Speakers
Keynote speakers
Aziza Akhmouch
Head, Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division, OECD
David Cooper
Deputy Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Environmental activist, speaker, television host and author
Annerieke Douma
Director, Program and Business Development, Circle Economy
Thomas Elmqvist
Professor and Theme Leader, Stockholm University Resilience Center
Martin Frick
Senior Director, Policy and Programme Coordination, United Nations Climate Change
Limin Hee
Director, Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities
Naoko Ishii
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Amy Luers
Executive Director, Future Earth
Maimunah Mohd Sharif
Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Ashok Sridharan
Mayor, City of Bonn, Germany
President, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Mark Swilling
Co-Director, Stellenbosch Centre for Complex Systems in Transition
Laure Waridel
PhD, co-founder of Équiterre, special advisor at Trudel Johnston & Lespérance (TJL)
Local leaders
Diriba Kuma
Mayor, Addis Ababa City Council, Ethiopia
Ines de Madeiros
Mayor, City of Almada, Portugal
Wayne Walker
Councillor, City of Auckland, New Zeland
Célestine Ketcha épouse Courtès
Mayor, Bangangté Municipal Council, Cameroon
President, Network for Locally Elected Women of Africa (REFELA)
UCLG Champion on Development cooperation
Janet Sanez Cid
Deputy Mayor, Barcelona City Council, Spain
Stephany Uy-Tan
Mayor, City of Catbalogan, Philippines
Vice-President, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Mary Casillas Salas
Mayor, City of Chula Vista, USA
Berty Hans Margueritte
Mayor, Municipality of Curepipe, Mauritius
Kim Le Cerf
Mayor, City of Darebin, Australia
Frank Cownie
Mayor, City of Des Moines, USA
Vice-President, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Aaron Hawkins
Councillor, City of Dunedin, New Zeland
Don Iveson
Mayor, City of Edmonton, Canada
Dario Nardella
Mayor, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy
Daniel Termont
Mayor, City of Ghent, Belgium
Eckart Würzner
Mayor, City of Heidelberg, Germany
Andrew Leonard Mua
Mayor, Honiara City Council, Solomon Islands
Emmanuel Seronjoji
Mayor, Kampala Capital City Authority, Uganda
Mariusz Skiba
Vice Mayor, City of Katowice, Poland
Satoshi Uemura
Deputy Mayor, City of Kyoto, Japan
Zoran Janković
Mayor, City of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Felicitas Kubala
Deputy Mayor, City of Mannheim, Germany
Dr. Cathy Oke
Councillor, Melbourne City Council, Australia
First Vice-President, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Valérie Plante
Mairesse de Montréal, Canada
Jichkar Nanda
Mayor, Nagpur, India
Yeh Huey-ching
Deputy Mayor, New Taipei City, Government Chinese Taipei
William Peduto
Mayor, City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Manuel de Araujo
Mayor, Quelimane Municipal Council, Mozambique
Mauricio Rodas Espinel
Mayor, Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador
Pam O´Connor
Council Member, Santa Monica, United States
Yeom Tae Young
Mayor, Suwon City, Republic of Korea
Anna-Kaisa Heinämäki
Deputy Mayor, City of Tampere, Finland
Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah
Mayor, Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, Honduras
Kinlay Dorjee
Mayor, Thimphu City Corporation, Bhutan
Member, ICLEI Global Executive Committee
Erion Veliaj
Mayor, City of Tirana, Albania
Solly Msimanga
Mayor, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Minna Arve
Mayor, City of Turku, Finland
Lisa Helps
Mayor, City of Victoria, Canada
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Mayor, City of Warsaw, Poland
Rafał Dutkiewicz
Mayor of the City of Wroclaw, Poland
Amanda Stone
Councillor, City of Yarra, Australia
Strategic partners
Butch Bacani
Programme Leader, UN Environment
Léopold Beaulieu
President and CEO, Fondaction
Roby Biwer
VIce Chair of the Commission for the Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE), European Committee of the Regions
Roland Hunziker
Director, Sustainable Buildings and Cities, World Business COuncil for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Patricia McCarney
President and CEO, World Council on City Data
Clarissa Morawski
Managing Director, Reloop
Martina Otto
Head of Cities Unit, United Nations Environment Program
Nadia Petrolito
Vice President in charge of legal affairs, L’Óreal Canada
Wolfgang Ringel
Senior Vice President Governmental Affairs, Tomra Systems ASA
Debra Roberts
Co-Chair, IPCC Working Group II
Marzena Rogalska
Head of the Public Procurement Strategy Unit, DG Grow, European Commission
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Rob Wesseling
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Co-operators Group Limited, Ontario