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Marino Deocariza

Urban Planner, Oxfam

Marino Deocariza is an urban planner from Oxfam GB and Team Lead of Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance (TA) Promoting Urban Climate Change Resilience in Selected Asian Cities (Subproject 3). This TA project is implemented in eight cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Mario Unterwainig

Disaster Risk Management Specialist (Resilient Infrastructure), ADB

He currently works in various thematic projects regarding Disaster Risk Management for ADB. He is also part of the ADB GIS- Working group.  He is also developing a pro-ject together with the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management team financed by the Austrian Government on a Next…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Markus Repnik

Director, Director Development Partnerships, World Meteorological Organization

Markus Repnik is an international development executive with 30 years of experience gained with the United Nations, World Bank Group, Austrian Government, NGOs, and private sector, including 16 years of field experience in developing and transition countries. Since October 2017 Mr. Repnik…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Finance
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action

Markus Wächter

Managing Director, TUM Asia

Dr. Markus Wächter is the Managing Director of TUM Asia, the subsidiary of the Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich, TUM) in Singapore. Dr. Wächter has over 15 years of experience heading the institute, which was set up as the first German academic venture abroad in 2002.…

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

Marla Spivack

Research Fellow, CID’s Building State Capability program

Marla Spivack is a Research Fellow at CID’s Building State Capability program, and the Research Manager of the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) program. She leads an array of research activities focused on synthesizing the findings of RISE country team work. Prior to joining CID,…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education

Marong Phadoongsidhi

Assistant to the President for Management of Asset, Finance and Property, KMUTT

Marong Phadoongsidhi is an assistant professor of Computer Engineering at the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). He also holds a management position as an Assistant to the President for Management of Asset, Finance, and Information.

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

Martha Rogers

Senior Economist, The Nature Conservancy

Martha Rogers is an economist in The Nature Conservancy’s Center for Sustainability Science. In this role, she serves as the technical lead for the Conservancy’s ongoing collaboration with Dow. She works closely with Dow staff to develop tools and processes to implement the company’s ten-year…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Finance
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water

Matt Gerstenberger

Principal Scientist, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS)

Matt is a seismologist who focuses on earthquake forecasting and seismic hazard modeling. His role at GNS is twofold: he leads the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) - a scientific model that uses geodetic modeling and historical earthquake data to estimate the likelihood and strength of…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Matti Mäkelä

Chair , Union of the Baltic Cities Task Force

Matti Mäkelä has a lot of experience in leading broad development projects, which have frequently dealt with the themes such as STEAM, the Finnish Youth Guarantee, and the development and transfer of innovations. He has also been a speaker in various Youth Guarantee and innovation transfer seminars…

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

Md Golam Rabbani

Head, Climate Bridge Fund, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

Md. Golam Rabbani is the Head of the Climate Bridge Fund (CBF), BRAC in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been working on environment and climate change issues at national and regional levels for about nineteen years, mainly in the areas of climate risk and vulnerability assessment, risk management, policy…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action