwa Medius, Head of the Farmer Enterprise Development Unit, Kabarole Research and Resource Centre, Uganda
Sessions:  Changing mindsets: Small-scale farmers in the globalised market

Carolina Misorelli, Community outreach, Canal Futura, Brazil
Sessions:  Reframing Rio - Communicating Rio issues

Diana Mitlin, Acting Head of Human Settlements Group, IIED, UK
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds

José Rafael León Mora, Presidente del Consejo de Administración, CoopeSilencio, Costa Rica    
Sessions:  The know-how of PES in Costa Rica: a dialogue with practitioners

Paulo Mountinho, Executive Director, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Brazil
Sessions:  REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon: accomplishments and next steps to conservation and poverty alleviation

Márcia Muchagata, Adviser to the Minister of Social Development, Brazil
Sessions:  Planetary and social boundaries: can we live in the safe and just space for humanity?

Patience  Mudimu, Director of Programmes, Dialogue on Shelter for the Homeless in Zimbabwe Trust, Zimbabwe
Patience is based in Harare, Zimbabwe.  For 16 years she has supported slum communities in Zimbabwe to fight forced evictions and obtain secure land tenure and upgrading.
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds, Urbanisation and the green economy

Andrew Mushita, Director, Community Technology Development Trust , Zimbabwe
Sessions:  Agricultural biodiversity acknowledged

Sara Namirembe, Research Analyst and Coordinator of PRESA (Pro-poor Rewards for Environmental Services in Africa), World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Sara has worked in both academic (Makerere University) and nongovernment sectors. Prior to joining the World Agroforestry Centre, she was with the Katoomba Payments for Ecosystems Services Incubator programme of Forest Trends. Sara has extensive experience in supporting collaborative and participatory natural resource management and conservation; she facilitated institutional and community networks to develop collaborative action plans for managing forest resources in the Kasyoha-Kitomi Forest landscape, Albertine Rift.
Sessions:  Making agricultural investments work for small scale farmers

Ronnie S. Natawidjaja, Director, Center for Agricultural Policy and Agribusiness Studies (CAPAS), Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
Sessions:  Changing mindsets: Small-scale farmers in the globalised market

Ochieng’ Ogodo, Regional News Editor - sub-Saharan Africa, SciDev.Net
Sessions:  Reframing Rio - Sustainable development: what's the story?

Sheila Oparaocha, Network Coordinator and Programme Manager, International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA), the Netherlands
Sessions:  Access to energy: Beyond 2012

Ghan Shyam Pandey, Coordinator, Global Alliance of Community Forestry, Nepal
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds, Locally controlled farm-forestry: A firm foundation for fair green economies?

Ruby Papeleras, National capital Regional Coordinator , Homeless Peoples Federation, The Philippines
Ruby oversaw a pilot housing project for Payatas Scavengers Homeowners’ Association Inc. (PSHAI) in 1997 and since then has continued to volunteer — promoting savings among informal settlers, representing the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines, and the urban poor network that emerged from the original PSHAI.
Sessions:  Aid finance for the 21st century: Catalysing change with locally-controlled funds, Urbanisation and the green economy
 

Andy Parker, Senior Policy Adviser, The Royal Society, London, UK
Sessions:  North-South and South-South Dialogue: the role of key actors in achieving poverty eradication and green economy

Shrashtant Patara, Vice-President, Development Alternatives, India
Sessions:  Social enterprise for a green economy, Building Inclusive Green Economies: Towards a Shared Policy Agenda

Ben Peachey, Communications Director, ICMM, UK
Sessions:  Reflecting on a decade of mining, minerals and sustainable development

Paulo Petersen, Executive Director, Agricultura Familiar e Agroecologia (ASPTA), Brazil
Sessions:  Agricultural biodiversity acknowledged

Ina Porras, Researcher, Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, UK
Sessions:  When one size is not enough: a South-South dialogue on PES experiences in Costa Rica and Brazil

Gisele Porto, Federal Prosecutor for the Rights of Citizens, Ministério Público Federal, Procuradoria da República no Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sessions:  Defending the public: participation, future generations, and sustainable development

Michelle Pressend, Socio-political Analyst and Coordinator, the Economic Justice Network, South Africa
Sessions:  Access to energy: Beyond 2012

Barbara Pyle, Former Vice-president for Environment of CNN and filmmaker of many social enterprises, USA
Sessions:  Social enterprise for a green economy

Atiq Rahman, Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Bangladesh
Sessions:  North-South and South-South Dialogue: the role of key actors in achieving poverty eradication and green economy, Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Kate Raworth, Senior Researcher, Oxfam GB, UK
Kate's research focuses on rethinking global economic development in the face of planetary boundaries and global inequalities, including discussions of green economy, and new paradigms and measures of development. She has previously conducted research for Oxfam GB on climate change, adaptation and human rights, agricultural trade, labour rights in global supply chains, and designing research for advocacy and campaigning. Prior to joining Oxfam GB, Kate worked as Co-author and Economist of the UN Development Programme's Human Development Report.
Sessions:  Plenary: Better lives, smaller footprints, Planetary and social boundaries: can we live in the safe and just space for humanity?

Virginia Reyes, Researcher, Fondo de Biodiversidad Sostenible, Cedarena, Costa Rica
Sessions:  The know-how of PES in Costa Rica: a dialogue with practitioners

Andrea Ries, Sustainability and Multilateral Affairs, Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Sessions:  Building Inclusive Green Economies: Towards a Shared Policy Agenda

Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
With more than 100 research publications, 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles and several books, Johan is a leading expert on sustainable development, global environmental change and resilience. He serves on several international committees and boards, including the scientific advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research, the scientific overview committee of the International Council for Science, the executive board of the Resilience Alliance, and the board of WaterAid Sweden.
Sessions:  Plenary: Better lives, smaller footprints, Transforming innovation for sustainability

Judith Rodin,  President, Rockefeller Foundation, USA
An international leader in academia, science and development, Judith has been involved in many influential global forums, including the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Clinton Global Initiative and the UN General Assembly. Throughout her career, she has authored more than 200 academic articles and 12 books. Judith was the first woman to lead an Ivy League Institution and is the first woman to serve as The Rockefeller Foundation's president.
Sessions:  Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future
 

Ademar Romeiro, Associate Professor, Instituto de Economia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Sessions:  When one size is not enough: a South-South dialogue on PES experiences in Costa Rica and Brazil

Justa Romero, Leader, ACOMOUITA , Costa Rica
Sessions:  The know-how of PES in Costa Rica: a dialogue with practitioners

Victor Salviati, Special Projects Coordinator, FAS, Brazil
Sessions:  REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon: accomplishments and next steps to conservation and poverty alleviation

Oscar Sánchez, Environmental Services Director, FONAFIFO, Costa Rica
Sessions:  REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon: accomplishments and next steps to conservation and poverty alleviation, When one size is not enough: a South-South dialogue on PES experiences in Costa Rica and Brazil

Stefan Schurig, Climate Energy Director, World Future Council, Germany
Sessions:  Access to energy: Beyond 2012

Ali T Sheikh, Chief Executive Officer, LEAD Pakistan; and Asia Director, Climate and Development Knowledge Network, Pakistan
Sessions:  Social enterprise for a green economy

Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Diplomatic Mission, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), South Africa
Lindiwe coordinates policy research and advocacy on food policies, agricultural productivity, natural resources and environment, and the impact of HIV/ Aids in 16 African countries. She serves as trustee for two CGIAR boards and has published intensively on agricultural development. Lindiwe also holds a PhD in Animal Sciences, and is a practicing cattle farmer.
Sessions:  Making agricultural investments work for small scale farmers

Marina Silva, former Minister for Environment, Brazil
Marina has been a major force for conservation and sustainable development in Brazil for more than 20 years. In 1994, at the age of 36, she became the youngest senator in the history of Brazil, representing her home state of Acre. Marina later served as Minister of the Environment (2003–2008), was the Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2010, and was part of the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group. Throughout her career, Marina has received many national and international awards for her contribution to sustainable development.
Sessions:  Spotlight: Brazilian priorities for Rio+20

Youba Sokona, Coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), UN Economic Commission for Africa
As well as leading the ACPC, Youba co-chairs the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From 2004 to 2010, he led the Tunisia-based organisation Sahara and Sahel Observatory to improve early warning and monitoring of agriculture, food security and drought in Africa. Youba’s prestigious career has seen him focused on the interface between energy, environment and sustainable development, lecturing, publishing and advising African governments on a range of key related issues.
Sessions:  Green economy and developing countries

Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Achim, a German and Brazilian national, has been the executive director of UNEP since 2006. During his professional career, Achim has worked with government, nongovernment and international organisations in many different parts of the world including India, Germany, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, Switzerland, the United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. He has worked both at the grassroots as well as at the highest levels of international policymaking to address the interface between environmental sustainability, social equity and economic development.
Sessions:  Plenary: Better lives, smaller footprints

Dr. Steven Stone, Chief, Economics and Trade Branch, UNEP
Sessions:  Making it happen: implementing the principles for green economy

Student representative, PUC, Brazil
Throughout the two days of Fair ideas, a group of postgraduate students from PUC and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will attend sessions and discuss the implications of what they hear. A representative of this group will share the students’ perspectives on the topics and themes aired at Fair ideas and ambitions for the Rio+20 summit and follow-up.
Sessions:  Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future

Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Green Initiatives for a Smart Tomorrow (GIST) Advisory
A career banker, Pavan took a sabbatical from Deutsche Bank in 2008 to lead the UN Environment Programme’s The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project and, later, the Green Economy Initiative. Since then he has founded, and now chairs, GIST, a consulting firm that helps governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and human capital. He also serves on the boards of Conservation International and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. This year Pavan was awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship by Yale University, where he is now writing his book Corporation 2020.
Sessions:  Business models for sustainability

Almir Suruí, Chief of the Paiter Suruí People, Paiter Suruí Indigenous Group, Brazil
Sessions:  REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon: accomplishments and next steps to conservation and poverty alleviation

Alison Tate (TBC), Director of External Relations, International Trade Union Confederation, Australia
Sessions:  Ensuring equity in global policy processes: lessons from the climate change regime

Izabella Mônica Vieira Teixeira, Minister of Environment, Brazil
Born in Brasília, Brazil, Izabella is a biologist, and an expert in strategic environmental assessment. She has worked at the Brazilian Environmental Agency since 1984, in many different managing positions both within the agency, as well as at the Ministry of the Environment and at the State Government of Rio de Janeiro. In May 2010 Izabella was appointed Minister of the Environment — a position to which she was reappointed to in January 2011 by the new president of Brazil.
Sessions:  Plenary: Shaping sustainable development goals

Leodegar Tiscoski, National Secretary of Sanitation, Brazil
Sessions:  Sanitation: The key to helping cities and their communities achieve sustainable development

Serge Tomasi, Development Co-operation Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
As deputy director, Serge helps move forward the new development co-operation agenda of the OECD. He also leads the engagement with the G20 development working group and the green growth and climate change agenda regarding developing countries. Serge, a French national, has devoted his career to international co-operation, working in several positions within various French ministries. He spent four years in Senegal as Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs, and three years in New York as Financial Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations.
Sessions:  Green economy and developing countries, Is Green Growth different for developing countries?  Sharing Ideas and Experiences

Camilla Toulmin, Director, IIED
Camilla has led IIED since 2004. An economist by training, she has worked mainly in Africa combining field research, policy analysis and advocacy to understand how environmental, economic and political change can impact people’s lives, and how policy reform can bring real change on the ground. Today as well as leading IIED, Camilla is a trustee of ICARDA (Syria), the Franco-British Council and a number of other organisations.
Sessions:  Plenary: Shaping sustainable development goals, Plenary: Better lives, smaller footprints, Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future

Fabby Tumiwa, Executive Director, Institute for Essential Services Reform, Indonesia
Sessions:  Access to energy: Beyond 2012

Mary Turnipseed, Arctic Fellow, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Affiliate of the Center for Ocean Solutions, USA
Sessions:  Defending the public: participation, future generations, and sustainable development

Kevin Urama, Executive Director, African Technology Policy Studies Network, Tanzania
Sessions:  Transforming innovation for sustainability

Ruud van Eck, Director, Diligent Energy Systems, the Netherlands
Ruud is a seasoned entrepreneur. In 2004, he founded Diligent Energy Systems to develop biofuel production in Tanzania — one of the first commercial companies to focus on sustainable Jatropha production in Africa. Ruud's main fields of expertise include processing technologies, market development for biofuel and biomass products, and business partner search.
Sessions:  Making agricultural investments work for small scale farmers

Paul van Gardingen, Director, Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA), UK
Sessions:  North-South and South-South Dialogue: the role of key actors in achieving poverty eradication and green economy, Environment and ecosystem services: improving lives

Edith van Walsum, Director, ILEIA — Centre for learning on sustainable agriculture, the Netherlands
Sessions:  Agricultural biodiversity acknowledged

Sanjay Vashist, Director, Climate Action Network South Asia, India
Sessions:  North-South and South-South Dialogue: the role of key actors in achieving poverty eradication and green economy

Virgilio Viana, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fundação Amazonas Sustentável (FAS), Brazil
From two decades as a professor of forestry science at the University of São Paulo facilitating the discussion that gave birth to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Virgilio has a long track record in researching and promoting sustainable forestry. He founded and then led IMAFLORA — the first forest certification organisation in Latin America — and in 2003, became the first Secretary of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Amazonas. At FAS, Virgilio works to foster local welfare and the sustainable involvement of forest dwellers throughout Brazilian Amazon, coordinating one of the largest payments for environmental services (PES) programmes within a REDD+ framework in the world.
Sessions:  Plenary: Better lives, smaller footprints, REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon: accomplishments and next steps to conservation and poverty alleviation, The Amazon Lecture, When one size is not enough: a South-South dialogue on PES experiences in Costa Rica and Brazil, Plenary: SDGs: Looking to the future

Jorge Vivan, Post-doctoral researcher, Center for Development, Environment and Society, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sessions:  Locally controlled farm-forestry: A firm foundation for fair green economies?

Bill Vorley, Principal Researcher, Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, UK
Sessions:  Cleaning up China's supply chains, Changing mindsets: Small-scale farmers in the globalised market

Halina Ward, Director, Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, UK 
Sessions:  Defending the public: participation, future generations, and sustainable development

Jonathan Watts (TBC), Asia Environment Correspondent, The Guardian
Sessions:  Cleaning up China's supply chains

Daan Wensing, Manager of IUCN Leaders for Nature, IUCN Netherlands
Sessions:  Reframing Rio - Sustainable development: what's the story?

Anders Wijkman, Vice President of the Club of Rome and the Tällberg Foundation
Anders has been active in environmental and development issues for many years. As a member of the European Parliament (1999–2009) he focused on issues related to climate change, environment, development cooperation and humanitarian affairs. Anders has been a member of the Swedish parliament, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross, and president of the International Red Cross Disaster Relief Commission. Today, he is vice President of Club of Rome and the Tällberg Foundation, and is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Sessions:  Plenary: Shaping sustainable development goals, Access to energy: Beyond 2012

John Wilkinson, Professor, Graduate Center for Agricultural Development, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sessions:  Cleaning up China's supply chains

Emma Wilson, Senior Researcher, Sustainable Markets Group ,  IIED, UK
Sessions:  Shaping sustainable markets

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (speaker TBC)
Sessions:  Planetary and social boundaries: can we live in the safe and just space for humanity?
 

Feng Xiaoxing, Deputy Secretary General, All China Environment Federation, China
Sessions:  Defending the public: participation, future generations, and sustainable development

Carlos Young, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Sessions: The Amazon Lecture

Vicente Yu, Coordinator of the Global Governance for Development Programme, the South Centre,Philippines
Sessions:  Ensuring equity in global policy processes: lessons from the climate change regime, Planetary and social boundaries: can we live in the safe and just space for humanity?

José Miguel Zeledón, Director, Departamento Aguas MINAET, Costa Rica
Sessions:  The know-how of PES in Costa Rica: a dialogue with practitioners

Emerson Zhou (TBC), Manager, Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor (BAGC), Mozambique
Under Emerson’s leadership, BAGC aims to promote investment in agriculture in central Mozambique by facilitating the entry socially responsible investors who are willing to develop business models supporting smallholder farmers. Emerson is an agricultural value chain development specialist and has served as a consultant on many smallholder market linkage development programmes in Africa. He also previously worked for farmer organisations within the Southern African region.
Sessions:  Making agricultural investments work for small scale farmers

Claudia Martinez Zuleta, Executive Director, E3 Asesorías Ecología, Economía y Ética, Colombia
Sessions:  Mainstreaming climate change into sustainable urban planning