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Abhinav Bhushan

Director for South Asia of the ICC Arbitration and ADR International Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce

Abhinav Bhushan, as Director for South Asia of the ICC Arbitration and ADR International Court of Arbitration, ICC, focuses on helping companies, investors, and attorneys in the region understand how they can efficiently resolve international commercial disputes by raising their awareness on the…

   Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Agnes K Y Tai

Governing Board Member and Steering Committee Member, Climate Governance Initiative and Climate Governance Initiative Hong Kong

Agnes is a Governing Board member of the Climate Governance Initiative (advocating the eight principles established by the World Economic Forum in 2019), mobilizing board directors worldwide to take climate action. She is a frequent speaker, author, and university professor, serving various…

   Topic(s): ICT, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Aholotu Palu

CEO, Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company

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

Alberto Lorenzo Alonso

Geospatial Information Scientist, Indra Company

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

Hydrology and Forecasting Expert, Deltares

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

Alex ShahryarDavies

Deputy High Commissioner , Government of New Zealand

Alex Shahryar-Davies is the Deputy High Commissioner of New Zealand to Fiji, based in Suva. He has been in this role since December 2022. He has previously held roles in the Pacific & Development Group and the Asia & Americas Group in New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade…

   Topic(s): Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Alexander Fowler

Resilience Specialist (Consultant), Asian Development Bank (ADB)

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

Allen Zhang

President, Hunan Innovative Low Carbon Center (HILCC)

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

Amr Qari

Principal Infrastructure Specialist, ADB

Amr J. Qari currently serves as principal public-private partnership specialist in ADB’s Office of Public-Private Partnership (OPPP). He advises clients on structuring and tendering of PPP transactions and also leads the PPP Coordination and Support Team in OPPP, which is tasked with coordinating…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Industry and Trade, Public-Private Partnership
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Anand Rohatgi

Business Partner, Synergy Consulting

Anand has 15 years’ experience in Infrastructure Industry, ranging from Project and Structured Financing, Corporate Financing and Private Placement of Capital, Regulatory Affairs and Mergers and Acquisitions. Anand also has strong experience with government and multilateral financing institutions,…

   Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure