Resource Speakers
Aage Jorgensen has for the past decade been Program Manager at the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) where he has helped build up a portfolio of climate change projects. He works with community-based adaptation, climate-resilient infrastructure, and urban development and is responsible for the NDF support to several countries in Africa, Asia, and Central America.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development
Abdul Salam is passionate about development and humanitarian work. He has more than 10 years of experience field of water sanitation and habitat and is a continuous learner. Through combining the competencies, skills, upgrade information and field experience he regularly contemplates the new challenges and delivers.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Water
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Finance
Achmed is Programme Management Senior officer of Energy Transition Partnership. He is primarily responsible for effective, transparent and efficient coordination of the Fund’s programs in concert with the ETP Secretariat in its countries of operation, under the Rules and Regulations of UNOPS, and in accordance with the strategy approved by the ETP Steering Committee.
Topic(s): Climate Change
Ms. Adelaida Roman is a Senior Programme Specialist and the Head of Air and Atmospheric Pollution Cluster at the Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Asian Institute of Technology. She coordinates the activities of the "Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and Its Likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia", an intergovernmental network dealing with transboundary air pollution in eight countries of South Asia, as well as the Project “Sustainable Low Emissions Transport”.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment
Agnes Surry joined the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in September 2022 and is Deputy Head of Capacity Building and Training and Senior Economist.
Her areas of interest include development and public finance, aid effectiveness, climate change adaptation, gender equality, social policies, fiscal policies, public debt sustainability, resource mobilization, and country risk analysis.
Topic(s): Capacity Development, Climate Change, Finance, Governance and Public Sector Management
Agnetha Vave-Karamui worked as an environmental/forestry advocacy officer with the Solomon Islands NGO, Environmental Concerns Action Network. She then joined the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management, and Meteorology in 2008. She comes from the Western Province of Solomon Islands, and holds a bachelor of science degree in environmental science from the University of the South Pacific.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
Mr. Ali is currently the Director General of the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Republic of Maldives. He is also the appointed board member of the SAARC Energy Centre since 2009. With over 20 years of experience in the energy sector, Mr. Ali plays a crucial role in the planning and development of the Maldives energy sector. He was actively involved in formulating the Maldives energy policies and strategies including the Maldives National Energy Policy and Strategy and Maldives Scaling Up Renewable Energy Investment Plan.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
Mr. Ahmed Kamal is the Chief Engineering Adviser and Chairman Federal Flood Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of Pakistan. He has over 30 years of professional experience in the field of water resources management, flood control planning and management, DRR, flood forecasting and warning systems, and disaster risk insurance. He has worked on the implementation of National Flood Protection Plans II & III, and Flood Protection Sector Projects, I & II. Mr.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
Mr. Ahmed M. Saeed joined ADB in 2019 and has significant prior leadership experience in both government and the private sector. He is currently responsible for overseeing ADB’s operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Climate Change, Health
Aigerim Akiltayeva is currently engaged as a Climate Change and Project Management Specialist with ADB under the regional technical assistance (RETA), “Promoting Low-Carbon Development in CAREC Program Cities”. She has completed her bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering with first class diploma at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Ms. Akiltayeva successfully designed a group project, “Hydrogen Production via Steam Reforming of Natural Gas” at the University of Leeds.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
Aileen Dalanon leads the Core Business and Emerging Technologies Tariff Management Team which designs tariffs for MERALCO’s core business of electricity distribution. She monitors and advocates for policies that ensure stability and fairness of electricity tariffs, as MERALCO continues to support the technological advancements in the industry. In recent years, with the influx of new energy sources and technologies, she took on the role of monitoring business models and tariff policies on renewable energy and energy efficiency, smart grid technologies, microgrids, and energy storage.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
Sospanova Ainur Saparbekovna is a graduate of Tselinograd State Pedagogical Institute, specialty "Mathematics and Physics", graduate of the Eurasian National University, specialty "Information and Communication Technologies".
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
Ms. Tobing is a City Planner and Senior Advisor to the Governor at the Jakarta Research Council since 2013. She has been appointed as the Chairman of the Climate Change Task Force for Jakarta and serves as Special Staff for Urban and Environmental Management particularly focused on low carbon city programs. Since 2007, she has been involved and active in several international network and organizations, such CityNet in Asia Pacific and C40 Climate Leadership Group.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
Public health physician with extensive work experience across the globe in low-, middle- and high-income countries. Following initial clinical practice, has worked as a frontline public health practitioner, strategist, advocate and leader in various settings.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment
Akira Yoshida is a Strategist for Partner Ecosystem Success in SAP Japan and a Fellow in IBU Public Sector for Emergency and Disaster Management, SAP SE.
Topic(s): Climate Change
Alan Kneisz is Business Development Director at Hydrogenics Corporation, a global provider of advanced hydrogen fuel cell and electrolysis solutions.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
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
Alessandro obtained his Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 2010 and since 2014 he has been appointed as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and as Cluster Director on Multi-Energy Systems and Grids (Thermal Energy Systems) at the Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N).
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
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
Alexandra Galperin has over 25 years of experience in Disaster Risk Management. Before joining ADB’s Pacific Regional Department in 2020, she worked for the Red Cross, the United Nations, and as a consultant for multiple technical, donor, humanitarian, and development organizations balancing headquarter and field assignments. Her experience of large-scale disaster response and recovery operations at the beginning of her career convinced her that she wanted to focus on preventive and adaptive action.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
Mr. Ali Jamil was born in Siabu, August 30, 1965. He has completed his Bachelor's and Master in Agriculture in North Sumatra and also has completed his Doctoral in Soil Science/Plant Physiology from the University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB), the Philippines in 2006.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Health
Topic(s): Climate Change, Water
Dr Baker is currently the Fund Manager for the Australian Government funded Water for Women Fund, a flagship program delivering water, sanitation and hygiene programs across the Asia Pacific region. She has worked in the international development sector with GHD Pty as both a manager and practitioner for over 25 years. Alison has successfully delivered projects for donors including Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Asian Development Bank, and the World Bank, focussed in the infrastructure, water, sanitation, climate change and environment sectors. Alison combines her techn
Topic(s): Climate Change, Urban Development, Water
Mr. Fan Zhang (Allen) is an environmental economics scholar. He is the founder of the Hunan Innovative Low Carbon Center, the first private non-profit carbon neutrality think-tank in China with the provincial climate change authority as the business unit.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development