NEXUS: Water-Food-Energy-Climate Speakers and Chairs Confirmed - Registration open
Conference Objectives
- To input the Nexus approach to the Sustainable Development Goals being developed for 2015 to replace the Millennium Development Goals
- Launch an Academic and Practitioners Network
Conference Partners
- The World Bank
- UNDESA
- UNDP
- UNCCD
- UN HABITAT
- UNITAR
- IRENA
- UN Global Compact
- Stockholm Environment Institute
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- WWF International
- Millennium Institute
- Biovision
- WSPA
Conference Speakers
Confirmed speakers include:
- Albert Butare: Co-chair of Bonn Nexus Conference and former Rwanda Energy Minister
- Paula Cabellero Gomez Director of the Directorate for Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombia
- Adnan Z. Amin: Director General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
- Elizabeth Thompson: former UN Assistant Secretary General and Coordinator, Rio+20
- Ambassador Kitty van der Heijden, member of the SDG OWG, Netherlands
- Greg Koch, Director, Global Water Stewardship in the Environment & Water Resources Department, The Coca-Cola Company
- Dan Bena, Senior Director of Sustainability, PepsiCo
- Rebecca Marmot, Partnerships and Foundation Director, Unilever
- Andy Wales, Environment Director, SAB Miller
- Michael Schmitz: Executive Director, ICLEI US
- Hans Herren: President and CEO, Millennium Institute and 2013 Right Livelihood Winner
- Maruxa Cardama: Executive Project Coordinator, Communitas
- Jonas Monast: Director of Climate and Energy Program at Nicolas Institute, Duke University
- Diego Rodriguez: Program Manager, World Bank
- Hannah Stoddart: Head of Economic Justice Policy Team, Oxfam
- Zak Bleicher: Partnership Officer, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- Aneri Patel: Senior Associate, Energy Access at the United Nations Foundation
- David Rothschild: Principal Portfolio Team, Skoll Foundation
- Gary Lawrence: Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, AECOM
- Stuart Orr: Head of Water Stewardship, WWF International
- Anders Berntell: Executive Director, 2030 Water Resources Group
- Steve Waygood: Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors
- Geoffrey Lipman: Former Assistant Secretary General, UN World Tourism Organization
- Joachim von Braun: Director of the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn
- Lidia Brito: Director of Science Policy and Capacity Building for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
- Johan Kuylenstierna: Executive Director for the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
- Joshua Tewksbury: Director, Luc Hoffmann Institute
- Julie van der Bliek, Adviser, Program and Business Development, International Water Management Institute
- Jonas Monast, Director of Climate and Energy Program, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
- Nicholas You, Chairman, UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign Steering Committee
- Andre Dzikus, Coordinator, UN HABITAT
Conference Chairs:
- Janos Pasztor, Director, Policy and Science, WWF International
- Olav Kjorven, Special Advisor on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, UNDP
- Jorge Laguna-Celis, Senior Sustainable Development Advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly
- Farrukh Iqbal Khan Counsellor Pakistan Mission to the UN
- Annette Huber-Lee, Senior Researcher, Stockholm Environment Institute
- Katherine Teh-White, Managing Director Futureye
Sincerely,
The Water Institute at UNC
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