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Prior to his appointment as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India in January 2022, Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran was a writer, author, teacher and consultant.
He has written a weekly Mint column for fifteen years on Tuesdays since 2007.
He has co-…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Finance
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Vanisa is currently the Deputy Director of Thailand’s Hub of Talents on Air Pollution and Climate (HTAPC). She is also an air Modeling Consultant working on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with Chemistry for the assessment of PM2.5 Mitigation measures across Thailand. This…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Vanita has over 25 years of experience in the development sector. She has been working on a wide range of issues including water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), small holder agriculture, forest governance, rural livelihoods, women’s land rights, renewable energy, climate change, extractives and…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Water
SDG: 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 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Venkat is the Founder and CEO of Cygni and an Advisory Committee member of National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), India. He has over 20 years of experience in Product Design and Engineering Management. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Solarsis and Su-Kam Power Systems, a…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land
Venkatesh Dwivedi is the first project manager of Energy Efficiency Services Limited's (EESL) flagship scheme UJALA, as well as the National Program Manager for Streetlights National Program of India. With more than 26 years of rich experience, he has been earlier in the Oil and Energy Sector…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
SDG: 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
Verena has over 10 years of work and research experience in the field of policy advisory/project development especially on the topics of energy efficiency: policy & finance, energy/climate policy and urban governance in the South East Asian context. In her PhD research, she explored how far the…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Veronica is a Climate Advisor at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). ACIAR brokers, manages, and funds collaborations between Australian researchers and research and action partners in low and middle-income countries to advance grounded, locally-led improvements…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Since 1st January 2020, Vibeke Jensen is the incumbent Director of the Division for Peace and Sustainable Development within the Education Sector at UNESCO Headquarters. The Division covers, amongst others, education for sustainable development, global citizenship education, prevention of violent…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Education, Health
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Vicente Anzelini leads the global and regional analysis team at Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and coordinates the production of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), regional reports, and country profiles. He previously worked for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Country: Lithuania
Vidmantas Jankauskas studied at the Vilnius University and worked for twenty years at the Lithuanian Energy Institute, researching energy economics. During that period he received his doctorate and doctor habilitation scientific degrees, published more than 100 scientific…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Environment
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land