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Aditya Handa

Founder and Managing Director, Abellon Group Aditya

Aditya Handa is the founder and managing director of Abellon Group. Abellon is engaged in finding sustainable development-led solutions to India's most difficult problems, such as climate change, waste management, energy security, food security, and realizing untapped human…

   Topic(s): Energy, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Annemieke Nijhof

Managing Director, Deltares

Nijhof has extensive experience in the worlds of both government and business. As the Director-General of Water at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (now Infrastructure and Water Management), she was responsible for water policy in the Netherlands. She then turned her…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 15: Life on Land

Atsushi Kaneko

Former Principal Project Management Specialist, ADB

Prior to joining ADB in 2009, Atsushi Kaneko was Director and Chief Representative at the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Chief Representative at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, and Engineer at Pacific Consultants International. He holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from…

   Topic(s): Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 15: Life on Land

Ben Furmage

Chief Executive Officer, Water Sensitive Cities Australia

Ben is the founding CEO of Water Sensitive Cities Australia, continuing his work from his time as CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC), where he also served as the Chief Operating and Finance Officer. He leads multidisciplinary projects on water-sensitive city…

   Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Bintang Ekananda

Cofounder and CEO, Alner

Bintang Ekananda is an environmental engineer and circular economy advocate. As the co-founder and CEO of Alner, a startup specializing in returnable and refillable packaging for daily necessities, he leads efforts to eliminate waste. Bintang holds a master’s degree in Energy & Environment from…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Cate Brown

Professor and former Dean, National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Western Cape

Cate Brown is an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape.

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Water
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Czarina ConstantinoPanopio

Project Manager, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Philippines

Cza is the Project Manager of the “Clean Ports, clean oceans: Improving port waste management in the Philippines” and serves as the Program Manager of the No Plastics in Nature Initiative implementation of the WWF – Philippines, a WWF network approach to stop plastic waste leakage in nature by 2030…

   Topic(s): Environment, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 15: Life on Land

Ding Li Yong

Advocacy and Policy Manager (Asia), BirdLife International

Dr. Ding Li Yong is passionate about biodiversity (especially migratory species, wetlands and rainforests) and its protection, and how conservation practice can be reconciled with human development. He works with culturally diverse teams across Asia to create, drive, and scale-up projects that…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Civil Society, Climate Change, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Duncan Lang

Senior Environment Specialist, ADB

Duncan is a Senior Environment Specialist at ADB in the Environment Group of CCRE, CCSD where he provides advisory and compliance support to operational departments as well as working on thought leadership work within the environment sector. His current work involves development of ADB’s long-term…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Engr Taqsem Khan

Managing Director and CEO , Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority

Taqsem Khan is the Managing Director and CEO of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA), Bangladesh. Taqsem is credited for the utility’s transformative reform – the “Dhaka WASA Turn Around Program” – and has helped build Dhaka WASA into a profitable, environment friendly, and sustainable…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 15: Life on Land