COP31 Business Forum

Summit speakers

The speakers and moderators of the COP31 Business Forum, 12–13 November 2026, with their roles and sessions. Biographies appear on each card as they are provided.

M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu

Chair, COP31 Business Forum, President, TOBB

Murat Kurum

Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change; COP31 President, Republic of Türkiye

Cevdet Yılmaz

Vice President, Republic of Türkiye

Ajay Banga

President, World Bank Group

Carlos Torres Vila

Chairman, BBVA

Lord Sadiq Khan

Mayor of London

Peter Bakker

President and CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Harsh Pati Singhania

Chair, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Makhtar Diop

Managing Director, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Dr. Samir J Serhan

Chief Executive Officer, Acwa

Thierry Déau

Founder and CEO, Meridiam

Fatma Varank

Deputy Minister, Chief Climate Change Negotiator, Republic of Türkiye

Alexander de Croo

Administrator, UNDP

John W.H. Denton AO

Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Jayant Acharya

CEO, JSW Steel

Abdulkadir Uraloğlu

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Republic of Türkiye

Abubakar Kyari

Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Nigeria

Ajay Bhushan Pandey

Vice-President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Al Gore

Founding Partner and Chairman, Generation Investment Management; Former Vice President of the United States

Alexander Pulev

Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Economy, Investment and Industry, Bulgaria

Alexis Trittipo

Partner, McKinsey & Company, New York

Moderator

Ali Fuat Orhonoğlu

President, International Investors Association (YASED)

Alicia Bárcena

Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico

Allyson Anderson Book

Chief Sustainability Officer, Baker Hughes

Alparslan Bayraktar

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Republic of Türkiye

Alpaslan Çakar

Chair, Banks Association of Türkiye

Amy Brachio

CEO, Carbon Measures

Moderator

Dr Andrew Forrest AO

Executive Chairman and Founder of Fortescue, Founder of Minderoo Foundation and Tattarang

Andy Brosnan

President, Low Carbon Solutions, Anew

Anthony Watanabe

CSO, Indorama Ventures PCL

Ayhan Zeytinoğlu

Chair, Kocaeli Chamber of Industry

Aykan Gökbulut

Managing Director & Senior Partner, BCG

Moderator

Banu Aslan

Director General of Professional Services

Batu Yiğit

Partner, BCG

Moderator

Bernhard Lorentz

Managing Partner, Global Climate & Infrastructure Leader, Deloitte

Chris Bowen

Minister for Climate Change and Energy; COP31 President of Negotiations, Australian Government

Chris Kaminker

Head of Sustainable Investment and Research Analytics, BlackRock

Clara Barby

Senior Partner, Just Climate

Moderator

Dana Barsky

Global Head Sustainability, Standard Chartered

Deborah Mlongo Barasa

Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, Kenya

Diane Holdorf

Executive Vice President, Pathways, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Dr Katharina Beumelburg

Chief Sustainability and New Technologies Officer, Heidelberg Materials

Edmond Rhys Jones

Partner & Director, BCG

Moderator

Elif Bilgi Zapparoli

Head of International Client Strategy, Member of Executive Committee, Bank of America

Moderator

Erman Ilıcak

President Emeritus, Rönesans

Esin Güral Argat

Chair, Kütahya Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Faheen Alibhoy

Managing Director & Global Head of Development Finance & Advisory, JP Morgan

Fatih Birol

Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Fatih Konukoğlu

Vice President, Sanko Holding

Faustine Delasalle

CEO, Mission Possible Partnership

Greg Jackson

Founder and CEO, Octopus Energy Group

Guangzhe Chen

Vice President, World Bank

H.E. Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani

Chairman, Qatar Chamber

Hanbing Yang

CEO, CAIT

Hashim Djojohadikusumo

Special Presidential Envoy for Energy and Climate, Indonesia

Hirotaka Ishihara

Minister of the Environment, Japan

Hiroyoshi Sasagawa

Minister of the Environment, Japan

Ismail Vild Eş-Şeyh Ahmed

Secretary General, The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

Burak Dağlıoğlu

President, Investment and Finance Office Republic of Türkiye

Can Dinçer

CEO, Arçelik

Cassie Flynn

Global Director of Energy, and Environment at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Clemence Schmid

Director, Circular Economy Transformation and Global Plastic Action Partnership, World Economic Forum

Dan Ioschpe

COP-30 Climate High-Level Champion

Dave Turk

Environment Program Director, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

David Blood

Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management

Dominic Waughray

EVP, WBCSD

Ebru Özdemir

Chairperson of the Board, Limak Holding, Türkiye

Efe Erdem

Managing Director, Mext

Erkam Kocakerim

Limak Çimento CEO

Frederic Lucenet

Global Head of Manufacturing & Services, EBRD

George Bou Mitri

President – MENA, Honeywell Technologies

Javier Rodríguez Soler

Global Head of Sustainability and Corporate & Investment Banking, BBVA

Jean-Pierre Clamadieu

Chairman, Engie Energy

Jennifer Dlouhy

Senior Reporter, Bloomberg News

Moderator

Jim Andrew

Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.

Jose Luis Blasco

Chief Sustainability Officer, ACCIONA

Josh Parker

Global Chief Sustainability Officer, NVIDIA

Julie Dabrusin

Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, Canada

Justin Hotard

President and Chief Executive Officer, Nokia

Juvencio Maeztu

Chief Executive Officer and President, Ingka Group

Kanat Sharlapayev

President, The Union of Turkic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) and Chairman, the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan “ATAMEKEN”

Kim Sungwhan

Minister of Climate, Energy and Environment, Republic of Korea

Laura Hickey

Senior Adviser, International Strategy, Bloomberg LP

Laurence Tubiana

CEO, European Climate Foundation

Moderator

M. Gürcan Karakaş

CEO, Togg

Maciej Witucki

President, BusinessEurope

Maciu Katamotu Nalumisa

Minister for Housing and Local Government, Republic of Fiji

Manal Awad

Minister of Local Development and Environment, Egypt

Manish Pant

EVP, International Operations, Schneider Electric

Marcela Chacon Castro

Global Director for UN Relations & Global Affairs, Bayer

Mark Patel

Senior Partner, McKinsey

Martina Wallenberg

Advisor, Wallenberg Investments & Board Member, SEB

Marty Durbin

President, Global Energy Institute and SVP, Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

María Mendiluce

Chief Executive Officer, We Mean Business Coalition

Matteo Patrone

Vice President, EBRD

Matthias Berninger

Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Sustainability & Health, Bayer

Mehmet Fatih Kacır

Minister of Industry and Technology, Republic of Türkiye

Mehmet Tütüncü

Chair of the Board & CEO, Yıldız Holding

Ming Zhang

Global Director, Urban, Subnational Finance, Tourism, and Disaster Management, World Bank

Murad Bayar

Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, IC Holding

Murat Pınar

President of Strategic Investments, Sabancı Holding

Musadik Masood Malik

Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Pakistan

Mustafa Masatlı

Governor of Hatay, Republic of Türkiye

Mustafa Varank

Chairman of the Committee on Industry, Trade, Energy, Natural Resources, Information and Technology of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye

Myron Brilliant

Senior Adviser to TOBB, Founder and CEO of BIG

Moderator

Nasser Malik

Managing Director, Citi

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General, WTO

Onur Genç

Group CEO, BBVA

Perihan İnci

Vice-President, TÜSİAD

Peter Mackey

Vice President, Strategy & Policy Support, Hydrogen Energy, Air Liquide

Rachel Dignam

Senior Director of Global Public Policy, Sage

Rassem Zok

CEO, MENA, Standard Bank

H.E. Dr. Sakari Puisto

Minister of Economic Affairs, Finland

H.E. Jumhur Hidayat

Minister for Environment of Indonesia

Dr Heike Henn

State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Huw Davies

Executive Director, Synergies Collaboration Platform

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

Managing Director, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)

Kıvanç Zaimler

CEO, Sabancı Holding

Karel Leeflang

Senior Partner, E&Y

Dr. Karsten Sach

Advisory Board Member, Climate Neutrality Foundation; former German Chief Negotiator for International Climate Policy

Krasimir Yakimov

Vice-minister of Economy, Investments and Industry in Republic of Bulgaria

Luiza Demoro

Global Head of Energy Transitions, Bloomberg NEF

Majid Al Suwaidi

CEO, ALTERRA

Sarp Kalkan

CEO, COP31 Business Forum

Moderator

Sheikh Abdullah Kamel

Chairman, Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Development

Shinta Kamdani

Vice Chair, KADIN Indonesia

Sibylle Thierer

Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Hafele, Hafele SE & Co KG

Sigrun Aasland

Minister of Climate and Environment, Norway

Sir Danny Alexander

CEO of Infrastructure Finance and Sustainability, HSBC

Thomas Guillot

CEO, Global Cement and Concrete Association

Ussal Şahbaz

Policy Adviser, COP31 Business Forum

Moderator

Vladimír Dlouhý

President, Eurochambres

Wendy Woods

Vice Chair, Social Impact, Climate & Sustainability, Boston Consulting Group

Moderator

Wopke Hoekstra

European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth

Zoe Yujnovich

CEO, National Grid

Ömer Bolat

Minister of Trade, Republic of Türkiye

Michal Kurtyka

COP24 President, Former Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland (2019–2021)

Michel Frédeau

Senior Advisor, BCG

Nail Olpak

President, Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK)

Noam Boussidan

CEO, WEF First Movers Coalition

Osman Yılmaz

CFO, Turgut Aydın Holding

Ozan Diren

President, Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD)

⁠Raad Al Saady

Managing Director, Acwa

Ricardo Mussa

CEO, SB COP

Rodrigo Lauria

Director of Climate Change and Carbon, Vale

Sean MacHale

Senior Partner, EY

Shruti Badri

Partner, McKinsey

Sofia Jonsson

Head of Sustainability, Imvestor AB

Thad Segal

Senior Director, Global Energy Transition

The Hon. Dr Deborah Mulongo Barasa

Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, Kenya

Şule Kılıç

Head of Energy Eurasia, EBRD

Wagner Albuquerque de Almeida

Director, Manufacturing‚ Agribusiness and Services, IFC

Walid Sheta

President of Middle East & Africa, Schneider Electric

Özgür Burak Akkol

President, Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations (TİSK)