Her Highness Sheikha Shamma Bint Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Honorary President of the EmiratesGBC, President & CEO of UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators 

Mr. Khaled Bushnaq, Chairman of EmiratesGBC 

Meiyar and EmiratesGBC 

 By EmiratesGBC (Based on the EMIRATESGBC REFLECTIONS ON COP28 UAE Publication) and relating it to the UAE updated NDC  

Abdullatif Albitawi, Director, EmiratesGBC 

Pascal Eveillard, Director, Sustainable Business Development, Saint-Gobain 

• Hanane El Ghiouane, Senior Commercial Advisor, The Foreign Ministry of Denmark – Trade Council UAE & Qatar 
• Dr. Ioannis Spanos. VP Sustainability, EXPO City 
• Rohan Chopra, Regional Director of Sustainability – EMEA, Johnson Controls  
• Ezzidine Jradi, Head of Sustainability and Business Excellence, Emicool 
• Mohammad Jebreel, Vice Chair, Emirates Green Building Council  

Moderated by: Raji Hattar, Chair of the WorldGBC MENA Network 

• Ahmed Labeeb, Senior Sustainability Manager, KEO  
• Omnia Halawani, Co-CEO and Founder, Grfn  
• Jane Boyle, Head of Sustainability, AD Airports 

Moderated by: Mohammad Juma, Emirates Green Building Council 

• Dr. Abeer Sajwani Section Head – Policies and Environment Planning and Infrastructure Sector DMT, Abu Dhabi 
• Andrea Di Gregorio , Executive Director of Energy and Renewables , RAK Municipality  
• Dr Ahmed BinOmair AlMuhairi , Infrastructure Development Sector Executive Director at the Municipality and Planning Department, Ajman Municipality 
• Ameera Ahmad Aljasmi, Green Building Engineer in the Research and Building Systems Section at the Building Permits Department in Dubai Municipality 

Moderator: Alida Saleh  

Mario Saab, Head of Sustainability, MENA, Cundall 

Ayhan Turgul, Cheif Operating Officer, CARES

• Lindsey Malcolm , Sustainability Lead – Middle East, Turner&Townsend  
• Khaled El Dokani – CEO Lafarge UAE, Oman & Qatar 
• Anjali Lukose, Head of ESG, ALEC 
• Abdallah Massaad, CEO, Rak Ceramics 

Moderated by: Viacheslav Zavgorodniy, Associate Director, Consulting, Tenet 

Dr. Ali AlAmiri, Regional Director for Building Engineering & Specialisms, EGIS

Dr Beatrix Henkel

By EMCEE

Reflection of Day 1 of EmiratesGBC Annual Congress 2024 

Mr. Khalid Bushnaq, Chairman of the EmiratesGBC 

Balsam Nehme, Partner, Director of Sustainability, Dar 

• Chris Wan, Associate Director, Sustainability and CSR, Masdar City   
• Nazly Asadollahpour, Director of Sustainability, Majid Al Futtaim  
• Haithem Ibrahim, Vice President – Operations  BrookField Properties 

Moderated by: Youssef Abbas, Senior Specialist Sustainability, Engineering and Technical Services, AD Ports Group 

Asma Naqi – Head of R&D and sustainability section, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure. 

• Faisal Rashid, Senior Director, Supreme Council of Energy 
• Eng. Aisha Alardi – Engineering Assistant Expert In Federal Assets Sector, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure   
• Nicholas Byczynski, Director of Sustainable Engineering, AESG 

Moderated by: Mercedes Gargallo, Associate, Arup 

FJamila Elmir, Senior Advisor to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, COP28, The Private Office of H.E. Razan Al Mubarak   

Atkins Realis 

• Zoe Knight, Group Head, Centre of Sustainable Finance and Head of Climate Change MENA, HSBC 
• Philipp Rosenthal, Climate Change, Carbon & Waste Middle East Leader, WSP  
• Aditya Shah, Chief Growth Officer, Taka Solutions 

Moderated By: Zulema Sanchis, Director, Accuracy  

Michael Amos, Managing Director, Waste To Wonder 

By EmiratesGBC