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Winnie Lewis

Head, Disability Inclusion, Employment & Employability, SG Enable

Winnie Lewis heads the Disability Inclusion team at SG Enable that provides advisory and consultancy support to organizations keen to employ persons with disabilities. The employer consultants on the team work closely with employers to integrate persons with disabilities at the workplace,…

   Topic(s): ICT
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Witoon Tawisook

Principal Transport Specialist, ADB

Witoon Tawisook is a principal transport specialist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with civil engineering background specialized in structures and bridges. He has extensive international work experience in several Asian countries namely Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Bangladesh,…

   Topic(s): Transport
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Wiwandari Handayani

Head of Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Universitas Diponegoro

Wiwi is a distinguished expert in urban and regional planning, currently serving as the Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Universitas Diponegoro. With over 15 years of experience, Wiwi has been actively involved in urban sustainability and resilience projects. She has led…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Won Kuk Lee

Deputy Director, Geographic Information Institute

  

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

Woochong Um

Managing Director General, ADB

Woochong Um is ADB’s Managing Director General. He assumed the position on 22 February 2021. Mr. Um is responsible for ensuring bank-wide coherence of key initiatives and issues. He provides oversight to the Department of Communications, the Office of Professional Conduct, and the Office of the…

   Topic(s): Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Wouter Schalken

Senior Sustainable Tourism Development Specialist, ADB

Wouter Schalken is a Senior Tourism Development Specialist. Wouter has around 28 years of experience in diverse and multi-faceted interventions in tourism market development and operations. Before joining ADB, Wouter worked for a wide variety of multi- and bilateral development agencies across Asia…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Environment, Finance, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Xia Li

Founder, Shenzhen Power-Solution Ind. Co., Ltd.

Xia Li obtained her Master’s degree in Business Administration from Ursuline College. She is a young entrepreneur and the Founder of Shenzhen Power-Solution Ind. Co., Ltd., a solar company dedicated to supplying the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) people with high-quality and affordable solar solutions…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Poverty
   SDG: 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 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Xian Zhang

Deputy Director, Division of Social Service and Regional Development, Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21 (ACCA21）

Over the past few years, Xian Zhang has always been contributing himself into pushing the work on planning energy strategies, tackling with Climate Change, and also accelerating the development of CCUS technology in China as well as supervising and extending international bilateral and…

   Topic(s): Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Xianfu Lu

Former Senior Climate Change Specialist (Adaptation), ADB

Xianfu, ADB’s focal point for climate change adaptation, has worked on the science and policy of climate change adaptation for the past 20 years. Trained as an applied meteorologist, he spent the first 10 years of her career researching climate scenarios and their use in climate change impacts and…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Xiaohong Yang

Chief Thematic Officer, Asian Development Bank

Xiaohong Yang joined ADB’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department as Chief Thematic Officer on 31 March 2021. Prior to this appointment, she was the ADB’s Country Director for Pakistan since early 2017, where she led the ADB’s operational, knowledge and partnership efforts to…

   Topic(s): Transport
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities