Senior Social Development Specialist , ADB Profile / Bio Profile / Bio Keiko Nowacka is a Senior Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) in the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department at the Asian Development Bank. In this role she focuses, in particular, on women’s entrepreneurship and promoting the ADB’s gender mainstreaming mandate, including the gender transformative agenda in line with Strategy 2030’s Operational Priority 2. Prior to joining ADB, Keiko led the gender program at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Development Centre, where she was responsible for the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). She has also held positions at UNESCO, where she led the first Global Report on gender and culture (2014) and focused on gender mainstreaming in the cultural and creative industries; she has also worked as an Operations Manager at Camfed, an NGO supporting secondary girls’ education in sub-Saharan Africa. She has a PhD From the University of Cambridge and is a graduate from the University of Sydney. Follow on Materials Title Date Learning Materials Topics Gender Equality 5 October, 2023 Slides ADB Administration and Governance SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Changing Workforce in the Post-COVID-19 World 4 November, 2022 Multimedia Industry and Trade, Knowledge Management Roadmap to Achieve OP2’s Transformative Gender Agenda 4 October, 2021 Slides Gender Equality Gender Equality 25 October, 2019 Slides ADB Administration and Governance, Capacity Development, Finance Social Norms and Transformative Change: Lessons Learned from the Social Institution and Gender Index (SIGI) 2012 and Next Steps for SIGI 2014 2 June, 2014 Slides Gender Equality