Keynotes

Short Biography Dr Mumba is the Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands and is a Zambian-born environmentalist with over 25 years of global experience in environmental management and Sustainable Development. She joined the Convention on Wetlands the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she served as the Director for the Rome Centre for Sustainable …

Short Biography: Dr Phanor H Montoya Maya is a coral reef restoration expert whose field experience began in Seychelles with the Reef Rescues project. He is the founder and former CEO of Corales de Paz, a Colombian organization focused on community-based reef restoration, and currently serves as the Restoration Program Manager at the Coral Restoration …

Short Biography: Dr Valerie Hagger is an ecologist based at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research informs coastal wetland conservation and restoration through fieldwork, community engagement, large-scale data synthesis, modelling, and spatial analysis. Her novel study on the drivers of global mangrove losses and gains revealed promising conservation strategies to reverse mangrove losses in …

Short Biography: Vera Voronova is the Executive Director of the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK), Kazakhstan’s leading national civil society organization dedicated to conserving and restoring nature. An ecologist, on her position she works with government ministries, agencies, and orther NGOs to protect and restore landscapes, revive threatened species, and ensure …

Short Biography: Dave Coffman is RES’ Director of Northern California and Southern Oregon Operations, a Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist, and the Klamath River Renewal Project Restoration Program Manager. Dave has spent his career studying, developing, permitting, and implementing large scale ecological restoration projects across the country. David has worked on the evaluation and design of over …