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Arshad Dad

Chief Advisor, Construction Association Pakistan

He is a social worker and philanthropist. He is an Electrical Engineer by profession and graduated from UET Lahore in 1971. He worked for PTV for 9 years (1972 – 1981). 

   Topic(s): Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Arturo M Martinez Jr

Statistician, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, ADB

Art works on poverty measurement theory and Sustainable Development Goals indicators. Before joining ADB, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia, where he also received his PhD in Social Statistics.

   Topic(s): Economics
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Arun Agrawal

Group President, YES BANK

Agrawal heads International Banking at YES BANK, developing business and managing relationship with global financial institutions including banks, multi/bilateral agencies, exchange houses, merchant banks and financial sponsors. Focus of the team is on building strategic relationships in important…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Economics, Environment
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Asha Sundaram

Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Asha Sundaram is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland.  She has an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University, United States.  Her research…

   Topic(s): Economics, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Atonu Rabbani

Professor, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University and University of Dhaka

Atonu Rabbani is an applied microeconomist with research interests in health, labor, and organization economics. He has worked extensively on several research areas aiming to understand how knowledge, awareness, perception, monitoring and incentive can motivate human decision making. He has widely…

   Topic(s): Economics
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Aurora Soriano

Founder & CEO, PinoyTravel

Founder of Pinoytravel.com.ph, an online booking aggregator for long distance buses and ferries in the Philippines. More than 20 years of marketing and business development experience in the mobile telecommunications industry.

   Topic(s): Environment, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 15: Life on Land

Avijit Maji

Associate Professor, IIT Bombay

Avijit Maji is an associate professor, he graduated BS Engineering at Bengal Engineering College (D.U.) now known as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. Master degree at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and PhD in Engineering at Morgan State University,…

   Topic(s): Economics, Governance and Public Sector Management, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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