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Vicente Anzellini

Manager, Global Monitoring and Reporting, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Vicente Anzelini leads the global and regional analysis team at Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and coordinates the production of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), regional reports, and country profiles. He previously worked for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (…

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

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

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

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 Sen Li

Secretary General, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction

Dr. Wei-Sen Li is the Executive Director of APEC Emergency Preparedness Capacity Building Center (EPCC) and the Secretary General of National Sceince and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR). Dr. Li holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from National Central University, where he specializes…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Finance
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

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

Woonghwan An

Director of the Division for University Affairs and Education Policy, Ministry of Education of RoK

Woonghwan An is a director of the University Affairs and Policy Division, which has played a significant role to build the human and technical infrastructure and improve the education system for online learning for higher education institutions. He has served as a Deputy Director and Director in…

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

WooSeung Kim

President , Hanyang University

Woo-Seung Kim is a leader who has leaded industry-academic cooperation at Korean universities through the innovation of  Hanyang University and the co-chair of the National Industry-Academic Cooperation Committee with the current Prime Minister. He established a successful industry-academic…

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

Xianfu Lu

Former Senior Climate Change Specialist (Adaptation), ADB

Xianfu, ADB’s focal point for climate change adaptation, has worked on the science and policy of climate change adaptation for the past 20 years. Trained as an applied meteorologist, he spent the first 10 years of her career researching climate scenarios and their use in climate change impacts and…

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