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David Fairman

Managing Director, Consensus Building Institute

David Fairman is Managing Director at the Consensus Building Institute and Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. For 28 years, he has built consensus and enhanced collaboration capacity on complex public and organizational issues internationally and in the U.S. His primary…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

David Margonsztern

Chief of Transport, Agence Française de Développement

David is currently working as Chef de Projet Transport – Lead Urban Transport Specialist at Agence Française de Développement.  He obtained his Master in Urban Planning and Management from National Engineering School (ENPC), France in 1997, and his Bachelor in Political Science…

   Topic(s): Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Donna Tabangin

City Planning and Development Coordinator, Local Government of Baguio City

Donna Tabangin is a licensed architect and environmental planner with 23 years of experience in the applied sciences as a faculty of the School of Engineering and Architecture of Saint Louis University (SLU) in Baguio City, Philippines where she taught computer-aided design and geographic…

   Topic(s): Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992.  He teaches urban and social economics and microeconomic theory. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and…

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

Edward Leman

President , Chreod Ltd.

Edward Leman established Chreod in 1985 and has led the Group’s consulting and research activity in more than 110 cities. Consulting assignments led by Mr. Leman include: design of an approach to measure city risks from multiple natural hazards (including from climate change) and testing in Bangkok…

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

Elodie Vitalis

Representative to Fiji, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Ms. Elodie VITALIS is a graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux and holds a Master's degree in Public Affairs (2006). She is currently the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group Representative to Fiji (AFD/Expertise France). She joined AFD headquarters in Paris in 2013 as a policy officer for…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Economics, Industry and Trade, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Faela Sufa

Transport Specialist, ADB

Before her current role at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Faela Sufa served as the Director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Southeast Asia, where she provided technical assistance on implementing sustainable urban mobility in approximately ten countries and over…

   Topic(s): Environment, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Ferhat Karaca

Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Dr. Karaca is an expert in civil and environmental engineering, with a focus on sustainable civil infrastructure and the built environment. He is known for his innovative research, which covers topics such as resilient infrastructure, urban services, and green technology solutions on a global scale…

   Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Fumio Kurosaki

Senior Researcher, Institute of Transportation Economics

Dr. Kurosaki has rich experiences in the railway sector almost 30 years in total. In 1988 he joined East Japan Railway Company (JR East). After working as a civil engineer in JR East, he was dispatched to the International Union of Railways (UIC) from 2003 to 2006. At that time, he had started…

   Topic(s): Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Gohar Tadevosyan

Senior Social Development Specialist (Safeguards), ADB

Ms. Tadevosyan has about 20 years of practical experience in social development field. She has joined ADB in 2014. Her role is to ensure that the urban and social sectors’ projects in East Asia Department are socially inclusive, human-centered, and sustainable. Prior to joining ADB, she worked as…

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