Speaker
Prof Dr Dirk Messner became the President of the German Environment Agency on 1 January 2020. He is an internationally recognized expert on global governance, transformation pathways to sustainability, decarbonization of the global economy, sustainability and digital change, and international cooperation and societal change. Messner was Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn and Co-Chairman of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
Dr Roland Fornika (FECCIA) is a Head of Technology Management - Operational Efficiency, Röhm AG and President of the European Federation of Managerial Staff in the Chemical and Allied Industries (FECCIA)
Florian Schöne (Managing Director of the German League for Nature and Environment DNR) studied Physical Geography and Soil Science at the University of Trier. After completing his studies, he worked in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment in Brussels and, until 2001, as a freelancer for the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) in London. From late 1997 until 2015, he worked for NABU/BirdLife Germany in the areas of agricultural policy, bioenergy and nature conservation. Since early 2016, he has been Managing Director of DNR, an umbrella organisation representing around 100 organisations in the fields of animal welfare, nature conservation and environmental protection.
