Pinuccia Contino is the Deputy to the Director for Consumers & Head of the Product Safety and Rapid Alert System unit in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST) of the European Commission.
In this capacity, she is responsible for the European Union's legislation on general product safety, including the brand new General Product Safety Regulation. Together with her dedicated team of product safety experts, she also supports dialogue and cooperation among the different product safety stakeholders and promotes product safety as a strategic priority on the global scene.
Pinuccia is Italian and holds a Master's degree in Political Sciences and International Relations. She is an Ambassador of Applied Compassion certified by Stanford University.
Dr. Claudia Contreras joined UNCTAD in 2013.
Since 2020, she is an Economic Affairs Officer at the Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development Branch. Her work is focused on the interlinkages between climate change, environment, and trade and development.
Formerly, Claudia was a member of the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), and worked for the Chilean government on science, technology, and innovation policy.
Claudia holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Chile and graduated with an MSc in Management Research and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Oxford.
Dr. Harry T. Conway is the Chair of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization. He was Vice Chair for five years before ascending to the chair's position in December 2022.
He chaired the 78th and 79th sessions of the MEPC in the absence of the Chair. It was under his leadership during MEPC 80 that the IMO 2023 GHG Strategy was unanimously adopted by Member States. He has also chaired several steering committees of the MEPC, including that for the Comprehensive Impact Assessment on States of IMO GHG Short-Term Measures and the IMO 4th Greenhouse Gas Study.
Dr. Conway has been part of the Liberia delegation to IMO meetings since 2006, and participates actively in all Working, Drafting, Correspondence and Intersessional Groups of the Committees and Subcommittees of the IMO. He is a member of the International Quality Assessment Review Body (IQARB).
David Cooper is the Acting Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Prior to his appointment, David was the Deputy Executive Secretary at the CBD Secretariat where he assisted the Executive Secretary by leading the strategic and planning activities of the Secretariat, as well as the intergovernmental processes and activities under the Convention and its Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols.
David has more than 30 years of experience in environmental and agricultural science and policy, and international negotiations. As Secretary of the fifteenth meeting of the CBD Conference of the Parties (COP 15), David was instrumental in facilitating the complex pathway that led to the successful finalisation and adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and other key decisions.
Before joining the CBD Secretariat, David worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, for the non-governmental organisation Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN), the United Nations Association (UK) and in the Agricultural Research Council of the United Kingdom.
David was a lead author for the third, fourth and fifth editions of the Global Biodiversity Outlook, the Convention’s flagship publication. He has also contributed to various assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and was a lead author for the Biodiversity Synthesis of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
He holds an MA in Agricultural and Forest Sciences and a DPhil in Plant Physiology, both from the University of Oxford.
Santiago Cornejo has been the Executive Manager for PAHO's Regional Revolving Funds since 2022.
Before joining PAHO, he held several positions in the Gavi Alliance. At Gavi, he led the development of the COVAX Facility, Gavi's Co-financing, Transition, and Eligibility, the Transparency and Accountability policies, and Gavi's Middle-Income Countries Strategy. Santiago also served as Senior Portfolio Manager for Latin America and Lusophone countries and as acting Director for Country Grants and Renewals, overseeing Gavi's review process for country proposals, monitoring progress, and renewal of support.
Santiago has over 20 years of experience. He started his career in 1999 with PAHO and has held roles with WHO, the Vaccine Fund, and the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Regina Cornish is a Policy Officer at the Financial Services Strand of the Prosperity Program at the British Embassy in Mexico where she promotes poverty reduction and gender equality. Over the past five years Regina has designed public policy and implemented diverse development programs.
Regina is the Mexico Youth Action Hub Coordinator and aims to create an inclusive and sustainable ecosystem for young people. Before, she worked at the Ministry of Economy where she focused on financial inclusion and education. She was also part of the Mexican Mission in Geneva for the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. She has represented Mexican youth in diverse international conferences including UNCTAD14, World Youth Forum, ECOSOC Youth Forum, among others.
Her passion for development led her to do field work in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Jamaica. Regina is a Master's candidate for Human Rights and Constitutional Law at la Universidad Panamericana; she graduated cum lauder for Government and International Relations at Lawrence University.
Dr. Carlos María Correa of Argentina has been Executive Director of the South Centre, an intergovernmental organization based in Geneva, since 1 July 2018.
Prior to this, he was the Special Advisor on Trade and Intellectual Property of the South Centre. Dr. Correa is a renowned international authority on intellectual property and technology issues.
Professor Correa has worked with the Argentine government and has been the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics (CEIDIE) at the Law Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires. He was a member of the UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health established by the World Health Assembly and of the FAO Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture.
He has been a visiting professor in post-graduate courses of several universities and consultant to various regional and international organizations. He has advised several governments on intellectual property, innovation policy and public health. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.
Professor Correa is both a lawyer and economist from the University of Buenos Aires and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Buenos Aires.
Mr. André Corrêa do Lago is the designated president of COP30, the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will be held in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025.
He is a veteran Brazilian diplomat and the current Secretary for Climate, Energy and Environment at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As a career diplomat, he has held functions in different areas at headquarters, in Brasília: international organizations, trade promotion, protocol and energy. As adviser at the Office of the President, between 1991 and 1992, he worked in the organization of the Earth Summit (Rio-92).
Abroad, he has been posted to the Brazilian Embassies in Madrid, in Prague, in Washington, in Buenos Aires and to the Brazilian Mission to the EU in Brussels.
He has a degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Ms. Lucia Marlene Correa Godoy was appointed Head of the External Public Debt Records Department at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Paraguay in 2022.
Prior to that, she was Head of the Project Management and Control Department from 2015 to 2022.
Ms. Correa Godoy has has worked in the General Directorate of Credit and Public Debt of the Ministry of Economy and Finance since 2008. She has Master's degree in Government and Public Management.