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Alan Clark is a Principal of Northwest Hydraulic Consultants and has over 30 years’ experience in preparing and implementing both small and large irrigation scheme developments in Asia and Africa as Team Leader and/ or irrigation specialist. He completed his MSc in Irrigation Engineering at…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Pamela is a Senior Transport Specialist from the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department at ADB. She is an experienced team leader with 20 years of international experience in the development and management of transport projects including urban transit systems, railways, seaports,…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Capacity Development, Environment, Transport
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Anand Ramesh Kumar is a Social Development Specialist – (focusing on social protection) working with ADB’s Human and Social Development Sector Office. His focus areas include digital social protection and services, and adaptive and shock responsive social protection. Previously, he worked as an…
Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Born and raised in Manila, Armie Jarin-Bennett started her professional career as a radio newscaster for three local stations, before moving to Atlanta in 1996 to intern at CNN’s main headquarters. She became a production assistant at Headline News in 1997 and quickly moved up to writer and…
Topic(s): Private Sector, Social Development and Protection
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
Aude de Montesquiou is FinEquity Community of Practice Facilitator at CGAP. Aude worked at CGAP from 2005 to 2017, last as Financial Sector Development Specialist, leading CGAP’s Graduating the Poorest and Vulnerable Segments work. She oversaw the implementation of the CGAP-Ford Foundation…
Topic(s): Capacity Development, Poverty, Social Development and Protection
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Aya Suzuki is a development economist and an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Upon obtaining her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, she worked at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan before the current position. Her research focuses on analyzing…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Aziz Elbehri is a senior economist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) since 2008. Currently, he leads the socio-economic development and policy group at the FAO AsiaPacific Regional office in Bangkok. Aziz specializes in climate and food systems interactions, agricultural…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics
SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Dr. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an affiliate faculty member and senior economist with the School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences, University of Washington-Seattle. Furthermore, he co-founded Infinite Sum Modelling LLC, with offices in Canada, the USA, India, China, and Hong Kong, and…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics, Environment
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land
Beau is the Natural Resource Officer – Climate Change and Climate Finance – for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Over the past 19 years Beau has worked as a natural resource management specialist focused on promoting equitable,…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Social Development and Protection
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Benita Ainabe is a Financial Sector Specialist (Capital Markets) in the Public Management, Financial Sector, and Trade Division of the Southeast Asia Department at Asian Development Bank. She specializes in financial sector development, capital markets, innovative financing mechanisms, and…
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade, Private Sector, Social Development and Protection
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals