A list of speakers is available below.

This list will be regularly updated to include other speakers who have confirmed their attendance.


Jose Achache, Director of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency

William Allen, Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic Magazine

Francesco Aloisi de Larderel, Ambassador, Director-General for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy

Jean Bakole, UN-Habitat

José Maria Ballester, Director Culture, Cultural and Natural Heritage (DG4), Council of Europe

Marcio Barbosa, Deputy Director-General, UNESCO

Stefano Bianca, Director of the Historic Cities Support Programme, The Aga Khan Trust

Nicola Bono, Undersecreterary of State for Culture, Italy

Mounir Bouchenaki, Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO

Eddy Boutmans, State Secretary for Development Cooperation, Belgium

Vittore Branca, Former President of the Cini Foundation

Gianni Brizzi, Advisor for Culture and Development for the Middle East and African Regions, World Bank

Bonnie Burnham, President, World Monuments Fund

Luigino Busatto, President of the Venice Province

Frances Cairncross, Management Editor, The Economist

Christina Cameron, Director-General, National Historic Sites Directorate, Parks Canada

Eugenio Campo, Representing the Director-General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy

Tullia Carettoni, President of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO

Corrado Clini, Director-General of the Ministry for the Environment of Italy

Franca Coin, President of the Venice International Foundation

Paolo Costa, Mayor of Venice

Neil Cossons, Chairman of English Heritage

Yves Dauge, Member of the French Senate for the region of Indre et Loire and Mayor of the city of Chinon

Rili Hawari Djohani, Director, Nature Conservancy Council South East Asia Center for Marine Protected Areas

William Eichbaum, Vice-President of Endangered Spaces Program, World Wildlife Fund US

Walter Erdelen, Deputy-Director General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO

John Fanshawe, Birdlife International

Tamas Fejérdy, Chairperson World Heritage Committee

Silvia Finguerut, Head of Cultural Heritage, Marinho Foundation

HRH Princess Firyal of Jordan

Marino Folin, Rector of the Institute of Architecture of Venice

Francesco Francioni, Chair of International Law and Vice Rector of the University of Siena

Gaballa Ali Gaballa, University of Cairo, Egypt

Giancarlo Galan, President of the Veneto Region

Katya Gonzales, Heritage Management Expert, Ministry of Culture, Colombia

Karan Grover, President of the Heritage Trust, India

Christoph Hauser, Head of the Culture Programming Department, Sudwesttrundfunk, Germany

Martyn Heighton, Territory Director for Wales and the West of England, the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

Tor Hundloe, Chair, Wet Tropics Management Authority

Gianfranco Imperatori, Secretary-General of the Civita Association, Italy

Countess Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, Honorary President of the Balthus Foundation

Maritta Koch Weser, President, Earth 3000

Jaime Lerner, Governor of the State of Parana, Brazil, and President of the International Union of Architects

Henrik Lilius, Director-General of the National Board of Antiquities of Finland

Augusto Lolli Ghetti, Director of the Regional Sopraintendenza of Tuscany

Claude Martin, Director-General, WWF International

Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General, UNESCO

Lota Melamari, Director-General of Tanzania National Parks

Russell Mittermeir, President of Conservation International

Simon Molesworth, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts

Giulia Maria Mozzoni Crespi, President, Fondo Ambiente Italiano

Dawson Munjeri, Heritage Management Expert

Margareta Musilova, Archaeologist, Fundation for Cultural Heritage Preservation, Slovakia

Fergus O'Gormon, Professor of Zoology, University College of Dublin

Franco Passacantando, Dean of the Executive Board, The World Bank

Armando Peres, Director of International Relations, Intesa BCI

Mickael Petzet, President of ICOMOS International

Giovanni Puglisi, Secretary-General of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO

Paolo Savona, President, Consorzio Venezia Nuova

Eduard Sekler, Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, Harvard University

Farea Hassan Soliman, Professor, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Wole Soyinka, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Nobel Prize Winner

Nicholas Stanley-Price, Director-General, ICCROM

Achim Steiner, Director-General, IUCN

Herb Stovel, Heritage Settlements Unit Director, ICCROM

Russell Train, Chairman Emeritus, World Wildlife Fund, USA

Giuliano Urbani, Minister of Culture and Arts, Italy

Marianna Vardinoyannis, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

Rasool Vatandoust, Head, Department of Cultural and International Relations, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization

Timothy Whalen, Director, Getty Conservation Institute

Timothy Wirth, President, UN Foundation

Eugenio Yunis, Head of Sustainable Development of Tourism, World Tourism Organization

Alvise Zorzi, President, Association of International Private Committees for the Safeguarding of Venice