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Malmö Summit Speakers

Aado Altmets |
Project manager, Tallinn City, Estonia

Abhisheik Dhawan |
Sustainable Finance and Partnerships Specialist, United Nations Capital Development Fund

Adriane Carr |
Director, Metro Vancouver Board, Metro Vancouver, Canada

Adrian Stone |
Manager of Climate Change and Integration Platforms branch, City of Cape Town, South Africa

Agnelo A. J. Fernandes |
Comissioner, Panaji, India

Alfredo Coro II |
Vice Mayor, Municipality of Del Carmen, Province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines

Alis Daniela Torres |
Senior Officer, Sustainable Resources, Climate and Resilience, ICLEI Europe, Germany

Aloke Barnwal |
Senior Climate Change Specialist and Coordinator of Sustainable Cities Program, Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Amanda Stone |
Councillor, Yarra City Council, Australia

Amina Maharjan |
Senior Specialist Livelihoods & Migration, Livelihoods, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Ana Beatriz Acevedo |
EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia

Ana Oregi |
Deputy Mayor, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Ana Romero |
Head of Climate Change and Environmental Awareness, Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Spain

Anand S. Voleti |
Team head, Greater Warangal Smart City Corporation Ltd., Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation, India

Andreas Bollmann |
Consultant and Insurance Expert, Faber Consulting AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Andreia Fidalgo |
Program Manager, Built Environment, Institute for Human Rights and Business Nordic, Denmark

Andrew Deacon |
Acting Managing Director Global Covenant of Mayors, Belgium

Anette Blücher |
Director Energy Infrastructure Solutions Nordic, E.ON

Anna Lindén |
Project Manager, City of Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Williams |
Solutions Lead, Google Environmental Insights Explorer, Google

Anne Louise Meincke |
Urban Hub Manager, Cities4Children Alliance, Denmark

Anne Schiffer |
Senior Lecturer in Design, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Annika Strandhäll |
Minister of Climate and Environment, Government of Sweden

Arminel Lovell |
Cities Manager for Science-Based Targets, CDP Worldwide

Art Pearce |
Director of Policy Planning and Projects, City of Portland, USA

Atishi Marlena Singh |
Chairperson, Government of the Assembly Committee of Education of Delhi State, India

Augustin Maria |
Program Manager of City Climate Finance Gap Fund, World Bank

Axel Grael |
Mayor, Niterói, Brasil

Azhar Arshad |
Mayor, Seberang Perai, Malaysia

Bella Tonkonogy |
Director, Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA)

Camila Osaki |
Coordenadora do Programa Municipal Banco de Alimentos da Sec. Municipal de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Trabalho e Turismo, Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, Brasil

Bertrand Piccard |
Chairperson, Solar Impulse Foundation

Çağlar Tükel |
Engineer, Directorate of Climate, Change and Clean Energy, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey

Camila Pontual |
Deputy Coordinator, International Relations and Cooperation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Camille Pollan |
Community Sustainability Manager, City and County of Broomfield, USA

Carlos Mario Marín Correa |
Mayor, Municipality of Manizales, Colombia

Cathy Oke |
Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed Cities, University of Melbourne, Australia

Charis Hoffmann |
Junior Officer Circular Development, ICLEI World Secretariat

Cheryl Jones-Fur |
Deputy Mayor, Växjö Municipality, Sweden

Cheryl Selby |
Mayor, City of Olympia, USA

Chilando Chitangala |
Mayor, City of Lusaka, Zambia

Claudia Alessio |
Research Analyst, Circle Economy

Darryl Colenbrander |
Head, Coastal Policy Development and Management Programs, City of Cape Town, South Africa

Delroy Williams |
Mayor, City of Kingston, Jamaica

Diego Riveaux Marcet |
Director of Sustainability, City of Vitacura, Chile

Donna Tabangin |
City Planning and Development Coordinator, Baguio City, Philippines

Doug Smith |
Director of Sustainability, City of Vancouver, Canada

Ekaterina Travkina |
Coordinator: Culture, creative industries and local development, OECD, France

Emilio Jatón |
Mayor, Municipality of Santa Fe, Argentina

Emmy Scholten |
Business Director, Metabolic

Ernest Arthur |
Mayor, Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana

Esha Sar |
Chief Advisor for South Asia, AEPW

Eszter Mogyorósy |
Head of Innovative Finance, ICLEI World Secretariat, Germany

Frank Cownie |
Mayor, City of Des Moines, USA | ICLEI President

Frenzi Ritter |
Junior Researcher, Metabolic

Frida Leander |
Senior Strategist, City of Malmö, Sweden

Fruzsina Vargha |
Vice-Mayor, Sfântu-Gheorghe, Romania

Geraldo Julio de Mello Filho |
State Secretary, Economic Development, State of Pernambuco, Brazil

Gino Van Begin |
Secretary General, ICLEI

Guillermo Maximiliano Parisi |
Urban Logistics Manager, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gunilla Carlsson |
Director, Public Affairs & International Relations, SYSAV, Sweden

Hanna Szemző |
Sociologist, Senior researcher and Managing director, Metropolitan Research Institute, Hungary

Harriët Tiemens |
Director, Green Metropolitan Region Arnhem-Nijmegen, Netherlands

Helen Nilsson |
Environment Department, City of Malmö, Sweden

Holger Robrecht |
Deputy Regional Director Sustainable Resources, Climate and Resilience, ICLEI Europe, Germany

Hsien-Ming Lee |
Deputy Mayor,Taoyuan City Government, Chinese Taipei

Ian Wainwright |
Consultant, Future City, Logistics, UK

Igor Araújo Barcellos |
Subsecretário de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, Prefitura de Niterói, Brazil

Ingmar Rentzhog |
CEO and Founder, We Don’t Have Time, Sweden

Inkeun Lee |
Director General, Environment & Energy Bureau, Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea

Isabella de Roldão |
Vice Mayor, City of Recife, Brazil

Jacob Skogström |
IP Manager E.ON ectogrid™, E.ON Energiinfrastruktur AB, Sweden

Jeni Arndt |
Mayor, City of Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Jennifer L. Olzinger |
Assistant Director/Procurement Manager, City of Pittsburg, USA

Jenny Holmquist |
Environmental Strategist, MKB

Jens Bley |
Hafen City University of Hamburg, Germany

Jerome Brun |
Data Governance Officer, City of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France

Jesper Berséus |
Social Innovation, Sege Park, Drevet, Sweden

Jiwon Lee |
Acting Head, Global Projects and Principal Support for ICLEI Global Food Program, ICLEI World Secretariat

Johan Niss |
Nature Conservation Expert, County Administrative Board of Skåne, Sweden

Jonas Kamleh |
Senior Stategist, Environment Department, City of Malmö, Sweden

Jonas Stark |
Business Development Director, MKB

Jordi Pascual |
Lead of the cities programme, Circle Economy

Jose Nicolas Arenas |
Secretary of Environment and Agricultural Development, Envigado, Colombia

Joseph Oganga |
Chief Officer, Department of Energy and Industrialization, County Government of Kisumu, Kenya

Josh Radoff |
Zero Carbon Cities Advisor, ICLEI USA

Juan Caballero |
Vice President of Programs, Build Change

Juan Carlos Escudero |
Head of Innovation and Information Unit, Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council, Spain

Juan David Palácio Cardona |
Director, Metropolitan Area of the Abura Valley Medellin, Colombia

Juan Sebastian Abad |
Mayor, La Estrella, Colombia

Juliana Mattos |
Diretora de Fomento à Agroecologia e Abastecimento, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Julie Delcroix |
DG RTD, European Commission

Juliet Oluoch |
Deputy National Coordinator, African Youths Initiative on Climate Change – Kenyan chapter, Kenya

Kaarin Taipale |
Former Chairperson, ICLEI (2000 – 2003)

Kalyani Raj |
All India Women’s Conference, India

Kamilla Björkman |
Head of Ectogrid™, E.ON Energiinfrastruktur AB

Karin Heri |
Head, Sustainability and social responsibility, Malmö FF,Sweden

Katelien van den Berge |
City Coordinator Ruggedised, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Katja Dörner |
Mayor, City of Bonn, Germany

Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh |
Mayor, Malmö, Sweden

Kelly King |
Council Member, Maui County, Hawaii, USA

Kim Hong-jang |
Mayor, Dangjin City, South Korea

Kunal Khemnar |
Additional Municipal Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation, India

Nurun Nahar |
Planning Commission, Bangladesh

Laura Talsma |
Product Manager, Circle Economy

Leslie Pool |
Councilmember, City of Austin, USA

Li-Teh Lu |
Director of Environmental Protection Bureau, Taoyuan City Government, Chinese Taipei

Lizzie Blaisdell Collins |
Vice President of Engineering, Build Change

Luiz Dâmaso Gusi |
Secretaria Municipal de Segurança Alimentar e Nutritional (SMSAN), Curitiba, Brazil

Magash Naidoo |
Head of Circular Development, ICLEI World Secretariat

Magnus Qvant |
Senior Strategist, Environmental Administration, Malmö, Sweden

Maíra da Cunha Pinto Colares |
Secretary, Social Assistance, Food Security and Citizenship, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Mairi Dupar |
ODI, UK

Mami Mizutori |
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Head of UNDRR

Manuel de Araújo |
Mayor, City of Quelimane, Mozambique

Mar-Len Abigail S. Binay |
Mayor, Makati City, Philippines

Marcus Horning |
Director of City Planning, Malmö, Sweden

Margareta Rämgård |
Associate Professor, Faculty of Health & Society, Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Sweden

Marion Guénard |
Senior Officer, Circular Development, ICLEI World Secretariat

Martin Horn |
Mayor, City of Freiburg, Germany

Maryke van Staden |
Director, Business Development & Director of carbonn Climate Center, ICLEI World Secretariat

Matilda Ernkrans |
Minister for International Development Cooperation, Government of Sweden

Mats Wirén |
Nature Conservation Expert, City of Malmö, Sweden

Matthew Baldwin |
Mission Manager, Deputy Director-General of DG MOVE, European Commission

Mauricio Vila Dosal |
Governor, Yucatán State Government, Mexico

Minna Arve |
Mayor, City of Turku, Finland, ICLEI Global Executive Committee Member

Monica Schroeder |
Associate Director, Global Advocacy, Build Change

Nazmul Huq |
Head of Resilient Development, ICLEI World Secretariat

Neil G. Ravena |
Acting City Environment and Natural Resources Officer, Iloilo, Philippines

Nigel Jollands |
Associate Director, Green Cities Programme, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Nisreen Elsaim |
Chair, Sudan Youth Organisation on Climate Change, Sudan

Nuatali Nelmes |
Lord Mayor, Newcastle City Council, Australia

Nurgül Iljas Eminovska |
Head of Social Sustainability, MKB Real Estate Company, Sweden

Orren Shalit |
Community Director, ClimateView, Sweden

Patricia Velasco |
Consultant, CDKN, UK

Per Rosén |
Senior Specialist District Heating and Inventor of Ectogrid™, E.ON Energiinfrastruktur AB

Peter Defranceschi |
Head of ICLEI Brussels Office and Global Food Program Coordinator, ICLEI European Secretariat

Rebecca Kiernan |
Principle Resilience Planner, City of Pittsburgh, USA

Renán Barrera Concha |
Mayor, Merida, Mexico

Roby Biwer |
Member of Bettembourg Municipal Council & European Committee of the Regions, Luxembourg

Rohit Sen |
Head of Sustainable Energy Team, ICLEI

Satvinder Dhaliwal |
Chair, Metro Vancouver Board, Metro Vancouver, Canada

Sean Bradley |
CLEVER Cities Programme Manager, Groundwork

Sebastian Schlecht |
Director of lala.ruhr, City of Essen, Germany

Sebastião Melo |
Mayor, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Shoshana Iten |
Environmental Planner, City of Malmö, Sweden

Simon Chrisander |
Deputy-Mayor, City of Malmö, Sweden

Smruti Jukur Johari |
Urban Planner, Slum Dwellers International and SPARC, India

Sofía Arce Bojorque |
Director of International Relations and Cooperation, Cuenca, Ecuador

Soumya Chaturvedula |
Deputy Director, ICLEI South Asia

Susanne Pedersen |
Director, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, Denmark

Talita Vieira Antonio |
International Affairs Advisor, Municipal Secretary of International Relations, City of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Tess Jordan |
Senior Principal Strategy Integrator, Portland General Electric, USA

Tina Bowley |
Public Health Nutrition Officer, City of Malmö, Sweden

Tom Meeuws |
Vice Mayor, Antwerp, Belgium

Tommy Wells |
Director, Department of Energy and Environment of Washington DC, USA

Tu My Tran |
Head of Sustainable Mobility Team, ICLEI World Secretariat

Tunç Soyer |
Mayor, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey

Vlora Makolli |
Together in Association, Sweden

Yunus Arikan |
Director of Global Advocacy, ICLEI

Zipporah Njenga |
Member, YOUNGO

ICLEI World Congress 2021-2022 • Malmö, Sweden

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