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H.E. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak
Host & Keynote Speaker
Secretary General Environment Agency Abu Dhabi

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Achim Steiner
Keynote Speaker
Executive Director United Nations Environment Program and
Undersecretary General of the UN

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Inger Anderson
Keynote Speaker
Director General International Union for Conservation of Nature

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Barbara J. Ryan
Keynote Speaker
Secretariat Director Group on Earth Observations

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Janet Ranganathan
Keynote Speaker
Vice President, Science & Research - WRI

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Professor Jacqueline McGlade
UNEP Chief Scientist and Director of the Division of
Early Warning and Assessment

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Fernando R. Echavarria, PhD
Foreign Affairs Officer in the U.S. Department of State’s
Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (OES)

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Felix Dodds
Senior Fellow at the Global Research Institute of the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute

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Anne Miglarese
President and CEO, PlanetiQ

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Guido Schmidt-Traub
Executive Director of the UN Sustainable Development
Solutions Network

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Lian Pin Koh, PhD
Regional Technical Advisor for Conservation International,
a TED speaker, and Founding Director of the non-profit
ConservationDrones.org

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Louis Liebenberg
Executive Director of CyberTracker Conservation NPC

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Professor Muki Haklay
Professor of Geographic Information Science at
University College London (UCL)

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Paul F. Uhlir, J.D
Scholar at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

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Ilya Zaslavsky
Director of the Spatial Information Systems Lab at the
San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego

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Rodrigo Barriga-Vargas
Polytechnic Engineer in Geography

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Stefano Nativi
Head of the Florence Division of the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) of the National Research Council of Italy

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Enrico Giovannini
Italian Economist and Statistician
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