Sylvain Aldighieri
Director, Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention, Control & Elimination
Pan American Health Organization
2024 Speakers
Dinesh Arora
Principal Health Specialist
Asian Development Bank
Former President Joyce Banda, Malawi
Board member
COP29 Advisory
Paulin Basinga
Director, Africa
Gates Foundation
Karina Basrewan
News Anchor, Cnn Academy Storyteller
S.E. Asia Today News
Gary Belkin
Director
Billion Minds Institute
Huzaifa Bilal
Country Lead, Health Systems Strengthening
Khushi Baby
Báltica Cabieses
Professor
Universidad Del Desarrollo In Chile
Oliver Camp
Environment and Food Systems Advocacy Advisor
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Ann Canavan
Senior Director
International Medical Corps
Dr. Michael Adekunle Charles
CEO
RBM Partnership to End Malaria
Matt Clark
Partnerships Director
Health Electrification & Telecommunications Alliance (HETA), Abt Global
Alexandra Cockburn
Executive Producer
BBC Storyworks
Stephen Cornish
General Director
Médecins sans Frontières Switzerland (Doctors Without Borders)
Lakshmi Dhewhanti
Director General
Climate Change, Indonesia
Martin Edlund
Executive Director
Health Finance Coalition
Renzo R. Guinto
Associate Professor
Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore
Hande Harmanci
WHO Representative and Head of Country Office, Azerbaijan
World Health Organization (WHO)
Laura SL Herman
Partner
Dalberg Advisors
Robert Hughes
Principal Investigator
Children, Cities and Climate Action Lab, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Amy Ickowitz
Senior Scientist, Governance, Equity, and Well-being
CIFOR-ICRAF
Sara Jerving
Journalist
Devex
Tom Kakaire
Head, Strategy & Planning
Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University
Vanessa Kerry
CEO
Seed Global Health & WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health
Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga
Director, Intergovernmental Support and Collective Progress
UNFCCC
Cindy Kobei
Indigenous Woman Climate Policy Fellow
Conservation International
Nqatyiswa (Nikki) Mendu
Engagement and Communications Coordinator
Invisible Rock
Jeni Miller
Executive Director
Global Climate and Health Alliance
Aditi Mukherji
Director
CGIAR Climate Impact Platform
Mithika Mwenda
Executive Director
Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance
Eleni (Lenio) Myrivili
Global Chief Heat Officer
UN-Habitat and Arsht-Rock
Nidhi Nagabhatla
Senior Fellow
United Nations University – CRIS
Shweta Narayan
Global Climate & Health Campaigner
Healthcare Without Harm
Maria Neira
Director, Environment, Climate Change, and Health
World Health Organization (WHO)
Eng Eong Ooi, Bmbs, Phd, Frcpath
Professor, Program In Emerging Infectious Diseases
Duke-Nus Medical School
William Pan
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Global Environmental Health
Duke University
Jonathan Patz
Professor
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Department of Population Health Sciences; Center for Sustainability & the Global Environment (SAGE), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Revati Phalkey
Global Director Health and Nutrition
Save the Children International
Taylor Quinn
Executive Director
Tailored Food
Tamer Samah Rabie
Global Program Lead for Climate and Health
World Bank
Dr. Juan Jose Rechadell
Research Director
Feeding the Change
Yalchin Rafiyev
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs & Chief Negotiator
COP29
Tala Al Ramahi
Chief Strategy Officer
Reaching the Last Mile
Maarten Van De Reep
Regional Director, East & Southern Africa
Evidence Action
Marina Romanello
Executive Director
Lancet Countdown
Budi Gunadi Sadikin
Minister of Health
Indonesia
Peter Sands
Executive Director
Global Fund
Hamzah Sarwar
Global Social Impact and Partnerships Director
Reckitt
Dr. P.K. Sen
Former Additional Director-General, MoHFW, Government of India and Director, NVBDCP, India
Simon Shelley
Chief Commercial Officer
Hi Impact
David Smith
Director, Centre for Environmental Management
University of the West Indies
Anna Soave
Head of Country Programme
UN-Habitat Azerbaijan
Aravindan Srinivasan
Head, Climate Action Platform
AVPN
Harshita Umesh
YOUNGO Health Working Group
Sally Uren
Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer
Forum for the Future
Juan Pablo Uribe
Global Director, Health, Nutrition & Population
World Bank
Raman Velayudhan
Unit Head, Veterinary Public Health, Vector Control and Environment
World Health Organization
Neil Vora, MD
Policy Fellow
Conservation International
David Walton
US Global Malaria Coordinator
President’s Malaria Initiative
George Wamukoya
Policy Expert
African Group of Negotiators Expert Support
Kelly Willis
Managing Director
Forecasting Healthy Futures
Stefan Wheat, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Director, Planetary Health Theme
University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo
Co-Chair
Indigenous People Observatory Network: climate-food-health nexus (IPON)