Speakers 2023

Senior Adviser, Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt of India

Senior Advisor for Regulatory Affairs in the Office of the Secretary at USDA

Senior Director, Biotechnology & Analysis, dsm-firmenich

Commissioner, State of Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry

Natural Resources Deputy, Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Director, Natural Resource Markets & Economic Development, Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry

Corporate Strategy & Business Development, DMC Biotechnologies

Research Manager at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

Executive Director, Government & Industry Affairs at American Forest & Paper Association

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Genera Energy Inc.

Agricultural Inspector, Research Division, Bioeconomy, Agriculture Knowledge & Innovation Systems

Senior Advisor in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology

SVP, Head of Innovation Biomaterials, Stora Enso

Regional Managing Director for Latin America, The Nature Concervancy 

Biodiversity & Natural Capital Specialist, Inter America Development Bank (IADB)

Principal Consultant, Biobased Markets, Market-Intell LLC

Permanent secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment

Senior Environmental Finance Specialist at World Bank Group

Executive Director, Engineering Biology Research Consortium, Engineering Biology Research Consortium

Senior Director, Public Impact, Ginkgo Bioworks

VP, Public Affairs at UPM

Senior Fellow, Federation of American Scientists

Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Program Scientist on the BioFutures Program, Schmidt Futures

Global Sector Lead, Forest and Wood Products, Manufacturing Agribusiness & Services Department, International Finance Corporation

Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of Finland in Washington DC

Agricultural Counsellor at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America

Ambassador of Finland to the United States

Environment Team Lead, Head of Environment and Social Management Unit, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) at FAO

Manager of the Clean Energy Ministerial Biofuture Campaign

Co-Chair of the International Advisory Council on Global Bioeconomy (IACGB)

Board member, World Bioeconomy Forum

Professor at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)