Partners

Honored Speakers and Supporters

Civil Society

Prince Charles, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales*
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon – Secretary-General of the United Nations
Wangari Maathai – Founder The Green Belt Movement and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Helen Clark – Administrator, UNDP, and former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Jason Clay – Senior Vice President, World Wildlife Fund-US
Helene Gayle – President, CARE USA
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE – Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
Teresa Heinz – Chair of The Heinz Endowments 
Dean Hirsh – President, World Vision International
Bianca Jagger – Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation
Ashok Khosla – President, IUCN
Olav Kjørven – Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Development Programme
Kevin Knobloch – President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Fred Krupp – President, Environmental Defense Fund
Nancy Lindborg – President, Mercy Corps
Thomas Lovejoy – President, The Heinz Center
Julia Marton-LeFèvre – Director General, IUCN
Edward Norton – Actor, environmental activist and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity
Steve McCormick – President, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Russell Mittermeier – President, Conservation International
Ray Offenheiser – President, Oxfam
Carter Roberts – President, World Wildlife Fund-US
Larry Schweiger – President and CEO, National Wildlife Federation
Peter Seligmann – Chairman and CEO, Conservation International
Andrew Steer – President, World Resources Institute
Achim Steiner – UNEP Executive Director, UN Under-Secretary-General
Maurice Strong – Former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations
Mark Tercek – President, The Nature Conservancy
Sen. Timothy Wirth – President, the United Nations Foundation 

Government (U.S.)

Barack Obama – President of the United States*
Bill Clinton – Former President of the United States*
Al Gore – Former Vice President of the United States and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Hillary Rodham Clinton – Secretary of State of the United States*
John Kerry – United States Senator
Patrick Leahy – United States Senator
Richard Lugar – Former United States Senator
Lisa Jackson – Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, the United States
Tom Vilsack – Secretary of Agriculture, the United States
John Holdren – Science Adviser to the Obama Administration Ambassador
Donald Steinberg – Deputy Administrator, USAID
Stuart Eizenstat – Former Deputy Secretary for U.S. Treasury, Amb. to the European Union
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend – Environmentalist, former Lieutenant Governor, Maryland
Jonathan Pershing – Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, State Department, United States

Government (International)

Hon. Jens Stoltenberg – Prime Minister of Norway
Oscar Arias – former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Mary Robinson – President of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice and former President of Ireland 
Bharrat Jagdeo – Former President of Guyana
Tina Joemat-Pettersson – Minister of Agriculture, South Africa
Stanislas Kamanzi – Minister of Natural Resources, The Republic of Rwanda
Kjetil Lund – Ministry of Finance, Norway
Kuntoro Mangkusubroto – Head of the President’s Unit on REDD, Indonesia
Toga Gayewea McIntosh – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liberia
Tim Rollinson, CBE – Director General, Forestry Commission, Great Britain
Juan Sabines Guerrero – Governor of Chiapas, Mexico
Erik Solheim – Minister of the Environment, Norway
Bård Vegar Solhjell – Minister of the Environment, Norway
Dr. Zhang Songdan – Deputy Director General, Dept of Resource Management, State Forestry Administration, China

Private Sector

Sir Richard Branson – Founder, Virgin Group
Andrea Debbané – Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Airbus, S.A.
Peter Darbee – CEO, Pacific Gas & Electric
Thomas Friedman – Author and Journalist, The New York Times
Muhtar Kent – Chairman and CEO, Coca Cola
Mike Morris – President and CEO, American Electric Power
Paul Polman – CEO, Unilever and Co-Chair, Consumer Goods Forum
James Rogers – Chairman, CEO, & President, Duke Energy Corp.
Arne Sorenson – President and CEO, Marriott International, Inc.
George Soros – Founder, Open Society Foundations
Rob Walton – Chairman of the Board, Walmart

* Participation via special video address