Confirmed Speakers list

Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2015
Sustainable Development Goals and Dealing with Climate Change
5-7 February, 2015
High Level Corporate Dialogue- February 4, 2015
New Delhi, India
CONFIRMATIONS as on February 2, 2015
HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT (Current and Former)
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HE Mr Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia and Senior Fellow, Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
The Hon. Jean Charest, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault & Former Premier, Québec & Former
Minister of the Environment, Canada
Nobel Laureate HE Dr José Ramos-Horta, Former President, East Timor & Chair, High
Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, United Nations, New York
HE Mr Bharrat Jagdeo, Former President, Guyana
HE Ms Mary Robinson, Former President, Ireland & UN Secretary General's Special
Envoy on Climate Change
HE Mr Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Former President, Republic of Maldives & Leader,
Progressive Party of Maldives
HE Mr Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, Former President of Mexico and Chair, The New
Climate Economy, Mexico
HSH Albert II, Prince of Monaco (via video)
HE Mr Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister, Norway and President, The Oslo
Center for Peace and Human Rights, Norway
HE Dr Maciej H Grabowski, Minister of the Environment, Republic of Poland
HE Mr José Manuel Barroso, Former President, European Commission & Former Prime
Minister, Portugal
HE Mr Ruud Lubbers, Former Prime Minister, The Netherlands and Member, Club de
Madrid, Spain
Lord John Prescott, Former Deputy Prime Minister & Member of Parliament, House of
Lords, UK
MINISTERS
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HE Ms Lyonpo Dorji Choden, Minister of Works and Human Settlement, Bhutan
HE Mr Bienvenu Liyota Ndjoli, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
HE Mr Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development,
France
HE Ms Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy,
France
Mr Prakash Javadekar, Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment,
Forest & Climate Change
Mr Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister for Railways, Government of India
Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Hon'ble Minister of State, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
(IC) & Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India
Dr Mukul M Sangma, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Meghalaya, India
Mr Jayant Sinha, Hon’ble Minister of State of Finance, Government of India
HE Mr Abdullahi Majeed, Minister of State for Environment and Energy, Maldives
HE Mr Leo Brincat, Minister for Sustainable Development, Environment and Climate
Change, Malta
HE The Hon’ble Jayeshwur Raj Dayal, Minister of Environment, National Emergency
Centre and Beach Authority of Mauritius
HE Mr Juan José Guerra Abud, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources,
Mexico
HE Ms Tanya Müller García, Minister of Environment, Mexico City
HE Dr Oyun Sanjaasuren, Former Minister for Environment and Green Development,
Member of Parliament of Mongolia & President of UNEA
Mr Lars Andreas Lunde, Vice Minister, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment,
Norway
HE Abg Manuel Gerardo Pedro Pulgar-Vidal Otálora, Minister of Environment, Peru
HE Mr Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Qatar &
President, Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, Qatar
HE Mr Abdoulaye Balde, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development,
Senegal
HE Hon Saviour Kasukuwere, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT
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Mr Shankar Agarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Mr Heherson T. Alvarez, Commissioner, Climate Change Commission, Philippines
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HE Madam Marie-Helene Aubert, Advisor to the President on Environment and Climate
Change Issues, France
Mr Kevin Barker, Chief of Staff of Chair of California Energy Commission
Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta (IAS), Principal Secretary (Water Supply) & Principal Secretary
(Climate Change) Deptt; & Managing Director, GNFC
Prof Li Junfeng, Director General, National Center for Climate Strategy and International
Cooperation (NCSC), National Development and Reform Commission, China
Mr Susheel Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
Change, India
Mr Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change,
Government of India
Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri, Ambassador of India to the European Union, Belgium
and Luxembourg
HE Mr Michel Rentenaar, Dutch Climate Ambassador, Government of Netherlands
Ambassador Arun K Singh, Ambassador of India to France
Mr Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government
of India
HE Ms Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture,
African Union Commission, Ethiopia
HE Mr Richard Verma, US Ambassador to India
Dr Robert B Weisenmiller, Chairman, California Energy Commission, USA
NOBEL LAUREATES
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Nobel Laureate Mr Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Laureate 2014, Founder of Bachpan
Bachao Andolan and Chairperson of Global March Against Child Labour
Nobel Laureate Dr Yuan-Tseh Lee, President Emeritus and Distinguished Research
Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
INSTITUTIONS
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Mr Yvo de Boer, Director General, Global Green Growth Institute, Republic of Korea
Ambassador C Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI
Mr Krishan Dhawan, Chief Executive Officer, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation,
India
Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI
Dr Arvid Hallén, Director General, The Research Council of Norway
Prof. Hironori Hamanaka , Chair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global
Environmental Strategies, Japan
Dr Wakako Hironaka, Chair of the Board, Earth Water & Green Foundation, Japan
Dr Pavel Kabat, Director General and CEO, International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA)
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Ambassador Ajai Malhotra, Distinguished Fellow, TERI & Former Ambassador of India to
the Russian Federation
Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI & Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, President, Divine Shakti Foundation, India
Dr Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Senior Vice-Rector, United Nations University, & Director and
Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), University of
Tokyo
UNIVERSITIES
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Prof. Syed Akmal Hussain, Co-Chair, South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS),
and Distinguished Professor of Economics, Forman Christian College University, Lahore,
Pakistan
Dr David M. Malone, Rector and Under Secretary General, UN University, Japan
Dr Jukka Mönkkönen, Academic Rector, University of Eastern Finland
Prof G.J. (Bert) van der Zwaan, Rector Magnificus, University of Utrecht
BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANISATIONS
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Mr Gyan Chandra Acharya, UN Under Secretary General and High Representative, UN
Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked
Developing Countries and the Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), USA
Dr Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive
Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UN ESCAP)
Sir Sumantra Chakrabarti, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, UK
Dr Jaco Cilliers, Country Director, UNDP, India
Dr Fatima Denton, Director of Special Initiatives Division(SID) and Coordinator of the
African Climate Policy Center (ACPC)
Mr Hideaki Domichi, Senior Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency,
Japan
Mr S Richard Fedrizzi, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council, USA
Dr Peter Holmgren, Director General, Center for International Forestry Research,
Indonesia
Dr Naoko Ishii, CEO & Chairperson, Global Environment Facility Secretariat
Mr Alexander Likhotal, President, Green Cross International, Switzerland
Dr Bindu N Lohani, Vice-President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable
Development, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
HE Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General, United Nations, USA (via Video)
Mr Takehiko Nakao, President, Asian Development Bank, Philippines
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Prof. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Director, International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis, Austria
Ms Tomoyo Nonaka, Chairperson, Gaia Initiative, Japan
Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger, Founding Chair, R20 - Regions of Climate Action & Former
Governor, California, USA
Mr Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK
Prof. Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director,
United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya
Ms Laurence Tubiana, Special Representative for COP 21 at Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
France and Ambassador for Climate Change
Ms Ekaterina Zagladina, President, Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of
Nobel Peace Laureates, Italy
CORPORATE
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Mr Suman Bery, Chief Economist, Strategy and Business Environment, Shell
International Limited, The Netherlands
Mr Rana Kapoor, Managing Director & CEO, YES BANK
Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head, HSBC India and Director HSBC Asia Pacific, India
Mr Takashi Kiuchi, Chairman, E-Square Inc.
Dr Henrik O Madsen, Group President and CEO, DNV-GL
Mr Randal Newton, Vice President Engineering Operations, Ingersoll Rand India
Mr Masamitsu Sakurai, Executive Advisor, Ricoh Company Ltd., Japan
Mr Glenn Schmidt, Head, Steering Government Affairs, BMW AG
Mr Jeff Seabright, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever PLC
Mr Venkatesh Valluri, Chairman, Ingersoll Rand India
MEDIA
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Mr Nicholas Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times
Mr Karma Paljor, Business Editor, CNN-IBN
Mr Nick Perkins, Director, SciDev.Net
FAITH LEADERS
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Dr Kuriakose Bharanikulangara, Archbishop of Faridabad
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (via video)
Father Dominic Emmanuel, Former Spokesperson for the Catholic Diocese
Diwan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, Head of the Ajmer Sharif (Ajmer Dargah)
Acharya Shri Roopchandra Muniji, President, Manav Mandir Mission
Ven’ble Bhikkhu Sanghasena, Founder and Head of Mahabodhi International
Meditation Centre, Ladakh and Mahakaruna Day
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, President, Divine Shakti Foundation & Secretary-General,
Global Interfaith WASH Alliance
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Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, Co-Founder/Chairman of the Global Interfaith
WASH Alliance, President of Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh
Shri Giani Gurubachan Singh, Chief Jathedar of the Golden Temple (Akal Takht)