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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

Maria Lorena Cleto

Senior Safeguards Specialist (Social), ADB

Maria is an Indigenous Ibaloi who has worked extensively with Indigenous-led movements advocating for land rights, equal participation, and environmental and cultural protection in her youth. As a Senior Social Safeguards Specialist in ADB, she currently handles involuntary resettlement and…

   Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Marina Best

Senior Social Development Specialist, ADB

Marina is a Senior Social Development Specialist in the NGOC and Civil Society Center at ADB where she focuses on local and community-based development.  Prior to ADB, she served as Associate Vice President of Sector Operations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Senior Policy Advisor…

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

Mark Holmes

Head of Membership and Development, National Skills Academy for Rail (NSAR), UK

Mark has worked in the public and private sectors for more than 40 years, including 10 years in the Middle East and Asia, with experience across a wide range of sectors including transport, manufacturing, finance and health managing large workforces and complex contracts. Mark’s expertise is in…

   Topic(s): Regional Cooperation and Integration, Social Development and Protection, Transport
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Mark Moseley

Principal, Moseley Infrastructure Advisory Service

Following his career at the World Bank and the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), and after more than 40 years as an international infrastructure specialist, Mark Moseley established, in August 2019, Moseley Infrastructure Advisory Services (MMM Infra), a global consulting firm for infrastructure…

   Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade, Public-Private Partnership
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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

Marlowe Popes

Senior Field Manager, BRAC-UPGI

When one of the world’s longest running lockdowns began in the Philippines due to COVID-19, Marlowe’s team was tasked with ensuring the project’s 1,800 participants developed sustainable livelihoods and carved pathways out of extreme poverty when the project ended amidst one of our lifetime’s…

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

Martin Harper

Chief Executive Officer, BirdLife International

Martin Harper is the new CEO of BirdLife International. As an experienced advocate and communicator, with 27 years of experience in senior conservation roles, Martin works with his leadership team to implement a new, ambitious BirdLife strategy. A biologist by training, Martin has 27 years’…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Regional Cooperation and Integration, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Matthew Barrie

Former Founder and CEO, Solu Philippines

Matthew is the former founder & CEO of Solu. He launched Solu in 2018 in Manila, Philippines, and led the company to its acquisition 14 months later in May 2019. He grew the company from an idea in a notebook to 22 people and 4 integrated tech products with the overarching ambition to…

   Topic(s): ICT, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Md Shamsul Arifeen Khan

Senior Education Officer, ADB

Mr. Md Shamsul Arifeen Khan has been serving as Senior Education Officer with ADB since Jan 2023. His primarily role is project processing, and project implementation in education sector in Bangladesh.  He has over 25 years of professional experience, including 15 years in academia and…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Education, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth