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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

Xu Xiangchao

Director, Beijing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau

Xu Xiangchao, Director of the Research Office of the Beijing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau(BEE). He previously served as the Deputy Director of the Air Division and the Chief of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement of BEE. For many years, he has been engaged in regulatory enforcement,…

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

Xu Yuebin

Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy

Xu Yuebin is professor in School of Social Development and Public Policy and Director of Research Center for Aging at Beijing Normal University. His research interests includes social policy, social assistance, child welfare, and elderly care. 

   Topic(s): Health, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Xue Yuwei

Director International Consulting Center, CUCD

She has been engaged in solid waste research and consulting industry for more than 20 years ，and she specializes in consulting projects of international financial organizations. Member of the Professional Committee of MSW Treatment of China Urban Environmental Sanitation Association, the member of…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities