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Ukraine Green Recovery Conference - Opportunities for sustainable reconstruction

Explore below the moderators and speakers participating in the sessions scheduled for November 29th. 

Session 1 "Opportunities for green recovery offered by the EU"

Pavlos
Pavlos Doikos

Deputy General Coordinator, ELMEN EEIG, LIFE Programme External Monitoring Team

Moderator

Jean Claude Merciol
Jean-Claude Merciol

Jean-Claude Merciol, Advisor in Directorate for Policy, Coordination, LIFE Governance and Resources, Directorate General for Environment, European Commission.

RosalindeVanderVlies
Roselinde van der Vlies

Director Clean Planet, Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission

Session 2 “Addressing key needs of Ukrainian municipalities”

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Oksana Kysil

Covenant of Mayors East, Ukraine

Moderator

Mena Mayor Prymakov
Gennadiy Prymakov

Mayor of Mena community

Rubel Nosivka
Nataliia Rubel

Vice-Mayor Nosivka community

AndriyPortniySosnytsya
Andrii Portnyi

Mayor of Sosnytsya

MedvediovSnovsk
Oleksander Medvedov

Mayor of Snovsk

Sakaliuk
Dmytro Sakaliuk

Expert of STARTER project

Session 3 “Planning for the future of cities”

BenDelbaere
Ben Delbaere

Independent ecologist. LIFE Technical Monitor with ELMEN and acts as moderator and facilitator at LIFE events.

Moderator

ZuzanaHudekova
Zuzana Hudekova

Landscape Architect with a PhD in urban planning, with over 20 years’ experience in implementing projects in the environmental field and climate

Sarah Miller
Sarah Miller

CEO, Rediscovery Centre

JohanVerlinde
Johan Verlinde

Programme Manager of the climate adaptation programme, Rotterdam WeatherWise

KatarzynaJankowska
Katarzyna Jankowska

Main Specialist in Radom City Hall, Department of EU Funds and Strategy. She was Administrative Coordinator of LIFERadomKlima-PL

TanelMatlik
Tanel Mätlik

Project Manager at Viimsi Municipality, managing several climate change adaptation projects, incl. LIFE UrbanStorm and LIFE LATESTadapt

CinziaDavoli
Cinzia Davoli

Architect, Head of the Sustainable Development and Decision Support Systems Service in the Environment and Land Protection Area of the Metropolitan City of Milan.

Session 4 “Sustainable buildings for the future”

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Lynne Barrat

Independent environmental and conservation specialist. She is a LIFE Technical Monitor with ELMEN and acts as a moderator and facilitator at LIFE.

Moderator

LaraMendez
Lara Méndez

Mayor of Lugo since 2015, a city at the forefront of Europe in implementing sustainable policies in the field of local urban.

EddyDeRuwe
Eddy Deruwe

LIFE IP BE REEL! coordinator at the Flemish Energy and Climate Agency and is an expert in sustainability in the built environment.

MonicaRuizRosoLuna
Mónica Ruiz Roso

Architect working for the Regional Government of Extremadura specialising in the eco-efficient rehabilitation of buildings and neighbourhoods

Lidia Lopez
Lidia Lopez

General secretary for Housing, Architecture and Urban regeneration in the regional Government of Extremadura

Eleonora Paris
Eleonora Paris

Professor at University of Camerino (Italy) and was the project manager of the LIFE EcoTILES project.

AndreasSedlmayr
Andreas Sedlmayr

Co-founder and CEO of instagrid, a company reinventing portable power by replacing combustion generators with more sustainable, high-performance battery systems.

PaulVanRoosmalen
Paul van Roosmalen

Programme manager for the Department of Sustainability at the Municipality of Rotterdam in the Netherlands with responsibility for the urban rooftops programme.

Session 5 “Green recovery in the wider EU approximation process”

Svitlana Berzina
Svitlana Berzina

Head of the Public Council of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Recourses of Ukraine, the President of the All-Ukrainian NGO Living Planet, expert in the field of environmental management, coordinator of the Working group of National Technical Committee for Standardization TC 82 "Environmental Protection". 

OlegBondarenko
Oleg Bondarenko

Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

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Mykola Tkachenko

Director of Prozorro, Ukraine’s online public procurement platform

Policy segment closure

Wopke Hoekstra, European Commissioner for Climate Action
Wopke Hoekstra

European Commissioner for Climate Action

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Florika Fink-Hooijer

Director-General of DG Environment of the European Commission