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Stefano Barchiesi

Ecosystem Services Officer, BirdLife International

Dr. Stefano Barchiesi has a PhD from the University of Florida for which he studied the trade-offs in ecosystem services at a Ramsar Site in Costa Rica. Prior to that, he worked for 10 years with the IUCN Global Water Programme on several projects on the different elements of nature-based…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Economics, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Sudarshan Dutta

Lead Agronomist, Agoro Carbon Alliance (Yara)

Dr. Sudarshan Dutta has more than 15 years of working as agriculture scientist in smallholder farming system. Presently Dr. Dutta is working as Lead Agronomist (India) at Agoro Carbon Alliance, a Norway based Carbon Farming organization. Dr. Dutta promotes sustainable management practices in Indian…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sungsup Ra

Deputy Director General and Deputy Group Chief, ADB

Sungsup Ra is Deputy Director General (DDG) / Deputy Group Chief (DGC), Sectors Group. He supports the Sectors Group Director General and Chief in leading ADB-wide strategies, knowledge, partnership, and innovations of the education, energy, finance, health, transport, urban, and water sectors.…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Suniti Gupta

CEO, Innoterra Tech

Suniti Gupta is the CEO of Innoterra, the company that developed a tech farm trace for GI-tagged Alfonso mango and QR Code for Banana. 

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, ICT
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Sushil Babu Dhakal

Project Director, Project Directorate (ADB), Department of Roads

Sushil Babu is a Gazetted First Class Officer with over 15 years of experience in the construction and management of roads and bridges. He has completed a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering and is an staunch proponent of sustainable transportation planning. He has…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Capacity Development, Environment, Governance and Public Sector Management, Transport
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 15: Life on Land

Suzanne Robertson

Principal Operations Coordination Specialist (Environment and Agriculture), Asian Development Bank

Suzanne is designing and implementing loan and technical assistance projects in the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia. Since joining ADB in 2014, she has worked on integrated natural resources management, balancing the needs and interests of sustainable and resilient agricultural and food…

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

Vaibhav Tidke

Co-founder and CEO, S4S Technologies

Vaibhav is the CEO and co-founder at S4S Technologies, India. With a background of a Ph.D. in agri-food processing and management training at IIM-A, he started S4S as a full-stack food processing company. S4S manufactures and sells food ingredients to FMCG and the foodservice industry. The S4S…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, ICT
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Veronica Doerr

Research Program Manager, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

Veronica is a Climate Advisor at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). ACIAR brokers, manages, and funds collaborations between Australian researchers and research and action partners in low and middle-income countries to advance grounded, locally-led improvements…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action

Vignesh Nandakumar

Partner, Aspada Investments

An electrical engineer from IIT Madras, with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, Vignesh has significant experience in technology development and renewable energy, in initiating, sustaining and…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, 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

Virinder Sharma

Senior Consultant and former Principal Urban Development Specialist, ADB

Mr. Sharma takes a lead role in managing delivery, maintaining strategic relationships, providing technical and advisory support to the ADB and to the UK Department for International Development (DFID), leading a team of 10 technical professionals and managing the implementation of 50 projects…

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