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Plenary Speakers

Sorted by last name in alphabetical order

Amir Abdullah Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Food Programme WFP, Rome, Italy >>>more		Emil Agustiono Coordinating Ministry for People's Welfare, Jakarta, Indonesia >>>more

Stephen C. Aldrich President, bio-era, Cambridge, USA >>>more		Urs Amiet Programme Officer, Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Berne, Switzerland >>>more

		Alice Balbo Global Adaptation Coordinator and Resilient Cities Project Manager, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn Germany >>>more

Greg Bankoff Professor University of Hull, Cottingham, United Kingdom >>>more		Jeff Baranyi Public Safety Technology Lead, Esri, USA >>>more

André Bationo Senior Resource Mobilization Officer at AGRA, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Nairobi , Kenya >>>more		Heather Bell Science Advisor, Pacific Disaster Center >>>more

Esther Baur Director, Global Partnerships Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. >>>more		Ambassador Manuel Bessler Deputy Director-General and Head of the Humanitarian Aid Department, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Berne, Switzerland >>>more

Jean-Claude Bolay Director of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development and Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland >>>more		Joern Birkmann Head of Section, Academic Officer, Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University UNU-EHS >>>more

Najib Boulif Ministre délégué auprès du Premier Ministre, Chargé des affaires générales et de la gouvernance, Government of Morocco, Rabat, Morocco >>>more		Albrecht Broemme President, Technisches Hilfswerk THW, Bonn, Germany >>>more

Mike Bushell Principal Scientific Advisor, Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland >>>more		Wendy Cue Chief, Environmental Emergencies Section, Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland >>>more

Ambassador Martin Dahinden Director General Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency SDC, Berne, Switzerland >>>more		Henri Djombo Minister of Sustainable Development, Forest Economy and Environment, Government of Congo, Brazzaville >>>more

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Stefan Engler State Councillor, Canton of Grisons, Chur, Switzerland (tbc) >>>more		Marco Ferrari Member of the Board of Directors of GRF Davos, Former Chair of the Drafting Committee for the Hyogo Framework for Action, Thun, Switzerland >>>more

Marco Ferroni Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Basel, Switzerland >>>more		Walter Fust Former Ambassador, Switzerland >>>more

Andreas Götz President, Swiss National Platform for Natural Hazard Reduction PLANAT, Berne, Switzerland >>>more		Peter Goxharaj Senior Program Officer, German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) HQ, Bonn, Germany >>>more

Edgar Grande Chair for Comparative Policy Analysis at the University of Munich (LMU) and Board Member of the Munich Center on Governance (MCG), Munich, Germany >>>more		Olivier Hagon Medical Director, Swiss Humanitarian Aid unit SHA, Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Berne, Switzerland >>>more

Nivedita Haran Director, Institute of Management in Government and Additional Chief Secretary for the State of Kerala, Kerala, India >>>more

David Harper Special Adviser to the Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland >>>more		Jack Harrald Professor and Director a.i. Center for Community Security and Resilience, Virginia Tech, Arlington, USA >>>more

Rasmus Heltberg Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank >>>more		Linda Hornisberger Chief trainer REDOG Switzerland, senior search expert, Hinterkappelen, Switzerland >>>more

Carlo C. Jaeger Co-Founder and the Chairman of the Global Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany >>>more		Kirk Junker Chair, International Master of Environmental Science, and Chair in US American Law, University of Cologne, Germany >>>more

Russ Johnson Director, Public Safety and Homeland/National Security, Esri, USA >>>more		Daniel Kull Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) >>>more

Nance Kyloh Senior Humanitarian Advisor for the US Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at the US Mission, Geneva, Switzerland >>>more		Ryan Lanclos Emergency Management and Humanitarian Assistance Industry Manager, Esri, USA >>>more

Uwe Lübken Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany >>>more		Thomas R. Loster Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Munich, Germany >>>more

Dario Luna Ministry of Finance, Government of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico >>>more		John Macomber Member, Finance faculty, Harvard Business School, USA >>>more

Michael Manfredo Head of Department, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, USA >>>more		Diana Mangalagiu Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford United Kingdom Professor of Strategy at Reims ManagementSchool, Reims, France >>>more

Eric Des Marais Adjunct Faculty Graduate School of Social Work University of Denver, Denver, USA >>>more		Al-Smie’at B. Marwan Director, Planning and Organizing Department, Jordan Civil Defense Directorate (JCDD), Alshemaisany, Amman, Jordan >>>more

Franz Mauelshagen Deputy Director, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut KWI, Essen, Germany >>>more		Rudolf Müller Deputy Director and Chief, Emergency Services Branch, OCHA Geneva, Switzerland >>>more

Virginia Murray Head, Extreme Events and Health Protection, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom >>>more		Honorary Minister Maria Mutagamba Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, Government of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda >>>more

David Nabarro Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Food Security and Nutrition, and the UN System Influenza Coordinator >>>more		Paul Ouédraogo Senior Regional Advisor for Africa, Ramsar Convention, Gland, Switzerland >>>more

Tso-Chien Pan Founding Executive Director, Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management;Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore >>>more

Martyn Parker Chairman Global Partnerships, Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland >>>more		Louis W. Pauly Chair, Department of Political Science,University of Toronto, Canada >>>more

Wendi Pedersen GIS analyst and a rapid mapping expert, UNOSAT, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland >>>more		Honorary Minister Ama I. Pepple Federal Minister of Land, Housing and Urban Development, Abuja, Nigeria >>>more

Stefan Wolfgang Pickl Chair for Operations Research COMTESSA, Department of Computer Science, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany >>>more		Roger S. Pulwarty Director, National Integrated Drought Information System, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration,USA >>>more

Sulton Rahimov First Deputy Minister of Melioration and Water Resources, Tajikistan >>>more		Joaquin Ramirez Principal Consultant, DTSwildfire >>>more

Honorary Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan Minister for Home Affairs, Kerala, India >>>more		Andreas Rechkemmer Chief Science and Policy Advisor, Global Risk Forum GRF Davos >>>more

Ortwin Renn Professor and Chair, Environmental Sociology and Technology Assessment, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany >>>more

Joao Ribeiro Director General, INGC, Mozambique >>>more

Badaoui Rouhban Director, Section for Disaster Reduction, UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France >>>more		Hamzeh Shakib Professor, Tarbait Modares University, Tehran, Iran >>>more

Matthias Schmale Under Secretary General, Programme Services, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Switzerland >>>more		Haresh C. Shah Obayashi Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University, Founder and Senior Advisor Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Stanford, USA >>>more

Peijun Shi Professor Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China >>>more		Anthony Oliver Smith Professor University of Florida, Gainesville, USA >>>more

		Charles Steger President, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA >>>more

Bron Taylor Professor University of Forida, Gainesville, USA >>>more		Pan Tso‐Chien Professor Nanyang Technological University, Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, Singapore(tbc) >>>more

Muralee Thummarukudy Senior Programme Officer, Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, Switzerland >>>more		Simon Tschurr Rapid Response, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Berne Switzerland >>>more

Christoph Stückelberger Founder and Executive Director of the global network on ethics Globethics.net Foundation,Geneva,Switzerland >>>more		Sander van der Leeuw Dean & Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA >>>more

Helena Molin Valdes Deputy Director, UN-ISDR, Geneva, Switzerland >>>more		Simon Valär President Municipal Council, City of Davos, Davos, Switzerland >>>more

Carmen Vogt Policy Advisor for Urban Development, German Development Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany >>>more		Margareta Wahlström Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, UN-ISDR, Geneva, Switzerland >>>more

Chadia Wannous Senior Policy Advisor, UN System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) >>>more		Cathy Watson Coordinator, Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS), Ethiopia >>>more

James Herbert Williams Dean and Milton Morris Endowed Chair, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, USA >>>more		Simon Young Manager CCRIF Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, Bridgetown, Barbados >>>more