2025 speakers
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Abdihakim Ainte
Director, food security and climate change
Office of the Prime Minister, government of Somalia
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Farheen Altaf
Senior manager, climate thought leadership
CDP
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Amal-Lee Amin
Managing director and head of climate, diversity and advisory
British International Investment
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Jess Ayers
CEO
Quadrature Climate Foundation
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Pepukaye Bardouille
Director
Bridgetown Initiative
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Emilie Beauchamp
Lead for monitoring, evaluation and learning for adaptation to climate change and resilience
International Institute for Sustainable Development
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Anna Beswick
Policy research fellow; director, ATTENUATE project
London School of Economics
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Ritu Bharadwaj
Director, climate resilience, finance and loss and damage/ALL ACT
International Institute for Environment and Development
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Amanda Brasil-Leigh
Manager of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance
Climate Policy Initiative
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Gianluca Cantalupi
Firmwide risk executive and head of climate, nature and social risk
JP Morgan
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Sean Carmody
Executive director, policy and advice division
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
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Maelis Carraro
Managing partner
Catalyst Fund
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Ambassador Andre Correa do Lago
President-Designate
COP30
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Ruth Davis
Special Representative for Nature
UK government
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Mike Delia
Senior underwriter
AXA XL
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Ashley Diggins
Head of adaptation economics, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
UK government
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Luke Disney
Executive vice-president
Rabobank
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Saliha Dobardzic
Programming and innovation unit lead and senior climate change specialist
Adaptation Fund
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Sophie Evans
Associate director
Centre for Disaster Protection
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Tyler Ferdinand
Director, TECA
BFA Global
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Abigail Freeman
Co-founder
Brink
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Linda Freiner
Chief sustainability officer
Zurich Insurance Group
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Jorge Gastelumendi
Senior director, Climate Resilience Center
Atlantic Council
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Namrata Ginoya
Strategic policy lead
Global Resilience Partnership
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Suranjana Gupta
Senior specialist and advisor, community resilience
Huairou Commission
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Bakhit Djamous Hassan
Minister of Environment
Republic of Chad
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Loretta Hieber Girardet
Chief, risk knowledge, monitoring and capacity development
UNDRR
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Anthony Hobley
Deputy chair, climate, risk and resilience
Howden Group
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Wopke Hoekstra
Commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth
European Commission
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Farmina Hossain
Director of operations
BURO Bangladesh
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Emma Howard-Boyd
Former chair
UK Environment Agency; Green Finance Institute; London Climate Resilience Review
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Michael Hugman
Lead economist and global director for climate
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
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Nick Hurd
Former Minister of State for Industry and Climate Change
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Ambassador Elshad Iskandarov
Senior advisor to COP29
Azerbaijan government
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Ekhosuehi Iyahen
Secretary general
Insurance Development Forum
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Michael Jacobs
Senior adviser
Expert Review on Debt, Nature and Climate
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Lindsey Paul Jones
Senior climate change specialist
The World Bank
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Rojy Joshi
Researcher (climate finance)
International Institute for Environment and Development
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Hajo Junge
GIZ co-director
C40 Cities Finance Facility
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Tracy Kajumba
Director
LIFE-AR secretariat
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Laura Kelly
Director of Shaping Sustainable Markets
International Institute for Environment and Development
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Alexander Kennedy
Head of sustainable finance solutions
Standard Chartered Bank
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Lori Kerr
Chief executive officer
FinDev Canada
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Helen King
Economic development and partnerships director
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Kerry King
Executive director for capital markets
Accounting for Sustainability
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Kamal Kishore
Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Adriana Kocornik-Mina
Senior urban and regional economist
WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
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Arend Kulenkampff
Lead innovative finance
NatureFinance
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Tracy-Lee Kus
Head of Global Broking Centre
Aon
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Rachel Kyte
Special Representative for Climate
UK
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Gaia Larsen
Director, climate finance access, finance center
WRI
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Kate Levick
Associate director, finance and resilience
E3G
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Simon Lucas
Head of profession for climate environment infrastructure and energy
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Leslie Maasdorp
Chief executive officer
British International Investment
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Nick Mabey
Co-founder/co-CEO
E3G
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Tom Mitchell
Executive director
International Institute for Environment and Development
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Leah Moss
Senior policy strategist
Mama Cash
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Aditi Mukherji
Director, climate change adaptation and mitigation impact action platform
CGIAR
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Juliet Munro
Director - Early-Stage Finance
FSD Africa
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Joe Muturi
Community leader
Slum Dwellers International
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Pauline Nantongo
Executive director
ECOTRUST
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Priscilla Negreiros
Associate director
Climate Policy Initiative
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Maria Netto
Executive director
Institute for Climate and Society
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Barbara Oldani
Lead
Sustainable Sovereign Debt Hub
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Ivan Oliveira
Deputy secretary for sustainable development finance
Ministry of Finance, Brazil
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Evans Osano
Chief financial markets officer
FSD Africa
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Lin O’Grady
Head of EBRD green cities, sustainable infrastructure group
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Sheela Patel
Founder/director
SPARC
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Peter Pears
Capital markets
Mayer Brown International LLP
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Avinash Persaud
Special advisor on climate change to the president
Inter-American Development Bank
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Ariane Pevide
Blended and climate finance director
MUFG
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Stephanie Pfeifer
CEO
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
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Nicola Ranger
Executive director
Earth Capital Nexus, LSE
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Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio
Senior advisor, adaptation and resilience
United Nations Foundation
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Satu Santala
Managing director
Nordic Development Fund
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Guido Schmidt Traub
Partner
Systemiq
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George Scott
Pipeline manager for the Subnational Climate Fund
Catalytic Finance Foundation
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Penny Seach
Chief underwriting officer
Zurich Insurance Group/Blue Marble
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Ajaita Shah
Founder/CEO
Frontier Markets
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Anju Sharma
Global lead
Global Center on Adaptation
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Violet Shivutse
Global chair (Huairou) and founder (Shibuye)
Huairou Commission/Shibuye Community Health Workers
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Marina Silva
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Brazil
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Vikash Sinha
Associate partner – climate change and sustainability
MicroSave Consulting
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Dario Soto Abril
Executive director
Trafigura Foundation
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Henrietta Southby
Head of implementation
Humanity Insured
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BVR Subrahmanyam
CEO
National Institution for Transforming India
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Thomas Tayler
Head of climate finance
Aviva Investors
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May Thazin Aung
Senior researcher, climate change
International Institute for Environment and Development
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Juliana Tinoco
Executive coordinator
Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur | Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South
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Marcia Toledo
Director adaptation and resilience
Climate Champions Team
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Ana Toni
CEO
COP30 presidency
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Aneil Tripathy
Director, financial services, company network
Ceres, Inc
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Laurynas Vaičiulis
Senior global advisor, climate & energy
FINCA International
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Anjali Viswamohanan
Director of policy
Asia Investor Group on Climate Change
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Faith Ward
Chief responsible investment officer
Brunel Pension Partnership
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Paul Watkiss
Director
Paul Watkiss Associates
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Jan Weiss
Director, financial products and services division
Inter American Development Bank
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Fred Werneck
Co-founder
Clarmondial
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Louise Wilson
Managing director
Abundance Investments
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Graham Wright
Founder and managing director
MicroSave Consulting