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This catalogue attempts to celebrate survey of under 40s from 70 nations. We welcome help in improving it out of Washington DC or reference to alternative parallel surveys.

 In Niv 2023 King Charles invited world of intelligences to survey who would Turing most want to linkin now in addition to his 2 peers alumni V Neumann and Einstein. Deep Mind's Hassabis and Nvidia's Jensen Huang might make 2 first destinations to see how many iof einstein's deep maths problems of e=mcsquared have now been resolved by neural network algorith machine learnig - see ;ast notes of Von Neumann 1956 _ Computer & The Brain World series summits on nations ai since hosted by Kotea, Macron Paris with c-chiar Modi India (see also ambani and head of Tata)

 

Yann LeCun World Top 5 AI -week chatting to DC science diplomats 4/14/4/18

VP & Chief AI Scientist 

Meta 

Yann LeCun is Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a Professor at NYU. He was the founding Director of Meta-FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. After a PhD from Sorbonne Université and research positions at AT&T and NEC, he joined NYU in 2003 and Meta in 2013. He received the 2018 ACM Turing Award for his work on AI. He is a member of the US National Academies and the French Académie des Sciences.Transatlantic: west coast- east coast france india…Ai at edge (ie peoples access), agentic ai, Open Ai, Llama Model, FAIR Mistral model. Scaled NN algorithm early 1990s at same time nvidia founded – ai zipcoses, cheques – his employer AT&T took all IP.

 

France H.E. Laurent Bili

Ambassador 

Embassy of France 

A graduate of the French National School of Public Administration (ENA) (Victor Hugo Year, 1989-91), Laurent Bili joined the French Foreign Ministry’s Strategic Affairs and Disarmament Directorate (1991-93). Prior to his appointment in Washington, Laurent Bili was Ambassador to China since September 2019. Previously ambassadot brazil, Turkey, Thailand.

 

 

France Mathilde Cerioli

Chief Scientist 

everyone.AI 

Edu AI 2:45-3:15 pm- Shaping Tomorrow's Mind: Advancing Beneficial AI for Children | Format: talk Speaker: Mathilde Cerioli Moderator: Philippe Ribière

Dr. Mathilde Cerioli is the Chief Scientist and cofounder of everyone.ai, a nonprofit dedicated to anticipating and educating on the opportunities and risks of AI for children. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and a Master’s Degree in Psychology, with a research focus on how AI intersects with cognitive and socioemotional development in children, adolescents, and young adults. In May 2024, she published the influential report Child Development in the AI Era, examining the potential impact of emerging technologies on cognitive and socioemotional development. Within everyone.ai—and in collaboration with the Paris Peace Forum—Dr. Cerioli contributed to the launch of the Beneficial AI for Children Coalition, an international initiative supported by 11 governments, various tech companies including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as well as the support organizations such as UNICEF, UNESCO, and Common Sense Media

 

Philippe Ribière France

Attaché for Science and Technology 

Embassy of France in the United States 

 

Hugues Berry France

Head of Inserm’s office for AI and digital sciences 

Inserm 

I am heading since march 2025 the newly created Office for AI & Digital Sciences of Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The goal of this Office is to set Inserm's strategy related to AI & Digital Sciences for biomedical research, and assist its labs in the development or application of these approaches in their research. Since 2023, I have also been heading AIstroSight, a joint research team between Inria,the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, Hospices Civils de Lyon (Lyon University Hospitals), Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and Theranexus, a biotech Company. Our overall goal is to develop innovative digital methods for neuropharmacology, the search of new drug candidates to treat brain diseases. I am also involved in the editorial board of the journal PLoS Computational Biology since 2018, currently serving as section editor for neuroscience

 

 

 

Prof. Michal Pechouček CZECH AI is a computer scientist specializing in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. AI Center Collaborations with U.S. DoD He is the founding director of the AI Center at Czech Technical University in Prague, which he established in 2000. Over the years, he has held visiting professorships at UC Berkeley, USC, and Binghamton University. His early research was supported by U.S. defense agencies. Beyond academia, Prof. Pechouček is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. He co-founded Cognitive Security (acquired by Cisco Systems) and Blindspot.AI (acquired by Adastra Group). He also served as CTO of Avast Software (LSE) and later Gen Digital (NASDAQ). In addition to his industry roles, he is an active angel investor and general partner at Evolution Equity Partners, a leading cybersecurity venture capital firm. He is also a co-founder of PRG.AI, an initiative fostering the AI ecosystem in Prague.

  

Rama Chellappa Hopkins colead ai&data also Indiia

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Interim Co-director of the Data Science and AI Institute 

Johns Hopkins University 

 

FranceAI Mireille Guyader -action returning france soon after 8 years; french ambassador mentioned possible last ai party…

is the Counselor for Science and Technology for the Embassy of France in the United States since September 2021, and research director at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) since 2015. She oversees the French Office for Science and Technology in the US, promoting bilateral partnerships in science and technology, and fostering exchanges of students, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

 

Eugenio Vargas Garcia Brazil AI

Director of Science and Technology 

Brazil Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

Academic background: - PhD in History of International Relations, University of Brasilia (2001). - Former Professor at the Rio Branco Institute, the Brazilian diplomatic academy. - Visiting research associate, University of Oxford (1999-2000). - Professor, College of Latin American Studies, UNAM University, Mexico (2004-05). - Published seven books on foreign policy and international affairs. - Current research focus: international governance of AI, emerging technologies, and diplomacy. Positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Itamaraty, Brasilia: - Director, Department of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property (current).

  

Andrea Piccioli Italy Director General  National Institute of Health of Italy 

 

NZ Juliet Gerrard Professor Dame Former Chief Science Adviser to PM NZ School of Biological Sciences in NZ- former gov chief scienvce officer

EU Florent BERNARD -tracks IntlP

Counselor for Research and Innovation 

Delegation of the European Union to the USA 

Dr. Florent Bernard is the Counselor for Research and Innovation at the European Union Delegation to the United States in Washington, DC. He assists in the strengthening of transatlantic research and innovation synergies, notably through the European R&I programme ‘Horizon Europe’. Prior to this position, he was an International Relations Officer for the European Commission working on EU-China and EU-India cooperation. Dr. Bernard has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he also studied at the University of Georgia, USA; the University of Barcelona, Spain; and the University of Florence, Italy.

 

Germany  Jan Lüdert tracks IntlP

Head of Programs 

German Center for Research and Innovation New York 

Jan Lüdert leads the programming, strategic planning and implementation of initiatives between Germany and North America in science, technology, and innovation. He has over 20 years of experience in international relations, higher education, and knowledge management, with a focus on science diplomacy and transatlantic partnerships. Jan earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He holds Harvard Kennedy’s School Public Leadership Credential; a First-Class Honors MA in International Relations from the Australian National University; and a BA in Public Policy from Hamburg University for Economics and Politics.

 

 

Turkish in DC Euraxess EU Mrs
Derya Büyüktanir Karacan

EURAXESS North America and George Washington University 

Derya Buyuktanir Karacan is a researcher and adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University, focusing on science diplomacy. She works as a regional coordinator at EURAXESS North America, the European Commission’s international project covering the U.S. and Canada.

 

US & EU
Faria Khan Intl P

Harvard University 

Dr Khan is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She was a former MSCA fellow (2017-2021) during her Ph.D. where she worked under the EU-funded NAMES project under the supervision of Prof Rafal Szmigielski (ICHF, PAS, Warsaw Poland) and Prof Jason Surrat (UNC Chapel Hill, NC, USA). She is currently serving as a board member at North America Chapter of MCAA as East-Coast Coordinator. She is interested in the liaison of the EU-North American funded projects and increase the mobility of young researchers between EU and USA. Faria Khan’s research is focused on the toxicological testing of atmospheric pollution in human lung cells.

 

 

 

Sweden
Andreas Göthenberg Executive Director  STINT

Tracks IntlP 

Dr. Andreas Göthenberg is the Executive Director of STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) since 2009 and a Board Member of Karolinska Institute. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). Dr. Göthenberg was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology between 2003-2004 and is currently an Adjunct Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Science and Technology Attaché at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo from 2006 to 2009, where he also covered Science and Technology (S&T) development in South Korea. During 2004-2006, he worked as a Center Manager and Senior Researcher in China, setting up joint research & education centers for KTH Royal Institute of Technology at Zhejiang University and Fudan University.

 

 

HOPKINS people

AI Alex Baras

Director of Computational Pathology & Informatics, Associate Professor of Pathology, Urology, and On 

JHU School of Medicine 

Soumyadipta Acharya

Assistant Professor and Director of Bioengineering Innovation & Design Master's program JHU 

 

Silicon Valley People

Kendra Sharp Intl P

Dean of the School of Engineering 

Santa Clara University 

Poland

Katarzyna Granat Intl P

Expert in Science Diplomacy 

Embassy of Poland 

 

 

Poland- Belgium-LA

Mikolaj Buchwald

Postdoctoral Scientist 

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PAS 

I specialize in artificial intelligence applications in medicine. My scientific background is in computational neuroscience, and for my PhD, I studied the processes underlying the preparation of bimanual movements in the human brain, as measured with fMRI. While finalizing my thesis, I joined the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, my research focuses on providing medical professionals with advanced models for clinical decision support systems, developed using machine learning and AI methods.

 

Contsance Bolte InlP trackl Enoronment Connie BolteBelmont Forum hq PA

Research & Policy Strategist 

Belmont Forum 

Dr. Constance "Connie" Bolte serves as a Program Coordinator with the Belmont Forum, an international partnership of funding organizations, where she contributes as part of her AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship. With over 20 years of experience spanning research, education, and program management, she specializes in developing capacity-building initiatives and facilitating transdisciplinary collaborations addressing global environmental challenges.

 

Austria H.E. Petra Schneebauer

Ambassador Embassy of Austria 

Poland Bogdan Klich Chargé d'affaires a.i. 

Embassy of the Republic of Poland

 

 

Mona Nemer Canada's Chief Science Advisor 

 

 

H.E. Birgitta Tazelaan Dip Track

Ambassador Embassy of the Netherlands

 

H.E. Elsie Kanza Ambassador

Embassy of the United Republic of Tanzania

 

Dr. Ona Ambrozaite US & Germany

Co-Founder | JHU Science Diplomacy Hub

US East Coast Director | UK Science & Technology Network

US Vinton Cerf Track space

Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist 

Google 

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, Emeritus Chairman of the Marconi Society and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, US Navy, JPL and NRO. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA. He is a member of both the US National Academies of Science and Engineering, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers

 

Garvey Mclntosh

US Senior Director for International Government of Axiom -cuurent lead consortium facing retirement of space shuttle – see footnote 1 how did space summit become so big

 

US Timothy Tawney

Chief of Staff

Office of International and Interagency Relations | NASA HQ

 

UK Alberto Conti

Vice President & General Manager

Civil Space, Space & Mission Systems at BAE Systems, Inc.

 

UK Liz Kebby-Jones

Deputy Director

UK Research and Innovation North America

 

France Nicolas Maubert

Space Counselor and CNES Representative

Embassy of France in the United States

 

Germany Marc Jochemich

Head Washington Office

German Aerospace Center | DLR

 

 

Netherlands Edu van der Noordaa Track space

Senior Business Consultant for North America 

Netherlands Space Office 

NZ Marta Mager

Head of Agency & Minister Counsellor Space, Science & Technology, USA & Canada

New Zealand Space Agency

 

 

Peru Alberto Gonzales Mejía

Deputy Chief of Mission 

Embassy of Peru in the United States 

  Track Space

 

US Antti Pulkkinen Track Space

Director of the Heliophysics Science Division 

NASA Goddard Science Center 

Dr. Pulkkinen is the Director of the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), a position he has held since 2021 after serving as Acting Director from 2020 to 2021. He joined NASA GSFC in 2004 as a postdoctoral researcher with the nonlinear dynamics group, focusing on the complex nonlinear dynamics of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system and the ground-level impacts of space weather. Dr. Pulkkinen earned his Ph.D. studying space weather effects and later expanded his expertise as an Associate Director at the Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences and as an Associate Professor at The Catholic University of America (CUA) from 2011 to 2013.

 

Duilia de Mello

Professor

Catholic University of America

 

 

US Shawn Domagal-Goldman

Acting Astrophysics Division Director

NASA

 

US Colleen Hartman

Director of Physics, Aeronautics and Space Sciences

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering

 

US Michael Overby

Deputy Director of Space Affairs

U.S. Department of State

 

 

 

Grok provides these clues on why space such a big bloomberg-Krieger summit -longer file

 

seven segments classify space-driven deep learning breakthroughs, emphasizing human intelligence and agentic AI, with relevance to biotech, climate tech, and Krieger/SAIS’s science diplomacy:

• Biotech in Microgravity: AI analyzes multi-omics in microgravity (e.g., ISS, Axiom Ax-4’s 60 studies) for health breakthroughs (90% faster drug discovery,).
• Climate Tech via Earth Observation (EO): AI-equipped satellites (e.g., NASA’s Prithvi,) map climate risks (90% accuracy,).
• Low-Latency Satellite AI: Autonomous satellites (e.g., ESA’s CogniSat,) process data in real-time (50% latency cut,).
• Digital Twin Mapping: AI simulates Earth systems (e.g., NASA-IBM’s Prithvi,), aiding urban/climate planning (90% reliability).
• Intermediary Space for Earth Risk Measurements: LEO satellites measure methane/radiation (85% accuracy,), mitigating 30% climate risks.
• Material Testing in Zero Gravity: Microgravity tests materials (e.g., alloys,), improving solar efficiency (20% gain).
• Agentic AI for Space Exploration: Autonomous AI plans missions (e.g., lunar rovers,), boosting 20% success odds.

These deeo discoverues can align with future optimism generated by Krieger’s AI summits (40% female STEM, Yann LeCun’s 2025 talk) and SAIS’s diplomacy (70 nations), fostering global cooperation akin to  other all change moments of netwirk emergence including1995 Beijing’s unity (40% women STEM) and supporting Bangladesh’s $50B infrastructure crisis and Africa’s 2.5B youth by 2050.

 

Hopkins is only about 6500 undergrads all Baltimore though over 30000 grads. Jrieger Arts & Scineces is just largest school with Whoting Engineering second. Until recently Krieger may have been one of smaller grad alumni networls. But it became the hopkins pioneer of AAP advanced blended postgrad qualifictaions of most interest to lead careers  DC wordlwide science leaders. Bloomberg center in DC has deepened alumni network of Krieger eg science diplomacy summits

Health Diplomacy

Key topics: the impact of scientists on political decision-making during pandemics with examples from France and the US, the role of AI in personalized healthcare and medical education, and the Parliamentarians Network for Global Health. Renowned speakers from the French research institutes Inserm (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and ANRS-MIE (National Research Agency for HIV, viral hepatitis and emerging infectious diseases), Embassy of Switzerland, Children’s National Hospital, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins will share their knowledge and expertise.

 

Track Agenda

11:00-11:10 am- Introductory Remarks (Joshua Broadwater)

11:15-11:45 am- From Spotlight to Access: Emerging Technologies Shaping the Future of Health | Format: Flash talks Speakers: Olivia Gachoud leads the Science and Technology Office at the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States of America  and Julia Kostova  Director of Open Science for North America at Frontiers,

11:50 am-12:20 pm- Scientists and Political Decision-Making in Pandemic Responses: Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis in France and the US | Format: panel, Moderator: Fabien Agenes France Director 

Inserm (French NIH) Representative Office in North America 

Speakers: Dawn O'Connell served as the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) from 2021-2025. She is currently a Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and Yazdan Yazdanpanah France Director of ANRS emerging infectious diseases Agency, Director of the Aviesan/Inserm Institute I3M, Head of the Infectious Disease department at Bichat Hospital and Professor of Infectious Disease at Paris Cité University. Master of Science degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health

12:25-12:55 pm- The Role of AI in Personalized Health and Medical Education | Format: panel Speakers: Panagiotis Kratimenos US Co-Director of Research & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics 

Children’s National Hospital & George Washington ;, Kemi Badaki -Makun  US physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department at the John's Hopkins Children's Center and is the Director of Research for the Division. Her research centers on the utilization of novel biomarkers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Ioannis Koutroulis us Director of Research, Division of Emergency Medicine 

Children's National Hospital

1:00-1:30 pm-Diplomacy and Global Health: Challenges and Perspectives | Format: Panel Introductory Remarks: Guilherme Duarte Portugal Executive Director of UNITE, a global network of parliamentarians committed to advancing political leadership in health, Moderator: Francisco Duarte Lopes Portugal

Ambassador Embassy of Portugal 

Speakers:  Courtney Carson  US Program Director at Pandemic Action Network, Wendell Bugg  US Senior Advisor on Health Security and Managing Director of The Invictus Group, , Mariana Faria LatAm in DC Director a.i. and Senior Advisor (ERP) at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).  , Oluwakemi Gbadamosi

 

Health Diplomacy 2

cover topics such as Italy & Public Health Diplomacy, Global Health from an African Perspective, the role of Large Language Models in Public Reporting, and Drug Addiction & Public Health in Portugal. Esteemed speakers from the African Population and Health Research Centre Kenya, University of St. Gallen, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa, Embassy of Italy, and Embassy of Portugal will share their insights and expertise.

 Track Agenda

2:00-2:10 pm- Introductory Remarks (Joshua Broadwater)

2:15-2:45 pm-Chronic Diseases in a Globalized World: The Role of International Cooperation | Format: flash talks Speakers: Giusi Condorelli  Italy Science Counselor for Health Embassy of Italy 

Lynn Goldmann  US Michael and Lori Milken Dean of Public Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University , Marco Silano Italy Director of the Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases and Aging and Acting Director of 

Istituto Superiore di Sanità (italy’s NIH) , Marina Baretti US Medical Director of the Liver and Biliary Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinic the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC). Dr. Baretti received her medical degree from University of Pisa, in Italy. She completed her internal medicine residency and oncology fellowship at University of Milan

2:50-3:20 pm- Global Health Africa Perspective | Format: talk Speaker: Bavesh Kana S. Africa directs a research and innovation unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Renowned for his groundbreaking work, he focuses on developing innovative tuberculosis drugs that reduce treatment duration and minimize side effects. Beyond this, his efforts extend to advancing vaccine development

3:25-3:55 pm- Large Language Models in Public Reporting | Format: talk Speakers: Maxime Sapin switzerland Ph.D. Candidate 

University St. Gallen  and Carla Walker switzerland PhD candidate and research associate at the Chair of Health Economics, Policy, and Management at the University of St.Gallen. Her research focuses on quality transparency in healthcare and hospital planning in Switzerland. In addition to her academic work, she has been a healthcare consultant in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at walkerproject for five years, specializing in the design and optimization of healthcare organizations.

4:00-4:30 pm- Public Health and Drug Addiction: The Use of Consumption Rooms in Portuguese Health System | Format: talk Speakers: Maria de Jesus Espada Portugal Author and an Advisor. She is a PhD in History (Open University, Lisbon, Portugal), MA in Intercultural Studies and BA in International Affairs. She is currently the Attaché for Agriculture and Fisheries, and Health and Drugs, at the Embassy of Portugal and Glória Alhinho

Portugal PhD Embassy of Portugal; Georgetown University cross-disciplinary research and teaching during her education and professional career, in Portugal, France, French Guiana and the United States. Currently the Camões Institute Lecturer at Georgetown University, she has been curating cultural events allying academic and diplomatic encounters. Glória Alhinho holds a PhD in Iberian, Latin American, Mediterranean Studies, from the University of Bordeaux, France, and a Master of Arts in Environmental Psychology - a collaborative degree program between the University Institute of Psychology, Social and Life Sciences, Portugal, with the University of Surrey, England.

 

Climate Change Innovation

 

Dive into the forefront of climate change innovation with experts from around the globe. Critical topics include global biodiversity, early warning and insurance mechanisms, global climate finance, and strategies for a more sustainable world. Distinguished speakers representing the Wildlife Conservation Society, CCRIF SPC Jamaica, Global Ocean Trust, the Barbados Prime Minister's Office, the Embassy of Belgium, and the Embassy of Rwanda

 

2:00-2:10 pm- Introductory Remarks Sally Yozell US  Senior Fellow and Director of the Environmental Security program at the Stimson Center. Yozell’s research examines the suite of environmental threats that have the potential to undermine national, regional, or global security. Her work focuses on ocean security, climate security and wildlife protection. Prior to joining Stimson, Yozell was a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State

2:10-2:45 pm- Climate & Competition: The Role of Environmental Diplomacy in Geopolitics | Format: fireside chat Speakers: Monica Medina US Arnhold Distinguished Fellow at Conservation International. She also cohosts the Scientista Podcast. She most recently served as the first woman President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society. 2021-23, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and the first U.S. Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources at the U.S. State Department. Ms. Medina served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and from 2009-12 as the Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ms. Medina is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She attended Georgetown University on an Army R.O.T.C. scholarship and began her legal career on active duty in the Honor’s Program of the Army General Counsel’s office. For her service in the Army, Ms. Medina was awarded an Army Commendation Medal in 1989 and a Meritorious Service Medal in 1990 

 

 Li Shuo Director of China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) based in Washington DC. His work focuses on analyzing China’s climate and energy policies and supporting the international community’s engagement with China’s climate agenda. Prior to ASPI, Li Shuo led Greenpeace’s environmental advocacy in Beijing for 13 years. He also has more than a decade of experience in United Nations environmental negotiations, including on climate change, biodiversity, ocean, plastic pollution, and ozone. Li Shuo studied political science and international relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS and Nanjing University. He is a German Chancellor Fellow.

 

2:50-3:25 pm- Climate Finance and Insurance in the Caribbean | Speakers: Elizabeth Emanuel CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) in the management of its Technical Assistance Portfolio, Development and Corporate Communications Portfolio, strategic planning, as well as in the development of training programmes in disaster risk financing and supporting the introduction of microinsurance for vulnerable groups. Through the technical assistance portfolio, she works with communities across the Caribbean in the development and implementation of climate adaptation projects and ecosystem based adaptation projects to build resilience to natural hazards. Through CCRIF she engages with 19 Caribbean governments, 3 Central American governments, and several regional and international organizations in the area of disaster risk financing and parametric insurance. She also serves as the deputy project manager on the Devices and Connectivity Project (AgriConnect) in Ghana – a collaboration of Mastercard Foundation and theSoftTribe, Ghana.

 

Pep Bardouille Dominica Director, Bridgetown Initiative and Special Advisor on Climate Resilience, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Barbados. As founding Chief Executive Officer of the Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica (CREAD) from 2018-2020, she was tasked with leading the transformation of Dominica into a climate resilient nation following the passage of Hurricane Maria. With the International Finance Corporation (IFC) from 2020-2023, she was Lead on Resilience in the Global Infrastructure Department, driving new approaches to renewable energy, water sector and urban resilience project development primarily in Small Island Developing States. From 2010-2018, she also championed IFC’s work to scale-up commercially viable business models for off-grid and mini-grid based electrification. Prior to that, with McKinsey & Company, she served national and international oil, gas and mining company CEOs in Africa, Europe and the Middle East on key challenges related to natural resource access and performance enhancement. Pepukaye is a national of the Commonwealth of Dominica and holds a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA), MSc. in Environmental Management from the National Institute of Applied Sciences, Lyon (France), and PhD in Environmental and Energy Systems Studies from Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden).

Moderator: Torsten Thiele UK Founder of Global Ocean Trust, Strategic Advisor to the IUCN Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility and Senior Advisor to the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance. Recent publications address high seas finance, climate policy, coastal infrastructure, nature-based solutions, science-policy interactions and innovative ocean governance. He is member of various advisory committees on ocean topics and an active lecturer and conference speaker. Torsten Thiele holds degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Bonn and Harvard and is an Honorary Fellow at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK.

3:30-4:05 pm- Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier for National Security | Format: panel Speakers:

Jean Froehly  Germany Minister and Head of the Economic and Finance Department of the German Embassy in Washington in July 2024. He was Special Envoy for Ukraine from 2020 to 2023, then Head of Unit Ukraine, Moldova & Black Sea Cooperation and Head of the Task Force for the Ukraine Recovery Conference at the German Foreign Office. Previously, he worked at the German Embassies in Kyiv, Vilnius and Moscow, among others. Froehly was also Head of the Director’s Office and Senior Political Advisor to the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw from 2014 to 2018. Before entering the Federal Foreign Office, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP) from 1999-2001. He holds the Diploma of the IEP Paris (Sciences Po).

 

 Annalise Blum US Annalise Blum, PhD, is a hydrologist with expertise in climate, water and national security policy. Until recently she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the US Department of the Interior, where she led science policy and helped oversee the US Geological Survey (USGS). Previously, she led climate and environmental security policy at the US Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. Annalise has over a decade of experience leading multi-disciplinary research focused on water security, extreme events, and climate change impacts. She has worked or served as a fellow at the National Academy of Sciences, American Meteorological Society’s Policy Program, Johns Hopkins University, USGS, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She holds a PhD in environmental and water resources engineering from Tufts University, MS from UNC-Chapel Hill, and BS from Stanford University.

 

Moderator: Joshua

Program Area Manager 

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

 

 

4:10-4:20 pm- Climate Solutions in Practice | Format: 5-minute case study presentation Speaker: Arthur Naylor Embassy of Brazil