Our speakers
We are delighted to welcome environmental democracy experts from across the world and representing civil society, law, politics and academia.
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For our Conference on Environmental Democracy, we are delighted to welcome experts from across the world and representing civil society, law, politics and academia. On this page, you can find out who is speaking at the conference.
Day 1
Dr Alina Averchenkova
Distinguished Policy Fellow, Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Prof. David Boyd
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
Carole Excell, LLM
Director, Environmental Democracy Practice, World Resources Institute
Maia Bitadze MP
Chairperson, Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Committee, Parliament of Georgia
Nino Gokhelashvili
Vice-Chairperson of the Bureau of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention)
Abdel Rahman Sultan
Deputy Director and Regional Programs Manager, EcoPeace Middle East, Jordan
Lisa Badum MdB
Chairwoman in the Committee for Climate Protection and Energy, German Bundestag. Climate policy spokesperson, Alliance 90/The Greens
Prof. Evan Lieberman
Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ana Barreira
Marta Szigeti Bonifert
Vice President of the European Partners for Environment (EPE) Belgium, Former Executive Director, Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance
Day 2
Rosario Pavese
Senior Regional Coordinator, Americas, Open Government Partnership
Augustine B. Njamnshi
Executive Secretary of Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme Cameroon (BDCPC), Member of the Board of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA)
Birgitta Ohlsson
Director, Political Parties, National Democratic Institute
Dr Arnold Kreilhuber
Deputy Director, Law Division, UN Environment Programme
Justice Antonio Benjamin
President of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment
Mark Robinson
Executive Director, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Devin O'Shaughnessy
Senior Strategy and Policy Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Hannah Mowat
Campaigns Coordinator, Forests and Environmental Resources Network (FERN)
Day 3
Rafael Jimenez Aybar
Environmental Democracy Adviser, Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Han Seung-soo
Former Prime Minister of Korea (2008-2009), Vice President, Club de Madrid
Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith
Minister for Pacific and the Environment at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Theo Clarke MP
Conservative MP for Stafford, Member, International Development Committee
Kathryn Stratos
Deputy Director, Climate and Cross-Sectoral Strategy, USAID
Johanna Arriagada
Action on Climate Empowerment Strategy Lead, Ministry of the Environment, Chile
Dr Lauren Van Metre
Senior Advisor for Peace, Security and Democratic Resilience, National Democratic Institute
Andrew Norton
Director, International Institute for Environment and Development
Anja Beretta
Head of Regional Programme for Energy Security and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Jenny Ohlsson
State Secretary to the Minister for International Development Cooperation, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Ann Cathrin Pedersen
Programme Manager, Environmental Governance Programme, United Nations Development Programme
Hon. Fadli Zon
Hon. Emmanuel Marfo
Chair, Committee on Environment, Science and Technology, Parliament of Ghana
Anna George
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency