SUSI PUDJIASTUTI
Former Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia.
BOB WOODRUFF
Award-winning correspondent for ABC News and host of the series LAST LANDS
JUAN CARLOS NAVARRO
Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Panama. Former Mayor of Panama City.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Hors d'oeuvre Buffet & Cocktails, 6 pm Program, 7:15 pm
The Olympic Club
524 Post Street
San Francisco
About the Speakers
Bob Woodruff joined ABC News in 1996 and has since covered major stories around the world. In 2006, while reporting on security forces in Iraq, Woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb that struck his vehicle. In 2008, Woodruff began hosting the weekly ABC News-produced “Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff” on the Planet Green television channel.
On Focus Earth, Woodruff covered the environmental news of the week, looking at subjects ranging from climate impact, environmental policy, political debate, world events, and how climate change affects religious and cultural views and issues.
Juan Carlos Navarro was elected as one of the planet's 100 most promising leaders by TIME magazine (1994) and as one of the key Latin American Leaders for the new millennium by both TIME and CNN (1999), Juan Carlos Navarro is one of Panama's prominent national figures. He founded the National Association for the Conservation of Nature, ANCON, Panama's leading non-profit environmental NGO in 1985. Navarro was elected by IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (Gland, Switzerland) General Assembly (Perth, Australia 1990) as Regional Councilor for Latin America and was reelected in 1994 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the first Panamanian to serve on IUCN's maximum governing body and the youngest individual elected to its Council. He served as Panama's first Environmental Ambassador, appointed by the President of Panama ad honorem to help formulate the country's national and international environmental policy (1995-1999). Selected by The Nature Conservancy and the MacArthur Foundation as the recipient of his first Inter American Conservation Fellowship (1998), he is the author of Panama National Parks (Madrid, Spain 1998), a comprehensive text on the isthmus' national parks and nature reserves. Honored by The Botanical Research Institute of Texas with its International Prize for Excellence in recognition for his leadership of global conservation and humanitarian endeavors (Fort Worth, 2001). Serves on the Advisory Boards of Para la Naturaleza, The Puerto Rico Conservation Trust (since 1994); The American Conservation Coalition (since 2020); and The Wilson Center Latin America Program (since 2024).
