SPEAKERS
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Kumi Naidoo
Keynote speaker
HamburgPresident of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and Senior Advisor at F20
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Dr. Michael Otto
Keynote Speaker
HamburgCo-founder & Council-Member, HSC and Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board Otto Group
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Laura Schäfer
Panelist
HamburgHead of Division International Climate Policy, Germanwatch
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Luke Malhi
Panelist
HamburgResearch Assistant
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Shannon Bernhardt
Panelist
HamburgProgramme Manager at Democracy Works Foundation, responsible for the Climate, Energy, and Resource Governance Programme
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Alex Cornell du Houx
Keynote Speaker
Washington, D.C.Co-founder and President
Elected Officials to Protect America and Elected Officials to Protect the Earth -
Karl Burkart
Keynote speaker
Washington, D.C.CEO
Nature Data Lab -
Tamara Toles O’Laughlin
Keynote speaker
Washington, D.C.
National Climate Strategist, Founder; CEO and President of Environmental Grantmakers Association -
Naghma Mulla
Panelist
Washington, D.C.CEO
EdelGive Foundation -
Dawn Knickerbocker
Panelist
Washington, D.C.Director of Operations
Tribal Funding Registry -
Keith Porter
Panelist
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Natasha Matic
Moderator
Washington, D.C.Executive Director, Accountability Accelerator, and F20 Chair
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Katrin Harvey
Moderator & Speaker
Hamburg / Washington D.C.Secretary General of the Foundations Platform F20
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Randall Krantz
Moderator & Speaker
Hamburg / Washington D.C.Head of Strategy and Partnerships
Accountability Accelerator
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Indigenous Leader & Director of Operations for the Tribal Funding Registry
Anishinaabe strategist, writer, and philanthropic leader honoring the 'first light.' Cultivating new systems for collective liberation and Indigenous sovereignty. For more than two decades, my work has moved across philanthropy, Tribal sovereignty, environmental protection, and civic power. I help funding move with the responsibility it carries.
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CEO of the Nature Data Lab at One Earth
Karl Burkart has been at the forefront of research exploring the connections between human systems, the natural world, and climate change. As CEO of the Nature Data Lab at One Earth, and previously the Director of Science & Technology at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Karl brings together multi-disciplinary teams that apply innovations in big data, earth observation, and artificial intelligence to support the transition towards a sustainable, nature-positive future for all.
For more information about the Nature Data Lab, see here: https://naturedatalab.org
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Secretary General, Foundations Platform F20
Before joining F20, Katrin was Chief Operations Officer of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. In that role, she worked closely with global leaders and young changemakers to accelerate progress towards the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, as part of the legacy of former UN-SG Ban Ki-moon.
In over 15 years working in the fields of sustainability, climate action, clean energy, and organizational management, Katrin has managed projects in Europe, Africa, and Asia in partnership with philanthropic organisations, UN agencies, the EU, and governmental development agencies. In her work she focused on climate change adaptation, sustainable agriculture and food systems, clean energy access, climate change education and capacity building, public-private dialogue, and on facilitating South-South and South-North knowledge exchange among experts in energy efficiency, energy regulation and international law.
Katrin has academic degrees in language studies and international development.
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President of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and Senior Advisor at F20
Kumi Naidoo is a South African human rights and environmental justice activist who is currently the President of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. He is the former Secretary-General of Amnesty International (2018-2020) and the first person from the Global South to lead Greenpeace International (2009-2015). He is an advisor for the Community Arts Network. He serves as a global ambassador for Africans Rising for Unity, Justice, Peace and Dignity. His family started the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism to build on the positive legacies left by popular South African rapper Rikhado “Riky Rick” Makhado through his music and life’s work. Through this Foundation, he co-founded the Global Artivism Initiative. Kumi is also the author of award-winning Letters To My Mother: The Makings of a Troublemaker and the host of the podcast Power, People and Planet.
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Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Justice
Laura Schäfer is Co-Head of International Climate Policy at Germanwatch, focusing on climate foreign policy, climate risk management, climate resilience, and loss and damage. She is an expert in international climate policy and co-author of the annual Climate Risk Index, which analyses the impacts of extreme weather events worldwide. Laura has extensive experience working on climate-just and human rights-based approaches to addressing climate change impacts, including through international processes such as the UNFCCC, G7, and G20.
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Research Assistant to Achim Steiner at the Oxford Martin School & Co-Director of Meridian
Luke Malhi is Research Assistant to Achim Steiner at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and Co-Director of Meridian, a Ghana-based policy analysis lab. He is the recipient of the Oxford-Sir David Butler Graduate Scholarship in Comparative Government.
At the Oxford Martin School, Luke supports Achim Steiner's work on the Security Futures Lab (SFL), a global platform building integrated, systemic approaches to 21st-century security. His research focuses on how risks such as climate change, geopolitical fragmentation, algorithmic manipulation, health security, and populism intersect and compound one another, generating cascading threats that outpace conventional policy responses. With a background in public affairs and communications, Luke is particularly interested in how these complex ideas can be translated for public audiences in ways that foster agency and understanding, as well as in developing tools that help policymakers prioritise combatting the drivers of cascading risks.
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CEO and Director of EdelGive Foundation.
EdelGive Foundation is one of India’s leading philanthropic organizations committed to strengthening the social sector and advancing equitable, sustainable development. Naghma has led EdelGive’s evolution from a traditional grant-making organization into a philanthropic asset manager. Naghma Mulla also led the GROW Fund and now leads GROW+.
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Executive Director, Accountability Accelerator, and F20 Chair
Dr. Natasha M. Matic is a global strategist with more than 25 years of experience shaping philanthropy, sustainability, and economic transformation across the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the United States. She is the founding Executive Director of the Accountability Accelerator, an international initiative driving corporate accountability for nature and people.
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Programme Manager at Democracy Works Foundation, responsible for the Climate, Energy, and Resource Governance Programme.
Shannon is a sustainability and safeguarding specialist with extensive experience in ESG advisory, environmental and social risk management, and stakeholder engagement across international development, mining, and renewable energy sectors across Southern and Eastern Africa.
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Co-founder & Council-Member, HSC and Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board Otto Group
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Head of Strategy & Partnerships at Accountability Accelerator
Randall has been building business partnerships for a variety of sustainability interests over the past 15 years. Subsequently, Randall has helped convene mayors at COP21, build a multi-stakeholder decarbonization initiative for the Global Maritime Forum, and shape a new narrative for Nature with the UN Development Program. Randall studied Mechanical Engineering and has an MBA from IESE Business School.
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Tamara is an environmentalist focused on equity, access and community.
She develops skill building programs and creates multimedia initiatives to dismantle privilege and increase opportunities for vulnerable populations to access healthy air, clean energy and a toxic free economy at the local, regional and national level.Tamara casts a wide net in service to the environmental community.
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Co-founder and President at Elected Officials to Protect America and Elected Officials to Protect the Earth
Alex Cornell du Houx co-founded and is President of Elected Officials to Protect America and Elected Officials to Protect the Earth internationally. Programs range from a Ukraine Energy Security Marshall Plan, place-based restorative development and finance, and energy security and nature-based solutions. Alex was elected to the Maine Legislature, serving on the Energy, Utilities, and Technology and the Veterans and Legal Affairs committees. He is a combat veteran who served in the Marine Corps infantry as an assaultman, and is a Navy Reserve Public Affairs Officer who has deployed globally and at the Pentagon implementing their climate security strategy. Alex has participated in and led Department of State government-to-government delegations and lawmaker trainings in 45 states. He is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco (USF) and founded and directs its Public Leadership Certificate program, which partners with the UK Parliamentary Knowledge Foundation to educate MPs and leaders globally. Alex holds a BA in Government and Legal Studies from Bowdoin College and a Master's in Public Leadership from USF.
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Keith Porter is the president and chief executive officer of the Stanley Center for Peace and Security. Previously, he was its director of policy and outreach. As the center’s top executive, Porter works with all center staff and its board of directors to develop and implement all aspects of the organization’s vision, mission, and strategic plan. As the chief representative of the center to a variety of external audiences, Porter promotes global collaboration across each of its programmatic areas with representatives from national and subnational governments, the media, the private sector, and civil society.