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Saroj Yakami

Country Manager, MetaMeta Nepal

Saroj Yakami has worked over the past 10 years in water resource management covering water resources, agriculture, irrigation, and water harvesting. He has been involved as Country Manager in Nepal working on (i) water security, climate change, and community resilience; (ii) road water management…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Disaster Risk Management, 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

Satoshi Ishii

Director, Strategy and Partnerships, Water and Urban Development Sector Office, ADB

Satoshi Ishii is the Director, Strategy and Partnerships Team, Water and Urban Development Sectors Group at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Previously, he served as ADB’s Viet Nam urban–water sector focal. He is an environmental engineer and urban sector expert with more than 18 years of…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Saulye Janimkhan

Vice Minister, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry, Mongolia

Saulye has been appointed as Vice Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry Ministry for two times between 2008 and 2012, and 2016 to present. Her political career started in 2000 as she became general coordinator at the entity responsible for Government service. In 1987, she has graduated…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sehar Iqbal

Executive Director, The Sajid Iqbal Foundation

Sehar is an expert in rural development, disaster management, capacity-building, rural food programs, and welfare economics.

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sergei Popov

Principal Environment Specialist, ADB

Sergei Popov is ADB's Principal Environment Specialist. Prior to joining ADB, he was an Environment (water and sanitation) specialist, ECA region in World Bank. 

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Sergey Poleshchuk

General Director, Ergonomics Ltd.

Country: The Republic of Kazakhstan   Sergey Vasilyevich Poleshchuk was born in 1969 in Shakhtinsk. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics (Thermal Physics Engineer, 1992) and the Themis Law Academy (Lawyer, 2002). He started his working career in 1992 at…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Seung-sik Hwang

Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Seoul National University

Seung-sik Hwang is a professor of epidemiology from the School of Public Health, Seoul National University.  He is a member of the Korean Society on Epidemiology's consultation committee on COVID-19 response. He served during the 2015 MERS outbreak as the field…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Health, ICT, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 13: Climate Action

Sevrine Sailley

Senior Ecosystem Modeler, Plymouth Marine Lab

Dr Sevrine Sailley is a senior marine ecosystem modeller at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and has been leading on PML’s Science to Impact Challenge Area towards improving the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture. She Chairs the Working Group on Integrative, Physical-biological and…

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

Shai Wade

Head, Upstream Oil and Gas Disputes Team; and Partner, International Arbitration Group, Stephenson Harwood LLP

Mr. Shai Wade is the head of Stephenson Harwood LLP’s Upstream Oil and Gas Disputes Team and a partner in the firm’s International Arbitration Group. He enjoys more than 20 years of experience serving both as counsel and arbitrator in many large scale complex disputes arising in the oil and gas,…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Finance, Industry and Trade, Knowledge Management, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

Senior Nutrition Expert, CGIAR

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted was the Director for Nutrition, Health and Food Security Impact Area Platform, CGIAR until early this year. She was previously the Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health at WorldFish. She was awarded the 2021 World Food Prize for her ground-breaking research,…

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