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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”

  • Kysil1
    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”

  • Lynne1
    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.

  • Mykola1
    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

  • Florika_Fink-Hooijer
    Florika Fink-Hooijer

    Director-General of DG Environment of the European Commission