Institution: United Nations Environment Programme
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of the Philippines
- University of Exeter
- Université de Sousse
- University of California - San Francisco
- University of Delaware
- University of California - Irvine
- University of Gothenburg
- UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
- UNU-CRIS
- United Nations Development Programme
- UNESCO
- United Nations
- Università di Macerata
- United Technologies Research Center
- University of Wollongong
- University of Queensland
- University of Victoria
- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
- UN-Habitat
- UNU-WIDER
- University of Oxford
- Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro)
- UNICEF
- Università degli Studi di Tuscia
- UN Statistics Division
- Università degli Studi di Siena
- UNESCO Global Network of Facilitators
- United Cities and Local Governments
- UNESCO Information for All Programme
- Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
- University of Jordan
- University of South Africa
- University of Cape Town
- University of Antwerp
- Unilever
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- National Disaster Management Authority (India)
- National Wildlife Federation
- New School
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Natural Resource Governance Institute
- Northumbria University
- National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage Sciences of Morocco
- New York University
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- FAS - Fundação Amazonas Sustentável (Amazonas Sustainable Foundation)
- Former UN Secretary-General
- Federal Government of Chile
- Federal Government of Ghana
- Federal Government of the United States of America
- Foundation for the Global Compact
- Former President of Colombia
- Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
- Former Prime Minister of Norway
- Fundação Getulio Vargas
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- African Center for Cities
- Ahmedabad University
- Academy of Korean Studies
- Association of Caribbean Energy Specialists
- All India Institutes of Medical Sciences
- Athens University of Economics and Business
- American University
- Alliance for Global Water Adaptation
- Ain Shams University
- Australian Resilience Centre
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- IHE Delft
- International Institute for Environmental Development
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature
- India Federation of Self Employed Women's Association
- International Labour Organization
- International Monetary Fund
- Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI)
- Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD)
- International Ocean Institute
- International Fertilizer Association
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations
- Indian Institute for Human Settlements
- International Civil Society Action Network
- International Telecommunication Union
- ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
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Xinyue Gu
Xinyue Gu is a communications professional with an academic background in journalism and communications. She is currently based at UNEP’s Disasters and Conflicts Programme as communications lead to support amplifying visibility of environmental topics related to disasters and conflicts, including natural resources, women, peace and climate.
Prior to joining the United Nations, she gained experience with digital marketing in Hong Kong and mainland China. She was also a reporter and editor for Varsity magazine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Xinyue is also a gender advocate who holds an M.Phil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies. Her research interests lie in gender and media, queer migration, and gender norms in contemporary China. She is currently volunteering at Beijing LGBT Centre where she supports the Executive Office’s communications to advocate rights of sexual and gender minorities in China.

Mikhail Fernandes
Mikhail Fernandes is an environmental advocate who holds an MSc in Local Development.
Mikhail is currently based at UNEP’s Disasters and Conflicts Programme, supporting the promotion and implementation of Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) for the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR).
He began his environmental work researching indigenous environmental practices while leading community-based forest conservation initiatives in Southern India, then moved to the United States, where Mikhail supported native prairie restoration projects, and the expansion of farm-to-fork initiatives in rural Indiana. As part of his peacebuilding and outreach work, Mikhail has advocated for utilizing education as a tool for empowering marginalized youth populations across gang-inflected communities, especially in South Africa. Mikhail has also supported the development and implementation of permaculture practices in Ubud, Indonesia.

Nathalie Doswald
Nathalie Doswald has been working for over a decade in international nature conservation, providing technical expertise and research to inform policy and decision-making processes. She holds a PhD in Ecology, specializing in impacts of climate change on biodiversity.
She now works to support the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Disasters and Conflicts Program, to up-scale Ecosystem-based
Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) to increase peoples’ resilience to disaster and climate impacts.
Prior to that, she was a Programme Officer at UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Center, she became one of the leading experts on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), helping to further develop the concept of EbA, collating several case studies and undertook a systematic review of the effectiveness of EbA.

David Jensen
David Jensen has over 15 years of experience in assessing and addressing natural resources, conflict and peacebuilding. He has worked for UN Environment as a senior expert on a range of different crisis responses operation including the Balkans, Iraq, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire. Since 2008, David has managed UN Environment’s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding programme. In 2015, David’s programme teamed up with the World Bank to develop the MAP-X Partnership. A Canadian national from Victoria, British Columbia, David began his career with the Canadian government at the federal, provincial and district levels. His initial work focused on sustainable forest management and land use planning (Environment Canada, British Columbia Ministry of Forests) as well as on the negotiation of land claims with First Nations (British Columbia Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs). Jensen holds a MSc in Biology from Oxford University (UK) and an undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Victoria (Canada).

Silja Halle
Silja Halle is a Programme Officer with UN Environment Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch. Read more about her work here: https://www.unenvironment.org/people/silja-halle.