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Aditya Handa

Founder and Managing Director, Abellon Group Aditya

Aditya Handa is the founder and managing director of Abellon Group. Abellon is engaged in finding sustainable development-led solutions to India's most difficult problems, such as climate change, waste management, energy security, food security, and realizing untapped human…

   Topic(s): Energy, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Adrian Banie Lasimbang

Senator, National Government of Malaysia

In 2018, Adrian Banie Lasimbang became a senator for the national government of Malaysia, representing the state of Sabah. With extensive experience in participatory mapping, conducting community awareness workshops, enrichment planting, gravity water supply systems, and designing community-based…

   Topic(s): Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Alan Kendall Clark

Irrigation Specialist and Principal (co-owner) , NHC Ltd.

Alan Clark is a Principal of Northwest Hydraulic Consultants and has over 30 years’ experience in preparing and implementing both small and large irrigation scheme developments in Asia and Africa as Team Leader and/ or irrigation specialist. He completed his MSc in Irrigation Engineering at…

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

Alison McKechnie

Project Director, DT Global

Alison is a Project Director for DT Global in the Asia Pacific Sustainable Infrastructure team. She has corporate responsibility for leading business priorities which includes developing client relationships, framing business strategy, and delivering quality project outcomes. Passionate about the…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Amit Chanan

CEO, Water Authority Fiji

Dr Amit Chanan is an experienced senior executive with a career spanning over two decades within the international water industry and infrastructure services. Amit is currently appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for the Water Authority of Fiji (WAF). Before this role, Amit was the Director of…

   Topic(s): Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 13: Climate Action

Amit Datta Roy

Senior Project Officer, ADB

Mr. Amit Datta Roy has more than 12 years of experience in working with multilateral and bi-lateral development partners like the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank (WB), the GIZ, the JICA, the AFD, etc. He has a track record of working in 10 developing countries across South Asia,…

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

Arnold Tukker

Professor and Scientific Director, Leiden University

Arnold Tukker is a Professor of Industrial Ecology and the Scientific Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University. He also serves as a senior researcher at TNO, a large Dutch not-for-profit research organization. Arnold has set up prominent EU projects in the field…

   Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 15: Life on Land

Asa Sajise

Professor, UPLB, Philippines

Asa is a professor at the Department of Economics of the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, where he has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in microeconomic theory and environmental economics since 2003. He is also part of the executive committee and a co-regional director…

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

Avijit Maji

Associate Professor, IIT Bombay

Avijit Maji is an associate professor, he graduated BS Engineering at Bengal Engineering College (D.U.) now known as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. Master degree at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and PhD in Engineering at Morgan State University,…

   Topic(s): Economics, Governance and Public Sector Management, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Bernhard Schenk

TA consultant, Municipal solid waste recycling and zero waste city specialist, ADB

Bernhard Schenk is working since almost 20 years as a freelance engineer and senior consultant in projects financed by KfW Development Bank, GIZ, EBRD, World Bank and since May this year in the ADB financed TA on Circular Economy Zero Waste Cities in the PRC, being responsible for Output 2 on Zero…

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