BCSC 2024 Speaker Overview

Dr. Daniel Abrahams

Senior Climate Security Advisor, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Pia van Ackern

Policy Advisor on Climate Peace and Security, German Federal Foreign Office

Sara Alawia

Climate and Gender Specialist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

H.E. Annalena Baerbock

Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany

Tobias Bernstein

Advisor, adelphi

Raphael Bodewig

Climate Peace and Security Expert, United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)

Mohammed Bukar

Lake Chad Basin Coordinator, MEAC, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Chiara Buzzico

Senior Energy Advisor, Mercy Corps

Elizabeth Carabine

Climate, Peace and Security Advisor, UN Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa

Ginevra Cucinotta

Learning Portfolio Manager, United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)

Lucas Destrijcker

Climate Change and Security Expert, United Nations Mission In South Sudan (UNMISS)

Christina Dexel

Senior Policy Advisor, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Dr. Ole Diehl

Vice President of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND)

H.E. Dr. Dino Patti Djalal

Founder, Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia

Róisín Drury-Tully

Programme Manager, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), European Commission

David Dutton

Assistant Secretary Climate and Environmental Diplomacy, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) of Australia

Helen Hakena

Co-founder, Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency

Heloise Heyer

Conflict Sensitivity Lead - International Partnerships Manager, Peace Nexus Foundation (tbc)

Hiroko Hirahara

Director of Civil Affairs Division, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)

Remadji Hoinathy

Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies

Lieutenant Colonel Ragnar Holldack

Federal Ministry of Defence, Department for Military Strategy and Operations

Ahmed Hussein

Deputy Chief of Mission of the Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Addis Ababa & Representative of the African Union Peace and Security Council

Andrew Hyde

Senior Fellow and Director, Human Security and Governance Program, The Stimson Center

H.E. Amb. Elshad Iskandarov

Special Envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan

Utchang Kang

Programme Management Officer, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

H.E. Bogolo Joy Kenewendo

Managing Director, Kenewendo Advisory

H.E. Amb. Dr. Smiljana Knez

Ambassador-at-Large for Climate Diplomacy of Slovenia

Mona Koehler-Schindler

Staff Officer, Climate Security, International Military Staff, NATO HQ

H.E. Vahan Kostanyan

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia

Sari Kouvo

Climate, Environment and Security Adviser, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Maria Krisch

Programme Coordinator & Climate Peace and Security Lead, United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund

David Miliband

President and CEO, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

H.E. Jennifer Morgan

State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, German Federal Foreign Office

Dr. Beatrice Mosello

Senior Advisor, adelphi

Raquel Munayer

Consultant, adelphi

Winfred Mugambwa

Executive Director, Rights 4 Her Uganda

Kayly Ober

Senior Climate Fragility Advisor for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, United States Department of State

Dr. Siobhan O'Neil

Head of Project Managing Exits from Armed Conflict, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Dr. Elton Qendro

National Programme Officer, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Presence in Albania

Gerty Pierre

Climate Change Director, Ministry of Environment of Haiti

Tasnia Khandaker Prova

Lead, Climate Research, Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University

Oliver Rentschler

Director-General for Climate Diplomacy and Geoeconomics, German Federal Foreign Office

Lauren Herzer Risi

Program Director, Environment Change and Security Program, Wilson Center

H.E. Amb. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett

Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations

Colonel Sheku Tejan Sesay

Senior Political and Reporting Officer/ Focal Point for AFRIPOL, African Union Commission

Erin Sikorsky

Director, The Center for Climate and Security

Mirjam Sørli

Manager, UN Reform and Peacebuilding, NORCAP, part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Dr. Sreejith Sugunan

Project Lead, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Dennis Tänzler

Director and Head of Programme Climate Policy, adelphi

Swathi Veeravalli

Director of Climate Security and Adaptation, National Security Council, USA

Kim MacLachlan Vetting

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

Alina Viehoff

Consultant, adelphi

Janani Vivekananda

Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi

Ibrahim Wambai

Lead, Climate, Health, Conflict and Fragility, Clean Technology Hub

H.E. Mohamed Abdi Ware

Deputy Executive Secretary, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

Christina Wegelein

Head of Climate and Security Division, German Federal Foreign Office

Emma Whitaker

Senior Advisor, adelphi

Almut Wieland-Karimi

Member of the Advisory Board of the UN Peacebuilding Fund & Stiftung Mercator & Weathering Risk by adelphi

Anne A. Witkowsky

Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations of the United States Department of State