Professor Yaacob Ibrahim is currently Professor in Practice at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Advisor, Office of the President, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), as well as Director, Community Leadership and Social Innovation Centre (CLASIC…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Yan-You Chen serves as a specialist of Honduras Forest Pest Management Project since 2018, with skills of forest management, RS/GIS and computer programming. Prior to this, he worked at the Laboratory of Earthquake under Professor Yih-Min Wu in NTU, to build earthquake early warning system in…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Yaozhou Zhou has been with ADB for more than 10 years. He holds an MBA from the University of Birmingham and a bachelor’s degree in Water Resources from Wuhan University.
Topic(s): Water
SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Ms. Yasmin Siddiqi is a chartered civil engineer (UK) and has a post graduate degree in irrigation engineering (UK). She has over 20 years of experience in water resources management, irrigation, knowledge management and leading teams at Asian Development Bank (ADB). She is currently the…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Water
SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger
Yaver is the Managing Director at WSUP Advisory. His background is in civil engineering with over 40 years of experience in the engineering and management of infrastructure in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America.
He applies his commercial, financial, and business skills to ensure that…
Topic(s): Water
SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Yen has over 17 years of experience in IP enforcement & litigation. Her specialty in contentious and non-contentious IP matters has a focus on enforcement, protection, and commercialization of trade marks, patents, copyright, and domain names. Her expertise in IP stretches across multiple…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Dr. Yonghui Zhu is a professor of hydraulic engineering and Director of International Cooperation Department at the Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute (CRSRI). He graduated in water conservancy and hydropower engineering from Hohai University, China, in 1998, and obtained a doctorate…
Topic(s): Water
SDG: Goal 14: Life Below Water
Yoonmin Cho is a partner at Sopoong Ventures, spearheading global investment with a keen
focus on climate tech. Her climate tech investments include Capture 6, a DAC startup in the US
and Selex, an electric motor bike company in Viet Nam. Before Sopoong, as a CBDO at Kmong,
a Korean startup, she…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Mr. Yoshiaki Kobayashi is a national of Japan. He obtained his master’s degree in environmental science (urban and regional planning) from Tsukuba University, Japan. Mr. Kobayashi has over 30 years of professional experience, including 19 years with ADB.
He joined ADB in 2005 as Project Specialist…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Water
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities