Clean Energy Conference: Empowering Consumers through the Transition - Speakers
For World Consumer Rights Day 2023 will unite senior leaders, experts, and practitioners from consumer advocacy, government, business, civil society and academia to explore how to put consumer-powered energy transitions into action.
Rosemary Shumirayi Chikarakara Mpofu
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
Consumer Council of Zimbabwe
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Hugh Stevenson
Chair and Deputy Director
OECD Committee on Consumer Policy and Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government of the United States
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Christiane Rohleder
State Secretary
Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Government of Germany
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Yetunde Fadeyi
Founder
Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative for Africa (REES Africa)
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Marcia Poletti
Head of European System Change and Non Executive Director
Octopus Energy and Eelpower
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Justin Perrettson
Chair, Commission on Environment and Energy
International Chamber of Commerce
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Luigi Canelli
Head of Product and Business Development, Renewable Energy Communities
Enel X
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Juan Carlos Izaguirre
Senior Financial Sector Specialist
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
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Maria Teresa Da Piedade Moreira
Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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Asma Rouabhia
Global Focal Point SDG 7 Youth Constituency
Major Group for Children and Youth
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Her Excellency Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany
Permanent Representative of the UAE
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
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Maria José Troya
Executive Director
Tribuna (Tribune of Consumers and Users of Ecuador)
Sergio Mujica
Secretary-General (Virtual Address)
International Standards Organization (ISO)
Erin Turner
Chief Executive Officer
Consumer Policy Research Centre
Rainer Ettel
Head of Directorate for Cross-Sectoral Consumer Policy Issues
Government of Germany
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Lori Wallach
Director
Rethink Trade, American Economic Liberties Project
Christian Kastrop (Virtual address)
Managing Partner
Global Solutions Initiative Foundation
Ashim Sanyal
Chief Operating Officer
Consumer Voice
Sandra Molenaar
Chief Executive Officer
Consumentenbond
Renee Cummings
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings, Professor of Practice in Data Science – University of Virginia
Brian Omwenga
Lead, Tech Innovators Network
Think7 (T7)
Juan Carlos Izaguirre
Senior Financial Sector Specialist
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
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Sheila Aggarwal-Khan
Director, Industry and Economy Division
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Melissa Omino
Director
Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, Strathmore University
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Paul Adams
Director, Consumer Protection Research Initiative
Innovations for Poverty Action
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Her Excellency Giovanna Valverde Stark
Ambassador of Costa Rica in Kenya, Co-Chair
10 Year Framework Programmes for Sustainable Production and Consumption of One Planet Network
Angela Oduor Lungati
Executive Director
Ushahidi
Riad Meddeb
Director of the Sustainable Energy Hub
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Marimuthu Nadason
President
Consumers International
Youkyung Huh
Director of Digital and Financial Regulatory Policy
Consumers Korea
Victor Mapunga
Chief Executive Officer
FlexID
Greg Garrett
Executive Director
Access to Nutrition Initiative
Beatrice Gakuba
Founder and Executive Director
African Women Agribusiness Network - AWAN Africa
Sima Bahous
Executive Director
UN Women
David Sanchez
Director
Federación de Consumidores y Usuarios (CECU, Spain)
Rajdeep Datta
Director, Trustworthy Shopping Experience
Amazon.com
Arnau Izaguerri Vila
Legal Officer
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Adriana Zacharias
Head and Global Coordinator – Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) and Deputy Head of 10YFP Secretariat
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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Agustín Reyna
Director, Legal and Economic Affairs
Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs (BEUC)
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Jayshree Venkatesan
Senior Director, Consumer Protection & Responsible Finance
Center for Financial Inclusion
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Barry N. Griffin (Virtual address)
Senator and Vice President of the Senate
Government of the Bahamas
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Head, Financial Consumer Protection Unit
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Christine Ogola
National Coordinator, African Youth Initiative on Climate Change
Climate Change and Gender Specialist, YWCA Kenya
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Wendell Wallach
Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow and Co-Director
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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Founder and CEO, Kamana Agriculture Solution and Research Center Private Limited
Young Coordinator for Agriculture, Socio Economic Welfare Action for Women and Children (SEWA)
Temitope Adegoroye
Managing Partner
Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Limited
Jan Tscheke
Economist/Policy Analyst
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Subhashini Chandran
Vice President
Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth
Zororo Muranda
Chief Executive Officer
Consumer Protection Commission, Republic of Zimbabwe
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Ambassador
African Union
Florian Ostmann
Head of AI Governance and Regulatory Innovation
The Alan Turing Institute
Elizabeth Wangeci Chege
Energy Efficiency and Cooling Specialist
Sustainable Energy for All
Felicia Nwanne Monye
Chief Executive
Consumer Awareness Organisation (Nigeria)
Damien Ndizeye
Executive Secretary
Rwanda Consumer's Rights Protection Organization (ADECOR)
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (via video address)
Director General
World Health Organization (WHO)
Agnieszka Doering-Szyrszen
Deputy Director
Office of Competition and Consumer Protection - UOKiK
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Grace Ramsay
Communications Coordinator
Consumers International
Deon Woods Bell
Senior Advisor, Global Policy and Advocacy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Director of Programmes
Youth Education Network (YEN)
Samuel Ochieng
Chief Executive
Consumer Information Network of Kenya (CIN)
Marie Christiane Dorine Chukowry
Minister of Commerce and Consumer Protection
Government of Mauritius
Rohit Kumar Singh
Secretary
Department of Consumer Affairs of India
Karen Bett
Senior Policy Manager, Data Equity and Inclusion
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Ulf Jaeckel
Head of Division
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), Germany
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Food Systems Lead
Consumers International
Lynnet Kamonde
Chief Executive Officer
Ecoturism Kenya
Marie Christiane Dorine Chukowry
Minister of Commerce and Consumer Protection
Government of Mauritius
Shamina Singh (Virtual address)
President and Founder
Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth
Igor Britto (Virtual address)
Institutional Relations Director
Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (IDEC)
Ruth Okowa
Country Director, Kenya
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Carla Mucavi
Representative to Kenya
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
David Sanchez
Director
Federation of Consumers and Users - Federación de Consumidores y Usuarios – CECU
Manorama Mathur Dabidin
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Commerce and Consumer Protection, Government of Mauritius
Tomaz Miranda (Virtual address)
Director of Collective Rights Projects and Policy
Government of Brazil
Matthew Soursourian (Virtual Address)
Policy Research and Advice - Financial Consumer Protection
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Robert Weissman
President
Public Citizen (USA)
Abigail Bishop
Head of External Affairs, Scam Prevention
Amazon.com
Hayley Fletcher
Director
Competition and Markets Authority, UK
Nicholas Piachaud
Director, Campaigns
Mozilla
Stephanie Nguyen
Chief Technology Officer
Federal Trade Commission, Government of the United States
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Amandeep Singh Gill
Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology (Virtual Address)
United Nations
