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Ki-joon Kim

Independent Consultant, ADB

Mr. Kim has over 30 years of professional experience and academic research in the transport sector in Koreas and United Kingdom and has worked with public and private institutions on various transport and urban transport projects. He is currently working in ADB. Since joining ADB in 2010, he has…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 15: Life on Land

Kim Allen

Climate Activist, Papua New Guinea​​​​​​​

Kim Allen, from Papua New Guinea, has over ten years of volunteer work in the youth space and four years of experience in international development. He’s currently doing a Master of Arts in International Development in Japan. Kim started his career with the United Nations Development Programme,…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action

Kirsten McDonald

Associate Principal, International Development, Arup

Kirsten McDonald is an associate principal with Arup’s International Development team in the Australasian region. Kirsten has 28 years’ experience scoping, planning, designing and delivering programs and projects that maximise impact throughout Asia, Australia, and the Pacific for organisations…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 13: Climate Action

Knut Oberhagemann

Principal, Overseas Projects, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Canada

Since joining NHC in 2001, Knut has worked mostly in Bangladesh and India on long-term multidisciplinary studies and in implementing water resource projects. His main focus has been developing riverbank protection solutions for the extensive flooding of the Brahmaputra River in Assam and…

   Topic(s): Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Komal Sinha

Senior Director, Plastics and Sustainable Development Policy and Markets, Verra

​As the demand for Verra’s Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards, Plastic Waste Reduction Standard, and Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard grows, Komal leads on Verra’s policy engagement and market development related to these programs. Komal is a climate…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Kuancheng Huang

Senior Transport Specialist, ADB

Kuancheng Huang is a Senior Transport Specialist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He said that increased connectivity is a precondition for ADB’s work on reducing poverty and promoting gender equality.

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

Lance Gore

Principal Portfolio Management Specialist , ADB

Lance is the Principal Portfolio Management Specialist and Principal Water Resources Specialist for ADB’s South Asia Regional Department’s agriculture and natural resources division. He is a chartered engineer who has been working for ADB since 2003 and as staff since 2012. He focuses mainly on…

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

Lara Arjan

Urban Development Specialist , ADB

Lara Arjan is an Urban Planner with over 20 years of experience in program design, management, monitoring and evaluation. Lara holds two master’s degrees, one in Environmental Sciences and one in Urban and Regional Planning and Development. She has worked with national, multilateral, local…

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

Lara Jean Salaysay

Youth Project Designer (Consultant), ADB

Lara is a professional teacher who specializes in education for sustainable development particularly climate change education. Over the past 6 years, she supported learners and teachers for their meaningful engagement in sustainable development and climate action by serving as a private high school…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Laure Beaufils

British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau, United Kingdom

Her Majesty’s Ambassador Laure Beaufils is currently the British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau. She was the Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa of the Department of International Development from 2019 to 2021 and the Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria from 2017 to 2019.…

   Topic(s): Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals