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Billy Fairburn

Senior Manager, Communities and Livelihoods, BirdLife International

Mr. Billy Fairburn leads the management and development of BirdLife’sCommunities and Livelihoods work-stream. He supports the Regional Flyway Initiative as a technical expert in capacity needs assessment. Billy has a strong track record in capacity assessment, strategic planning, and…

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

Bir Bahadur Ghale

Founder, Hydro Energy Concern

Bir Bahadur Ghale has more than 25 years of experience in the micro/mini hydropower sector. He has also been awarded the Ashoka Fellowship (given to those who have excelled in Social Entrepreneurship). As a micro-hydro entrepreneur, he started his first Micro Hydropower (MHP) plant in Barpak (…

   Topic(s): Energy
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Biranchi Kumar Choudhury

Project Implementation Advisor, Rice-SDP

Biranchi Kumar Choudhury hold two Master degrees, one in Agriculture (Agronomy) and another in Sustainable Development (Climate Change). He is currently working in Cambodia and supporting the Ministry of Economy and Finance as Program Implementation Advisor to implement the Climate Resilient Rice…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Bishwa Nath Oli

Adjunct Professor, Agriculture and Forestry University of Nepal

Dr. Oli has more than three decades experience in biodiversity, environment and climate change sectors working with the Government of Nepal in different capacities. He has worked as a national consultant with various development partners including the Food and Agriculture Organization. He has…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, 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

Bodha Raj Dhakal

Project Manager, Nepal Electricity Authority

Mr. Bodha Raj Dhakal has over two decades of professional experiences, engaged in the planning of rural electrification and distribution system, study, project preparation, feasibility study, determination of financing model and execution of those projects as a project manager. He is…

   Topic(s): Energy
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Borja de la Cruz

Senior Manager - Service Sales, Vestas

Mr. de la Cruz is a Sales and Business Development professional, specialized in Renewable Energy, with 13 years experience in Wind Energy and 10 years living in Asia.

   Topic(s): Energy
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Bozenna PasikDuncan

Immediate past Global Chair, IEEE-WIE, USA, IEEE Women In Engineering USA

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan is a Professor of Mathematics, a Courtesy Professor of both EECS and AE, and an ITTC Investigator at the University of Kansas. Her research interests are primarily in stochastic systems and stochastic adaptive control, system identification and estimation, and control education…

   Topic(s): Energy, Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Britta Schumacher

Senior Nutritionist, UN World Food Programme

Ms. Britta Schumacher is the UN World Food Program’s Senior Regional Nutrition Advisor for Asia & Pacific. She has over 20 years of work experience in evidence -based policy and programming for nutrition & food security, covering development and humanitarian contexts in Asia, East and West…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Bruce Dunn

Director, Safeguards Division, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, ADB

Bruce Dunn is the Director of Safeguards in ADB’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, where he leads a team dedicated to ensuring the implementation of environmental and social safeguard policy principles and good practices in ADB operations. Bruce’s current role build on more…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Bruce Robins

Energy Sector Advisor, Federated States of Micronesia

Dr Bruce W Robins has a unique combination of experience transitioning from international university R&D to Government renewable energy policy development, energy technology transfer, project development and management culminating in consulting to high technology energy companies, governments,…

   Topic(s): Energy, ICT
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals