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Jutta Urpilainen

Commissioner for International Partnerships, European Commission

As European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Ms Jutta Urpilainen oversees the European Commission’s work on international cooperation and sustainable development. She is a strong advocate for gender equality, social justice and youth participation. Before joining the Commission, Ms…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

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

Karibaiti Taoaba

Regional Director for the Pacific, Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF)

Karibaiti Taoaba is the Pacific Regional Director for the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF). Based in Suva, Fiji, she has been in this role, strengthening democratic local governments to support sustainable development across 10 Pacific Islands Countries, since 2009. Before joining CLGF,…

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

Karin Schelzig

Director, ADB

Dr. Karin Schelzig is a poverty and social protection specialist with more than 25 years of multidisciplinary human and social development (HSD) experience in East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including 20 years with the Asian Development Bank. Karin manages a regional HSD team that designed…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Karlo Alexei Nograles

House Representative, Government of the Philippines

Nograles hails from Davao City, Philippines, and has served as Congressman in the First District since 2010. He is currently the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations for the 17th Congress. He is member of both the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) and the…

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

Katherine Hughes

Principal Climate Change Specialist, ADB

Kate has 20 years of experience working on climate change and sustainable development policy, financing, and technology projects across the Asia Pacific region. Kate is a Principal Climate Change Specialist at ADB where she leads the mitigation team and focuses on climate policy and financing,…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Finance, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

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

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

Kelvin Wong

Managing Director and Deputy Global Head for Energy, Renewables, and Infrastructure, DBS Bank Ltd.

He has over 22 years of professional experience including 19 years of experience in corporate and project finance in Asia. His professional experience as an energy regulator, business consultant, and corporate financier (including project finance and mergers & acquisitions) offers unique…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Governance and Public Sector Management, Public-Private Partnership
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Lainie Thomas

Unit Head, ADB

Ms. Thomas leads the implementation of ADB’s fragile and conflict-affected situations and small island developing states approach, which institutionalizes differentiated strategies to improve the performance of ADB’s operations in these contexts. Prior to this, Ms. Thomas oversaw ADB's work on…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities