The speakers
A multi-actor event
The Spring Meeting will bring together diverse stakeholders from around the world, including representatives from States and governments, international organizations, civil society and the private sector, to focus on the shared North-South objective of “Fair Transitions“.
With the participation of:

Chiugo Aghaji
Extractives and Sustainability consultant, CEA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Speaker

Maria Rachel J. Arenas
Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines
Speaker

Jennifer Baarn
Director of Partnerships, AGRA
Speaker

Hamadi Boga
Vice President-Program Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Speaker

Houda Boukari
2023 French-African Foundation Young Leader, Africa Procurement Transformation Manager, Unilever
Speaker

Mariana Campos
Director, Mexico Evalua
Moderator

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

Assheton Carter
Executive Director, Fair Cobalt Alliance
Speaker

Sachin Chaturvedi
Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Speaker

Shirmai Chung
Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission
Speaker

Karim Dahou
Deputy Director, Global Relations and Cooperation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Speaker

Hailemariam Dessalegn
Former Prime Minister, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Speaker

Youssef El Bari
Chief Executive Officer, InnovX
Speaker

Iliass El Fali
Managing Director in charge of the Corporate Strategy - Performance Management & Operations Coordination, OCP Group
Speaker

Hakim El Karoui
Founding Partner, Volentia
Speaker

Nisreen Elsaim
Former Chair, UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Speaker

Mayumi Endoh
Deputy Director, Development Cooperation Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Speaker

Nadia Fettah
Minister of Economy and Finance, Kingdom of Morocco
Speaker

Monica Gichuhi
Mineral Governance Consultant, Quadz Consulting Limited
Speaker

Fabienne Hara
Deputy Director General, Paris Peace Forum
Moderator

Roberto Hernández Juárez
Climate Activist-Researcher, Founder of Youth Building The Future Global (YBTFG)
Speaker

Amadou Hott
Special Envoy of the President of the African Development Bank for the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa
Speaker

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

Christophe Lecourtier
Ambassador of France to Morocco
Speaker

Nicolas Lefevre-Marton
Group Strategy Vice-President, ENGIE
Speaker

Abir Lemseffer
Deputy Managing Director, Azura Group; Director General, Initiative for the Adaptation of African Agriculture to Climate Change
Speaker

Adeline Lescanne
Chief Executive Officer, Nutriset
Speaker

Kathrin Lorenz
Country Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Morocco
Moderator

Louise Mabulo
Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission
Speaker

Naoufal Mahdar
Vice President, Climate Action and Decarbonisation, OCP Group
Speaker

Emmanuel Makumba Mali
Director for Democracy and Good Governance Programme, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)
Speaker

Chika Morishima
Executive Officer and Vice President Sustainability and Communications, Ajinomoto Co. Inc.
Speaker

Jalila Morsli
Member of the House of Councilors, Morocco
Speaker

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

Bertrand Piccard
Explorer, Pilot, Environmentalist, Founder of the Solar Impulse Foundation
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

Dhananjay Ray
Chief Executive Officer, Centre for the Development of Human Initiatives (CDHI)
Speaker

Magda Robalo
President, Institute for Global Health and Development
Speaker

Hayat Sindi
Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Speaker

Anthony So
Professor of the Practice, Director, Innovation + Design Enabling Access (IDEA) Initiative, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speaker

Anita Soina
Global Youth Champion for UN Hosted Sanitation and Water for All
Speaker

Christian Stammkoetter
President Asia, Africa and Middle-East, Danone
Speaker

Eloise Todd
Co-Founder, Pandemic Action Network
Speaker

Satya Tripathi
Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet
Moderator

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Former minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, France
Speaker

Estelle Youssouffa
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Assemblée nationale, French Republic
Speaker

Kandeh Yumkella
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Energy Nexus Network (TENN)
Speaker

Lionel Zinsou
Co-founder of SouthBridge; Former Prime Minister of Benin
Speaker

Guillaume de Brier
Researcher, International Peace Information Service (IPIS)
Speaker
and more to come…