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. If you are an innovator or influencer in your field, or know someone who is, please apply below.

Tuba Agartan

Professor of Health Sciences

Providence College

Gulshan Akhundova

Chairperson

Woman, Development, Future Public Union

Isabela Alcazar

Chief Purpose and Sustainability Officer

IE University

Jama Ali

Teaching and Learning Administrator

University College London

Uthman Ali

Global Responsible AI Officer

Charlotte Ashton

Director of External Affairs

Office of Health Economics

Graeme Atherton

Director

World Access to Higher Education Network

Twinkle Bahaduri

Senior Site Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Rodrigo Ballester

Ministerial Commissioner

Ministry of Culture and Innovation, Hungary

Manuel Barcia

Dean of Global Engagement

University of Leeds

Giged Battung

Dean of Business, Entrepreneurship and Accountancy

Cagayan State University

Phil Baty

Chief Global Affairs Officer

THE

Fajli Bibi

President

The Global Centre of Excellence in Sustainability

Jason Blackstock

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

How to Change the World

Ines Blal

Associate Professor and Co-Director, EHL Institute of Nutrition R&D

EHL Hospitality Business School

Martin Boehm

Executive Vice-President

Hult International Business School

Thokgamo Boitshwarelo

Dean, Faculty of Health and Education

Botho University

Atish Chattopadhyay

Director

IMT Ghaziabad

Norbert Csizmadia

President of Board of Trustees

John Von Neumann University Foundation

Dina Dandachli

Chief Executive Officer

Education For Employment - Europe

Karim Darban

Professor

University of Hassan II Casablanca

Jesper Eis Eriksen

Executive Director

OBEL Award

Dinesh Gajendran

Asia Regional Special Adviser

Commonwealth Students Association

Ashish Garg

Professor and Head of Department

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Washika Haak-Saheem

Dean

Dubai Business School

Grace Hampson

Associate Director

Office of Health Economics

Yasser Hassan

Director

International Labour Organisation Office for Turkey

Anna Sophie Herken

Managing Director

German Society for International Cooperation

Alexandra Hiniker

Director of the Sustainability Initiative

Carnegie Mellon University

Charles Hopkins

Unesco Co-Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability

York University

Ameer Ibrahim

Climate Investments Advisor

Hamershlag Private

Nurul Diana Intan Zafirah Ishak

Head of Risk and Sustainability

Cyberview

Cheryl Jacob

Chief Executive

Reasonate

Kiran Kaur

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

GirlDreamer

Nazih Khaddaj Mallat

Vice-President

Al Ain University

Zafer Kizilkaya

President

Mediterranean Conservation Society

Bülent Kılıç

Professor

Dokuz Eylül University

Björn Kjellander

Director of Quality and Accreditation

Jönköping International Business School

Katrin Kohl

Unesco Co-Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability

York University

Monya Konneh

Socioecologist/Assistant Research Coordinator

Njala University

Dan LeClair

Chief Executive Officer

Global Business School Network

Andre Lindner

Managing Director and Adviser for Internationalisation

Dresden University of Technology

Jennifer Lowe

Student

University of Newcastle

Francisco Maio Matos

Director, Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine Department

Coimbra University Hospitals

Tia McNair

Partner

Sova

John McWilliams

Director of Civic and Alumni Engagement

University of Bristol

Lela Mélon

Director of LLM in European and Global Law

Pompeu Fabra University

Lee-Ann Modley

Senior Lecturer

University of Johannesburg

Natalia Molina Calavita

Partnerships Lead

Girls Go Circular

C. Prathapmohan Nair

International Consultant

UN Convention to Combat Desertification

Emmanuel Gabriel Ndayambaje

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Afrixyz For SDG2 Global Youth Initiatives Platforms

Bitange Ndemo

Ambassador

Embassy of the Republic of Kenya, Brussels

Maria Neira

Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health

World Health Organization

Jonathan Newman

Vice-President: Research

Wilfrid Laurier University

Kadir Burak Oguz

Partner and Head of the Sustainability Advisory

Consulta

Gonca Ongan

Executive Director

Koç University Social Impact Forum

Peggy Oti-Boateng

Executive Director

African Academy of Sciences

Gökçe Ötkün

Head of Global Sustainability

Eczacıbaşı Building Products

Ozge Ozdemir

Co-founder and Chief Sustainability Officer

Ascentys

Özgür Özlük

Professor

Minerva University

Patricia Pillay

Chief Executive Officer

Polyco

Paulette Granberry Russell

President and Chief Executive Officer

National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education

Rachna Sharma

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Climate Ready Leaders

Jolynn Shoemaker

Director, Global Engagements

University of California, Davis

Iveta Silova

Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement

Arizona State University

Sankar Sivarajah

Head of Kingston Business School

Kingston University London

Julian Skyrme

Founding Director of Social Responsibility

The University of Manchester

Hanna Snellman

Vice-Rector

University of Helsinki

Catalina Spataru

Director Energy Institute, Head of ICR Lab, Professor

University College London

Lin Sun

Head of Sustainable Business Development

Jinko Solar

Bhavesh Swami

Lead, Clean Energy Policy, Engagements and Fund Raising

Climate Reality India and South Asia

Rika Swanzen

Deputy Dean of Research

The Independent Institute of Education

Leona Tam

Associate Dean (International)

University of Technology Sydney

Jerry Thomas

Head, KAUST Coral Restoration Initiative Operations

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Koen Vandenbempt

Associate Dean for Internationalisation

University of Antwerp

Nicky Verd

Digital Futurist

Digitally Fit

Arun Verma

Head of Equality and Inclusion

University of London

Josep M. Vilalta

Director

Global University Network for Innovation

Raul Villamarin Rodriguez

Vice-President

Woxsen University

Xinge Yu

Professor

City University of Hong Kong

Yi Zheng

Head of Office at the Institute for SDGs

Tsinghua University

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