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Yee Ler Lau

Senior Public Affairs Manager, APAC, Tencent

Yee Ler Lau leads Tencent’s public affairs and policy work in Southeast Asia. He oversees the company’s engagements with governments and other partners on programmes and policy developments to promote the positive impact of technology on the economy and community.  Prior to Tencent, Mr Lau…

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

Yen Nguyen Thi

Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor , CARE International, Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Yen is the climate change and disaster reduction advisor of CARE International in Vietnam. She has approximately 20 years experience in areas of community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, particularly in climate and disaster vulnerability and capacity analysis…

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

Youngsup Choi

Professor, Korea University of Technology and Education

Professor Youngsup Choi received his Doctor of Philosophy in economics (labor economics major) in 1996 from Korea University. During the foreign exchange crisis, Professor Choi was specially appointed as a statistics officer at the Korea National Statistical Office where he was in charge of…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

YoungTae Kim

Associate Vice President, Institute for Startup KAIST

Dr. Young-Tae Kim is Associate Vice President of the Institute for Startup KAIST. Before he joined KAIST, he was Director-General of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups in the Republic of Korea and He worked in the government for 20 years. He contributed with his specialty to improve the innovation…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Education
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 4: Quality Education

Yudho Giri Sucahyo

Professor and Chairman, University of Indonesia, PANDI

Chairman of PANDI (.id Registry) and also Professor at Faculty of Computer Science – Universitas Indonesia, have a bachelor degree and master degree in computer science from Universitas  Indonesia, and doctorate degree in computer science from School of Computing - Curtin University of…

   Topic(s): Education, ICT
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Yuhyun Park

Founder, DQ Institute

Dr. Yuhyun Park is a world-leading expert in digital skills and child online safety. She conceptualized the Digital Intelligence (DQ) and framework, the global standard for digital literacy, skills, and readiness (IEEE 3527.1TM) which was endorsed by the IEEE Standards Association, OECD, and World…

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

Yuichi Arita

Director, City of Kitakyushu, Japan

Yuichi Arita is a director for the Overseas Environmental Project Department in City of Kitakyushu, Japan. He has three years of experience in "Kitakyushu Asia Center for Low Carbon Society" established in 2010 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Asian region by support for technological…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Energy
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Yumiko Yamakawa

Senior Education Specialist, ADB

Yumiko is a Senior Education Specialist at the ADB’s Southeast Asia Department based in Manila, Philippines. Her areas of expertise include education and skills development sector planning, education system strengthening and education financing. She obtained a Master of Education and Development (…

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

Yunmook Nah

President, Association of Software Centered Universities, RoK

Yunmook Nah received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Dean of College of Software Convergence at Dankook University, Korea. He was a visiting scientist of IBM…

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

Yuqing Yu

Unknown, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Dr. Yu joined IGES in April 2013 and is a Senior Policy Researcher and task manager in the Climate and Energy Area. Her current research has focused on climate finance, in particular the governance mechanism, the institutional arrangements, and the effectiveness of climate finance. Before IGES, she…

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