OUR SPEAKERS
We are honored and excited to host a diverse and outstanding group of planetary health professionals and experts from around the world. Learn more about our speakers' background, career, and connection to planetary health by clicking on their headshot.
Agnes Binagwaho
Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
Aileen Lee
Chief Program Officer, Environmental Conservation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Antonio Saraiva, EngD
Professor, University of São Paulo, Head of the Planetary Health Group, Institute for Advanced Studies
Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias
Associate Professor, University of Brasilia
Bruce Friedrich
Executive Director and Co-founder, The Good Food Institute
Carlos Faerron, MD, MSc
Associate Director, Planetary Health Alliance
Associate Faculty, University of Maryland
Associate Faculty, University of Maryland
Cicilia Githaiga
GIZ ABS Capacity Development Initiative
Technical Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Technical Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Dean, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Corinne Reid
Provost (Interim) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Victoria University
Courtney Howard, MD
Former President, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Diane Holdorf
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Managing Director of Food & Nature
Eliana Sousa Silva
Founder and Director of the NGO Redes da Maré
Ethan Brown
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Beyond Meat
Herton Escobar
Special Reporter, University of São Paulo (USP)
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad
Jamil Chade
Brazilian Journalist, Columnist at UOL and BandNews TV in Geneva
Jane Davidson
Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Jera Guarani
Brazilian indigenous leader of the Tenonde Porã village
John Fullerton
Founder and President, Capital Institute
John Helliwell
University of British Columbia
Jonathan Rose
President, Rose Companies
Julia Kim
Program Director, GNH Centre Bhutan
Karenna Gore
Director, Center for Earth Ethics
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
CEO and Founder, Landprocess/Porous City
Lucy Mulenkei
Executive Director, Indigenous Information Network
Luiz Eugenio Araujo de Morais Mello
Scientific Director, FAPESP
Madeleine Thomson
Interim Head – Our Planet, Our Health
Senior Science Lead, Climate Change and Health
Senior Science Lead, Climate Change and Health
Martin Hermann
President, KLUG - German Alliance Climate Change and Health
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
Mayara Floss, M.D
Family Physician, WONCA Working Party on Environment and WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice
Melvine Anyango
Planetary Health Next Generation Fellow, University of Eldoret
Nainoa Thompson
President, Polynesian Voyaging Society
Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH
UND / Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation
Nicole de Paula
Founder of the Women Leaders for Planetary Health; Inaugural Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)-Potsdam, Germany
Omnia El Omrani
Liaison Officer for Public Health, International Federation of Medical Students' Association
Riane Eisler, J.D, PhD (hon)
President, Center for Partnership Systems
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Rolph Payet
Executive Secretary,Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
Sandeep Maharaj
Associate Dean Distance Education, Planning and Projects, University of the West Indies
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Co-President, Club of Rome
Sarah Finnie Robinson
Founding Director, the 51 Percent Project
Silvia Lagnado
Sustainable Growth Officer, Natura&Co
Stefanos Fotiou
Director, Environment and Development Division; United Nations ESCAP
Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director of Planetary Health, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Thomas Jonas
Co-Founder and CEO of Nature's Fynd
Tom Szaky
Terracycle Founder & CEO
Vik Mohan, BM BCh, MA, DRCOG
Medical Director, Blue Ventures Conservation
Virgilio Viana
Director General, Sustainable Amazon Foudation
Wanjira Mathai
Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, World Resources Institute
Will Evison
Director, Sustainability Strategy, PwC