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Dr. Weiqi Zhou is a Professor, and deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the director of the Beijing Urban Ecosystem Research Station. He is a co-leader of the Urban Ecosystem Group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management.
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He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri’s School of Natural Resources. His research considers the impact of urbanization on wildlife habitats, populations, and communities.
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He works in Climate Change and Disaster Management. He is the Director of Istanbul Technical University's Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Management Institute and has a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Topic: Understanding Rainfall Variabilty İn Metropolitan Environments; Key Study as Istanbul
He is Head of the Department of Geography at Istanbul University, the first-ranked Turkish geography department. He is the President of the Turkish Geographical Society. He served as International Geographical Union Vice President between 2016 and 2021 and General Secretary of the International Geographical Union.
Topic:Urbanism-Ecological Commodification
She is an Architect Engineer at Yıldız Technical University and the former head of the urban planning department. She has extensive international experience, having been invited to lecture at Stuttgart, Hannover, Berlin, and Kassel universities.
Topic: Green Infrastructure for Urban Resilience: Adaptive Landscapes for a Changing World
She is an associate professor at the Florida International University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental and Urban Design.
Topic:A Nature-Positive Economy: Thriving in Harmony with the Planet
Dr. Daniela Rizzi is a Senior Expert on Nature-based Solutions and Biodiversity at ICLEI Europe, with over 15 years of experience bridging policy, science, and practice. She is the NetworkNature Project Manager and an advocate for a nature-positive economy, emphasising that economic systems must not only operate within planetary boundaries but also actively contribute to nature restoration. Daniela serves as a UNEP GEO-7 Expert Peer Reviewer and CEN Liaison for the Nature-based Solutions Working Group, contributing to the development of European standards for the effective implementation of NbS. She has contributed to high-level political processes, including presenting on NbS for the G7.
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Topic: Wildlife and people in the city: A beneficial coexistence
Dagmar Haase is a professor in Urban Ecology at the Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a Guest Scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany. Her core expertise is in first, modelling urban land use change and urban system dynamics and urban telecouplings. Second, Dagmar’s focus is on the quantification and assessment of ecosystem services and landscape functions using statistics and earth observation data. Dagmar is the winner of the 2016 AXA Science Award and Honorary Professor of the Swedish Academy of Science. Dagmar is a member of IRI THESys since 2021.