Vienna Eleuteri is a Sustainability Scientist and Development Anthropologist specializing in regenerative development across marine and coastal sectors. She has led international projects on sustainable development, food security, climate resilience, and pollution, working with governments and communities to implement adaptive technologies.
Vienna is the founder of the Waterevolution model, a science-based platform to reduce environmental impact and mobilize structural funding for marine conservation. Her work supports implementation of the Paris Agreement and SDGs, with particular focus on ocean-related NDCs.
She serves as Vice-President of the Water Revolution Foundation and Senior Advisor to the CEO of the Saudi Red Sea Authority, helping integrate sustainability into governance frameworks aligned with Vision 2030.
As architect of Ocean Assist, Vienna has developed a pioneering climate contribution model that enables the private sector to directly support ocean regeneration, biodiversity protection, and blue food systems—bridging science, innovation, and policy for a regenerative ocean economy.
Ms Angela Paolini Ellard has served as WTO Deputy Director-General since June 2021. She is responsible for dispute settlement/reform, trade remedies, market access/trade facilitation, and ongoing negotiations on fisheries subsidies. She supervised the Secretariat's facilitation of the successful conclusion of the 2012 Fisheries Subsidies Agreement. She also oversees the WTO budget.
Previously, DDG Ellard had a distinguished 26-year career as Majority and Minority Chief Trade Counsel in the United States Congress. She achieved significant bipartisan trade policy outcomes with Congressional leaders and five Presidential administrations. She practiced law, focusing on trade litigation, policy, and legislation.
She is renowned for her expertise in trade and international economic policy, resolving trade barriers, and negotiating outcomes. She earned her J.D. cum laude/Tulane Law School, M.A. in Public Policy/Tulane, and B.A. summa cum laude/Tulane's Newcomb College.
She speaks and lectures worldwide and has received numerous awards for her contributions to trade law and policy.
Mark Elliott is Programme Director at CivTech®, the world’s first public-sector accelerator, driving daring and innovation in the Scottish public sector by collaboratively solving challenges to make people’s lives better.
Mark has a long and successful track record at the highest levels of the digital and creative industries, as a creative practitioner, as a business lead, and as an economic development strategist. A filmmaker by training, Mark Mark is also developing a potentially huge worldwide children’s entertainment franchise, a future-based action-adventure story universe with soccer, the world’s most popular sport, at its heart.
Bodo Ellmers is currently Managing Director and Director of the Financing for Development and International Financial Architecture Programme at Global Policy Forum Europe. He represents the organization in several international NGO networks, and is recognized for his expertise on reform processes at the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Before joining Global Policy Forum Europe, he worked for the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) in Brussels for eleven years, most recently as Head of Policy. During this period, he participated in UNCTAD expert groups, represented civil society organizations in the OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, coordinated advocacy at the International Monetary Fund and advised the UN General Assembly on debt crisis resolution.
Earlier in his career, he served as Policy Advisor for the German branch of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and worked as a consultant for the UN Millennium Campaign, VENRO, CONCORD and WEED.
He holds degrees in economics and political science from the Free University of Berlin.
Mr James Ellsmoor is a writer, entrepreneur and sustainability expert.
He is co-founder and CEO of Island Innovation, a social enterprise and digital media company which runs the Virtual Island Summit, promoting cross-sector collaboration and the sharing of best practice in sustainable development.
He is co-founder and Director of Solar Head of State, an international non-profit which works with governments across the Caribbean and Pacific Islands raising awareness of renewable energy.
Ahmed Elshazly is Senior Economic Researcher equipped with extensive experience in Maritime transportation economics (about 12 years); I am working on developing marketing and pricing policies to attract more vessels on different routes to transit the Suez Canal.
Education
Bachelor of Economics, Faculty of Economic & Political Science , Cairo University at 2010
Master of Economics in ""The impact of Suez Canal's development projects on the world Seaborne Trade ", Suez Canal University, 2018
PhD Researcher in Economics – Benha University 2022 till now.
A BBC-trained journalist and broadcaster, Damon Embling has 25 years of professional media and communications experience.
He has worked as a TV correspondent and presenter, video journalist, radio reporter and digital content producer in the UK and globally for a range of media outlets, including BBC News, BBC World News, Euronews and The Associated Press Television News (APTN), among others.
Mr. Embling currently divides his time between producing TV programmes and leading Headline Media UK, a company specialising in spokesperson media training, communications consultancy and video production.
He also moderates debates and discussions, both online and at international conferences/events.
Shareefa Energy is a Spoken Word Artist, a poet, activist and author of Galaxy Walk.
She is a creative writing workshop practitioner. Her poetry is raw, honest and consistent against injustice. Witnessing her performing has been described as an almost religious experience. She was awarded the UK Entertainment Best Poet 2017 Award and a nominee for the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre 2019 award by the Arts Council. Her poetry has featured on BBC The One Show, Channel 4 and ITV.
Dominik has turned his passion for fostering development and fighting climate change into his profession. In his efforts to decarbonize the global economy, he has worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. since 2015. Leading the World Bank’s mariTEAM in the Transport Global Practice, the senior economist’s main interests are in sustainable shipping and ports.
While his focus is on decarbonizing maritime transport, he also contributes to the World Bank’s increasing engagement in addressing the shipping sector’s digitalization and supply chain challenges in developing countries.
From 2015-2020, Dominik was part of the World Bank’s Climate Change Group working primarily on carbon pricing policymaking around the globe. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dominik was a senior advisor for First Climate, a private consultancy based in Zurich.
He oversaw the carbon compliance management for large industrials, advised public institutions on climate policy and traded CO2 allowances in the EU and Swiss emissions trading systems.
Dominik holds master’s degrees in Finance & Strategy (Sciences Po, Paris), International Affairs & Governance (University of St. Gallen) and International Management (Community of European Management Schools, St. Gallen and Barcelona).
Mr. Pha Engveng is a Deputy Director General for the General Department of Customs and Excise, the lead secretariat of the National Single Window Steering Committee and the Customs Automation Team.
He has more than 32 years of experience in trade facilitation, particularly Customs Reforms and Modernization. He has supported the implementation of the Automated System on Customs Data (ASYCUDA), the Cambodia National Single Window, ASEAN Single Window in Cambodia, and other Customs Automation Systems.
He plays an important role in trade facilitations and logistics in Cambodia with ICT solutions.