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James Spurgeon

Founder/Director, Ecosystem Valuation Specialist, Sustain Value

James Spurgeon is the founder and director of Sustain Value, a consultancy firm he established in 2011 to advise financial institutions, investors, multi-national companies and governments on natural capital, multi-capitals and the blue economy. He is an environmental economist with 30 years…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Finance
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water

Jim Leape

Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions

Jim Leape is the William and Eva Price Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and co-director of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions. Through research, writing and direct engagement with private and public sector leaders, Jim looks at how to drive large-scale…

   Topic(s): Environment, Finance
   SDG: Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Jittima Rodsawad

Public Health Technical Officer, Health Impact Assessment Division, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)

Jittima is the Public Health Technical Officer in the Health Impact Assessment Division at the Department of Health. Since 2002, she has experience with HIA applications for public parks in the Yala municipality in Thailand. She is also responsible for developing HIA training courses for…

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

Joan Fulton

Adjunct Professor, Geneva Business School-Geneva & Schiller Int'l University-Madrid

With a career spanning more than 25 years in international banking and finance in New York, Geneva and Madrid, more than 10 years teaching international business at universities in Madrid and Geneva, and more than 15 years working with various NGOs in Asia, Joan dedicates her time and skills to…

   Topic(s): Environment, Finance
   SDG: Goal 14: Life Below Water

Jonathan Gilman

Regional Development Coordinator, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN Environment Programme

Jonathan Gilman has worked with the United Nations for 19 years. His assignments include working with the UN at the global level in UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy; at the regional level as Regional Development Coordinator with the UN Environment Programme (current position) and prior to that…

   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

Jorge Emmanuel

Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science and of Engineering , Silliman University - Dumaguete

Dr. Jorge Emmanuel adjunct professor in Silliman University received May 18 the Albert Nelson Marque Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles. He celebrates many years’ experience in his professional network and has been noted for…

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

Junyi Zhang

Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan

Professor Junyi Zhang is a professor at Mobilities and Urban Policy Lab of Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is also the Director of  Center of Asian Sustainable Mobility Research at Hiroshima University, Japan. Prof. Zhang’s research fields…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Development
   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

Jyoti Parikh

Executive Director, Integrated Research and Action for Development

Jyoti Parikh is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change –India and is a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC authors in 2007. She served as the senior professor and Acting Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai 1986-2003. IIASA…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Industry and Trade
   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, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Kah Meng Wong

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Funding Societies Malaysia

Kah Meng pioneered SME digital financing in Malaysia by setting up and launching Funding Societies’ operations in Malaysia, being a pioneer SME digital financing platform to operate locally. Prior to Funding Societies, Kah Meng specialized in strategy and risk management and worked across Southeast…

   Topic(s): Finance
   SDG: Goal 14: Life Below Water

Karen Sack

Executive Director, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

Karen is Executive Director of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), a multi-sector coalition of governments, finance, insurance companies, and civil society organizations. ORRAA pioneers innovative finance products that drive investment into marine and coastal natural capital,…

   Topic(s): Environment, Finance
   SDG: Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land