BCSC 2023 Speaker Overview

Sagal Abshir

Environment Security Unit Head, UNEP

H.E. Ahmed Alattar

Ambassador to Germany, United Arab Emirates

Hisham Al-Omeisy

Senior Yemen Advisor and Head of PfR Steering Group, European Institute of Peace

Carlos Alvarado Quesada

former President of the Republic of Costa Rica and Climate Mobility Envoy of the UN Global Centre for Climate Mobility

H.E. Amb. Tom Amolo

Ambassador of Kenya to the Federal Republic of Germany

James Appathurai

Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges

Laura Birkman

Senior Strategic Analyst and Head of the Climate and Security Program, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

Gen. Vincent Breton

Director, Joint Centre for Concepts, Doctrines and Experimentations

Elizabeth Carabine

Climate Security Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General to the Horn of Africa, UNEP

Anil Chopra

Director General, Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), India

Viola Csordas

SSR Advisor, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)

H.E. S. Hasanthi Urugodawatte Dissanayake

Sri Lankan Ambassador to Turkey

Cosmin Dobran

Director of the Peace, Partnerships and Crisis Management Directorate at the European External Action Services (EEAS)

Claire Doyle

Program Associate, Wilson Center

Ulrich Eberle

Project Director, Climate, Environment and Conflict, International Crisis Group

Nizar El Laz

Country Manager, The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund

Nisreen Elsaim

Climate Activist and UN Secretary General's youth adviser on climate change

Raphaela Engel

European External Action Services (EEAS)

Mana Farooghi

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom

Susanne Fries-Gaier

Director for Humanitarian Assistance, German Federal Foreign Office

Caroline Gårdestedt

Environmental Advisor, European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia)

Janel Galvanek

Head of Regional Peace Support Department, Berghof Foundation

Kate Guy

Managing Director, Climate Security and Cross Cutting Issues, Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

Emma Hakala

Leading researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

H.E. M. Riaz Hamidullah

Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Netherlands

Markus Hicken

Director for Energy Diplomacy, Climate and Security, German Federal Foreign Office

Charles Iceland

Director Freshwater Initiatives, World Resources Institute

Mohamed Hassan Ismail

Country Representative Kenya, Interpeace Kenya

David Ismay

Head of Sustainability and Public Policy, Gro Intelligence

Paule Juneau

Environmental law specialist and mediator, United Nations Environment Programme in Haiti (UNEP Haiti)

Petra Kezman

Slovenian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Dr Winnie Kiiru

Executive Director at Mpala Research Centre

Caroline Kruckow

Policy advisor for peace and development, FriEnt

Johanna Lauritsen

Environmental Coordinator, Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC)

Sebastian Lesch

Head of the Climate Policy Division, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Harriet Mackaill-Hill

Climate and Peace Advocacy Advisor, International Alert

Dr Erin McFee

Professor of Practice in Climate Security at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, Founder & President at the Corioli Institute, and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science

Monica Medina

President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society

Beatrice Mosello

Senior Advisor, adelphi

Dhesigen Naidoo

Senior Research Associate, Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

Jojo Nem Singh

Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dr. Grazia Pacillo

Co-lead CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security, CGIAR

Tobias Pietz

Deputy Head Analysis, Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF)

Dr. Nicolas Regaud

Senior advisor for climate to the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, French Ministry for the Armed Forces

Aurélie Rime

Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Abigail Robinson

Consultant, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)

Alice Ruhweza

Senior Director for Global Policy Influence and Engagement at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Lukas Rüttinger

Senior Advisor, adelphi

Brigadier General Jürgen Schrödl

Chief of Division II, Directorate-General for Security and Defence Policy, Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany

Diane Sheinberg

Peacebuilding Advisor, United Nations Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund

Harjeet Singh

Climate Policy Expert, Head of Global Political Strategy, CAN International

Nina Strumpf

Peacebuilding & Conflict Transformation Advisor

Sreejith Sugunan

Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), Switzerland

Dr. Konstantinos Tsetsos

Head of Foresight, Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight

Janani Vivekananda

Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi

Christina Wegelein

Head of Climate and Security Division, German Federal Foreign Office

Michael Werz

Food security expert

Kadiatou Yacouba-Keita

Country Director Mali, International Alert

Helge Elisabeth Zeitler

Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission

Andrew Zolli

Chief Impact Officer at Planet