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A K Kalesh Kumar (Kalesh), is World Bank Lead Procurement Specialist and Procurement Hub Coordinator for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand based out of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Kalesh has an extensive background, having worked in public procurement for 25 years in World Bank, UNICEF, UK DFID,…
Topic(s): Finance
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Aaron is a creative and accomplished Environmental Consultant/Specialist, an experienced Project Manager, and an award-winning entrepreneur.
Broadly, his skills and experience derived from working across many projects spanning the U.K, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Uganda, Brazil, Swaziland and…
Topic(s): Capacity Development
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
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…
Topic(s): Economics
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
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…
Topic(s): Economics
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
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
SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Abigail has more than 16 years of in-depth experience in internal auditing; from setting up an internal audit function, to internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing, to conducting external quality assessment reviews of internal audit functions of clients.
She is active in professional…
Topic(s): Finance
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Abu Farah Md. Nasser is the Deputy Governor of the Bangladesh Bank. He has been Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank since March 2021. He started his career as Central Banker at Bangladesh Bank in October 1988. With over 32 years of experience in different positions in Bangladesh Bank, he supervised…
Topic(s): Economics, Finance
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Adam Triggs is the Director of Research at the Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Crawford School of Public Policy. Formerly a visiting researcher at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Adam is published in leading economics journals and is a regular contributor to the Australian…
Topic(s): Economics, Finance, Governance and Public Sector Management, Industry and Trade
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Because youth and youth-led organizations are important members of civil society, ADB started the Youth Initiative—now called ADB Youth for Asia or YfA—in 2013, to support young people in contributing effectively to development. It is a program managed by ADB’s NGO and Civil Society Center to…
Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Dr. Adi Budiarso is the Head of the Climate Change and Multilateral Policy Center of the Fiscal Policy Agency in the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia
He was the Human Capital Advisor to the Secretary-General of the MOF and has acted as Head of the Finance Profession Regulatory Agency and the Deputy…
Topic(s): Economics, Health
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being