Indra Mani Pandey is Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organisations in Switzerland. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1990. Ambassador Pandey served as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs in-charge of the Disarmament and, International Security Affairs Division before joining as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva in September 2020. 

Earlier, Ambassador Pandey had served as Ambassador of India to the Sultanate of Oman. Before Muscat, he had served as Deputy Ambassador of India to France and Consul General of India at Guangzhou (China). Ambassador Pandey has served in various capacities at Indian Missions in Cairo (Egypt), Damascus (Syria), Islamabad (Pakistan), Kabul (Afghanistan) and Permanent Mission of India to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (Switzerland).

During his previous stints at the Headquarters in New Delhi, Ambassador Pandey has handled assignments in West Asia North Africa Division; Consular, Passport and Visa Division; Counter Terrorism Cell; Americas Division; Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Myanmar (BSM) Division. During 1998-99, Ambassador Pandey attended Foreign Service Programme at Oxford University. In 2009, he attended the 49th Course on National Security and Strategy, conducted by National Defence College, New Delhi. 

John Manners-Bell is a highly experienced author, speaker and thought leader with a career spanning research, operations, strategy and marketing within the global supply chain industry.

He is Founder and CEO of consultancy Ti Insight which since 2002 has provided market intelligence to a range of blue chip customers and governmental organisations.

In 2021 he founded the Foundation for Future Supply Chain dedicated to improving the understanding of sustainability, risk, innovation, ethics and public policy in the industry. John was formerly Chair of the Logistics and Supply Chain Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and an Honourable Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University.

He has authored six books, most recently 'The Death of Globalization', and the award winning 'Supply Chain Risk Management' now in its fourth edition.

Dr. Filimon Manoni is Deputy Secretary General at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. He also held the position of International Legal Adviser at the Forum Secretariat from December 2018 and was responsible for providing legal policy advice and analysis in areas such as Oceans governance, nuclear issues and other regional issues at the Forum Secretariat.

Dr. Manoni served as the Attorney General for the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Prior to that, Dr. Manoni also served as a Legal Adviser at the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).

Dr. Manoni holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from the University of Papua New Guinea, a Masters in Law (LLM) in International Maritime Law from the International Maritime Law Institute at the University of Malta, and a Doctorate in Oceans Resources & Security, from the Australian National Centre for Oceans Resources and Security (ANCORS) University of Wollongong in NSW, Australia.

With more than thirty years of experience working for sustainability, Gustavo Miranda is Ecuador’s current Minister of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition.

During his time in office, he has executed the declaration of a New Marine Reserve in the Galapagos Islands, adding 60,000 km² to the conservation area. He led the Conference on Marine Pollution in Geneva along with Germany, Ghana and Vietnam, where other 140 countries also participated. He has added 138 thousand hectares to Ecuador’s National System of Protected Areas and promoted the Ecological Transition of the country across various Government sectors by signing the Transition Pact towards Decarbonization.

These efforts have been achieved under the leadership of Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso.

Iain Mansfield is Head of Public Sector at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), where he is responsible for developing and delivering ACCA’s global public sector strategy. This includes positioning ACCA as the partner of choice for public sector organisations, collaborating closely with teams across ACCA and helping shape regional and global public sector initiatives across the world. Iain is a former senior civil servant and has lengthy experience in central government, working in the UK Departments for Business, Innovation and Skills, Department for Education and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He worked for some years in the Philippines as Director of UK Trade & Investment, Manila. He holds a first class honours degree from Cambridge University. Most recently he was responsible for designing the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), a flagship UK government policy to ensure the highest levels of excellence in the UK higher education system. He was also responsible for the oversight of the quality assurance system and for student choice in English higher education.

Carlson Manuel is the Minister Plenipotentiary of Curaçao, representing the Government of Curaçao in the Netherlands and internationally. Since 2021, he has advanced Curaçao’s economic diplomacy agenda by fostering partnerships that promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development.

He led the positioning of Curaçao as a hydrogen and renewable energy hub through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Netherlands, and created the Curaçao Experience: Ambassador Edition, which brought 26 ambassadors representing their countries in The Hague, to the island to explore opportunities in trade, investment, and entrepreneurship.

A strong advocate for empowerment and inclusion, he also initiated measures that facilitate student integration and strengthen Curaçaoan communities abroad. With a background in business management, IT, and music, Minister Manuel blends creativity and strategy to position Curaçao as a bridge for innovation and entrepreneurial collaboration between the Caribbean, Europe, and the world.

Trevor Manuel was the Minister of Finance in South Africa from 1996 to 2009, serving under three presidents. Prior to this, he was the first post-apartheid Minister of Trade and Industry from 1994 to 1996.

He is a member of the Prominent Expert Group appointed by the United Nations Secretary General for the FfD4 process.

Natalia Manuilova is a Senior Financial Management Specialist with the World Bank’s Center for Corporate Financial Reporting Reform (CFRR). She joined CFRR in 2013, and is responsible for moving forward the audit and corporate financial reporting agenda in Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic. Ms. Manuilova is also responsible for working on improving financial accountability and transparency of state owned enterprises in Europe and Central Asia region. Natalie has 16 years of experience working in financial markets across ECA region and the United States. Prior to joining the CFRR team, Ms. Manuilova spent six years with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Ukraine, processing investments with private sector financial institutions across ECA region and supervising IFC’s portfolio in Ukraine and Georgia. Before IFC, Ms. Manuilova had worked for Deloitte in Kyiv,Ukraine and in New York, USA, as an Audit Manager serving clients in Financial Services Group.

Oliver Maponga is an Economic Affairs Officer based at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa in Lusaka, Zambia. He has extensive experience in the minerals sector and has supported regional member States on policy development in the sector. He was part of the ECA team which anchored the development of the Africa Mining Vision and is actively involved in the continental approach to critical energy transition minerals exploitation. His current work also focuses on supporting inclusive industrialization in Southern Africa through industrial policy development and implementation, the development of regional value chains, strengthening regional economic integration, supporting the establishment of resource-based national and transboundary special economic zones and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement by regional member States. Oliver holds a PhD in Mineral economics and has held research and teaching posts at the Western Australian School of Mines and the University of Zimbabwe’s Institute of Mining Research (IMR). While with IMR, Oliver was part of a team of mineral experts supporting analytical work in the sector and his special focus was on artisanal and small-scale mining, mineral economics, mining investment, socio-economic and environmental assessment of mining activities. He is a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe, McGill University (Canada) and the Western Australian School of Mines at Curtin University of Technology (Australia).