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Amit Jain

Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank

Amit is a solar engineer, with a Ph.D. in solar energy and Fulbright Scholarship from NREL, USA and Chevening Fellow at King’s College, London. He loves to shares real-life stories on how solar energy is transforming people’s lives across health, transport, water, and agriculture sector. He works…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Health
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Antoine Morel

Principal Environment Specialist, ADB

Antoine Morel is a Principal Environment Specialist with more than 20 years of work experience in environmental management, with a focus on assessing and addressing environmental sustainability issues of infrastructure projects in Asia. He joined ADB in 2010 where he coordinated the preparation and…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Environment
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

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

David Raitzer

Economist, ADB

My main career goal is to help international development investment make more of a difference. To do so, my work is intended to help improve the logic and evidence that underpins program strategy, selection and design, especially in the sectors that matter most to the poor - agriculture, natural…

   Topic(s): Economics, Environment, Evaluation, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Dennie Mamonto

Environment Officer, ADB

Dennie Mamonto has been working with the ADB - Indonesia Resident Mission as an environmental safeguard officer since 2019. He is actively involved in developing project environmental safeguards documents for various ADB-funded project, including public infrastructure, energy, transport, flood…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Environment
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Donald Wai Wing Tai

Director of Hospital Planning and Infrastructure, Yishun Health, National Healthcare Group (NHG) Singapore

Donald Wai is the Director of the Hospital Planning and Infrastructure department in Yishun Health (YH), National Healthcare Group (NHG). He had been involved in the planning, project management and commissioning of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), Yishun Community Hospital (YCH) and Admiralty…

   Topic(s): Environment, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 13: Climate Action

Elena Villalobos Prats

Capacity Building and Country Support Lead, Climate Change and Health, WHO

Elena has been working in WHO for over 14 years now and, in her current position at the Climate Change and Health Unit, she is the lead for capacity building and country support. She is also the lead of the WHO-led Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH), aiming to support…

   Topic(s): Environment, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 13: Climate Action

Emily Pindilli

Director of the Science and Decisions Center and Chief Economist, U.S. Geological Survey

As a PhD environmental economist, Emily focuses on a diverse portfolio of environmental and informational economics research topics including the value of scientific information, ecosystem services assessment and valuation, methods to integrate multi-disciplinary analyses to support…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Fiza Farhan

Advisor and Member, UN High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment

Fiza Farhan is a Pakistan-based entrepreneur and development expert, featured in the US Magazine Forbes “30 Under 30 List of Social Entrepreneurs” for 2015 and again in Forbes Asia List of” 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs in 2016”. She represents Pakistan on the United Nation's Secretary…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Haixia Zheng

Professor, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS); International Poverty Reduction Center in China

Zheng Haixia is a professor at the Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), and a researcher at the Centre for International Agricultural Research (CIAR), CAAS. She is also senior advisor to the International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IRPCC). Dr…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Poverty
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities