BCSC 2025 Speaker Overview

H.E. Amb. Anthony Agotha

EU Special Envoy for Climate and Environment, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Maurício Angelo

Founder, The Mining Observatory

Nicholas Bishop

Head, Climate Resilience & Security, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Tonni Brodber

Head of Secretariat, Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund

Mathieu Bussières

Director, NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE)

Timothy Bryar

Programme Adviser, Pacific Island Forum

Natasha Carmi

Senior Water-Peace Programme Manager, Geneva Water Hub

H.E. Amb. Winnie Natala Chibesakunda

Ambassador, Embassy of Zambia in Germany

Carlos Sánchez Del Águila

Minister Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Peru to the UN (Vienna)

H.E. Amb. Bakyt Dzhusupov

Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Japhet William Graham Eichel

Climate, Peace and Security Specialist, UN Women

H.E. Maria Fernanda Espinosa

Former President, United Nations General Assembly

Anka Feldhusen

Director for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Stabilisation, German Federal Foreign Office

Maria de Lourdes Caposso Fernandes

Member of the Parliament of Angola, National Assembly of Angola

Basilio Ghisletta

Policy and Law Programme Manager, Geneva Water Hub

Julia Sophie Hammelehle

Senior Policy Advisor, Munich Security Conference

Ayan Harare

National Climate Finance Unit Coordinator, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Somalia

Marcus Hicken

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

Hans Olav Ibrekk

Special Envoy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Ghulam Isaczai

Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator, and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)

H.E. Lt. Gen. Bashir Mohamed Jama

Minister, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Somalia

Paule Juneau

Environmental Law and Mediation Specialist, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Haiti

Prof. Dr Walter Kälin

Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy

Sonja Koeppel

Secretary of the UN Water Convention, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Mona Köhler-Schindler

Policy Officer, International Military Staff, NATO

Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Laurent

Action Officer, European Union External Action Service (EEAS)/EU Military Staff

Marcus Lenzen

Senior Adviser & Deputy Chief, United Nations Peacebuilding Fund

Margalit Levin

Assistant Director Climate Diplomacy Policy, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia

Dr Gabriela Manea

Program Manager, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)

Christian Ilunga Matthiesen

Adviser, Stabilisation Platform

Dr Assem Mayar

Climate expert, Climate Security Expert Network (CSEN)

Dr Irene Mia

Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Dr Beatrice Mosello

Senior Adviser, adelphi global

Caroline Nyaga

Project Manager, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Naoyuki Okano

Programme Officer, Governance for Climate Change and Sustainable Development (GCSD), United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

H.E. Amb. Indra Mani Pandey

Secretary General, Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)

Kristen Petillon

Business Engagement Lead, PeaceNexus Foundation

Dr Benjamin Pohl

Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi global

Dr Maddalena Procopio

Senior policy fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

Dr Nicole Quijano-Evans

Deputy Head of Crimes that Affect the Environment Programme, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Dr Martin Raiser

Senior Representative European Economic Cooperation, World Bank

Lauren Risi

Senior Fellow and Director of Environmental Security, Stimson Center

Thomas Ritzer

Senior Advisor Climate Change and Security, Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE)

Marcos Sampablo

Managing Director, West Africa, CrossBoundary Advisory

Dr Ronja Scheler

Federal Ministry of Defense of Germany

Dr Marcus Schroeder

Head of Division for International Cooperation, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Stephanie Speck

Head of Special Initiatives, Green Climate Fund

Dr Stefan Steinicke

Advisor International Cooperation Security Raw Materials and Space Travel, German Industry Association (BDI)

Veronica Stratford-Tuke

Head of Peace Economies, International Alert

Eva Svoboda

Director for International Law, Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Olivia Swaak-Goldman

Executive Director, Wildlife Justice Commission

Jonah Thompson

EU Policy Manager, Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)

Thomas Ungerbuehler

Assistant Director Environmental Security Sub-Directorate, Interpol

Swathi Veeravalli

Research Advisor, Toda Peace Institute

Dr Kira Vinke

Head of the Center for Climate and Foreign Policy, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Janani Vivekananda

Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi global

H.E. Dr Géza Andreas von Geyr

State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office

Charity Watson

Climate, Peace and Security Advisor, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

Ferre Westermann

Counsellor - Global Relations, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Emma Whitaker

Senior Adviser, adelphi

Dr Almut Wieland Karimi

Member of Advisory Board, UN Peacebuilding Fund and Weathering Risk Strategic Advisory Board

Gloria Womitso

Head of Humanitarian Insurance, African Risk Capacity Ltd

Johannes Zahnen

Senior Adviser Forest Policy, World Wide Fund for Nature Germany (WWF)