Speaker Overview - BCSC 2022 | berlin-climate-security-conference.adelphi.de

Amb. Ahmed Abdel-Latif

Director-General of the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA)

Taye Abdulkadir

Senior Technical Member of the Continental Early Warning System, African Union

Haider Al Ibrahimi

Director, Peace Paradigms Organisation

H.E. Khadiija Maxamed Al Makhzoumin

Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Somalia

H.E. Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri

Minister of Climate Change & Environment in the United Arab Emirates

Dr. Sameh Al Muqdadi

General Manager, Green Charter Europe

Lorenzo Angelini

Policy Officer, EPLO

H.E. Annalena Baerbock

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany

H.E. Suzi Carla Barbosa

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau

Nino Barkaia

Head of International Relations Division, Emergency Management Service, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia

H.E. François Bausch

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Luxembourg

Benedetta Berti

Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General, NATO

Laura Birkman

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

Michel Stephane Bonda

Deputy Minister of Environment of Gabon

Richard Brewin

Lead Officer and Scientific Adviser, Climate and Energy Security Section, NATO

Luca Briganti

Sustainability Research & Technology Portfolio Manager, Airbus Defence and Space

Hon. Sharon Burke

Global Fellow Wilson Center; Founder and President of Ecospherics

Esra Buttanri

Senior Advisor, Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, OSCE

Alexander Carius

Managing Director, adelphi

Alec Crawford

Director, Nature for Resilience, IISD

Viola Csordas

SSR Advisor, DCAF

Omar Dairov

Executive Director, CSO “Students of Kyrgyzstan for a Green Economy”

Patrizia Danzi

State Secretary and Director-General, Agency for Development and Cooperation of Switzerland

Lucas Destrijcker

Advisor, adelphi

Róisín Drury-Tully

Programme Manager, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments, European Commission

Raphaela Engel

Policy Officer, Security and Defence Policy, EEAS

Stephanie Epner

Special Advisor and Acting Senior Director, National Security Council, USA

Jochen Flasbarth

State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Chris Funk

Director of the Climate Hazards Center (CHC) at UC Santa Barbara, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)

Janel B. Galvanek

Head of Department, General Regional Peace Support, Berghof Foundation

Dr. Franziska Gaupp

Food Systems Economics Commission (FSEC)

Prof. Dr. Christoph Gornott

Leader of the working group Adaptation in Agricultural Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Researh (PIK) and Professor, University of Kassel

Andrew Harper

Special Advisor to the High Commissioner for Refugees on Climate Action, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Dr. Fred Hattermann

Deputy Head of Research Department, PIK

Prof. Dr. Håvard Hegre

Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo

René Heise

Section Climate and Energy Security, NATO

Lauren Herzer

Program Director, Wilson Center

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

Managing Director, GIZ

Dr. Luke Kemp

University of Cambridge

Jan Klawitter

Head of International Advocacy And Hydrogen at Anglo American

Sebastian Kratzer

Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Hannah Kurnoth

German Federal Foreign Office

Rahel Laudien

PostDoc, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Sibi Lawson-Marriott

Regional Advisor, WFP

Iina Lietzen

Policy Officer, Security and Defence Policy, EEAS

H.E. Jan Lipavský

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic

Dr. Anna Lührmann

Minister of State for Europe and Climate, German Federal Foreign Office (tbc)

Colonel-Major Mahamadou Seidoou Magagi

Director of the Centre National d’Études Stratégiques et de Sécurité

Dr. Ayan Mahamoud

Senior Programme Coordinator, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

Zafar Makhmudov

Director, Central Asia Environmental Centre (CAREC)

H.E Hassoumi Massoudou

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger

Ottilia Anna Maunganidze

Head of Special Projects - Office of the Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies

Thomas Mayer

Project Lead, Data Science at PREVIEW

Monica Medina

Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Irene Mia

Editor, Armed Conflict Survey; Senior Fellow for Latin America and Conflict, Security and Development, IISS

H.E. Aibek Moldogaziev

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan

H.E. Jennifer Morgan

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

Nazanine Moshiri

Senior Analyst, Climate & Security, Africa, ICG

Teresa Mugadza

Kenya Country Manager, IDLO

Raquel Munayer

Consultant, adelphi

Sylvain Muyombano

Registrar of Land Titles, National Land Authority, Republic of Rwanda

Chitra Nagarajan

Weathering Risk Research Lead Mali, adelphi

Dr. Jewellord (Jojo) Nem Singh

Assistant Professor, International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague

Sonja Neuweiler

Head of Unit, Middle East and North Africa Unit, Berghof Foundation

Amb. Mamman Nuhu

Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin Commission

H.E. Naser Nuredini

Minister of Environment and Physical Planning of the Republic of North Macedonia

Esther Obaikol

Land Governance Expert and Coordinator of the Land Governance Unit, IGAD

Dr. Linda Ogallo

Climate Change Adaptation Expert, IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre

Dr. Sunday Okello

Conflict Analyst for IGAD-CEWARN

Paul Opio

Livestock Officer, FAO

Grazia Pacillo

Senior Scientist – Co-Lead CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security

Erica Pepe

Senior Coordinator for Research and Conflict, Security and Development Analyst, IISS

Mariko Peters

Senior Peace & Conflict Advisor, EEAS

Tobias Pietz

Deputy Head Analysis, ZIF

Julie Raasteen

European Institute of Peace

Erling Rimestad

State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway

Abigail Robinson

Programme Management Advisor, DCAF

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström

Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Alice Ruhweza

Regional Director for Africa, WWF

Lukas Rüttinger

Senior Advisor, adelphi

H.E. Eamon Ryan

Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport of Ireland

Dr. Kwesi Sansculotte

Conflict and Access Advisor, WFP

Susanne Schmeier

Associate Professor of Water Law and Diplomacy, IHE Delft

Sandra Schuster

Planning Officer, GIZ

Dr. Barbora Šedová

Leader of the FutureLab Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Ollo Sib

Senior Researcher, Assessment and Monitoring Advisor, World Food Programme, West and Central Africa Regional Bureau (WFP)

Erin Sikorsky

Director of Center for Climate and Security, International Military Council on Climate and Security

Abdel Rahman Sultan

Deputy Director, EcoPeace Middle East

H.E. Johanna Sumuvuori

State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland

Jakhongir Talipov

Head of International Department, State Committee on Ecology and Environment Protection of Uzbekistan

Amb. Hinrich Thölken

Special Advisor for International Climate and Energy Policy, German Federal Foreign Office

Kimberly Thompson

Senior Advisor for Natural Resources and Conflict and Industry Lead for Mining, U.S. Agency for International Development

Florian Titze

Policy Advisor, WWF

Oliver Unverdorben

Senior Programme Manager Kenya, Interpeace

Ashraf Usman

Conflict and Political Economy Specialist, UNDP Nigeria

Vanessa Vaessen

Planning Officer, GIZ

Pia van Ackern

Advisor, adelphi

Arthur van Buitenen

Policy Advocacy & Engagement Advisor, IDLO

Dr. Louise van Schaik

Head of the EU and Global Affairs Unit, Clingendael Institute

Janani Vivekananda

Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi

Sophie von Loeben

Research Analyst, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Tobias von Lossow

Research Fellow and PSI project lead, Clingendael Institute

Prof. Nina von Uexkull

Uppsala University Sweden, PRIO

Emmanuel Wakana

Executive Director, Youth Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (YELI-Burundi)

Emma Whitaker

Senior Advisor, adelphi

Maha Yassin

Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute