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Aholotu Palu has been involved in various roles in Tonga’s Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister’s Office for almost 20 years. He has also held significant positions at the World Bank, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (…
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Finance
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Dr Ahu Meryem Erdogan started her career as an assistant social policy expert at the Prime Ministry of Türkiye in 2006, and continued to work as an expert upon the acceptance of her specialization thesis. After 5 years of work, she worked as a planning expert at the Ministry of Development of…
Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Dr. Aijun Qiu, Deputy Director-General and Research Fellow, China Center for Urban Development, National Development and Reform Commission; Consultant to the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB); Executive Director, China Society of Urban Economy. Previously in the State Commission…
Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Alberto Alonso obtained his PhD in Geography in 2009 with a thesis devoted to Earth Observation and Digital Elevation Models and Orthoimagery applied to cartography. He is a geospatial information scientist with long experience in international and national research projects playing different…
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Environment
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 15: Life on Land
Albrecht Weerts is an expert on data model integration and hydrological forecasting at Deltares. He has been leading research and development projects on data assimilation techniques for improving flood forecasting system. He is also a Professor of Hydrologic Predictability at Wageningen University…
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, ICT, Water
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Alexander Fowler has been working in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation since completing his undergraduate degree in Disaster Management in 2011. He has worked on resilience building projects in Lao PDR, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka with a specific focus on…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Ms. Aliia Zhusupzhanova is the Head of the International cooperation sector of the State Agency for State Property Management under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Before her current role, Ms. Zhusupzhanova served as chief inspector of the international cooperation…
Topic(s): Finance, Governance and Public Sector Management
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Mr. Fan Zhang (Allen) is an environmental economics scholar. He is the founder of the Hunan Innovative Low Carbon Center, the first private non-profit carbon neutrality think-tank in China with the provincial climate change authority as the business unit. Allen is also co-secretary of the Asia…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Ms. Anjli joined the Bank as a probationary officer in 2004; she is currently positioned as Assistant General Manager (ESG & Climate Finance Unit) at SBI’s Corporate Office in Mumbai. She is part of a dedicated unit – the ESG & Climate Finance Unit (ESG & CFU) in SBI- which has been…
Topic(s): Energy, Governance and Public Sector Management
SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Anna Marie Karaos is the Associate Director of John J Carroll Institute on Church and Social Issues, a non-government organization specializing in advocacy-oriented research on issues affecting the urban poor, farmers, fisherfolk, and children in the Philippines. She is also a faculty member of the…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action