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Heenaben Dave

Vice President, Self-Employed Women’s Association, India

Heenaben associated with SEWA for more than 20 years and, under her leadership, 62840 women have strengthened their work, income and social security  through strengthening their trades and bringing grassroot women to mainstream market.  She has been the main contributor for strengthening…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

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

Hiram Kuykendall

CTO, MicroAssist, Global Disability Inclusion

Hiram Kuykendall has focused on assisting public and private sector organizations with creating governance structures that promote the inclusion of people with disabilities for the past 13 years. Part of his governance work focuses on helping organizations create procurement policies and procedures…

   Topic(s): Public-Private Partnership
   SDG: Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Hoang Thi Thu Huyen

Chairperson, Trade Union of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Viet Nam (MOLISA)

Hoang Thi Thu Huyen is Chairperson of Trade Union of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Viet Nam (MOLISA). From 2014 to 2019, as the Deputy Director of the Department on Gender Equality of MOLISA, she was responsible for developing and implementing the National Strategy and Program…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Ichiro Aoki

Senior PPP Specialist, ADB

Ichiro Aoki is the manager of a trust fund called Asia Pacific Project Preparation Facility (AP3F) out of ADB’s Office of Public-Private Partnership (OPPP). Through AP3F, he offers technical assistance to the governments of ADB’s Developing Member Countries for them to establish a PPP-enabling…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Private Sector, Public-Private Partnership
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Indira Simbolon

Former Consultant, ADB

Indira Simbolon holds a Master in Law, an MA in Development Study, and a PhD in Socio-legal Studies from the Netherlands. A leading expert on Indigenous Peoples, Indira Simbolon joined ADB in 1999, a year after the adoption of its first Policy on Indigenous Peoples. She is the principal author of…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Ippei Tsuruga

Social Protection Programme Manager (Indonesia), International Labour Organization

Ippei has been managing programs and providing technical support to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Irina Novikova

Principal Safeguards Specialist (Social), OSFG, ADB

Irina possess nineteen years of professional experience in social development, including social impact assessment, environmental and social (E&S) safeguards policy, and impact evaluation. Irina has worked across all major sectors and modalities of development projects primarily in Central and…

   Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Jaime GalvezTan

Public health advocate and physician, and Chairman, Health Futures Foundation

He has the rare combination of the following expertise: solid grassroots community work in far flung doctorless rural areas; national and international health planning and programming, a faculty of colleges of medicine and health sciences; clinical practice combining North American European…

   Topic(s): Health, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

James Lang

Senior Gender Specialist, ADB

James Lang is the Senior Specialist on Gender-based Violence for the Gender Equality Division at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) where he provides leadership for preventing gender-based violence across ADB operations and knowledge work. James has over 25 years of experience promoting gender…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth