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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

Ancha Srinivasan

Principal Climate Change Specialist, ADB

Ancha is a Principal Climate Change Specialist at the Southeast Asia Department (SERD) of ADB. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK and as the Climate Change Focal Point for Southeast Asia, he formulates and oversees the implementation of several projects on climate change…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: 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

Helen Newing

Independent Consultant and Senior Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science at Oxford University.

​​Helen has been working on issues related to biodiversity conservation and indigenous peoples/local communities for over twenty-five years. ​In the past she has worked both as an academic and the NGO sector. Currently her work is principally in three areas: biodiversity conservation and local…

   Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 15: Life on Land

Jocelyn Erlinda Munsayac

Principal Safeguards Specialist, ADB

Jocelyn Erlinda Munsayac is a Safeguards Specialist at ADB.  She graduated from the University of the Philippines. 

   Topic(s): Environment, Private Sector, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 15: Life on Land

Kavinda Gunasekara

COO, Asian Institute of Technology

Kavinda Gunasekara is working as COO, Global Water & Sanitation Center, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand. Over the past 15 years, he had involved in implementing geospatial-related projects in South, Southeast, and Central Asian countries. He led UNEP CounterMEASURE Phase I…

   Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Maria Cecilia Alcantara

President, Coca Cola Foundation Philippines, Inc.

Maria Cecilia Alcantara is Vice-Chair of League of Corporate Foundations and President of Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines. She is a trustee of the Association of Foundations, Philippine Council for NGO Certification, and the Associate Missionaries of the Assumption Foundation. She holds a degree…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Mark Sutton

Environmental Physicist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Professor Mark Sutton is an environmental physicist based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), in Edinburgh. An expert on atmospheric ammonia, he leads international research activities on nitrogen at the science–policy interface. He is a former chair of the International Nitrogen…

   Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Pushkar Srivastava

Senior Project Management Specialist, South Asia Department, ADB

Mr. Srivastava has over 30 years of professional experience, including 15 years with ADB, in the roles of Project Implementation Officer, Project Officer (Urban), Urban Specialist, Project Management Specialist and Senior Project Management Specialist. His expertise includes project management…

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