Plenary Speakers
Agnes Kalibata
President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Anja Karliczek
Federal German Minister for Education and Research
Benjamin Simmons
Founding head of the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership
Brendan Edgerton
Director, Circular Economy at World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Charlotte Sode
Head of Sector for Bioeconomy of the European Commission
Chris Fall
Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, USA
Christine Lang
Co-Chair, IACGB; CSO, BELANO Medical AG; Manager, MBCC Group
Dabo Guan
Professor for Climate Change Economics, Tsinghua University
Daniel Domínguez
Co-founder and Strategic Alliances Director, Allbiotech
Derk Loorbach
Director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dirk Carrez
Executive Director of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
Don Pramudwinai
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Thailand
Elspeth MacRae
Chief Innovation and Science Officer at Scion, New Zealand
Emily Chew
Global Head of Sustainability for Investment Management at Morgan Stanley
Emily Leproust
CEO, Co-founder and Director of Twist Bioscience
Frank Rijsberman
Director- General of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
Helena Vieira
Director General Maritime Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Sea, Portugal
Hiroyuki Kojima
Chief Innovation Officer, Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Ipshita Mandal-Johnson
Global Bio Fund
Ivar Virgin
Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden
Jeffrey D. Sachs
University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University
Joachim von Braun
Professor for Economic and Technological Change and a Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
John Bell
Director in DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
Julia Klöckner
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture
Julius Ecuru
Head, BioInnovate Africa Program, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)
Karla Rubio
PhD candidate at the University of Münster
Kitipong Promwong
President, Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council, Thailand
Klaus Pellengahr
Director, Novozymes A/S and General Manager of Novozymes Berlin
Kolawole Adisa Olonade
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Leena Srivastava
Deputy Director General for Science of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Lloyd Day
Deputy Director of Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
Louise O. Fresco
President of the Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands
Lucia A. Reisch
Professor of Intercultural Consumer Research and Behavioural Public Policy, Copenhagen Business School
Magdalena Skipper
Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for Nature Research
Marcus Remmers
Chief Technology Officer, Royal DSM
Mary Maxon
Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michal Devir
Co-Founder and General Managing Partner at Rimonim Agro VC
Morakot Tanticharoen
Senior Advisor to the President of the National Science and Technology Development Agency Thailand (NSTDA)
Pablo Nardone
Bioeconomy Advisor at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina
Paola Vega Castillo
Minister of Science, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica
Qu Dongyu
Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rachel Wynberg
Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Dhirani
Head of Sustainable Finance, WWF-UK
Ruben G. Echeverría
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Thomas Dietz
Professor for International Relations and Law at the University of Münster (WWU)
Tokutaro Nakai
Vice Minister of the Environment, Japan
Virgilio Mauricio Viana
Director General of the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS)
Werner Schmidt
Director, Environment and Sustainable Territorial Development Department, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Yin Li
Director-General of Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Workshop Chairs
Adrián Rodriguez
Chief of the Agricultural Development Unit of the UN Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC)
Anne Bogdanski
Natural Resources Officer at the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) of the FAO
Carl Pray
Distinguished Professor Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Department, State University of New Jersey
Christian Lutz
Managing Director Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung (GWS) mbH in Osnabrück
Dorit Lehr
Secretariat, Provadis University and BioBall
Eduardo Trigo
Adviser of the Hemispheric Program of Bioeconomy and Productive Development; IICA
Elspeth MacRae
Chief Innovation and Science Officer at Scion, New Zealand
Florian Graichen
General Manager Forests to Biobased Products, Scion, New Zealand
Francis X. Johnson
Senior Research Fellow with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Hugo Chavarría
Manager of the Bioeconomy and Productive Development Program, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
Ian O’Hara
Principal Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Ingar Janzik
Plant Scientist Forschungszentrum Jülich
Iris Lewandowski
Chair of “Biobased Resources in the Bioeconomy” at the University of Hohenheim
Ivar Virgin
Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Jan Börner
Professor for Economics of Sustainable Land Use and Bioeconomy at the University of Bonn, Germany
Jeffrey Furman
Professor of Strategy & Innovation at Boston University, USA
Jörn Viell
Chair for Process Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
Karel Callens
Senior Advisor to the Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Marcelo Regunaga
Member of the Group of Producing Countries from the Southern Cone
Mary Maxon
Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthew Fielding
Deputy Director of the Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative
Merja Penttilä
Research Professor at VTT, Finland
Morakot Tanticharoen
Senior Advisor to the President of the National Science and Technology Development Agency Thailand (NSTDA)
Natalia Rodriguez Muxica
Projects Director and Board Member of Allbiotech
Nicolas Domke Venegas
Master Student of Forestry Sciences at the University of Concepción
Nwadiuto Esiobu
Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology at Florida Atlantic University
Peter Wehrheim
Head of Unit for the “Bioeconomy and Food System” at the European Commission
Regina Birner
Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development at the University of Hohenheim
Romina Paillao Bustos
Project Sub-Director, Allbiotech
Sabine Krieg
Business Development, Fraunhofer IGB
Sandra Venghaus
Head of Research Group at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sarah Hickingbottom
CEO, BioVale
Sascha Stark
Senior Researcher at the Center for Development Research, Bonn
Tatjana Schwabe-Marković
Cluster Industrial Biotechnology, CLIB
Thumrongrut Mungcharoen
National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand
Torfi Jóhannesson
Senior Adviser at the Nordic Council of Ministers
Uwe R. Fritsche
Scientific Director of IINAS
Vladimir Popov
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yoshiyuki Fujishima
Senior Analyst, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan