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Joan Carling

Indigenous Activist and Foundation Board Member, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact

Joan Carling is an Indigenous activist from the Cordillera Region, Philippines. For more than 20 years, she has been working on issues that Indigenous Peoples experience both at the grassroots and international levels. Her field of expertise includes human rights, sustainable development,…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

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

Kailash Rai

Researcher, Martin Chautari

Kailash Rai is a researcher at Martin Chautari, where she has worked for over a decade. Her work focuses on gender, feminism, sexuality and social justice along with intersectional lens. She is the author of Indigenous Women’s Institution, Movement and Writing (2017) and the editor of In Search of…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Kazi Akhmila

Social Safeguard Officer, ADB

Kazi Akhmila has been with the Asian Development Bank since 2013. She was previously a Social Development and Gender Specialist. She holds master's degrees in Physics from Dhaka University and in Development and Human Rights from Swansea University.

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

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

Liby Johnson

Executive Director, Gram Vikas

Liby T. Johnson is a social development management specialist with more than 24 years of experience in designing, implementing and supporting development interventions in government, civil society, cooperatives and community institutions. He has wide and in-depth experience in both leadership and…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

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

Maria Lorena Cleto

Social Development Specialist (Safeguards), ADB

Maria Lorena Cleto is Social Development Specialist (Safeguards) for the Urban and Social Sectors Division of ADB’s East Asia Department. Before joining ADB, she held various consultancy positions as a social development and social safeguards specialist for projects across Southeast Asia and in…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Nana Oishi

Associate Professor, University of Melbourne

Nana Oishi is Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Melbourne. Prveviously, she was Professor of Sociology at Sophia University in Tokyo and Policy Analyst at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University and a…

   Topic(s): Economics, Governance and Public Sector Management, Regional Cooperation and Integration, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities