Speakers - Resilient Cities 2019

Speakers at Resilient Cities 2019

Resilient Cities is very pleased to present an overview of some of our speakers at the conference in 2019. In the variety of plenaries, workshops, discussions, presentations and panels, they help spread the word about urban resilience and share their knowledge and experiences. If you want to know more about a speaker, just click on the name and the biography will show up.

Speakers of the Opening and Closing Plenary

Stephany Tan

Councillor, ICLEI Vice President, Catbalogan, Philipinnes

Aloke Barnwal

Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility (GEF), Washington DC, United States

Jeb Brugmann

Vice President, 100 Resilient Cities, New York, United States

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

Director General, Global Issues -Sector Policies and Programme, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin, Germany

Tunc Soyer

Mayor, Izmir Metropolitan Government, Izmir, Turkey

Humberto Delgado Rosa

Director for Natural Capital, DG Environment, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Günter Hemrich

Senior Adviser, Economic and Social Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

Emani Kumar

Deputy Secretary General; Regional Director, ICLEI South Asia, New Delhi, India

Cathy Oke

Councilor, Melbourne, Australia; First Vice President, Global Executive Committee, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

Meggan Spires

Senior Manager, Climate Change, Energy & Resilience, ICLEI Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Steve Gawler

Regional Director, ICLEI Oceania, Melbourne, Australia

Mami Mizutori

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Tokyo, Japan

Ashok Sridharan

Mayor of Bonn, Germany; ICLEI First Vice President

Patricia Espinosa

Executive Secretary, UN Climate Change, Bonn, Germany

Monika Zimmermann

Chair, Program Committee, Resilient Cities 2019 Congress, Bonn, Germany

Gino Van Begin

Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany

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Zamzuri Arifin

Mayor, Alor Gajah Municipal Council, Melaka, Malaysia

Tsu-Jui Cheng

Program Manager Sustainable Mobility, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Tilman Christian

Head, Environmental Planning Division, City of Bottrop, Germany

Tanja Beer

THRIVE Research Hub, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Steven Bland

Climate Change Planning Unit Consultant, UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya

Sophie De Coninck

Programme Manager, UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), Belgium

Serge Allou

Technical Advisor, UCLG, Barcelona, Spain

Sanjaya Bhatia

Chief of Office, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Incheon, South Korea

Sander Carpaij

Urban Resilience Coordinator, Wetlands International, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Samer Bagaeen

Councillor, Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton, United Kingdom

Saida Choug

Project Manager, ASSFAM Groupe SOS Vénissieux, Lyon, France

Rens De Boer

Ecologist, Rotterdam Urban Ecology Unit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ratko Dimovski

Associate for Disaster Management, City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia

Natalia Aguiar Mol

Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais Research Institution , Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Mohamad Shafie Bin Taib

Green Engineer, Alor Gajah Municipal Council, Melaka, Malaysia

Michelle du Toit

Programme Manager, SouthSouthNorth, Cape Town, South Africa

Michela Carucci

Project Management Consultant, FAO, Rome, Italy

Mei-Kuei Chu

Division Chief, Tainan City Government, Tainan, Chinese Taipei

Mauro Crisafulli

Associate Managing Director, Moody`s, Milan, Italy

Matthijs Bouw

Director and Founder, ONE Architecture & Urban Planning, New York, United States

Matthew Bach

Officer, Governance & Social Innovation, ICLEI European Secretariat, Freiburg, Germany

Martin Del Castillo

Deputy Director and Project Director, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, La Paz, Bolivia

Marina Bortoletti

Associate Programme Officer, UN Environment, Paris, France

Marco Dus

Member, European Committee of the Regions, Bruxelles, Belgium

Manuel de Araujo

Mayor, Quelimane Municipal Council, Quelimane, Mozambique

Lorenzo Bono

Ambiente Italia, Master Adapt LIFE Project, Milan, Italy

Lesly Baesens

Food Waste Recovery Administrator, City of Denver, Denver, United States

Lasse Bruun

Global Director, 50by40, Berlin, Germany

Laine Cidlowski

Food Systems Administrator, City of Denver, Denver, United States

Kinlay Dorjee

Mayor, Thimphu City, Thimphu, Bhutan

Kenshi Baba

PhD Professor, Tokyo City University, Yokohama, Japan

Kamal Devkota

Program Director, Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), Kathmandu , Nepal

José Manuel Corral

Mayor, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina

Jörn Birkmann

Professor, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Joke Dufourmont

Programme Lead, Circle Economy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jiunn-Ming Chiou

Deputy Secretary General, Taoyuan City Government, Taoyuan City, Chinese Taipei

James Alexander

Director, City Finance Programme; Head of CFF, C40, London, United Kingdom

Irène Cloutier

Resilience Advisor, Ville de Montrèal, Montrèal, Canada

Ina de Visser

Head of Project, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Humberto Delgado Rosa

Director for Natural Capital, DG Environment, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Heidi Braun

Program Officer, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada

Guilherme Cavalcanti

Executive Director, ARIES, Recife, Brazil

Gillian Dick

Spatial Planning Manager, Development and Regeneration Services, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Geraldo Júlio De Mello Filho

Mayor, Recife, Brazil

George Beane

Consultant, Arup, London, United Kingdom

Francesca Borga

Project Coordinator, EPC srl., Dueville, Italy

Eleanor Chapman

Officer, ICLEI Europe, Freiburg, Germany

EDUARDO M. BISQUERA, JR.

Assistant City Environment and Natural Resources Officer, City Government of Zamboanga, Philippines

Dimitri Crespin

Junior Researcher, Hydrologist, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

David Dodman

Director, Human Settlements, International Institute for Environment & Development, London, United Kingdom

Cornelia Burmeister

Geographer, GEO-NET, Hannover, Germany

Christian Braneon

Remote Sensing Specialist SciSpace, UCCRN, New York, United States

Chih-Wei G.V. Chang

Director, Gravity Praxis; Project Leader, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing, China

Chi-Sheng Chen

Section Head, Tainan City Government, Tainan, Chinese Taipei

Butch Bacani

Program Leader, UN Environment’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

Butch Bacani

Program Leader, UN Environment’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

Bruna Cerqueira

Communications and Strategy Manager, ICLEI South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Bima Arya

Mayor, Bogor City, Bogor, Indonesia

Bettina Dreiseitl-Wanschura

CEO, DREISEITL Consulting, Überlingen, Germany

Benjamin Delali Dovie

Research Scientist, University of Ghana Research Institution, Accra, Ghana

Benjamin Antwi-Boasiako

Senior Project Manager, Allianz Climate Solutions, Munich, Germany

Audrey Chenevoy

Climate Finance Expert, Agence Française de Développement, Paris, France

Annerieke Douma

Director of Cities and Regions, Circle Economy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Anne Draddy

Sustainablity Coordinator, City of Baltimore, Baltimore, United States

Alexandrine Bisaillon

Risk Management and Resilience Specialist, Ouranos, Montreal, Canada

Alex Badu Amoah

Deputy Municipal Planning Officer, Ga East Municipal Assembly, Accra, Ghana

Albrecht Burkhardt

Urban Development, City of Ludwigsburg, Germany

Albrecht A. Beck

Director, Prepared International, Samerberg, Germany

Albert Amos

Global Senior Manager, World Resources Institute, Washington DC, United States

Akua Acheampomaa Asante

Technical Advisor, Developing Insurability (Public Private Partnership with Allianz SE/RE), Accra, Ghana

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Stefanos Fotiou

Director, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand

Simon Hodson

Executive Director, CODATA, Paris, France

Sandra Federici

Head of Communication Department, Lai-Momo, Bologna, Italy

Michael Grove

Principal and Chair of Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering and Ecology, Sasaki, Boston, United States

Michael Eichholz

Policy Advisor, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover, Germany

Martin Frick

Senior Director, United Nations Climate Change, Bonn, Germany

Marisa Fuchs

Research Associate, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Marion Guénard

Officer, Circular Resource Management and Policies, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Marie Angelique Go

City Administrator, City Government of Zamboanga, Zamboanga, Philippines

Maria Daniela García

Advisor, Municipality of Ibagué, Ibagué, Colombia

Lee-Shing Fang

Professor, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Adaptation Committee, Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei

Lars Gronvald

Team Leader, Urban development, Cities, DG DEVCO, Brussels, Belgium

Katharina Gerlach

Referentin, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), Bonn, Germany

Joachim Helbig

Head Anticipatory Environmental Precautions and Planning, City of Bonn, Germany

Jean-Francois Habeau

Executive Director, FMDV, Montreuil, France

Gert Engelen

Sustainable Food Systems Programme Coordinator, Rikolto, Leuven, Belgium

Florian Frank

Head of Division, Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Bonn, Germany

Fanziska Goettsche

Research Associate, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Elizabeth Gregersen

Project Manager and Fundraiser, VIFIN, Vejle, Denmark

Elisabeth Hamin Infield

Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

Dario Hidalgo

Executive Director, Despacio, Bogotá, Colombia

Daniel Günther

Deputy Head of Division, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Bonn, Germany

Charlotte Flechet

Food Smart Cities Coordinator, Rikolto, Leuven, Belgium

Caroline Field

Committee Chair – British Standard for City Resilience or Associate Director, Arup, London, United Kingdom

Björn Hannappel

Head of GoGreen, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Bonn, Germany

Arnaud Heckmann

Principal Urban Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong, Philippines

Angie Fyfe

Executive Director, ICELI USA, Denver, United States

Andreas Gerdes

Scientific Head, KIT Innovation HUB, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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Yuan-Chung Lin

Director-General, Environmental Protection Bureau, Tainan, Chinese Taipei

Yuan Guo Li

Deputy Director, Municipal Public Affairs Management Bureau, Changde City, China

Wilbard Kombe

Lecturer, Ardhi University, Der es Salaam, Tanzania

Vasileios Latinos

Officer, ICLEI Europe, Freiburg, Germany

Tatu Mtwangi Limbumba

Senior Research Fellow, Ardhi University, Der es Salaam, Tanzania

Susanna Kankaanpaa

Environmental planner, Adaptation to Climate Change, City of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Santosh Kodukula

Project Coordinator, Wuppertal Institute, Wuppertal, Germany

Sangmoo Kim

Investment Operations Specialist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Beijing, Republic of China

Peter Lauwe

Head of Sendai National Focal Point, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Bonn, Germany

Petar Lovric

Business and Development Manager, Seine Design, Paris, France

Nisa Iistiqomah

Project Officer, ICLEI Southeast Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Muji Lestari

Local Government of Bogor Regency, Bogor, Indonesia

Merlin Lao

Project Manager, ICLEI East Asia, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Mattia Leone

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Marco Loma

Sanitation and Resilience Specialist, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, La Paz, Bolivia

Lykke Leonardsen

Head of Program for Resilient and Sustainable City Solutions, City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kevin Laranjeira

Research Associate, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Jessica Löffler

Technical Associate, City of Bonn, Germany

Jessica Kavonic

Professional Officer Climate Change and Urban Biodiversity, ICLEI Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Jennifer Lenhart

Global Lead, WWF One Planet Cities, Solna, Sweden

Iphigenia Keramitsoglou

Research Director of the Earth Observation at National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and EXTREMA Project Coordinator, Athens, Greece

Ib Jespersgaard

Center Manager, Municipality of Vejle, Vejle, Denmark

Hee-Jong Kim

Senior Researcher, Ulsan Development Institute, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

Eddie Jjemba

Urban Resilience Advisor, Red Cross Climate Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands

Dunja Krause

Research Officer, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, Switzerland

David Jácome Polit

Chief Resilience Officer, Quito, Ecuador

David Jackson

Director, Local Development Finance, UNCDF, New York, United States

Chi-Tsan Lin

Professor, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City, Chinese Taipei

Catherine Kalisa

Country Director, UN-Habitat, Kigali, Rwanda

Attila Katona

PhD Candidate, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Alexandra Köngeter

Evaluator, German Institute for Development Evaluation, Germany

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Wiriya Puntub

Researcher, Academic & Research Institution, Dortmund, Germany

Tsakani Manyike

Senior Deal Originator Metros, Intermediate Cities and Water Boards, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sylvia Tabitha Muzila

Mayor, City of Francistown, Botswana

Stephen Passmore

Technology Director and Resilience.io Platform Lead, Resilience Brokers, Ecological Sequestration Trust, London, United Kingdom

Sophia Picarelli

Manager, ICLEI South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Shehnaaz Moosa

Director of CDKN, SouthSouthNorth, Cape Town, South Africa

Sharelle Polack

Senior Specialist Urban Governance for Nutrition, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sadeeb Simon Ottengurger

Smart Resilience Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Rodrigo Perpetuo

Executive Secretary, ICLEI South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ramón Javier Mestre

Mayor, Córdoba, Argentina

Pradeep Monga

Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn, Germany

Piero Pelizzaro

Chief Resilience Officer, Municipality of Milan, Milan, Italy

Peter B. Meyer

President and Chief Economist, The EP Systems Group Inc., New Hope, United States

Nick Meeten

Director, Applied Energy, Blenheim, New Zealand

Mutarika Pruksapong

Programme Officer, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Muhhamad Azim Maulana

Vice Mayor, Jambi City, Jambi, Indonesia

Mikko Ollikainen

Manager, Adaptation Fund, Washington, United States

Maxwell Mbulaje

Environmental Officer, Blantyre City Council, Malawi

Martina Otto

Head, Cities Unit, UN Environment, Paris, France

Mariana Orloff

GPSC Manager, World Resources Institute (WRI), United States

Marco Polimeni

Director Urban Authority Initiative, Catanzaro Municipality, Catanzaro, Italy

Maaria Parry

Climate Specialist, Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY), Helsinki, Finland

Lutske Newton

Director, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Pretoria, South Africa

Lawrence Mashungu

National Climate Change Division, Harare, Zimbabwe

Laszlo Pinter

Professor and Head of Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Kyle Pfeiffer

Manager, Argonne National Laboratory, Sterling, United States

Kimberley Ogonda

Lobby and Advocacy Expert, Cordaid, The Hague, The Netherlands

Kevin McLaughlin

Chief of Party, Tetra Tech, Burlington, United States

José Neves Filho

Secretary of Environment and Sustainability, City of Recife, Recife, Brazil

Jacques Ndikubwimana

District Forestry and Natural Resources Officer, Rubavu District Municipality, Rubavu, Rwanda

Giulia Macagno

Economist, European Investment Bank, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

Fernando Puntigliano

General Director, Environmental Development, Montevideo, Uruguay

Evgenia Mitroliu

Senior Officer, Integrated Climate Action, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Eszter Mogyorósy

Climate Finance Manager, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Elsa Martayan

Director, GUAPO, Paris, France

Edilene Silvia Oliveira

Environmental Policy Coordinator, Municipal Secretary of Urbanism and Environment, Fortaleza, Brazil

Diego Manya

Research Associate, Yale FES, New Haven, United States

Devendra Mahajan

General Manager, Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited, Nagpur, India

David Pedersen

Senior Strategist, 50by40, Berlin, Germany

Claudia Ortiz-Tudela

Associate Professor, FA UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

Charles Mabika

Chief Environmental Officer, City of Harare, Zimbabwe

Cathy Oke

Councilor, Melbourne, Australia; First Vice President, Global Executive Committee, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

Bernard McCaul

Regional Director, GOAL, Cork, Ireland

Azim Manji

Programme Design Expert for the MCR Campaign Successor, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Alessandra Péres

Sub secretary for Management Strategy, Environment Secretariat of the Federal Disctict, Brasilia, Brazil

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Thandeka Tshabalala

Professional Officer, ICLEI Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Sunandan Tiwari

Senior Manager, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Son Ho Ri

Director, People's Committee of Pyongyang City, Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Simone Sandholz

Associate Academic Officer, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany

Simone Ruiz-Vergote

Managing Director, Allianz Climate Solutions GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany

Sebastian Schlecht

Project Manager, Green Capital 2017, City of Essen, Essen, Germany

Ryan Thomas

PhD Student, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

Reyes Tirado

Science Advisor, Greenpeace, Exeter, United Kingdom

Reimund Schwarze

Head of Department, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

Nicola Tollin

Professor wsr on Urban Resilience, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Nian She

Director, Tsinghua Univeristy Innovation Center in Zhuhai, Zuhai, Republic of China

Miaojie Sun

Program Officer, ICLEI East Asia, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Maxime Souvignet

Project Coordinator, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), Bonn, Germany

Matthias Range

Head of Projects, GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), Munich, Germany

Matheus Schuch

Sustainability and Climate Change Assistant, Fortaleza, Brazil

Magnus Qvant

Secretary General, Resilient Regions Association, Malmö, Sweden

Luiz Ricardo Santoro

Executive Secretary, Government of the State of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Liana Strydom

Assistant Director, Development Planning, City of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Katharina Schneider-Roos

CEO, Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB), Basel, Switzerland

Kate Strachan

Professional Officer Climate Change and Coastal Management, ICLEI Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Jochen Stein

Chief Fire Officer, City of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Georgios Stratigis

Executive Civil Protection Officer, Greece

Enza Tersigni

Researcher, UNINA, Naples, Italy

Daniela Rizzi

Officer of Green Infrastructure and NbS, ICLEI Europe, Freiburg, Germany

Benni Thiebes

Secretary General, German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV), Bonn, Germany

Bedoshruti Sadhukhan

Senior Programme Coordinator, ICLEI South Asia, New Delhi, India

Beatriz Royo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza, Spain

Ava Richardson

Special Assistant, City of Baltimore, Baltimore, United States

Antje Stokman

Landscape Architect; Professor of Architecture and Landscape, HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Anthony Socci

Senior Lead on International Resilience & Adaptation Policy, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC, United States

Annah Takaendes

Minsitry for Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Harare, Zimbabwe

Andrew Simmons

Director of Research, Resilience Brokers, Ecological Sequestration Trust, London, United Kingdom

Andreas Schmidt

Senior Scientific Officer, DLR Projektträger, Bonn, Germany

Alice Reil

Officer, ICLEI Europe, Freiburg, Germany

Adrienne Raphael

Associate, Tetra Tech, Burlington, United States