Speakers
Our high-quality speakers are essential to ensuring our events engage audiences and provide relevant, up-to-date and innovative content for our delegates. We are no longer accepting speaker applications for this event, but if you are an innovator or influencer in your field and are interested in speaking at a THE event, please apply below.
Maram Abadi
Strategy and operations adviser of the Reefscape Restoration Initiative
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Sandeep Agrawal
Professor and director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Alberta
Sami Al-Ghamdi
Associate professor of sustainable urban systems
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Dana Al-Sulaiman
Assistant professor of material science and engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Abdulrahman Al-Zamil
Secretary-general for the Sustainable Development Steering Committee
Government of Saudi Arabia
Heidi Alaskary
Former senior director of diversity and inclusion for the Royal Commission for Riyadh City
Government of Saudi Arabia
Nouh Alhindawi
Assistant to the president of digital and electronic transformation and e-learning
Jadara University
H.E. Abdulaziz AlMalik
Deputy minister for research and innovation for the Ministry for Environment Water and Agriculture
Government of Saudi Arabia
Eng. Suliman Almazroua
Chief executive officer of the National Industrial Development and Logistics Program
Government of Saudi Arabia
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Associate vice-president of research and professor of electrical and computer engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Aishah Alsamdani
MSc student in environmental science and engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Yasser Mohammed AlShehri
Executive director of environmental monitoring
National Center of Environment Compliance, MEWA
Najah Ashry
Vice-president of strategic national advancement
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Derya Baran
Associate professor of material science and engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Rebecca Bascom
Professor in the Department of Medicine and Public Health Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Victoria Galán-Muros
Chief of research and analysis at the International Institute for Higher Education
Unesco
Imed Gallouzi
Professor of bioscience and associate director of Smart-Health Initiative
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ashish Garg
Professor and head of the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Alexander Halliday
Founding dean of the Climate School and director of The Earth Institute
Columbia University
Shadi Hamadeh
Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit
American University of Beirut
Peiying Hong
Associate professor of environmental science and engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Hussein Hoteit
Associate professor of energy resources and petroleum engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Kuo-Wei Huang
Associate vice-president of research and professor of chemistry
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Neelima Kadirisani
Senior sustainability business development manager (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Amazon Web Services
David Keyes
Director of the Extreme Computing Research Center
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Khaled Khalifa
Senior adviser to the high commissioner and representative to GCC countries
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Amit Kumar
Professor of engineering and deputy director of Future Energy Systems
University of Alberta
Sujit Kumar Mohanty
Chief of the regional office for Arab states
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
James Mutunga
Assistant research professor of infectious and vector-borne diseases
The Pennsylvania State University
Esther Obonyo
Director of the global building network and associate professor
The Pennsylvania State University
John Parkins
Professor and chair of resource economics and environment sociology
University of Alberta
Philip Purnell
Head of institutional research and benchmarking
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
William Roberts
Director of the Clean Combustion Research Center
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Manal Stulgaitis
Education officer in the Division of Resilience and Solutions
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Rupak Thapaliya
Senior associate of the Transaction Acceleration Group
Clean Energy Buyers Association
Yoshihide Wada
Director of biodiversity and natural resources
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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