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Mara Warwick

Country Director, World Bank

Mara K. Warwick is the World Bank Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Trained as an environmental engineer, she has expertise in flood management, urban development, urban environmental services and disaster risk management. She manages a portfolio of more than US$ 3…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 13: Climate Action

Mridul Chowdhury

CEO, mPower

Mridul is the CEO of mPower, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with deployments in more than a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. mPower specializes in innovative ICT-based solutions in health and agriculture to bring much needed services to the under-privileged using ICTs. Mridul…

   Topic(s): Health, ICT
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Nutta Taneepanichsku

Associate Professor, College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University

Dr. Nutta Taneepanichskul is an Associate Professor at the College of Public Health Sciences (CPHS), Chulalongkorn University, where she leads urban health and environmental health. She was a visiting scientist at Epidemiology in the US and Community and Global Health in Japan. Her primary research…

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

Pankaj Gupta

Digital Health Management Consultant, Taurus Glocal Consulting

Dr. Pankaj Gupta is a Digital Health Management Consultant. He is a visionary leader, a technocrat, and a data scientist. He has a Master's in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, and Management. For over two decades, he has been working in Healthcare/Pharma Technology business and…

   Topic(s): Health, ICT
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Pia Bernadette Roman Tayag

Managing Director, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Ms. Pia Bernadette Roman Tayag is the Director of the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). In this role, Pia leads the team that supports the work of Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands as the UNSGSA. Prior to…

   Topic(s): Finance, ICT, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Sean Wihera

Vice President, Business Development and Partnerships, Clarity Movement

Mr. Sean Wihera is the Director of Business Development with Clarity Movement, a California-based startup providing next-generation air quality management solutions to cities around the world. Since joining Clarity Movement in 2017, Sean has led Clarity's network deployments into 75…

   Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Seungsik Hwang

Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Seoul National University

Seung-sik Hwang is a professor of epidemiology from the School of Public Health, Seoul National University.  He is a member of the Korean Society on Epidemiology's consultation committee on COVID-19 response. He served during the 2015 MERS outbreak as the field…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Health, ICT, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 13: Climate Action

Shotaro Sasaki

Senior Urban Development Specialist, ADB

Dr. Shotaro Sasaki is the Senior Environment Specialist for ADB's Urban and Social Sectors Division in the East Asia Department. He joined ADB in 2005 and worked on energy projects in Central and West Asia such as Afghanistan, environment improvements in South Asia such as India, and in the private…

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

Shruti Mehta

Postgraduate Researcher Sport for Development, ADB

Previously worked on youth development at the Asian Development Bank and through this experience, I have been able to appreciate the power of sport to be an agent of change. I spearheaded a project on the potential to leverage sport as tool for socio-economic development in Afghanistan and will…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Health, ICT, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sonal Shah

Independent Consultant, ITDP India

Ms. Shah leads urban planning, gender and transport strategy, research, projects and policy at ITDP India. She has 13+ years' experience across multiple scales on city development, neighborhood plans, transit-oriented development and station accessibility planning, street design, historic precinct…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection, Transport
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 15: Life on Land