The speakers

A multi-actor event

Brace yourself for an extraordinary lineup of thought leaders, decision-makers and visionaries! For its 6th edition, centered around the theme “Seeking Common Ground in a World of Rivalry”, the Paris Peace Forum will convene representatives from states, international organizations, businesses, development banks to foundations and NGOs and more from around the world.

With the participation of:

Jacinda Ardern

Dame

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Emmanuel Macron

President of the French Republic

Dr. Jane Goodall

Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

Comfort Ero

President & CEO of the International Crisis Group

Nana Akufo-Addo

President of the Republic of Ghana

Charles Michel

President of the European Council

Louise Mushikiwabo

Secretary General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

Shunichi Miyanaga

Chairman of the Board of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Brad Smith

Vice-Chair and President of Microsoft

Anne Hidalgo

Mayor of Paris

Chen Qiufan

Science fiction writer, columnist, and scriptwriter

Angel Gurría

President of the Paris Peace Forum

Henry Wang

Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization

Ghassan Salamé

Professor Emeritus of International Relations

Maria Fernanda Garza

Chair, International Chamber of Commerce

Maria Ressa

CEO, Rappler; 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Francisco Vera

UNICEF First Youth Advocate for Environmental and Climate Action for Latin America and the Caribbean and Spain

Mia Mottley

Prime Minister, Barbados

Sarah Wayne Callies

Actress and Ambassador, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Ivan Krastev

Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Razan Al Mubarak

President, International Union for Conservation of Nature; UN Climate Change High-Level Champion

Nikol Pashinyan

Prime Minister, Armenia

Marlène Harnois

Representative of the Champions for Peace Club - Peace and Sport

Mary Schapiro

Vice Chair of Global Public Policy, Special Advisor to the Founder and Chairman, Bloomberg

Nazanin Boniadi

Actress and Ambassador, Amnesty International UK

Guy Ryder

Under-Secretary-General for Policy, United Nations

Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Celso Amorim

Advisor of the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ian Bremmer

President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media

Agnès Callamard

Secretary-General, Amnesty International

Jin Liqun

President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

María Fernanda Espinosa

Former President, UN General Assembly

Ma Jun

Founding Director, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE)

Tony Estanguet

President, Paris 2024; Triple Olympic medallist

Mabel Miao

Co-founder and Secretary-General of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

Arancha González

Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po

Yann Le Cun

Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Turing Award Laureate

And many others…

Kimberley Abbott

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Vested Impact

Moderator

Adrien Abecassis

Moderator

Meghna Abraham

Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights

Speaker

Rachel Adams

Director, AI and Global Programmes, Research ICT Africa

Speaker

Mirna Adjami

Principal Programme Manager, Business & Security Division, DCAF

Speaker

Faten Aggad

Member, African High Level Panel of experts on the reforms of the multilateral system

Speaker

Kaarlep Agne

Head of Policy and Advisory Services, Tremau

Speaker

Mohammed Faisal Abdulaziz Ahmed

Executive Director, Mwatana for Human Rights

Speaker

Nana Akufo-Addo

President, Republic of Ghana

Speaker

Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

UN Climate Change High Level Champion for COP28, President, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Speaker

Basem Al Salem

Chairman, Capital Bank of Jordan and National Bank of Iraq

Speaker

Fatema Al-Baker

Managing Director, Doha Forum

Moderator

Shaikha Al-Shaibi

Global Advocacy Researcher, Qatar Fund for Development

Speaker

Marco Aliberti

Research Fellow, European Space Policy Institute (ESPI)

Moderator

Hani Alsafadi

Syria Programs Coordinator, SAWA for Development and Aid

Speaker

Carole Alsharabati

Founding Partner, Siren Analytics

Speaker

Elena Ambrosi

Advisor on human rights, victims rights, security and peacebuilding. Former member of the Colombian government delegation in the peace process with the FARC-EP.

Speaker

Dario Amodei

CEO and Co-Founder, Anthropic

Speaker

Ralph Amoussou

Actor

Speaker

Anne-Claire Amprou

French Ambassador for Global Health

Speaker

Kendall Ananyi

CEO, Tizeti

Speaker

Widya Anggraini

Project Manager, Kemitraan

Speaker

Ajimandiram Krishnankutty Nair Anilkumar

Associate Director, ISTRAC and Chief General Manager, Safe & Sustainable Space Operations Management, ISRO

Speaker

Albert Antwi-Boasiako

Director-General, Cyber Security Authority of Ghana

Speaker

Jacinda Ardern

Former Prime Minister, New Zealand; Special Envoy, Christchurch Call

Speaker

Essie Assibu

Journalist, Brut

Moderator

Jennifer Baarn

Director of Partnerships, AGRA

Speaker

Zeinab Badawi

President, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Moderator

Niagalé Bagayoko

Chair, African Security Sector Network

Speaker

Joanne Bajjaly

CEO and Founder, BILADI

Speaker

Nayan Bakhadyo

Satellite Research Fellow, Antarikchya Pratisthan Nepal

Speaker

Silvana Baldovino

Director of the Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples Program, Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA)

Speaker

Priya Basu

Executive Head of the Secretariat, Pandemic Fund

Speaker

Violeta Belver

Communications Coordinator, ILDA

Speaker

Assia Ben Salah

Ambassador of His Majesty Mohammed VI, Kingdom of Morocco

Speaker

Omer Benjakob

Cyber & Disinformation Reporter, Haaretz

Speaker

Renato Manuel Berrino Malaccorto

Research Manager, Open Data Charter

Speaker

Alain Berset

President, Swiss Confederation

Speaker

Theo Bertram

Vice President, Government Relations and Public Policy for Europe, TikTok

Speaker

Emmanuel Besnier

Deputy Director for Africa and the Indian Ocean, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

Speaker

Ralf Beste

Director-General and Head of Department for Culture and Communication, Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany

Speaker

Hatice Beton

Executive Director, The G20 Health and Development Partnership

Speaker

Carlos Márcio Bicalho Cozendey

Secretary for Multilateral Political Affairs, Federative Republic of Brazil

Speaker

Maher Bitar

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council, White House

Speaker

Catherine Boemare

President, Cité du Développement Durable

Speaker

Federico Bonaglia

Deputy Director, OECD Development Centre

Speaker

Nazanin Boniadi

Actress and Activist

Speaker

Pascal Boniface

Director, Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS)

Moderator

Linda Bonyo

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lawyers Hub

Speaker

Tamzin Booth

Partner, Brunswick Group

Moderator

Kirk Boyd

Executive Director, Legal Pact for the Future

Speaker

João Brant

Secretary of Digital Policies, Secretariat of Social Comunication of the Presidency

Speaker

Ian Bremmer

President, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media

Speaker

Karen Lorena Brugés Solórzano

Director General, Women Economic Forum Colombia

Speaker

Rinaldo Brutoco

Founding CEO and Chief Technology Officer, H2Clipper, Inc.

Speaker

Gabriela Bucher

President and Chief Executive Officer, Fund for Global Human Rights

Speaker

Sohel Busheha

Deputy Minister of Economy and Trade, State of Libya

Speaker

Anne-Marie Buzatu

Executive Director, ICT4Peace

Speaker

Yohann Bénard

Director of Public Affairs Europe, Digital, Amazon

Speaker

João Samuel Caholo

Executive Secretary, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region

Speaker

Agnès Callamard

Secretary General, Amnesty International

Speaker

Matías Campos

Chief Executive Officer, Astralintu Space Technologies

Speaker

Mariana Campos

Director, Mexico Evalua

Moderator

Allison Carlson

Executive Vice President, Foreign Policy

Speaker

Éléonore Caroit

Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, National Assembly, French Republic

Moderator

Assheton Carter

Executive Director, Fair Cobalt Alliance

Speaker

Clovis Casali

Reporter, France 24

Moderator

Amber Charlesworth

Head of Space Spectrum Policy, Amazon

Speaker

Qiufan Chen

Novelist

Speaker

Celina Chien

Founder and Director, Overstories; Board Member, Panthera

Moderator

Hervé Chneiweiss

Head of Research, CNRS

Moderator

Naureen Chowdhury Fink

Executive Director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism

Speaker

Ian Christensen

Director of Private Sector Programs, Secure World Foundation (SWF)

Moderator

Shirmai Chung

Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission

Speaker

Kaja Ciglic

Senior Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft

Speaker

Edwige Cishimbi

Advocacy, gender and communication officer, International Alert

Speaker

Elisabeth Claverie de Saint-Martin

Chief Executive Officer, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)

Speaker

Jonathan Cohen

Executive Director, Conciliation Resources

Speaker

Catherine Colonna

Former Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, French Republic

Speaker

Adam Cooper

Director, Digital Conflict, The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD)

Speaker

Constance Cordier

Youth Ambassador, Jane Goodall Institute France

Moderator

Mathias Cormann

Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Speaker

Rose Croshier

International Relations Specialist at U.S. Department of Commerce

Speaker

Nina Dabboussi

Programme coordinator, Terrains d'Avenir, Kabubu

Speaker

Marie Dancer

Economic Journalist

Moderator

Osman Dar

Member, One Health High Level Expert Panel

Speaker

Ludovic Dau

Head of Programs, Peace and Sport

Speaker

Emmanuelle David

Executive Director, EPFL Space Center (e-Space)

Speaker

Alexander De Croo

Prime Minister, Kingdom of Belgium

Speaker

Nathalie Delapalme

Executive Director, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Moderator

Christophe Deloire

Secretary General, Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Speaker

Zhongli Ding

Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, People's Republic of China

Speaker

Eileen Donahoe

Special Envoy and Coordinator for Digital Freedom, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, U.S. Department of State

Speaker

Frédérick Douzet

Director, GEODE Center

Speaker

Iain Drennan

Executive Director, WeProtect Global Alliance

Speaker

Stéphane Duguin

Chief Executive Officer, CyberPeace Institute

Moderator

Jeff Dunn

Vice-President, Trust, Safety and Support, Hinge

Speaker

Stéphanie Dupuy-Lyon

Chief Sustainability Officer, La Poste Groupe

Speaker

Alain Délétroz

Director General, Geneva call

Speaker

Harlem Désir

Senior Vice President for Europe, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Moderator

Mariana Díaz Kraus

Institutional and Strategic Alliances Director, Movilizatorio

Speaker

Ali Ehsassi

Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, House of Commons of Canada

Speaker

Omnia El Omrani

Youth Envoy for the President of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference

Speaker

Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard

Tech Ambassador, Kingdom of Denmark

Speaker

Natalia Espitia

Founder and General Director, Fundacion Ninas Sin Miedo

Speaker

Xavier Espot Zamora

Prime Minister, Principality of Andorra

Speaker

Tony Estanguet

President, Paris 2024

Speaker

Pascal Faucher

Chair, European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking (EUSST)

Speaker

Fabio Ferrari

CEO, aDryada

Speaker

Raushan Firaq

Director, Maldives Space Research Organisation

Speaker

Margarita Focas Licht

Manager, Partnership Engagement, Global Partnership for Education

Speaker

Manuel Fontaine

Special Advisor for Child Rights, UNICEF

Speaker

Mads Frederiksen

Executive director at Arctic Economic Council

Speaker

Irakli Garibashvili

Prime Minister, Georgia

Speaker

Pilar Garrido

Director for Development Co-operation, OECD

Speaker

Maria del Pilar Garrido Gonzalo

Director for Development Co-operation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Speaker

Maria Fernanda Garza

Chairwoman, International Chamber of Commerce

Speaker

Prakriti Gautam

CEO, Khetipati Organics

Speaker

Denis Geffroy

Public Affairs and Sustainability Advocacy Director, L'Occitane Group

Speaker

Robin Geiss

Director, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research - UNIDIR

Speaker

Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Speaker

Daniel Giorev

Head of Unit - Resilence, Peace, Security, European Commission

Speaker

Mariana Gonzalez Carrillo

Technical Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Gmbh

Speaker

Jane Morris Goodall

Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute

Speaker

Cécile Goubet

Managing director, Institut de la finance durable

Speaker

Courtney Gregoire

Chief Digital Safety Officer, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker

Irena Grizelj

Author, Global 5-year Strategic Action Plan for Youth-Inclusive Peace Processes; Mediation Support Officer, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Speaker

Charlotte Groen

Executive Director, Circus Zambia

Speaker

Steven Gruzd

Head of African Governance and Diplomacy Programme, South African Institute of International Affairs

Speaker

Valerie Guarnieri

Assistant Executive Director for Programme and Policy Development, World Food Programme (WFP)

Speaker

Christophe Guilhou

Director of Sustainable development, Ministry of Europe and Foreign affairs, France

Speaker

Fabienne Hara

Deputy Director General, Paris Peace Forum

Moderator

Marlène Harnois

Olympic Athlete and Representative of the Champions for Peace Club, Peace and Sport

Speaker

Matthew Hart

Executive Director, Global Philanthropy Project

Speaker

Ines Hassan

Director, The Global Health Security Consortium

Speaker

Roberto Hernández Juárez

Climate Activist-Researcher, Founder of Youth Building The Future Global (YBTFG)

Speaker

Aarti Holla-Maini

Director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

Moderator

Eduard Hulicius

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

Speaker

Benjamin Hurlbut

Co-Director, Global Observatory for Genome Editing

Speaker

Ahmed Hussen

Minister of International Development, Canada

Speaker

Udo Jude Ilo

Interim Executive Director, Centre for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)

Speaker

Bogdan Ivanel

Founder & CEO, Commit Global

Speaker

Maxime Jambon

Vice President Public Affairs, Exotrail

Speaker

John Janka

Chief Officer for Global Government Affairs and Regulatory, Viasat

Speaker

Tatiana Jean

Director, Centre Russia/Eurasia, Ifri

Moderator

Robert Jenkins

Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of Conflict Prevention and Stabilization, US Agency for International Development (USAID)

Speaker

Yuan Jiakai

Founder, Shanghai Ethno Philanthropy Fund

Speaker

Christopher Johnson

Space Law Advisor, Secure World Foundation (SWF)

Speaker

Craig Jones

Director of Cybercrime, Interpol

Speaker

Memory Kachambwa

Executive Director, The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Speaker

Kaja Kallas

Prime Minister, Republic of Estonia

Speaker

Alinah Kallon

Co-founder, Senior Journalist & Project Manager, Media Matters for Women

Speaker

Alan Katz

Paris Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News

Moderator

David Kaye

Professor of Law at UC Irvine and former UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression

Moderator

Martin Kessler

Executive Director, Finance for Development Lab

Speaker

Karim Asad Ahmad Khan

Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC)

Speaker

Jack Kimani

CEO, Climate Action Platform For Africa (CAP-A)

Speaker

Kathryn King

General Manager, Technology and Strategy Group, eSafety Commissioner, Australia

Speaker

Katayoun Kishi

Head of Data Science, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)

Speaker

Aïcha Koraïchi

President, Action contre la Faim

Speaker

Ivan Krastev

Chairman of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies (CLS)

Speaker

Famke Krumbmüller

Associate Partner, EMEIA Geostrategy Leader, EY

Speaker

Albin Kurti

Prime Minister, Republic of Kosovo

Speaker

German Laborda

President, Fundacion Empate

Speaker

Nishant Lalwani

Chief Executive Officer, International Fund for Public Interest Media

Moderator

Tomas Lamanauskas

Deputy Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union

Speaker

Geert Laporte

Senior Executive, European Centre for Development Policy Management, Former Director of European Think Tanks Group

Moderator

Vanina Laurent-Ledru

Executive Director, Foundation S – The Sanofi Collective

Speaker

Yann Le Cun

Vice-President and Chief AI Scientist, Meta

Speaker

Bruno Le Maire

Minister of the Economy, Finance and industrial and digital Sovereignty, France

Speaker

Léah Le Piver

Projects Officer, Paris Peace Forum

Moderator

Alain Le Roy

Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping operations

Speaker

Giorgio Leali

Reporter, Politico

Moderator

Kristian Lempa

Director Global Policy, Governance, Cities, GIZ

Moderator

Bertrand Levant

Head of project, Lutte contre la désinformation, Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF)

Speaker

Alvaro Leyva Duran

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Colombia

Speaker

Charlotte Lindsey

Chief Public Policy Officer, CyberPeace Institute

Moderator

Katherine Littler

Co-Unit Head, Health Ethics

Speaker

Hongqiao Liu

Director, Shuang Tan

Speaker

Nathalie Loiseau

Chairperson of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, European Parliament

Speaker

Françoise Lombard

Director General, Proparco

Speaker

Svitlana Lukiachenko

Vice Head of the Board, Power of the future (GIZ Civil Peace Service)

Speaker

Louise Mabulo

Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission

Speaker

Ahmad Makaila

Ambassador of the Republic of Chad to the French Republic

Speaker

Balbine Pascaline Makani Omgba

President, Association of Women In Mining in Africa (AWIMA)

Speaker

Marija Manojlovic

Executive Director, Safe Online

Speaker

Stefano Manservisi

Chair of the Governing Board, The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF)

Moderator

Mirko Manzoni

Under Secretary General, Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Mozambique

Speaker

Jean-Luc Maria

CEO and Co-founder, Exotrail

Speaker

Heloisa Massaro

Director, InternetLab

Speaker

Tanja Masson-Zwaan

Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL)

Speaker

Tim Maurer

Senior Fellow, Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Speaker

Fabien Mayani

Director of Extractive Industries Governance Program, The Carter Center DRC

Speaker

Sameera Mehra

Collective Intelligence and Advocacy Director, WINGS

Speaker

Mathieu Michel

Secretary of State for Digitization, Kingdom of Belgium

Speaker

Charles Michel

President, European Council

Speaker

Will Middleton

Cyber Director, United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Speaker

Celestino Migliore

Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the French Republic

Speaker

Elsy Milan

PhD Candidate from Lebanon, involved in climate action and the energy transition

Speaker

Jakov Milatović

President, Montenegro

Speaker

Piers Millett

Executive Director, International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science

Speaker

Mira Milosevic

Executive Director, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

Speaker

Bathylle Missika

Head of Division – Networks, Partnerships and Gender, OECD Development Centre

Moderator

Shunichi Miyanaga

Chairman of the Board, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Speaker

Leonard Mizzi

Head of Unit, Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries (DG INTPA), European Commission

Speaker

Miguel Ángel Molina Cobos

Deputy General Manager, Chairman of Space Council, GMV

Speaker

Loreto Moraga

President, ACHIDE

Speaker

Pedro Manuel Moreno

Deputy Secretary General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Speaker

Mia Amor Mottley

Prime Minister, Barbados

Speaker

Hanane Mourchid

Chief Sustainability & Innovation Officer and Strategic Committee Member, OCP Group

Speaker

Melanie Mueller

Head of Project Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

Speaker

Gulnora Mukhamadieva

Global Lead for Gender, Aga Khan Foundation

Speaker

Amon Murwira

Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Republic of Zimbabwe

Speaker

Benjamin Mwape

Youth and Partnerships Expert, AU-EU Youth Cooperation Hub

Speaker

Hanna Möllers

Deputy General Secretary, Deutsche-Journalisten-Verband (DJV)

Speaker

Leïla Mörch

Moderator

Haby Niakaté

Editor in Chief, Brut Africa

Moderator

Iliya Nickelt

Chief Data Scientist, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Speaker

Peter Ambang Njume

Memebr of Parliament, National Assembly of Cameroon, Founder and Executive President, Parliamentary Network on the SDGs

Speaker

Kazuo Noguchi

Senior Manager R&D, Hitachi America

Speaker

Ernst Noorman

Ambassador at Large for Cyber Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands

Speaker

Delphine O

Ambassador / Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum, French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

Moderator

Simon O'Connell

Chief Executive Officer, Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV)

Speaker

Tolu Ogunlesi

Director, WoweMedia

Speaker

Henry Oryem Okello

Minister of State for International Affairs, Republic of Uganda

Speaker

Kamal Omari

Director, Namene

Speaker

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

Minister of Information, Republic of Ghana

Speaker

Temitope Osunrinde

Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Tizeti

Speaker

Jéan-Jérôme PERRIN-MORTIER

Chief Executive Officer, Peace and Sport

Speaker

Agnès Pannier-Runacher

Minister for Energy Transition, French Republic

Moderator

Laurence Pantin

Justice Transparency Program Coordinator, México Evalúa

Moderator

Lucy Parker

Senior Partner, Brunswick Group

Speaker

Nikol Pashinyan

Prime Minister, Republic of Armenia

Speaker

Dino Patti Djalal

Founder and President, Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI)

Speaker

Gilles Pecassou

Deputy director general, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)

Speaker

Jérémie Pellet

Director General, Expertise France

Speaker

Eric Pelofsky

Deputy Chief of Staff and Vice President in the President's Office, The Rockefeller Foundation

Speaker

Yves Perrier

Honorary Chairman, Amundi and President, Sustainable Finance Institute

Speaker

Karine Perset

Head of AI Unit and OECD.AI, OECD Digital Economy Policy Division, OECD

Speaker

Giacomo Persi Paoli

Head of Programme Security and Technology, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Speaker

Elsa Pilichowski

Director for Public Governance, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Speaker

Richard Ponzio PhD

Director, Global Governance, Justice & Security Program and Senior Fellow, The Stimson Center

Moderator

Richard Ponzio, PhD

Director, Global Governance, Justice & Security Program and Senior Fellow, The Stimson Center

Moderator

Nicu Popescu

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Republic of Moldova

Speaker

Lorrayne Porciuncula

Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative

Speaker

Mathieu Pourchier

Executive Director, Tournons La Page

Speaker

Hacina Py

Chief Sustainabilty Officer, Société Générale

Speaker

Xing Qu

Deputy Director General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Speaker

Courtney Radsch

Member of the steering committee, Observatory on Information and Democracy

Speaker

Bouchra Rahmouni

Director, Social Innovation Lab & CoopLab, Full Professor of Social Entrepreneurship & Head of Diversity Research Stream at Africa Business School – UM6P, Office of the President - UM6P

Speaker

Edi Rama

Prime Minister, Republic of Albania

Speaker

Gabriela Ramos

Assistant Director General for Social and Human Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Speaker

Sandra Ramírez Lobo Silva

Member of the Senate, Colombia, Former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Combattant

Speaker

Aakash Ranison

Director of Greener Earth Foundation

Moderator

Shri S Niranjan Reddy

Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, India

Speaker

Paul-David Regnier

Délégué général aux Relations internationales, Mairie de Paris

Speaker

Odile Renaud-Basso

President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Speaker

Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Price Laureate 2021; Chief Executive Officer and President, Rappler Inc.

Speaker

Ana Ribeiro

Vice-minister for Education and Culture, Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Speaker

Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro Jr

Project coordinator and founding member, Canoa de Tolda

Speaker

Signe Riisalo

Minister of Social Protection, Republic of Estonia

Speaker

Christian Ritscher

Special Adviser and Head, UNITAD

Speaker

Magda Robalo

President, Institute for Global Health and Development

Speaker

Nelly Robin

President, Pour le sourire d’un enfant

Speaker

Leonard Rolland

Sous-directeur de la Cybersécurité, Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, France

Speaker

Roman Romanov

Human Rights and Justice Program Director, International Renaissance Foundation

Speaker

Jason Ruger

Chief Information Security Officer, Lenovo

Speaker

Theo Rycroft

Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the French Republic

Speaker

Guy Ryder

Under-Secretary-General for Policy, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General (EOSG)

Speaker

Alberto Saavedra Olavarrieta

Trustee, Fideicomiso Pro-Bosque de Chapultepec

Speaker

Pascal Saint-Amans

Partner, Brunswick Group

Speaker

Antonino Salmeri

Director, Lunar Policy Platform (LPP)

Moderator

Peter Sands

Executive Director, The Global Fund

Speaker

Marie-Ange Saraka Yao

Chief Resource Mobilisation and Growth Officer, GAVI

Speaker

Oulimata Sarr

Former Minister of Economy, Planning and Cooperation, Republic of Senegal

Speaker

Audrey Schaffer

Vice-President, Slingshot Aerospace

Speaker

Eric Scherer

Director of News MediaLab and International Affairs, France Télévisions

Speaker

Vanessa Scherrer

Vice-President for International Affairs, Sciences Po

Moderator

Zazie Schäfer

Director of the Bureau of Strategic Planning, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Speaker

Paul Sebastien

Director and Co-founder, Carbon Offset Certification

Speaker

Papa Seck

Advisor to the President of the Republic of Senegal in charge of Animal Health and Global Health Security Focal Point, Presidency of the Republic of Senegal

Speaker

Stéphanie Seydoux

WHO Envoy for Multilateral Affairs, Office of the Director General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Speaker

Anirudh Sharma

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Digantara

Speaker

Ken Shibusawa

Senior Advisor, Brunswick Group

Speaker

Pierre Siankowski

Managing Editor, Brut

Moderator

N.K. Singh

President, Institute of Economic Growth

Moderator

Virginijus Sinkevičius

Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Union

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James Skea

Chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Brad Smith

President and Vice Chairman, Microsoft Corporation

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Brett Solomon

Executive Director, Access Now

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Marta Solsona

Program Manager, "la Caixa" Foundation

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Tingting Song

Vice President, Beijing Kuaishou Technology Co. Ltd.

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Agnès Soucat

Director of the Health and Social Protection Division, Agence française de développement (AFD)

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Brad Staples

Chief Executive Officer, APCO Worldwide

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Carsten Staur

Chair, Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

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Jurgen Stock

Secretary General, International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)

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Barbara Stocking

Chair, Panel for a Global Public Health Convention

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Eli Sugarman

Director of the Cyber Initiative, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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Lihui Sun

Director of the Development Department, CCCMC Founder and Chairman of Responsible Critical Mineral Initiative (RCI)

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Charles Tellier

Chief of Staff in the Office of the President and Vice President,International Fund for Agricultural Development

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Lyric Thompson

Founder and CEO, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative

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Alioune Tine

Founder, Afrikajom Center, UN Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Mali

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Eloise Todd

Co-Founder, Pandemic Action Network

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Sébastien Treyer

Executive Director, IDDRI

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Laurence Tubiana

Director General, European Climate Foundation; Member, Climate Overshoot Commission

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Zeynep Tüfekçi

Co-chair, Global Tech Thinkers

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Pleun Vaartjes

Swiss Youth Representative to the United Nations

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Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Former minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, France

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Stientje Veldhoven

Vice President and Regional Director for Europe, World Resources Institute

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Jamila Venturini

Executive Director, Derechos Digitales

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Francisco Javier Vera Manzanares

First youth advocate for environmental and climate action in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Olivia Irina Vereha

Co-founder and VP of Product, Commit Global

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Agi Veres

Director of UNDP Geneva Representation Office, UNDP

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Quentin Verspieren

PROTECT Accelerator Coordinator, European Space Agency (ESA)

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Olha Vesnianka

Combatant, military volunteer, Defense Headquarters of Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

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Marcy Vigoda

Director, Scaling Up Nutrition

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Bertrand Walckenaer

Deputy general manager, French Development Agency

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Wang Huiyao

Founder and President, Center for China and Globalization

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Sarah Wayne Callies

Actress and Ambassador, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

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Claire Waysand

Deputy Director General, ENGIE

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Annette Weber

European Union Special Representative for the Horn of Africa

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Peter Weiss

Founder and CEO of Spartan Space

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Isabel Whisson

Head of Policy Initiatives, BRAC

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Anna Winger

Producer and Screenwriter

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Daniel Gebreselassie Woldeyohanes

President, Justice for all

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Frédéric Worms

Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)

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Jean-Claude Worms

Executive Director, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

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Moctar Yedaly

Special Envoy for the Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building

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Daphne Yong-d'Hervé

Director, Global Policy, International Chamber of Commerce

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Heela Yoon

Founder and Director, Afghan Youth Ambassadors for Peace Organization / 2022 UN SDG Young Leader

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Nudhara Yusuf

Executive Coordinator Global Governance Innovation Network (GGIN), The Stimson Center

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Chrysoula Zacharopoulou

Secretary of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, French Republic

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Antonio Zappulla

Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Jinfeng Zhou

Secretary-General, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF)

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Wei Qing (Susan) Zhu

Board Chairman & CEO, Shanghai Treasure Carbon New Energy Environmental Protection Technology Ltd.

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Salome Zourabichvili

President, Georgia

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Gabriel Zucman

Director, EU Tax Observatory

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Aurélia de Lapeyrouse

Partner, Brunswick Group

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Alexandre du Garreau

Member of the Executive Committee and Spokesperson for sports, Allianz France

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Alexandra van Huffelen

State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Digitalisation, Kingdom of the Netherlands

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Stientje van Veldhoven

Vice President and Regional Director for Europe, World Resources Institute

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