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Katy Miller is a Director of the Vatuvara Foundation which was formed in 2016 and registered as a charitable organization under Fiji law. The Vatuvara Foundation is committed to protect and revive oceans in the Northern Lau Group of Fiji through a network of marine protected…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Kavita Sinha leads grant-making strategies that enable corporates, utilities, civil society, financial institutions, and governments in Southeast and East Asia to transition to clean and low-carbon energy system. In her previous role, she worked with an American multinational firm that…
Topic(s): Climate Change
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Kazuko joined ADB as nutrition specialist. Before taking this position, she worked for Japanese food manufacturer, Ajinomoto, and has a wide range of experience from R&D to scientific communication in nutrition field. She has Ph.D in chemistry from Osaka University, Japan.
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Health
SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Ms. Kelly has worked in power and natural gas for more than 30 years. She has extensive experience in power, and gas market regulation and reform, energy efficiency, climate change mitigation, and renewable energy. She served as legal counsel at U.S. Department of Energy (FERC); the merger and…
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
Kisa Mfalila is Lead Climate and Environment Specialist for Asia and the Pacific Region (APR) with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). She oversees the climate and environment work program in the region. Under this capacity, she is responsible for delivering sustainability…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
As the demand for Verra’s Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards, Plastic Waste Reduction Standard, and Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard grows, Komal leads on Verra’s policy engagement and market development related to these programs.
Komal is a climate…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Thailand who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in urban dense areas and climate-vulnerable communities.
Winning a contract to build Bangkok’s first public park in three decades, she created an 11-acre “…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Energy, Environment
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, 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
Kyle Datta’s long and distinguished career in the energy sector includes Managing Partner of Booz Allen & Hamilton’s Asia Energy Practice and US Utilities Practice, Managing Director of Rocky Mountain Institute, CEO of the US Biodiesel Group, and founder and General Partner of the…
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
Laarnie is one of the five women founders of Luntiang Pamumuhay, Inc., also known as Back to Basics Ecostore, a zero-waste refillery store in Maginhawa, Quezon City in the Philippines. She is a top performer graduate of the Zero Waste Academy Asia Pacific Cohort 2022–2023. She actively engages as a…
Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Ms. Thomas leads the implementation of ADB’s fragile and conflict-affected situations and small island developing states approach, which institutionalizes differentiated strategies to improve the performance of ADB’s operations in these contexts.
Prior to this, Ms. Thomas oversaw ADB's work on…
Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities