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Hanaa Singer-Hamdy

UN Resident Coordinator, UNCT, Sri Lanka

Ms. Hanaa Singer-Hamdy is the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka and leads the UN Country Team of 22 Resident and Non-Resident UN Agencies. She is the representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sri Lanka. Ms. Singer-Hamdy has over three decades of experience with the UN, having…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Jose Tiburcio Nicolas

Principal Social Development Specialist (Safeguards), ADB

Jose Tiburcio Nicolas is currently the Principal Social Development Specialist (Safeguards) under the Office of Social Safeguards in ADB.

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Jothiganesh Sundaram

Anticipatory Action/climate risk information, World Food Programme

Jothiganesh Sundaram (Jothi), is Regional Technical Lead on Climate and Weather-related risk and PRISM, at United Nations World Food Programme Regional Office for Asia-Pacific at Bangkok. At WFP, he focuses on strengthening capacity of Government systems in the Asia-Pacific region on climate risk…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Economics
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 13: Climate Action

Kotchakorn Vorrakhom

Landscape Architect, LandProcess/ Porous City Network Thailand

Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Thailand who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in urban dense areas and climate-vulnerable communities. Winning a contract to build Bangkok’s first public park in three decades, she created an 11-acre “…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Lan Mercado

Regional Director, Oxfam International Secretariat Asia

Lan Mercado is the Regional Director for Oxfam in Asia. Lan is an activist and development worker, with over 30 years of experience working with civil society coalitions, environmental movements, and international women's rights organizations. Since 1999, she’s been with Oxfam, starting as a…

   Topic(s): Economics, Gender Equality, Health, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Laura Phelps

Principal Consultant Shock Responsive Social Protection, Oxford Policy Management

Laura is a shock responsive social protection specialist with over 22 years-experience, working across the nexus from complex protracted crisis and into development. Her programme and policy experience in LMIC across Africa, SE Asia and Central Asia has focused on socio economic vulnerability to…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Economics
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 13: Climate Action

Loveelen Kacker

Former CEO , Tech Mahindra Foundation

Loveleen is a published writer, a Civil Servant, and Podcaster. Her career spans over forty years. I worked for the Indian government for over thirty years and in Corporate Social Responsibility for another seven years.  Simultaneously, she has been writing children's fiction and adult…

   Topic(s): ICT, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Madhumita Gupta

Principal Social Development Specialist (Safeguards), ADB

Madhumita Gupta is a Principal Safeguard Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. She attended the Delhi School of Economics, where she obtained here master's degree in sociology.

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Maliki

Director of Poverty Alleviation and Community Development , Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS), Indonesia

Maliki is Director of Poverty Alleviation and Community Development, Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS), whose team is responsible for designing policy and planning for the development of social protection programs.  He has been working in BAPPENAS for the past 20 years and…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty

Michiko Suga

Deputy Representative, ADB

Ms. Suga joined ADB in 2004 and worked in the Southeast Asia (SERD) and Pacific Regional Department (PARD) including a two-year assignment to the Lao Resident Mission. She also worked for the European Investment Bank (EIB) where she led the process of drafting and introducing EIB’s first social…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals