Resource Speakers
Aakash is the Chief Commercial Officer Pixxel, a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging microsatellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Prior to this, he was the Vice President of CropIn Technology, a cloud-based platform enabling data-driven agriculture for multinationals.
He graduated from Kellogg Executive Foundation with a degree in Product Strategy. He also took Python courses at UC Berkeley.
Topic(s): ICT
Aamir Riaz is a Programme Officer in International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is currently part of the team at its Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
Topic(s): ICT
Aape Pohjavirta is the Founder and President of Funzi, a mobile learning service. Funzi gives the world’s billions of mobile users access to motivating and useful learning. An opportunity to develop skills to build a better tomorrow. High quality, relevant courses delivered with a combination of effective pedagogy and an engaging experience
In his role at Funzi, Aape has become a recognized industry leader with a vision of how science, technology, and innovation will contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Topic(s): Economics, Education, ICT
Topic(s): Economics, Finance, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
Abhinav Bhushan, as Director for South Asia of the ICC Arbitration and ADR International Court of Arbitration, ICC, focuses on helping companies, investors, and attorneys in the region understand how they can efficiently resolve international commercial disputes by raising their awareness on the ICC's Dispute Resolution Services and its commitment to international arbitration, the procedure, and thought leadership.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Abhishek Ranjan is the Additional Vice President and Head of Renewables, DSM & EE and Energy Analytics at BSES Rajdhani Power (BRPL) Limited, New Delhi. Abhishek has about two decades of experience in Power and Information Technology sectors in India. He started his career with Infosys Technologies Limited, an IT company based in India, where he worked on the development of enterprise applications for a major US utility and a technology MNC.
Topic(s): Energy, ICT
Abhishek is an entrepreneur who has had many successful ventures under his belt. He has been a pioneer in the New Space industry in India.
Topic(s): ICT, Private Sector
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 organizations such as The Institute of Internal Auditors Philippines (IIA-Philippines) and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Philippines (ACFE-Phils). She was the 2020 Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the IIA-Philippines.
Topic(s): Finance
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 the activities of the Banking Regulation and Policy Department, Department of Off-site Supervision, Department of Banking Inspection, Agricultural Credit Department, SME & Special Programmes Department, etc.
Topic(s): Economics, Finance
Adam Goff is a principal at 8 Rivers Capital, a firm which invents and commercializes sustainable infrastructure technology. 8 Rivers invented the Allam Cycle and the NET Power joint venture that uses that technology. NET Power has raised over $150m from Exelon, McDermott, and Occidental Petroleum. Adam leads on business development for a number of 8 Rivers’ projects and is also Director of Policy for the firm. Adam has a degree from Yale University and was formerly Chief of Staff at ClearPath, a $165 million foundation that advances dispatchable clean energy.
Topic(s): Energy, ICT
Adebayo Adeniyi is a Senior Procurement Specialist in the Governance Global Practice at the World Bank. Based in Abuja Nigeria, he has more than 35 years of professional experience of which 18 years are in development work. He focuses on the full range of procurement fiduciary and reform, service, and knowledge functions supporting the World Bank’s Nigeria and West Africa Regional portfolios in the preparation and implementation of complex, high-value projects in energy, transport, water, and governance sectors.
Topic(s): Energy
Adrienne focuses on business development and partnerships in Southeast Asia. She creates innovative partnerships across public and private sectors that result in new healthcare and aged care models. Adrienne has led the development and growth of innovative programs such as Modern Aging, the Health Futures network, and the newly launched Fintech for Health Innovation Platform. Prior to joining ACCESS Health International, Adrienne worked in education administration for the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
Topic(s): Health, ICT
Dr Ahu Meryem Erdogan started her career as an assistant social policy expert at the Prime Ministry of Türkiye in 2006, and continued to work as an expert upon the acceptance of her specialization thesis. After 5 years of work, she worked as a planning expert at the Ministry of Development of Türkiye in determining the campus infrastructure and superstructure investment projects of state universities and allocating funds.
Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management
Aidana Tleuken, an accomplished MSc graduate in Structural Engineering, currently serves as an early-stage researcher at Nazarbayev University, where she specializes in the fields of Civil Engineering and Circular Economy. With a strong foundation in structural engineering and a keen interest in sustainability, Aidana is committed to driving innovation in sustainable construction practices and resource efficiency. Her unique approach combines computational sociology research methods with valuable industrial experience, allowing her to achieve impactful intersectoral outcomes.
Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development
Dr. Aijun Qiu, Deputy Director-General and Research Fellow, China Center for Urban Development, National Development and Reform Commission; Consultant to the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB); Executive Director, China Society of Urban Economy. Previously in the State Commission for Structural Reform, she took charge of projects of small town and community development in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Children's Fund.
Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Urban Development
Mr. Samyal is a seasoned professional with over 17 years of experience at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Currently serving as an Associate Project Officer (Procurement) in India since March 2022, he brings expertise in project administration and finance. With dual master's degrees in Business Administration with a focus on Finance (MBA-Finance) and Computer Application (MCA), Mr. Samyal has accumulated over 19 years of experience in multinational and multilateral organizations.
Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance
Alain Duminy is the Director of the IT Finance and User Services Division in ADB's IT Department with nearly 30 years of experience, and the last 22 years dedicated to supporting the humanitarian mission of the ADB. He is an IT professional dedicated to the renewal and transformation of IT functions and has worked in almost every IT job, spanning from infrastructure, security, risk and compliance and program management. On behalf of the IT Department, Alain will share how ADB's IT partner ecosystem are force multipliers for ADB's digital transformation.
Topic(s): ICT
Alan Shaw, Ph.D., is President, Chief Executive Officer and CoFounder of Calysta, and a member of the Board of Directors. He joined in 2012. Dr. Shaw is a veteran biotechnology entrepreneur and chemical industry executive, with more than 25 years of experience building and leading technology companies. Before joining Calysta, he was a Founder of Codexis, and served for ten years as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director. Codexis is a developer of cost-advantaged processes for production of biobased chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Environment, Social Development and Protection
Alberto Alonso obtained his PhD in Geography in 2009 with a thesis devoted to Earth Observation and Digital Elevation Models and Orthoimagery applied to cartography. He is a geospatial information scientist with long experience in international and national research projects playing different technical and managerial roles. As a geospatial data scientist, he has more than 10 years of experience in geospatial and earth observation analysis and representation, having worked for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency.
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Environment
Albrecht Weerts is an expert on data model integration and hydrological forecasting at Deltares. He has been leading research and development projects on data assimilation techniques for improving flood forecasting system. He is also a Professor of Hydrologic Predictability at Wageningen University, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group.
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, ICT, Water
Topic(s): ICT
Alex is a Senior Manager at Skycatch and has been with the company for 7 years. At Skycatch, Alex has managed prototyping and manufacturing of the Skycatch drones as well as the deployment of Skycatch technology to several clients.
Topic(s): ICT, Private Sector
Alexander Fowler has been working in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation since completing his undergraduate degree in Disaster Management in 2011. He has worked on resilience building projects in Lao PDR, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka with a specific focus on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into development planning processes.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
Holding a degree in industrial engineering, Alexander Bohm joined the Fichtner Group in 2010, supporting the business development activities in the energy and environmental sector in Western Europe as well as coordinating different international subsidiaries within the Group. While tending to the development of new business fields and new clients, he has mainly concentrated on renewables, covering wind, photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower, as well as on cooperating with various financing institutions and private investors.
Topic(s): Energy, Finance
As the data IT lead for the Ethiopian Tax Office’s delivery unit in 2018, Alex directly raised an additional 0.5% of GDP in tax within our first year. He developed a free public electronic tax payments system.
Topic(s): ICT