Her extensive global experience includes nearly 13 years working as an international correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Thomson Reuters media company, covering topics ranging from climate change and resilience to food insecurity and refugees and displacement. She is also a sought-after speaker and moderator on food, agriculture and climate change. Born and raised in Myanmar, Thin has lived and worked in Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, and most recently, Italy, and has reported from many parts of Asia, Africa and Europe.
Thin Lei Win
Thin Lei Win is an award-winning Italian based multimedia journalist specialising in food and climate issues for various international news media including through her own newsletter Thin Ink.
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Dhanush Dinesh
Dr Dhanush Dinesh is the Founder of Clim-Eat, a think and do tank to accelerate climate action in food systems, hosted by the Netherlands Food Partnership.
Han de Groot
Han de Groot is the current interim director of the Netherlands Food Partnership, NFP. Han is the former CEO of Rainforest Alliance. He led the merger with UTZ Certified, where, as Executive Director for eight years, he built the agricultural standard into the world’s largest sustainability program for coffee and cocoa.
Josephine Akia Luyimbazi
Josephine Akia Luyimbazi is the Country Coordinator of Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda, a national network of 65 like-minded organisations working together to promote Agroecology in Uganda.
David Klingen
Energised by his vision of a healthier planet, David spends his days reshaping our food industry’s unsustainable processes.
Lisette Ma Neza
Lisette Ma Neza is a slam poet, filmmaker and musician. She is known for her sharp pen, soft voice and Slam Poetry performances. Her performances balance between painfully direct and amorous naivety, and they often grab the audience by the throat.
Wouter Ubbink
Wouter is one of the two UN youth representatives on Biodiversity and Food. Wouter is fighting for a world where people live in balance with nature. To achieve the halting of biodiversity loss, we need to radically change the way we produce and consume food.
Lucas du Pré
Lucas works on the nexus between climate change, agriculture and food systems. He is part of the Dutch delegation to UNFCCC. He also works with the agricultural attachés of the Netherlands based in the embassies in the North of Africa.
Sarah Oey
Sarah is one of the youth representatives on sustainable development from The Netherlands. From the beginning of her mandate, she wants to raise awareness on air pollution in The Netherlands and abroad because air pollution dangers human & animal well-being and endangers the biodiversity.
Rebecca Sarku
Rebecca Sarku, PhD, is a researcher and consultant tackling poverty, food insecurity, and environmental challenges and delivers innovative and multidisciplinary result-oriented solutions in complex and marginalised communities.
Dominique Xavio Imbabazi
Dominique Xavio Imbabazi is the Founder & Managing Director of Golden Insect LTD.
Martijn Noort
Martijn works as project manager and scientist for Wageningen Food & Biobased Research. He is coordinator for the LEAP Agri NUTRIFOODS project which is an African-European collaboration to develop bread products based on African climate resilient crops.
Marion Janse
Marion is Policy Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She works on Food and Nutrition Security to contribute to SDG2 - Zero Hunger with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa.Speakers | World Food Day Event
Lynn Zebeda
Lynn Zebeda has diverse experience in the fields of sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and systems change, and when she is not working on initiatives herself, she enjoys questioning others about them as a moderator.