Speakers
Circular City Week is an opportunity to meet and learn from circular pioneer, international frontrunners, local champions and innovative business professionals.
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Below overview is a guide to which event they will be speaking at. More speakers will be publicized as the different event host are ready with their full lineup.
Pioneer Partners
ANNE VAN RIEL
Head of Sustainable Finance
ING Americas
Will be speaking at:
Do Consumers Care?
OLIVER DUDOK VAN HEEL
Head of Client Sustainability and Environment
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Will be speaking at:
Circular City Week Closing Celebration
JOHN LOCHNER
Vice President Innovation
NYSERDA
Will be speaking at:
Circular City Week Closing Celebration
TOM KENNEDY
Principal
Arup
Will be speaking at:
Circular City Week Opening Celebration
Circular Business Next Steps
Speakers
ABEEY BARKSDALE
ESG Manager
American Water
Will be speaking at:
Impact from the Mainstreaming of ESG Investing
ANTONIO LOPEZ
Development Manager
Lower East Side Ecology Center
AKHMOSE ARI-HOTEP
Organics Recovery Coordinator
NYC Compost Project, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Will be speaking at:
ASHIIMA SUKHDEV
Government & Cities Program Lead
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Will be speaking at:
BERNA TURAL
Director, Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives
UpstreamSolutions
BOB BALDER
Director of Planning and Urban Design
Gensler and Cornell
Will be speaking at:
CHRISTINA GRACE
CEO & Founder
Foodprint Group
Will be speaking at:
DAVID BRIEFEL
Sustainability Director
Gensler
EBAN GOODSTEIN
Director Graduate Education in Sustainability
Bard College
Will be speaking at:
HENRY SHILLING
Director of Research, Sustainable Research and Analysis
LLC
Will be speaking at:
IMKE MYRICK
Danish Clean Tech & Circular City Week
Senior Project Manager
Will be speaking at:
JAMIE FAS
Special Project Coordinator
Westbourne
Will be speaking at:
JASON SCHWARTZ
Executive Director
McEnroe Organic Farms
Will be speaking at:
JUSTIN GREEN
Executive Director and Founder of Big Reuse and Big Initiatives
Will be speaking at:
JON WASSERMAN
Associate Director, Program Management, Global Lead
FrogImpact
Will be speaking at:
JOSHUA KATCHER
Founder & Creative Director
BraveGentleMan
Will be speaking at:
Circular Fashion: Local Initiatives and Resources
KAREN BLONDEL
Environmental Justice Initiative
Turning the Tide
Will be speaking at:
Red Hook Case Study
KATE MIKULIAK
NYC Department of Transportation
Will be speaking at:
LAURENCE CARR
Founder & CEO
Laurence Carr Design
Will be speaking at:
LUNA YU
CEO
Genecis Bioindustries
Will be speaking at:
Closing the Loop
MARK CHAMBERS
Director
New York City Mayor's Office of Sustainability
Will be speaking at:
Circular City Week - Opening Ceremony
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MATTHIJS BOUW
Architect/Urbanist
One Architecture & PennDesign
Will be speaking at:
Circular Synergy in the Built Environment
MIKKEL KJÆR
Co-Founder & CEO
Human Habitat
Will be speaking at:
Impact Farm Tour
Tour of Harlem Impact Farm
MICHAEL DELUCIA
Principal
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
Will be speaking at:
MOLLIE MCGINNIS
Director of Operations Planning & Sustainability
Trust for Governors Island
Will be speaking at:
Zero Waste Island Tour & Community Compost Build
NICK VAN EYCK
Senior Manager & Commercial Programs
NYC Departement of Sanitation
Will be speaking at:
PATRICK TEMPLE-WEST
Journalist
Financial Times
Will be speaking at:
Launch of New York Circular City Initiative
RANCINE LEE DROZ
Director of Food Sourcing and Donor Relations
Will be speaking at:
RON GONEN
CEO
Closed Loop Partners
Will be speaking at:
Launch of New York Circular City Initiative
SAHRA SVENSSON
Policy Researcher & Sustainability Consultant
Will be speaking at:
SANDRA NOONAN
Chief Sustainability Officer
Just Salad
SONIA PARK
Assistant Vice President, Creative and Applied Tech Industry Innovation Team
NYC Economic Development Corporation
Will be speaking at:
Circular Fashion: Local Initiatives and Resources
TAZIA SMITH
Managing Director
Closed Loop Partners
Will be speaking at:
TOM SZAKY
CEO
TerraCycle
Will be speaking at:
Launch of New York Circular City Initiative
USHMA PANDYA
Co-Founder
Think Zero LLC
VIVIAN ALVAREZ SANCHEZ
Head of Sustainability North America
Unilever
Will be speaking at:
Launch of New York Circular City Initiative
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ADAM BUNCHANAN
Chief Contracting Officer/Assistant Commissioner
Office of Citywide Procurement
Will be speaking at:
AMANDA KAMINSKY
Founder + Principal
Building Product Ecosystems
Will be speaking at:
ANN ROSENBERG
Senior Vice President, UN Partnerships & Global Head of SAP Next-Gen
Will be speaking at:
BRENDAN SHEEHAN
VP & Senior Analyst: ESG
Moody's Investors Services​
Will be speaking at:
Celeste McMickle
Director
TRUE Zero Waste
Will be speaking at:
DANA DAVIS
Vice President of Sustainability, Product and Business Strategy
Mara Hoffman
DIEGO S. SEGALINI
Executive Director, Finance & Operations
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
ELIZABETH BALKAN
Director
​Natural Resources Defense Council
Will be speaking at:
GARRETT BENISCH
Industrial Designer
Pratt Institute
Will be speaking at:
JAMES PATCHETT
President and CEO
NYC Economic Development Corporation
Will be speaking at:
Launch of New York Circular City Initiative
JESSICA MYERS
Global CSR Partnerships Director
Repeat Roses
Will be speaking at:
JESSICA SCHREIBER
Founder
FABSCRAP
Will be speaking at:
Circular Fashion: Local Initiatives and Resources
JOE SILVER
Director of Programs
Urban Future Lab - Cleantech Startup Incubation
Will be speaking at:
JOS DE KRIEGER
Architect/Partner
Superuse Studios
Will be speaking at:
KARA NAPOLITANO
Education And Outreach Coordinator
Sims Municipal Recycling
Will be speaking at:
Tour of Sims Municipal Recycling Facility
KATE MACKENZIE
Director
Office of the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy
Will be speaking at:
Creative Solutions for Tackling Food Waste
KELLY FISHER
Head of Corporate Sustainability
US HSBC
Will be speaking at:
Launch of New York Circular City Initiative
LINDSAY CLINTON
Senior Vice President
NYC Economic Development Corporation
Will be speaking at:
Circular City Week Opening Ceremony
LAURA NOVICH
Sustainability Strategist
Hyloh
Will be speaking at:
Repair Scale-Up: Designing a Fixing City
MARC DE WIT
Director of Strategic Alliances
Circle Economy
Will be speaking at:
Circular City Week - Closing Celebration
MARY ELLEN SULLIVAN
Board Memeber
Cora Dance
Will be speaking at:
Red Hook Case Study
MIKE NEWMAN
CEO
Returnity
Will be speaking at:
Circular Furniture and Materials in the Design Environment
MICHAEL AMBJØRN
Managing Director
Urbantech, RainMaking
Will be speaking at:
Closing the Loop
MICHAEL HIRSCHHORN
CEO
mebl -Transforming furniture
Will be speaking at:
NAOMI COOPER
Vice President
Cooper Reclycing
NICOLAS MAZARD
General Manager
Flavour Fields/Koppert Cress
Will be speaking at:
PAUL KIM
Senior Fellow
The City College of New York
Will be speaking at:
RENIERA O'DONNELL
Higher Education Lead
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Will be speaking at:
The Role of Higher Education
SABINE VALENGA
Chief Marketing Office and Co-Founder
Food For All
Will be speaking at:
SANDRA GOLDMARK
Director of Campus Sustainability and Climate Action
Barnard College
Will be speaking at:
SHAN HUANG
Associate Director of Residential Programs
Womankind
Will be speaking at:
SONJA PLESSET
Executive Director
The Plymouth Rock Foundation
Will be speaking at:
SIMP GULATI
Co-founder & CEO
Dropel Fabrics
Will be speaking at:
Circular Fashion: Local Initiatives and Resources
SUMMER JOHNSON
Sustainable & Impact Banking
Barclays
Will be speaking at:
Insights Into Financing The Circular Economy
TERESA HO KIM
Portfolio Manager
Jennison Associates LLC
Will be speaking at:
THOMASE MCQUILLAN
Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Culture and Sustainability
Baldor
Will be speaking at:
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TONE SØNDERGAARD
Strategy and Project Director
Danish Cleantech Hub
VICTORIA YOUNG
Co Founder
TightRope
Will be speaking at:
