World Biodiversity Forum – 2020

Join us for the World Biodiversity Forum 2020, taking place the 23 – 28 February in Davos, and explore the future of biodiversity. 

We are very fortunate to welcome an amazing array of plenary speakers, covering a broad range of disciplines and expertise. Our speakers are:

• Emma Archer University of Pretoria
• Eduardo S. Brondizio Indiana University Bloomington
• Odette Curtis Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust
• Sandra M. Dìaz Cordoba National University
• Benis Egoh University of California Irvine
• Lenore Fahrig Carleton University Ottawa
• Workineh Kelbessa Addis Ababa University
• Andrew Light George Mason University & World Resources Institute
• Markku Oksanen University of Turku
• Unai Pascual Basque Centre for Climate Change

• Pragati Sahni University of Delhi
• Fabio Rubio Scarano Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Rashid Sumaila University of British Columbia
• Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
• Gary Varner Texas A&M University
• Emily Yeh University of Colorado Boulder
• Barend Erasmus University of Witwatersrand
• Andy Purvis Natural History Museum London
• David Tilman University of Minnesota
• Greg Asner Arizona State University

We have received high quality proposals for sessions and workshops. Those that we were able to accept cov­er a di­ver­si­ty of per­spec­tives and vi­sions and ad­dress cur­rent top­ics in nov­el ways. We are pleased to announce 30 the­mat­ic ses­sions that bring to­geth­er re­searchers and prac­ti­tion­ers from a va­ri­ety of disciplines. In­ter­ac­tive work­shops of­fer the op­por­tu­ni­ty to dis­cuss cur­rent top­ics in more de­tail and to interact in-depth with oth­er Fo­rum par­tic­i­pants. Lunchtime debates and events complete the programme.