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Nicholas Murray

Senior Research Fellow, Space-borne Sensor Technology, James Cook University

Dr. Nicholas Murray is an Australia-based scientist with 15+ years experience working in a variety of academic, agency and private sector positions. After positions at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (UQ), the Remote Sensing Research Centre (UQ) and the Centre for…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Environment, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Noor Ahmed

Executive Director, ADB

Elected as Executive Director for Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, and Timor-Leste effective 1 July 2021. Mr. Noor Ahmed is a career civil servant with 32 years of public service experience in key government positions. Mr. Ahmed holds a master’s degree in…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Norman Emmanuel Ramirez

Program Officer, Ramsar Regional Centre – East Asia

Norman has extensive experience in the fields of training and capacity building and project and organizational development and management. He has worked on a number of projects supported by various international aid and development organizations such as the European Union, World Bank, British…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Environment, Knowledge Management, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Patricia Zurita

Chief Executive Officer, BirdLife International

Patricia leads BirdLife International, the world’s largest nature conservation partnership, bringing together over 100 organisations worldwide to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. An economist by…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Civil Society, Climate Change, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Patrick Osewe

Chief of Health Sector Group, ADB

Dr. Patrick L. Osewe is a leading global expert on public health and the Chief of the Health Sector Group at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In close collaboration with the Health Sector Committee, he currently leads the application of evidence-based and innovative approaches to address priority…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Health
   SDG: Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Peter Chan

Professor (Hon) and Deputy Director, Beijing Normal University

Peter Chan is an Elder Care international consultant with the Asian Development Bank since 2014, and a Research Fellow of the Sau Po Centre of Ageing and Lecturer of the University of Hong Kong, China. He also holds the position of Deputy Director of the Institute of Ageing and Professor of the…

   Topic(s): Health, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Raymond Francis Sarmiento

Director, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila

Dr. Raymond Francis R. Sarmiento is a physician-scientist and currently the Director of the National Telehealth Center, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of the UP College of Medicine’s Medical Informatics Unit and is the…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Robert Guild

Team Leader , PRIF

Robert is the Team Leader for the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility. Prior to joining PRIF, Robert held a number of senior roles with the Asian Development Bank. He also spent four years as the Economic Infrastructure Adviser at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Fiji and served two…

   Topic(s): Education, Energy, Finance, Health, Transport
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Rosemary Ong

Principal Markets Development Advisory Specialist, ADB

Ms. Ong is a national of the Philippines. Ms. Ong has developed Thought Leadership materials on PPP and Privatization. She obtained her Master’s degree in Business Management from Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines and eared her Certificate in Finance from ESADE Business School,…

   Topic(s): Health, Public-Private Partnership
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Sah Gitanjali

Strategy and Policy Coordinator, International Telecommunication Union

Ms. Gitanjali Sah is an experienced International Civil Servant and has worked with several United Nations Organizations like ITU, UNESCO, and UNDP in the field of ICT on Development related policy and implementation issues at an international, regional, and national level. At present, she is…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals