European Stories of Resilience Making & Local Sustainability Award Ceremony
25. June 17:00 - 18:00
The final session of Day 1 will begin with reflections from selected speakers and panellists, sharing key insights and takeaways from the day’s discussions, highlighting emerging themes, challenges, and opportunities explored across sessions.
This will be followed by the inspirational speech “Promise, Progress, and the Path Ahead for Private Adaptation Financing Driving Resilience Across Europe”, setting a visionary tone for the future of resilience-building through private sector engagement.
The session will then transition into the presentation of the European Urban Resilience Sustainability Award, with a brief overview of its purpose, history, and evaluation criteria, along with acknowledgments of the jury and partner organizations. A short panel discussion with jury members and partners will explore how the award aligns with the forum’s themes, share insights from the evaluation process, and discuss trends and standout ideas in urban innovation.
Speakers
Principal, Melomys Advisory
LInda Romanovska, Principal, Melomys Advisory
Linda is a highly regarded senior expert on climate change, sustainability and sustainable finance. Co-author of EU's climate change policies and several sustainable finance and corporate sustainability reporting frameworks and standards internationally, including EU Taxonomy and CSRD. A senior advisor with close to 20 years of experience, previously Head of Sustainability Consulting at Materra, and doctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales. For almost two decades, Linda has succeeded in high-impact work on a wide range of sustainability topics through policy-making, research and consulting the public and the private sector, financial institutions and many local governments. Her honorary appointments include several advisory boards supporting research and practical tool development, as well as a role in the investment committee of a sustainable investment fund by AxleTree Capital.
Senior Project Manager, Center for Sustainable Communities, Bertelsmann Stiftung
AndreaS GRAU, Senior Project Manager, Center for Sustainable Communities, Bertelsmann Stiftung
Head of EIB Group Office the Netherlands
Chantal Schrijver, Head of EIB Group Office the Netherlands
On behalf of Mayor, City of Aalborg
Daniel Borup, On behalf of Mayor, City of Aalborg
Alderman of the Municipality of Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, and vice-chair of the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform instead of Bakoyannis
Marieke Schouten, Alderman of the Municipality of Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, and vice-chair of the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform instead of Bakoyannis
Deputy Director, ICLEI Europe
STefan Kuhn, Deputy Director, ICLEI Europe
Stefan Kuhn is an Urban Geographer and Systemic Coach. He is Senior Manager for Governance and Human Resources at ICLEI Europe. For more than 20 years, Stefan has been working as trainer, consultant and expert in sustainability governance and management processes, co-leading ICLEI Europe as Deputy Director over the last 10 years.
Moderator
Deputy Regional Director - Sustainable Resources, Climate & Resilience, ICLEI Europe
Holger Robrecht, Deputy Regional Director - Sustainable Resources, Climate & Resilience, ICLEI Europe
Holger joined ICLEI in 1997. He holds a Diploma in spatial planning and is member of ICLEI’s Board of Directors, and leads ICLEI´s Sustainable Resources, Climate & Resilience team. Holger holds more than 25 years of experience in local environmental and sustainability management and planning, project development and co-ordination, team supervision as well as guidance and training. He developed, supervised and coordinated international and European projects including on urban resilience, climate adaptation, nature-based solutions and green infrastructures through various research projects and engaged with studies such as the European Environment Agency’s report on ‘Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe 2016’ and the ‘EKLIPSE Impact Evaluation Framework’.
Master of Ceremony
TV News Presenter, Event Moderator and Media Trainer
NaOmi LIoyd, TV News Presenter, Event Moderator and Media Trainer
Naomi Lloyd is a TV News Presenter, Event Moderator and Media Trainer who specialises in training climate experts to speak with impact at conferences and successfully handle media interviews.
As a TV journalist, she most recently presented and produced Euronews ‘Real Economy’ programme, made in partnership with the European Commission where she interviewed key decision makers including heads of state, Finance Ministers and EU Commissioners.
Previously, she was a producer for BBC World TV and a newsreader for BBC Radio, a news anchor for France 24, and a reporter for Reuters TV and European Parliament TV.
Naomi moderates high-level panels and conferences, most recently as Master of Ceremony for the presentation of the European Ocean Pact by European leaders at the UN Ocean Conference.
Naomi works with EU and international organisations taking action to confront the climate crisis, to help them raise awareness of their work and influence the global agenda by training their senior leaders and experts to get clear on their message, feel confident in front of the camera and successfully handle media interviews, panel discussions and speaking opportunities.