Speakers
Senem Aydın-Düzgit
Professor of International Relations and director of the Istanbul Policy Centre
Sabancı University
Burcu Balçık
Professor of Industrial Engineering, Academic Director of Sustainability
Ozyegin University
Mike Berners-Lee
Professor, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Director, Small World Consulting
Ines Blal
Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Institute of Nutrition R&D
EHL Hospitality Business School
Fei Chen
Co-Chair, World Weather Research Programme Urban Prediction Project, World Meteorological Organisation
Associate Head, Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Christy Cheung
Chair Professor in Information Systems and Digital Innovation Management
Hong Kong Baptist University
Rumina Dhalla
Director, Institute for Sustainable Commerce, and Associate Professor
University of Guelph
Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Chief Sustainability Officer and Professor of Sustainable Business
Hamburg University
Aysen Erdincler
Head, Environmental Protection and Development Department
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Alexandra Escobar
Social Impact and Innovation Consultant and SDGs Youth Lead South Florida
SDG Challenge and Accountable Impact
Jimmy Fung
Chair Professor of Environment and Sustainability and Mathematics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Alaa Labani
Deputy Minister Adviser and General Director of Environmental Awareness and Capacity Building
Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture of Saudi Arabia
Alexis Lau
Head, Division of Environment and Sustainability
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kenneth Leung
Director of the Sustainability/Net-Zero Office
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kenneth Mei Yee Leung
Chair Professor and Director, State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution
City University of Hong Kong
Marcus Leung-Shea
Assistant Director of the Sustainability/Net-Zero Office
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
André Lindner
Managing Director and Adviser for Internationalisation
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Bosen Lily Liu
Head, Partnership and Agenda-Setting Unit
UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America
Alison Elizabeth Lloyd
Associate Provost, Institutional Data and Research
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong K. Lo
Director of the GREAT Smart Cities Institute
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Aiping Lyu
Vice-President of Research and Development and Professor in Chinese Medicine
Hong Kong Baptist University
Francisco Maio Matos
Director, Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine Department
Coimbra University Hospitals
Emmanuel Gabriel Ndayambaje
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Afrixyz For SDG2 Global Youth Initiatives Platforms
Jessica Newberry Le Vay
Climate Change and Health Policy Fellow, Climate Cares Centre
Imperial College London
Francesc Pedró
Director, International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Unesco
Paty Romero-Lankao
Canadian Excellence in Research Chair and Professor
University of Toronto Scarborough
Achyuta Samanta
Founder
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology(KIIT) Deemed University & Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Deemed University
Ulkar Sattarova
Director, State Agency for Science and Higher Education
Ministry of Science and Education, Azerbaijan
Morgan Scott
Vice-President of Sustainability and Global Outreach and Chief Sustainability Officer
Electric Power Research Institute
Geoffrey Shen
Associate Vice-President of Global Partnerships and Chair Professor of Construction Management
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Anderson Shum
Vice-President of Research and Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Catalina Spataru
Director of the Energy Institute and Head of the Islands & Coastal Research Lab
University College London
Aldo Stroebel
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Internationalisation
University of Mpumalanga
Bhavesh Swami
Lead for Clean Energy Policy, Engagements and Fundraising for India and South Asia
The Climate Reality Project
Imre Szeman
Director, Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability, and Professor of Human Geography,
University of Toronto Scarborough
Mellissa Callendre Tawin
Deputy Director, Strategic Partnerships and Internationalisation
Nanyang Technological University
Jin-Guang Teng
President and Chair Professor of Structural Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jerry Thomas
Head of Operations, Coral Restoration Initiative
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Bruce Edward Watson
Pro Vice-Chancellor Societal Transformation and Equity
University of New South Wales Sydney
Denyse Webbstock
Senior Director Institutional Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
University of Johannesburg
Benno Werlen
Unesco Chair in Global Understanding for Sustainability
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Shinobu Yamaguchi
Director
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
+ many more to be announced
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