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Anshukant Taneja

Principal Investment Specialist, ADB

Anshukant Taneja is Principal Investment Specialist at Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD), Asian Development Bank (ADB).  He leads the PSOD Microfinance Program that focuses on financial inclusion and helps microfinance institutions deepen their access to commercial finance. Before…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Finance
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty

Anwar Hossain

Minister, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Government of Bangladesh

Anwar Hossain is Minister of Environment and Forests for Bangladesh. He has also served as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Minister of Communications and a Member of Parliament. Prior to entering politics, he was in the media business, serving as editor and publisher of the Daily…

   Topic(s): Energy, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Arjun Guha

Evaluation Specialist, Independent Evaluation Department, ADB

Arjun Guha is an Evaluation Specialist (Energy Sector focal) at ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department (IED). At IED he leads project and sector-level evaluations in the energy sector and assesses the impact of ADB’s interventions in member countries. He has over 15 years of international…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Finance
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana

Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific took office on 1 November 2018. Ms. Alisjahbana was a Professor of Economics at Universitas Padjadjaran and was Minister of National Development Planning and the Head of the…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Asad Aleem

Country Operations Head, Pakistan Resident Mission, ADB

Mr. Asad Aleem is currently posted as the Deputy Country Director / Country Operations Head of the Asian Development Bank [ADB] in Pakistan. Before this assignment, he been ADB’s Principal Energy Specialist, implementing projects across multiple countries in Central and South Asia. He holds two…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Finance
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Axel BörschSupan

Director, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy Professor of Economics and Chair for the Economics of Aging, Technical University of Munich Germany

Axel Börsch-Supan holds a diploma in mathematics from Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. He was Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University 1984-1989, then Professor for Macroeconomics and Public Policy at Mannheim University. Since 2011, he directs the Munich Center…

   Topic(s): Economics, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Aya Suzuki

Professor, University of Tokyo

Aya Suzuki is a development economist and an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Upon obtaining her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, she worked at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan before the current position. Her research focuses on analyzing…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Ayako Inagaki

Director, South East Asia Department, Human and Social Development Division, ADB

Ayako Inagaki is the Director of ADB's South East Asia Department, Human and Social Development Division. She leads the planning, implementation, and supervision of ADB's lending and non-lending operations in the social sectors, that includes education and skills development, health, and social…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Economics, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Aysen Cetintas

Education Director, FCI

Aysen Cetintas is the Education Director of FCI, specialist in receivables finance and speaker at international conferences. She joined FCI in 2008, in charge of FCI’s education programmes. Her area of responsibility encompasses implementing the FCI strategy, by giving dedicated focus to the…

   Topic(s): Finance
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty

Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan

Co-Founder and Partner, Infinite Sum Modelling LLC

Dr. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an affiliate faculty member and senior economist with the School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences, University of Washington-Seattle. Furthermore, he co-founded Infinite Sum Modelling LLC, with offices in Canada, the USA, India, China, and Hong Kong, and…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land