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Michiko Katagami

Principal Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, SDTC-AR, ADB

Michiko Katagami is Principal Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist and responsible for advising on food security, agriculture and natural resources issues and supporting ADB’s food security engagement both at the country and regional levels. She has over 15 years of the sector investment…

   Topic(s): Economics, Energy
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Ming Tan

Founding Executive Director, Tech for Good Institute

Dr Ming Tan is the founding Executive Director of the Tech for Good Institute. She is concurrently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and society, including…

   Topic(s): Economics, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Mingzhi Xu

Assistant Professor, Peking University

Mingzhi Xu is an Assistant Professor at Peking University. In 2018–2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Bureau of the Economic Research and a visiting researcher at the Growth Lab of Harvard Kennedy School. He obtained the Ph.D. in economics from…

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

Minhaj Mahmud

Senior Economist, ADB

Dr Minhaj Mahmud is Senior Economist, ADB Economic Analysis and Operational Support Division, Economic Research and Development Impact Department. Minhaj’s research areas include behavioral economics, development economics and health economics, with a focus on field experiments and impact…

   Topic(s): Economics
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Mirko Rizutto

Principal Workplace Management Specialist, ADB

Mirko Rizzuto is heading the governance team in the division for Workplace Management & Hospitality where he oversees the ISO Secretariat and its integrated Energy, Environment, Health and Safety Management System for ADB headquarters. Before joining ADB in January 2013, Mr. Rizzuto was in…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Knowledge Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 15: Life on Land

Muhammad Arif Sargana

Director (Economic Affairs), Pakistan Telecom Authority

Mr. Sargana has more than 23 years extensive and demonstrated professional experience both with public and private sectors/International donors/INGOs as an economist. He is working as Director (Economic Affairs) with Pakistan telecom regulator since 2003. He has worked extensively on the…

   Topic(s): Economics, Finance, ICT
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Naning Mardiniah

Senior Safeguards Officer (Resettlement), ADB

Naning Mardiniah is a Senior Safeguards Officer (Resettlement) for Indonesia and Timor Leste. In the Resident Mission, she processes and administers safeguard activities, with a focus on resettlement issues in projects in infrastructure, urban development, sector loans, and private sector…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Finance
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Nicholas Stern

Lord Stern of Brentford, CH, Kt, FBA, FRS Chair of Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment, London School of Economics

Professor Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. President of the British Academy, July 2013 – 2017, and was elected Fellow…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Nick Elger

Program Manager, AgSTAR & Global Methane Initiative, United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) - Climate Change Division

Nick is the Program Manager for the EPA AgSTAR Program and serves as the Co-Chair of the Global Methane Initiative Biogas Subcommittee. In his role as Program Manager for AgSTAR, Nick works with the U.S. livestock industry, state and federal agencies, and biogas industry stakeholders to advance the…

   Topic(s): Economics, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Pacita Juan

Owner, ECHOstore Sustainable Lifestyle

Juan co-founded ECHOstore in 2008 and has since won many awards like Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 (for social enterprise) by Ernst and Young, Social Entrepreneur of the Year by GO Negosyo, and Bossing award by PLDT/Smart. She also chairs the Women’s Business Council of the Philippines, an…

   Topic(s): Economics, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land