Speakers

Here you will find a list of all the Conference speakers. The names are listet chronologically. CV's are attached.

Monday 01. February

Rita Ottervik, The Mayor of Trondheim

Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister for environment and international development

Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Program

Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity

Ursula Heinen-Esser, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Environment Ministry, Germany

Toshio Torii, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Antonio Brack, Minister of the Environment, Peru

Peter J Schei, Conference chair

Finn Katerås, Conference chair

David Cooper, Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity

Pavan Sukhdev, Team leader for the study on the economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity

Johan Rockström, Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

Ashok Khosla, President, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom

Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author and founder of the Sophie Prize

Tuesday 02 February

Paul Leadley, Université Paris-Sud XI, France

Henrique Pereira, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Carlos A. Nobre, senior scientist, Brazilian Institute for Space Research, and chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

Mark Winslow, The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India

Jan Helge Fosså, Institute for Marine Research, Norway

Ritesh Kumar, Senior Technical Officer, Wetlands International – South Asia, India

Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General, Ramsar Secretariat

Heidi Wittmer, TEEB Team (scientific coordination), Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany

Patrick ten Brink, TEEB Team member

Russell A Mittermeier, Conservation International, United States

Katia Karousakis, Organization for economic co-operation and development (OECD )

Susan Brownlie, de Villiers Brownlie Associates, South Africa

Wednesday 03 February

Ivar Baste, Director, Environment Management Group Secretariat, UNEP

Alexander Muller, Assistant Director General, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Thomas E Lovejoy III, Biodiversity Chair, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, United States

Christian Prip, project manager, UN University

Ladislav Miko, European Commission

Tanya Abrahamse, Chief Executive Officer, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa

Fiu Mata’ese Elisara-La’ulu, Executive Director, Ole Si’osi’omanga Society, Samoa

Yoshihiro Natori, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan

Søren Brandt, Herning municipality, Denmark

Thursday 04 February

Andrew Stott, Science Director, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, United Kingdom

Salvatore Arico, UNESCO Key considerations as seen from the scientific community

Anne Larigauderie, Executive Director, Diversitas, France, and Georgina Mace, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Georgina Mace, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Graham I.H. Kerley, Director, Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

Balakrishna Pisupati, UNEP, Nairobi

Jane Smart, Director of Biodiversity Conservation Group, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Joji Carino, Tebtebba - Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education

Friday 05 February

Fredrik Moberg, Albaeco, Sweden

David Ainsworth, CBD Secretariat

Spencer Linus Thomas, SBSTTA Chair, Grenada

Sigbjørn Johnsen, Minister of Finance, Norway