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At TERI, A K Saxena’s profile includes managing the work on energy transitions in the India power sector to develop a roadmap for low-carbon pathways. This includes work on demand forecasting, studying economic feasibility of supply side options and technical challenges of grid integration of renewables. He also leads the work on power sector policy, reforms and regulations, demand side management action plans, smart grid, etc.
Topic(s): Environment
R.H.W.A. Kumarasiri is the Director General of the Department of National Planning Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies in Sri Lanka.
Topic(s): Economics, Education
A. Lin Goodwin (葛文林) is the Thomas More Brennan Chair of Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development. Prior to joining Boston College, she was Dean of the Faculty(School) of Education at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2022) and Vice Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University (TCCU) in New York (2011-2017), where she also held the Evenden Foundation Chair in Education.
Topic(s): Education, Social Development and Protection
Rezaul is the Project Director for the Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project (UGIIP-3) in Bangladesh, which is financed by the Asian Development Bank. He has been involved in urban development executive roles for more than 16 years, covering procurement of works, goods and services, construction management, planning, monitoring and evaluation, and financial management, in behalf of 175 municipalities in Bangladesh.
Topic(s): Water
Aage Jorgensen has for the past decade been Program Manager at the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) where he has helped build up a portfolio of climate change projects. He works with community-based adaptation, climate-resilient infrastructure, and urban development and is responsible for the NDF support to several countries in Africa, Asia, and Central America.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development
Aakash is the Chief Commercial Officer Pixxel, a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging microsatellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Prior to this, he was the Vice President of CropIn Technology, a cloud-based platform enabling data-driven agriculture for multinationals.
He graduated from Kellogg Executive Foundation with a degree in Product Strategy. He also took Python courses at UC Berkeley.
Topic(s): ICT
Aamir Riaz is a Programme Officer in International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is currently part of the team at its Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
Topic(s): ICT
Aanchal Kumar is an officer at Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and a Future Energy Leader at the World Energy Council. She has over 8 years of experience in the field of sustainability and energy efficiency. She has been a pivotal member in the implementation of the globally-lauded Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All program. She has also worked on research studies in the field of clean energy in collaboration with the World Resource Institute, UNFCCC, World Bank, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and AEEE.
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Energy, Environment
Aape Pohjavirta is the Founder and President of Funzi, a mobile learning service. Funzi gives the world’s billions of mobile users access to motivating and useful learning. An opportunity to develop skills to build a better tomorrow. High quality, relevant courses delivered with a combination of effective pedagogy and an engaging experience
In his role at Funzi, Aape has become a recognized industry leader with a vision of how science, technology, and innovation will contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Topic(s): Economics, Education, ICT
Mr. Aaron Dennis is a Social Development Specialist with ADB's South Asia Energy Division. Prior to joining ADB, he worked with the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman for IFC and MIGA as well as with a private consultancy specializing in Indigenous Peoples development. As a practitioner, Aaron is interested in leveraging emerging technologies to foster inclusive and equitable project design, to promote transparency and accountability, and to enable results-oriented performance and service delivery for clients and communities.
Topic(s): Energy
Aaron is a creative and accomplished Environmental Consultant/Specialist, an experienced Project Manager, and an award-winning entrepreneur.
Topic(s): Capacity Development
Abdul Abiad oversees the ADB’s flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. From 2000 to 2015, he was with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, where he worked on the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. His research areas include financial sector development and international financial integration, fiscal policy, exchange rates and trade, economic resilience, and infrastructure. He has a PhD in Economics from University of Pennsylvania
Topic(s): Economics
Dr. Abdul Ghafoor is working as Associate Professor in the Institute of Business Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Currently he is also looking after the duties of Director of the institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Marketing. Food entrepreneurship, value chain management and decent work practices including gender related issues in agriculture are some other areas of his interest.
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
Abdul Malik Sadat Idris is the Director for Irrigation and Water Resources of Ministry of National Development Planning/BAPPE, Indonesia.
Mr. Idris was a Panelist at the Resilient Infrastructure Recovery and Building Back Better by JICA, Japan, 2020. He was a Speaker at the Japan Exposure Visit by World Bank, Japan, 2019; Speaker at the 3rd World Irrigation Forum (WIF3) & 70th IEC Meeting by INACID, Indonesia, 2019; Speaker at the Water Week of World Bank, USA, 2019; and Speaker at the 27th Annual CCPP Conference on Public-Private Partnerships, Canada, 2019.
Topic(s): Water
Topic(s): Economics, Finance, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
Mr. Abdur Rouf Talukder joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in February 1988 (BCS 1985 batch). He worked in a wide range of government positions in his long illustrious career but his specialization in public finance and economic management has brought him back to Finance Division at almost every rank of his career. He worked more than 18 years in Finance Division before elevating to the position of Finance Secretary on 17 July 2018.
Topic(s): Finance
Abdur Rahim Siddiqui assumed duties as Representative and Country Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Sri Lanka in April 2021, overseeing the management of WFP’s operations in the country. Mr. Siddiqui brings extensive knowledge from the fields of food and nutrition security with a strong background in emergency operations.
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Social Development and Protection
Abdul Salam is passionate about development and humanitarian work. He has more than 10 years of experience field of water sanitation and habitat and is a continuous learner. Through combining the competencies, skills, upgrade information and field experience he regularly contemplates the new challenges and delivers.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Water
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Finance
Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Harvard University. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.
Topic(s): Economics
Abhinav Madan is the co-founder and CEO of Gran Tarang Employability Services. Prior to this, he was a Business Planning Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Business Analyst at GE.
He had an MBA from the Xavier Institute of Management.
Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education
Abhinav Bhushan, as Director for South Asia of the ICC Arbitration and ADR International Court of Arbitration, ICC, focuses on helping companies, investors, and attorneys in the region understand how they can efficiently resolve international commercial disputes by raising their awareness on the ICC's Dispute Resolution Services and its commitment to international arbitration, the procedure, and thought leadership.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Abhinav Raghuvanshi is now the Vice President of DeHaat. He's been an Associate Vice President for three (3) years of the same organization.
He also co-founded the VezaMart from Sep 2016 - Mar 2019.
Abhinav has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology and finished his Master's in Business and Administration at the Institute of Management at Nirma University.
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
Abhisek is a Civil Engineer cum Urban Manager with a B. Tech. in Civil Engineering and an MBA in Urban Management and Governance. He is a KPMG Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified personnel and a multi-dextrous professional with multi-disciplinary core competencies in engineering and management domains having experience in Government, Public and Private Sectors.
Topic(s): Urban Development, Water