Dr Cecil Konijnendijk 

Cecil has over 25 years of experience studying, teaching, and advising on aspects of urban forestry and nature-based solutions. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and North America. Cecil helped found the leading academic journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and edited seminal textbooks such as The Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry. He is passionate about using trees and nature to develop better cities, and always stresses the importance of building meaningful relationships between people and places. He has advised international organizations such as the United Nations, as well as national and local governments in more than 30 countries. In 2020, Cecil co-founded the Nature Based Solutions Institute, a think tank for the evidence-based greening of cities.  He is also an honorary professor of urban forestry at the University of British Columbia.  
 

Camilla Anderson 

Camilla Anderson is a landscape architect and regional planner at Region Skåne. She currently works with projects connected to the new regional plan, Regionplan för Skåne 2022-2040. She has previously worked for the City of Malmö. Her heart beats for green structure planning and strategic urban planning. 
 

Julian Dons Henriksen 

 Gilles Doignon 

Gilles Doignon is a marine zoologist from Belgium. After his research career on symbioses, he worked on fisheries, aquaculture and freshwater issues at the Walloon Region and Oceana then became the first global seafood leader for WWF. He joined the European Commission in 2008. He spent 10 years at DG MARE and was the communication coordinator for the 4th Our Ocean conference hosted by the EU. He joined DG Environment in 2018 and was the coordinator of the Global Coalition "United for Biodiversity". In April 2022, he was appointed Team Leader biodiversity and nature-based solutions at DG Research and Innovation.