Armindo de Brito Fernandes

Director-General, Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP)

Bongiwe Njobe

Board Chairperson of FARA and Chairperson of Perishable Products Exports Certification Agency, South Africa

Carmen Neto

Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Angola

Jeffrey Sachs

President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

Luís Ferreira

Rector of the University of Lisbon

Maria da Graça Carvalho

Minister of the Environment and Energy, Portugal

Paulo Rangel

Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Portugal

Ravi Khetarpal

Executive Secretary of Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions; Chair of the Global Forum on Agriculture Research and Innovation

Ubiraci Pataxó

Master of Knowledge and President of the Korihé Institute

Ahmed Zaky

Chief Executive Officer at Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr; Medical Doctor specialized in Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Arjun Appadurai

Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and a Permanent Visiting Professor at Humboldt University

Cecília Rodrigues

University of Lisbon

Damian Ihedioha

African Development Bank

David Simon

Professor of Development Geography, University of London, United Kingdom and IPCC AR7 Climate Change and Cities Special Report Scoping Team

Florbela Paraíba

President of Camões I.P

Francesco Billari

Rector of Bocconi University and professor of Demography in the Department of Social and Political Sciences

Inês Macamo Raimundo

Geography Professor and Researcher in African Migrations and urbanization; Centre for Policy Analysis at Eduardo Mondlane University

Jens-Christian Svenning

Aarhus University, Director of the Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere

Karen Montiel

Technical specialist, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

Marcelo Urbano Ferreira

Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Palesa Sekhejane

Director of the Strategic Partnerships Unit of the Human Sciences Research Council

Patrícia Morellato

Professor at UNESP and the Director of the São Paulo State University, supported by FAPESP; Associate Editor of the journals Flora and Global Ecology and Biogeography

Peyi Soyinka-Airewele

Chairperson, TC Human Rights Commission/Politics Dept, Ithaca College

Sammy Aggrey

Professor in Genetics and Genomics at the University of Georgia; Richard B. Russell Endowed Chair and Professor at the Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens GA

Sylvain Perret

Director of Agrinatura