Gari Renso Pascual Cucho has extensive experience in climate change, water resources and environmental management. He was coordinator at the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI), where he led the adaptation and mitigation policies aligned to Peru’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). He also worked at the National Institute for Water (ANA) as a specialist in discharge management, was an environmental consultant and headed the directorate of student affairs at UCV Piura.
Susana Muhamad is former minister of environment and sustainable development of Colombia. She was the president of the Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16). She is an environmentalist, activist and politician committed to biodiversity protection, climate justice and territorial transformation. In 2024 Susana Muhamad was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential leaders driving business to real climate action.
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Fany Kuiru Castro
General Coordinator
Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA)
Fany Kuiru Castro is an Indigenous leader of the Uitoto people, Jitomagaro clan, from the Predio Putumayo territory in Colombia’s Amazon. She is a lawyer, political advisor and the first woman to serve as general coordinator of COICA, which represents 511 Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin. Fany has led key initiatives in defense of Indigenous rights, land and climate justice, bridging ancestral knowledge with international advocacy. Under her leadership, the first Indigenous Economy Fund was launched in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Her voice amplifies the struggles, visions and dignity of Amazonian women and nations.
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Nicoletta Favaretto
Project Manager
Enabel, the Belgian Agency for International Cooperation
Nicoletta leads the Business Lab of the EU Circular Economy Resource Centre (EU CERC) at Enabel. Prior to joining Enabel, she worked as a senior project officer at Eurochambres, the Association of European chambers of commerce and industry. In this role, she was involved in the implementation of EU-funded economic cooperation programmes with Latin America and West Africa, supporting business organisations and SMEs in both Europe and partner regions. Her work focused on key areas including private sector development, internationalisation and intellectual property, and circular economy topics—further strengthening her expertise in sustainable business practices.
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Vithor Baron Geronimo
Student
Brazilian National Industrial Learning Service (SENAI-SP)
Jamie is responsible for IFC’s climate strategy and policies, targetting to make all investments Paris-aligned and 45% of its investments climate positive. Jamie joined the corporation in 2005 and has led and contributed to innovation and new business growth across IFC’s investment, advisory and support operations. Prior roles include chief investment officer leading IFC’s global renewable energy investment practice, director of environmental and social risk and policy, and director of strategic business development. Jamie has a BA and MA in zoology from Cambridge University, UK, and an MBA and a master’s in environmental economics and policy from Yale University, USA.
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Bernard Crabbé
Head of Sector Environment & Circular economy
European Commission
Bernard Crabbé leads the work on circular economy, environment mainstreaming and natural resources at the Directorate General for International Partnerships. A bio-engineer by training, with a specialisation in tropical agronomy and environment, Bernard has worked for more than 25 years on international cooperation, including 17 years as project manager in Mali, Laos, Madagascar, Ecuador and Uganda. He has worked successively for the United Nations, as an adviser for the Belgian secretary of state for development cooperation, as counsellor for the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, since 2008, for the European Commission.
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Manisha Anantharaman
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (Sciences Po)
Manisha Anantharaman is an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Environment and Society Centre. Her critical and interdisciplinary research explores inequality and justice in sustainable transitions. She has published two books connecting environmental justice, sustainability and development, “Recycling Class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability” (MIT Press, 2024) and a co-edited the volume “The Circular Economy and the Global South” (Routledge, UK, 2019). Manisha holds a PhD from the University of California Berkeley’s department of environmental science policy and management.
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Anis Nassar
Lead, Resource Circularity
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Anis is an economist with a specialisation in resource economics and behavioural economics. He leads the portfolio of activities on the circular economy of the World Economic Forum.
