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Victoria Austin

CEO, Global Disability Innovation Hub

In 2016, Victoria Austin co-founded and is now the CEO of the Global Disability Innovation Hub. She works with over 70 partners in more than 41 countries on programs that total about £50m. She is also an Associate Professor of Social Justice and Innovation at UCL Engineering. She is also…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Vignesh Naidu

Director of Operations, The HEAD Foundation

Vignesh Naidu is currently the Director, Operations at The HEAD Foundation. Vignesh helms The HEAD Foundation’s education team that works across Southeast Asia to improve education outcomes through; the design and delivery of bespoke capacity building opportunities for educators, the production of…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education

Vineet Sukumar

Founder, Vivriti Asset Management (VAM)

Vineet Sukumar is the Founder and CEO of Vivriti Asset Management (VAM). Vineet is also the co-founder of Vivriti Group which was founded in 2017 and comprises of India's largest debt platform, ‘CredAvenue’, along with an NBFC. Vivriti Group - backed by marquee investors…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Vinita Rodrigues

Project Assistant, cBalance Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Vinita has a Masters Degre in 'Natural Resources and Governance' from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She worked with an NGO working with rural communities in India. She engaged in socioecological research and supported community-based participatory action reserch work aimed at landscape…

   Topic(s): Energy, Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Volker Schmid

Head of Asia Pacific, FESTO

Volker Schmid is the Head of Asia Pacific of Festo Didactic SE. 

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education

Warathida Chaiyapa

Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, Chiang Mai University

   

   Topic(s): Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Wayne Mendiola

Acting Secretary National Department of Education, Federated States of Micronesia

Mr. Mendiola has served the education system in his country since 2003 in roles such as Assistant Secretary for the division of Formal and Non-formal Education, Assistant Secretary for the department of Quality and Effectiveness, and administrator for Post Secondary Education. Mr. Mendiola started…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Wei-Shieun Ng

Advisor – Sustainable Transport and Global Outreach, International Transport Forum

Dr. Wei-Shiuen Ng is Advisor on Sustainable Transport and Global Outreach in the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She has a background in environmental science, transportation engineering and urban planning, and leads the…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Transport
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Wenny Duncan

Independent Education and Evaluation Specialist, Asian Development Bank

Wenny Duncan engaged by ADB's Independent Evaluation Department to carry out an in-depth assessment of ADB support to the education sector in different member countries including Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education

Wilson Villones

Head, Philippine Social Science Council

Wilson Villones is also a Goalkeeper Youth Action Accelerator Awardee of the CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. He was Project Coordinator of Affiliated Networks for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific and writer and researcher at the University of the Philippines,…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions