Eva Mudde is the SDG Impact Manager at the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI). She coordinates the development of innovative programmes that implement sustainable change across the global seafood sector and currently spearheads the implementation of the Seafood MAP programme. As a collaboration-oriented person, she works closely with both public and private sector stakeholders to identify new collaboration opportunities that will accelerate the implementation of the SDGs by the global seafood sector and turn seafood into a driver for good to preserve oceans for future generations and drive forward more sustainable seafood.

Prior to joining GSSI, Eva conducted research at the UN FAO. She holds an MSc degree in Marine Biology from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Benjamin was confirmed as the Chief Underwriting Officer in July 2020, after acting in the capacity for just over a year. Prior to this, he was a Senior Underwriter. Benjamin has been involved in underwriting transactions across several sectors such as energy, mining, telecommunications, manufacturing, and infrastructure for a wide range of clients including banks, investors, and contractors. Between 2013 and 2015, he was based in Uganda and was responsible for ATI’s field offices in Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda.

Prior to joining ATI, Benjamin worked at the East African Development Bank. In his decade-long career at the Bank, he advanced to the position of Senior Project Officer working on various development projects.

Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering a Master of Science Degree in Construction Management from Makerere University as well as a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the East & Southern Africa Management Institute. He also has a post-graduate certificate in project planning and finance from Bradford University.

Basílio Zefanias Muhate is a Mozambican national who assumed office as Minister of Economy in January 2025.

Prior to his current appointment, he built a diverse professional career across several sectors, with notable experience in Economics, Trade, Accounting and Auditing, Marketing, Risk Management, Business Negotiation and Strategy,and Project Management. His expertise spans both public institutions and private enterprises, particularly in the areas of industrial production, consultancy, and financial auditing.

Throughout his career, he has held key leadership and advisory roles, including Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Executive Council, and Economic and Financial Advisor to the Board. He has also served as an Economic and Financial Consultant and Tutor in Economics, Trade, Risk Management, and Regulatory Studies.

Minister Muhate is an active member of several professional associations in Mozambique, where he has played an important role. These include the Mozambican Association of Economists (AMECON), the Mozambican Association of Young Bankers (AMJB), the National Union of Journalists (SNJ), and the Institute of Directors of Mozambique (IoDMz).

He holds a degree in Economics from Eduardo Mondlane University, and a certificate in Investment and Financingfrom the Center for Financial, Economic and Banking Studies (CEFEB).

Sergio Mujica is the Secretary-General of the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, a role he has held since 2017.

ISO brings together 174 national standards bodies to develop International Standards that support trade, innovation, sustainability, and health and safety worldwide. Under his leadership, ISO adopted its Strategy 2030, aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the vision of making lives easier, safer, and better.

Before joining ISO, Sergio served as Deputy Secretary-General of the World Customs Organization in Brussels, and earlier held several senior positions in the Government of Chile, including Director General of  Chile Customs.

He holds a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a master’s in international law from American University in Washington, D.C. A strong advocate for integrity, transparency, and gender equality, he is also a member of the International Gender Champions network.

In 2021, Sergio was reappointed to a second five-year term as ISO Secretary-General.

Ms Chenai Mukumba is currently the Policy Research and Advocacy Manager at Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA). 

Chenai is responsible for leading the policy unit in research coordination, policy engagement at regional and global levels and technical backstopping of TJNA's national-level advocacy. 

She has expertise in international trade and Africa economic governance, with experience in research coordination, policy advocacy and leadership development.

Before joining TJNA, Chenai served as the Director of the Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, Lusaka, a research and advocacy think tank with offices in Africa and Asia.

Gerd Müller, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as of 10 December 2021, has had various leadership positions from an early stage in his career. Between 1980 and 1989, he was a teacher at vocational schools and a civil servant at the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 1989 to 1994, he served as a Member of the European Parliament, during which time he was a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Between 1994 and 2021, he served as a Member of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, and as a member of the Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.

In 2005, he was appointed Deputy Minister at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, in charge of international relations, development projects and world food affairs.

In 2013, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, a position he held until 2021.

Gerd Müller has many years of experience in the fields of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and innovative agriculture. Key focus areas of his work are the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on climate change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Beijing Declaration on Gender Equality. Furthermore, he is a strong advocate of fair trade, and initiated legislation in Germany and the European Union on social and environmental standards along supply chains.

 Mr Müller joined the QFC Regulatory Authority in April 2012 as Director, Financial Analysis. He joined from the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) where, as Senior Executive: Standards, he influenced developments in international standard-setting and South African legislation and regulation. 

In October 2015, he was appointed as Director, Prudential Supervision (Banking and Asset Management) and Financial Analysis. In August 2016, he was appointed Managing Director, Supervision and Authorisation, with responsibility for banking, investment management, insurance, financial intermediaries, and anti-money laundering. He currently serves as an advisor on XBRL implementation at the Qatar Central Bank. 

Before his position with SAICA, Mr Müller held senior roles in financial management, regulation, financial analysis and investor relations, primarily in financial services. Mr Müller is a member of the Global Forum for Ethics and the Deputy Chair of the Regional Partnership to Promote Sustainability Reporting. He chaired the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards on Accounting and Reporting of UNCTAD in 2014, and was previously Chairman of XBRL SA and a member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance, the Audit Committee Forum and the Corporate Governance Network of the Institute of Directors SA, and Qatar’s Financial Stability and Risk Control Committee. Mr Müller has presented at various international conferences hosted by organisations such as the World Bank, the United Nations, and IFAC, and was also an anchor on business radio and television.
 

Thomas Müller-Marqués Berger, born in 1967, graduated as a Diplom-Kaufmann at the University of Mannheim in 1993, before he passed the tax advisor exam in 1997. In 1999 he passed the exam for the German Wirtschaftsprüfer (certified public accountant). He started working in 1993 and since 2003 as partner at EY. In 2004 he became director of the EY Center of Competence for Governmental Accounting in Germany. He served as director of Public Services in the region of Southwest Germany. Since 2009, he is the Global Head of International Public Sector Accounting and since 2012 Assurance Leader Government and Public Sector for EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa) within EY. From 2013 to 2015, he represented EY at the Global Public Sector Leaders (GPSL) Group at IFAC. Thomas has many years of experience in auditing and advising of public and municipal companies, non-profit organizations (clubs, associations and foundations) as well as globally and nationally acting industrial businesses. He is experienced in the audit of annual and consolidated financial statements of public and private enterprises according to German Commercial Code (HGB) and IFRS, the conversion of financial statements to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) as well as from cash-based accounting to accrual accounting for public sector entities. Since 2003, he has been a member of Public Sector Group of Accountancy Europe (ACE; former FEE) and has served as Chair since 2011. Thomas is also a member of the German Public Sector Committee with the IDW since 2002. He was a member of the IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) Public Sector Steering Committee on Social Policy Obligations in 2003/2004. From January 2009 until December 2014, he was a member of the IFAC IPSAS Board for which he was nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Germany (IDW) and the Chamber of Chartered Accountants (Wirtschaftsprüferkammer). From January 2016, Thomas was serving as inaugural Chairman of the new Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) to the IPSASB. Since June 2017, he is the first elected IPSASB CAG Chair. In 2010/2011, Thomas served as one of three members globally in the DAS Think Tank of the European Court of Auditors. He covered the area “Audit Methodology for the EC IPSAS Accounts”. Currently, he is the Representative of the Federation of European Accountants (FEE) at the European Commission Accounting Advisory Council (since 2013) as well as at the EUROSTAT EPSAS Task Forces, the EPSAS Working Group and its Cells (since 2012). Mr. Müller-Marqués Berger has intensively published on the subject of Public Sector Accounting. He is the author of “IPSAS explained” which was published in its 2nd edition in 2012. Finally, Thomas has provided presentations, speeches and training on International Public Sector Accounting in numerous countries globally. In November 2016, Thomas Müller-Marqués Berger was awarded “Honorary Membership” by The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA), UK, for his outstanding contributions to raising the standards of global public finance management.

Mr. Mulyana has a long experience in managing Indonesian capture fisheries sector. In his early carrier, Mr. Mulyana’s served as Head of Division Fishing Port Governance. Currently, Mr. Mulyana is serving as Director of Fish Resources Management. His role includes regulating fishing efforts and harvest control rules based on fish stock data, towards Maximum Sustainable Yield in each Indonesian Fisheries Management Area. Obtained a doctoral degree in capture fisheries management, he wrote several scientific articles, especially related to Fisheries Management System in the Arafura Sea.

Ana Cândida Muniz Cipriano, Legal Officer at UNCTAD, is a lawyer, expert in international cooperation and politics, holding an LLM in International and European Law from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), PhD candidate in Law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) Argentina. Member of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo section.