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Md. Fazlul Hoque

Managing Director, Plummy Fashion Limited–Bangladesh

Md. Fazlul Hoque has 20 years of experience in the Knitwear industry, and was the president of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers & Exporters’ Association for 6 years. He was also the President of Bangladesh Employers Federation and Director of the International Apparel Federation. In these…

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

Michael Barrow

Former Director General, ADB

Barrow was also the co-chair of ADB’s Water Community of Practice. Prior to joining ADB, he worked for the Deutsche Bank group over the course of 15 years in London, Tokyo and Singapore, lastly as both Director of Project Finance and Transportation with a project finance and PPP focus. Mr Barrow…

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

Nicholas Stern

Lord Stern of Brentford, CH, Kt, FBA, FRS Chair of Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment, London School of Economics

Professor Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. President of the British Academy, July 2013 – 2017, and was elected Fellow…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, 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

Patrick Chan

Chief Executive Officer, Global Cleantech Cluster Association

Chan is also a co-founder of Cleantech Marketplace Forum and Green Trade Hub, an O2O platform for B2C and B2B eco-products plugging them into the East Asia Business Exchange. Chan is a practicing management consultant and a certified Green Productivity Consultant and Trainer by APO. He is an…

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

Pavel Cech

Managing Director, ResourceCo Asia

After studies of Agricultural Mechanization and Business Administration in the Czech Republic, Pavel Cech started his carrier with Lafarge in 1995 in Supply Chain and in what then used to be called Resource Recovery, which evolved into industrial ecology and, which has become the main point of his…

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

Puan Sri Maimon Arif Patail

Director, Malaysian Mosaics Sdn. Bhd.

Arif Patail is also a Council Member of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) and within FMM, she is the Chairman of Malaysian Ceramic Industrial Group and the Chairman of the Energy Management Committee. Additionally, she is also a trustee of the National Heart Institute Foundation. Arif…

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

Richard Carson

Professor, University of California

Richard T. Carson is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Political Science from Mississippi State University in Mississippi State, MS, USA and a Master of Science degree in the School of Public and International Affairs at The…

   Topic(s): Economics, Environment
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water

Simon Baptist

Chief Economist and Managing Director,, Economist Intelligence Unit

Baptist is responsible for providing intellectual leadership for the EIU’s coverage, for ensuring that our economic and political analysis and forecasts are the best available for international decision-makers, and for managing a global team of economists, consultants and editors. As Managing…

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

Somnath Basu

Senior Advisor, OPEC Fund for International Development

Dr Somnath Basu previously worked in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as Principal Social Development Officer. 

   Topic(s): Economics, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Stefano Barchiesi

Ecosystem Services Officer, BirdLife International

Dr. Stefano Barchiesi has a PhD from the University of Florida for which he studied the trade-offs in ecosystem services at a Ramsar Site in Costa Rica. Prior to that, he worked for 10 years with the IUCN Global Water Programme on several projects on the different elements of nature-based…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Economics, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land