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Thuy Trang Dang

Country Operations Head, ADB

Trang is a Country Operations Head at ADB. She was previously a Senior Urban Development Specialist in the Urban Development and Water Division of the Southeast Asia Department. Trained as an environmental manager and an urban planner, she has been working on sanitation, urban planning…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Tiffany Hodgson

​Programme and Lead Officer for the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform​, UNFCCC Secretariat​

Hodgson leads the work on the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform at the UNFCCC secretariat, based in Bonn, Germany. She has worked at the UN, on climate change, for 13 years. Prior to that, Tiffany worked in her home country of South Africa on regional socio-economic policy issues.

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action

Tiffany M Tran

Human Settlements Expert (Consultant), Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Tiffany Tran is a Vietnamese-American architect and urban designer who is passionate about inclusive and resilient cities. She approaches urban development from a people-centric lens that integrates urban planning, development economics, and environmental justice. Her policy areas of focus include…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Tillmann von Carnap

Assistant Professor , University of Oslo

Tillmann von Carnap is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He works on the economics of remote rural areas, with a methodological focus on the use of high-frequency satellite imagery. Prior to his current position, he completed his PhD at the Institute for…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Economics, Transport
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Tina Stege

Climate Change Envoy, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Tina Eonemto Stege is the Climate Envoy for the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Born in Saipan, raised in Kwajalein and Majuro, and educated in Honolulu, she brings a Pacific focus to her community-based work on a range of issues, from the impacts of nuclear testing to…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Tom Wilms

Project Manager, Witteveen+Bos

Tom Wilms is a coastal engineer with over 10 years of involvement in various Building with Nature projects around the world and integrated, multi-disciplinary projects in the coastal zone. For this project he is the project manager at Witteveen+Bos and as such responsible for the implementation of…

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

Toru Kubo

Senior Director, ADB

Toru joined ADB in 2004 as the organization's first full-time climate change staff. He designed and established ADB’s Carbon Market Program including one of the world's first post-Kyoto carbon funds, led ADB's work to promote climate change technologies through venture capital funds, and helped…

   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

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Executive Director, People Centered Business and Economic Institute (IBEKA)

Tri Mumpuni (Puni) is an agriculture engineer who has been campaigning for community development and renewable energy for decades. As the Executive Director of IBEKA, she has implemented more than 60 micro-hydropower projects to stimulate economic growth in rural parts of Indonesia. Her…

   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

U Aung Myint

General Secretary, Renewable Energy Association Myanmar

U Aung Myint was a teaching staff and research scholar/leader at Departments of Botany, Marine Biology and Marine Science at Mawlamyine University between 1972 and 1989. In 1995, he founded the Renewable Energy Association of Myanmar (REAM), a local environmental NGO which works to educate the…

   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

Urda Eichhorst

Director, NDC Transport Initiative for Asia

Urda is the director of the NDC Transport Initiative for Asia, coordinating the initiative’s work across all components. She consults partner countries on their climate strategies in the transport sector and related transparency frameworks and data collection. Urda is based in Bonn, Germany.  

   Topic(s): Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action