Senior Digital Technology Specialist (Earth Observation), ADB Profile / Bio Profile / Bio Paolo Manunta is Senior Digital Technology Specialist in ADB’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC). He specializes in Earth Observation (EO), online Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Paolo helps set up geospatial initiatives and has worked on cloud-based integration of EO, GIS, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Timor-Leste, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Georgia, Armenia, Mongolia and other ADB Developing Member Countries. Paolo has co-authored several knowledge products and is currently working on a project deploying satellite imagery and AI for land use and coastal planning. To ensure financial sustainability in ADB Developing Member Countries, Dr. Manunta promotes ADB digital solutions in collaboration with several potential European donors as part of a joint initiative with the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA). Paolo joined ADB as a secondee from the European Space Agency (ESA). His Asia experience started in 2014 with a transport project in Papua New Guinea that led to a full-time secondment to ADB in 2017 and eventually became a staff in 2022. After completing his PhD, Paolo Manunta worked in Canada for the Provincial Government of Alberta on climate change modelling. He has also worked extensively in the private sector in Italy. Follow on Materials Title Date Learning Materials Topics Mapping and Monitoring Bamboo Plantation 11 April, 2025 Slides Environment, Finance AI for Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Management 26 September, 2024 Slides ICT Earth Observation in ADB Operations 11 May, 2023 Slides ADB Administration and Governance, Finance, ICT Earth Observation Services Support for National Data Portal 31 October, 2022 Slides ICT Using Earth Observation Tools in Monitoring Economies in Southeast Asia 10 November, 2020 Slides Economics, ICT The European Copernicus program, Securing Satellite Data Access on the Long Term 5 October, 2018 Slides Water Supporting the Implementation of Environment-Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific 22 February, 2018 Slides Environment Earth Observation Tools Enhance Planning, Climate-Proofing in Mandalay 20 September, 2017 Slides ICT, Urban Development