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Wiwi is a distinguished expert in urban and regional planning, currently serving as the Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Universitas Diponegoro. With over 15 years of experience, Wiwi has been actively involved in urban sustainability and resilience projects. She has led…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Woochong Um is ADB’s Managing Director General. He assumed the position on 22 February 2021. Mr. Um is responsible for ensuring bank-wide coherence of key initiatives and issues. He provides oversight to the Department of Communications, the Office of Professional Conduct, and the Office of the…
Topic(s): Climate Change
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Xia Li obtained her Master’s degree in Business Administration from Ursuline College. She is a young entrepreneur and the Founder of Shenzhen Power-Solution Ind. Co., Ltd., a solar company dedicated to supplying the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) people with high-quality and affordable solar solutions…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Poverty
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 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
Over the past few years, Xian Zhang has always been contributing himself into pushing the work on planning energy strategies, tackling with Climate Change, and also accelerating the development of CCUS technology in China as well as supervising and extending international bilateral and…
Topic(s): Climate Change
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Xianfu, ADB’s focal point for climate change adaptation, has worked on the science and policy of climate change adaptation for the past 20 years. Trained as an applied meteorologist, he spent the first 10 years of her career researching climate scenarios and their use in climate change impacts and…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Yaling Wu is responsible for the green finance policy research and green business innovation incubation at Ant Group Research Institute. Before joining Ant Group, Ms. Wu worked at MEPFECO and MOF, participating in international cooperation projects in the fields of climate change and environmental…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Yasushi Hibi has been the Managing Director of Conservation International (CI) Japan since 2003. He leads CI’s efforts in Japan in engaging the Japanese government and the private sector in global sustainable development. In addition, Hibi has taken up responsibilities as Vice President for…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Environment, Private Sector
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Ye is a fourth-year Civil Engineering student and the founder of the McGill Chapter of Student Energy at McGill University. As a future engineer, she aspires to become a global thinker and leader in sustainable development. Ye has been actively involved in research projects, clubs, start-ups…
Topic(s): Civil Society, Climate Change
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Nguyen Thi Yen is the climate change and disaster reduction advisor of CARE International in Vietnam. She has approximately 20 years experience in areas of community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, particularly in climate and disaster vulnerability and capacity analysis…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Yongping Zhai graduated from the Department of Thermal Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1983. Subsequently, he studied at the Institute of Energy Policy and Economics Grenoble, France, and received Ph.D. in Energy Economics in 1989. From 1993 to 2000, he served as a Senior Energy…
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