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Amar Bhattacharya

Senior Fellow, Center for Sustainable Development Brookings Institute, United States

Amar Bhattacharya is Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings Institution.  His focus areas are the global economy, development finance, global governance, and the links between climate and development. From April 2007 until September 2014 he was Director of the…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Public-Private Partnership, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Amarjit Jagap

Director, Farm Green Horizon (Pomegranate), India

Amarjit has more than five years of experience in agribusiness. He is a specialist in the development of residue free pesticides and fertilizer. He handles all farmers who work under Green Horizon as well as issues related to the overall…

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

Amin Saskai

Senior Procurement Officer, ADB

Amin is a Senior Procurement Officer at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He coordinates procurement strategy, planning, implementation-related support, and capacity development for ADB-financed projects in Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Niue. Before joining ADB in 2021, he worked for the…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty

Amina Mohammed

Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

Before becoming the United Nations (UN) deputy secretary-general in early 2017, Amina J. Mohammed was the Minister of Environment of Nigeria. Prior to this, she supported the UN Secretary-General as special adviser on post-2015 development planning, where she was instrumental in bringing about the…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Amit Jain

Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank

Amit is a solar engineer, with a Ph.D. in solar energy and Fulbright Scholarship from NREL, USA and Chevening Fellow at King’s College, London. He loves to shares real-life stories on how solar energy is transforming people’s lives across health, transport, water, and agriculture sector. He works…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Health
   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, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Amit Kaushik

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Council for Education Research (India)

Amit Kaushik is CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (India), a not-for-profit organization that undertakes commissioned educational research, large scale learning assessments, and professional development for a range of clients in India and South Asia. A former civil servant, he…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Amitabh Kant

G20 Sherpa, India

Amitabh Kant is India’s G20 Sherpa. The G20 or the Group of 20 is a forum where policymakers of industrialized and developing economies meet to discuss key issues in the global economy. Kant is a governance reformer and a public policy change agent for India, having driven key reforms and…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Amparo MuÑoz

Principal IV, O’Donnell High School Division of Tarlac Province

Dr. Amparo M. Muñoz is an educational leader whose expertise centers on teacher quality, people development, and transformational leadership. She was a co-proponent of the training for GURO 21 Course1, a flagship project of the Provincial Government of Tarlac that helped capacitate public school…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education

An Maria Omer Notenbaert

Coordinator Tropical Forages Africa, CIAT

An Notenbaert is Coordinator and Researcher at CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security based in Kenya.

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

Anajali Adukia

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Anjali Adukia is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and College. In her work she is interested in understanding how to reduce inequalities such that children from disadvantaged backgrounds have equal opportunities to fully develop their potential. Her…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education