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Lasse Leponiemi

Executive Director & Co-founder, HundrED

Lasse Leponiemi is a Partner and the Head of Operations at HundrED, a company focusing on educational innovations. He is also supporting Idealist Group as the Head of Operations. Lasse has been working with youth education and career planning since 2003. In 2008, he founded an e-student counseling…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education, Health
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Lavanya Vijayasingham

Research Fellow (Global Health), United Nations University International Institute for Global Health

Dr. Lavanya Vijayasingham is an interdisciplinary global health research professional from Malaysia. She’s just completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, where she worked on gender and health policy, programming, and research…

   Topic(s): Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Le Thai Ha

Vice Director, National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Viet Nam

Dr. Le Thai Ha (Mrs.), M. Sc., PhD is the Vice Director, National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Director of National Center for Water Quality Surveillance & In-charge of International Collaboration, NIOEH, MOH, Viet Nam. Dr. Le Thai Ha is Vice Director of The National…

   Topic(s): Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Leith Greenslade

Founder & CEO, JustActions

Leith Greenslade, the CEO and Founder of JustActions. JustActions works with innovators from the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors to advance ten mutually reinforcing, measurable goals with the power to accelerate progress to a more just world rapidly, sustainably, and irreversibly.…

   Topic(s): Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Lidia Morawska

Distinguished Professor, Queensland University of Technology

Lidia Morawska is a Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT, which is a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization on Research and Training in the field…

   Topic(s): Energy, Health
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Lieke Visser

Risk Communications Officer, WHO

Ms Lieke Visser is the technical officer at the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO WPRO) working in the World Health Emergency (WHE) team, based in Manila, Philippines. She leads the WHO WPRO’s risk communication work and has been involved in the COVID-19…

   Topic(s): Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Lo Veasnakiry

Secretary of State, Ministry of Health, Cambodia

Dr Veasnakiry has worked in the public health sector for 34 years. He was an assistant surgeon in a national hospital from 1989 to 1993 and then moved to work at the Department of Planning & Health Information, the Ministry of Health. As a policy planner, he possessed strong knowledge and…

   Topic(s): Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Mahabir Pun

Chairperson, Annapurna Dhaulagiri Community Eco-trekking Development and Promotion Organization

Dr. Mahabir Pun is a well-known social entrepreneur. He has been involved for 27 years in rural community development projects covering many fields such as education, health, nature conservation, income generation, and tourism. He is widely known for introducing broadband Internet using WiFi…

   Topic(s): Education, Health, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Mandana Arabi

Vice President, Nutrition International

As Vice-President, Global Technical Services and Chief Technical Advisor at Nutrition International, Mandana oversees the technical quality of Nutrition International’s programming in 10 countries and leads a team of experts to address the most challenging gaps in evidence and practice in order to…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Mara Warwick

Country Director, World Bank

Mara K. Warwick is the World Bank Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Trained as an environmental engineer, she has expertise in flood management, urban development, urban environmental services and disaster risk management. She manages a portfolio of more than US$ 3…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 13: Climate Action