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

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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

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Youssef El Bari

Chief Executive Officer, InnovX

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Iliass El Fali

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

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Hakim El Karoui

Founding Partner, Volentia

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Nisreen Elsaim

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

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Mayumi Endoh

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

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Nadia Fettah

Minister of Economy and Finance, Kingdom of Morocco

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Monica Gichuhi

Mineral Governance Consultant, Quadz Consulting Limited

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Fabienne Hara

Deputy Director General, Paris Peace Forum

Moderator

Roberto Hernández Juárez

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

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Amadou Hott

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

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Jack Kimani

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

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Christophe Lecourtier

Ambassador of France to Morocco

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Nicolas Lefevre-Marton

Group Strategy Vice-President, ENGIE

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Abir Lemseffer

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

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Adeline Lescanne

Chief Executive Officer, Nutriset

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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

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Bertrand Piccard

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

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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

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Dhananjay Ray

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

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Magda Robalo

President, Institute for Global Health and Development

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Hayat Sindi

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

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Anthony So

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

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Anita Soina

Global Youth Champion for UN Hosted Sanitation and Water for All

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Christian Stammkoetter

President Asia, Africa and Middle-East, Danone

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Eloise Todd

Co-Founder, Pandemic Action Network

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Satya Tripathi

Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet

Moderator

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

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Estelle Youssouffa

Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Assemblée nationale, French Republic

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Kandeh Yumkella

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

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Lionel Zinsou

Co-founder of SouthBridge; Former Prime Minister of Benin

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Guillaume de Brier

Researcher, International Peace Information Service (IPIS)

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and more to come…

Paris Peace Forum | 7th Edition

Wanted: A Functioning Global Order

11-12 November 2024

Palais de Chaillot, Paris

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