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Vignesh Nandakumar

Partner, Aspada Investments

An electrical engineer from IIT Madras, with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, Vignesh has significant experience in technology development and renewable energy, in initiating, sustaining and…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Vijay Anand

Chief Business Officer, Greenpod Labs

Vijay is the Chief Business Officer of Greenpod Labs which uses nanotechnology to extend the shelf-life of fruits and vegetables.  GreenPod Labs is a post-harvest solutions company committed to minimise food waste. The company has built a 100% natural, cost effective solution to extend…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Vijay Jagannathan

Secretary General, CityNet

Vijay Jagannathan comes from the World Bank where he was Sector Manager for infrastructure in the East Asia and Pacific region. He was responsible for an annual lending program of about $5 billion in the urban, water, transport and energy sectors. Mr. Jagannathan has been also …

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Vijay Padmanabhan

Director, ADB

An Engineer-Urban Planner, Vijay is the Operations Director for urban development and water in the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Southeast Asia Region and manages a $3 billion portfolio. With 23 years of professional experience, he has led multi-sector teams in designing and delivering large and…

   Topic(s): Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Vikas Choudhary

Senior Economist, World Bank

Vikas Choudhary is Senior Economist at the World Bank, based in Jakarta, and leading the agricultural work program in Indonesia and Timor Leste. Prior to this, he was based in Ethiopia and led the agriculture team working in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea. His interest areas are the food…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Finance
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Vikash Jha

Founder and CEO, Rukart

Currently, Vikash is the Founder - C.E.O of RuKart. He founded RuKart along with two other IIT Bombay alums in 2019. Mr. Jha did M.Tech in Technology & Development from CTARA at IIT Bombay. During his masters program, he has shown interest in developing scalable green technologies for…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, ICT
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Viktor Nestulia

Head of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Open Contracting Partnership

Before joining the Open Contracting Partnership, Viktor was acting CEO at SOE Medical Procurement of Ukraine – the central purchasing body set up by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine for medical public procurement. Between 2015-2018 he was a Program Director at Transparency International Ukraine.…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Vimlendra Sharan

Representative , FAO in Sri Lanka and Maldives

Vimlendra Sharan is FAO Country Representative for Sri Lanka and Maldives. Sharan brings with him nearly three decades of national and international government leadership experience focusing on rural development, agriculture, and food security issues. As a member of the Indian Administrative…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Vincent Oh

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Vincent is a Senior Solutions Architect at the AWS. He works with public sector customers across ASEAN, owning technical engagements and helping them design cloud solutions across various innovation projects. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Singapore Management University (SMU), teaching…

   Topic(s): ICT, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Virginia NewtonLewis

Director of Policy and Advocacy, WaterAid Sweden

Virginia specializes in water security as it relates to WASH. She has worked on a wide range of water issues including food security, irrigation, water resources management, and flood risk management. She holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia, where she explored the topic of agricultural-…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Water
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation