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Tran Dai Nghia

Head, Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Economic Studies

Dr. Tran Dai Nghia is the head of the Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Economic Studies, the head Climate Change and REDD+ research group at IPSARD, a member of the NDC and NAP task force and also the head of technical advisory group to the COP 26 implementation taskforce and…

   Topic(s): Environment, Health, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 13: Climate Action

Vanisa Surapipith

Deputy Director, Thailand’s Hub of Talents on Air Pollution and Climate (HTAPC)

Vanisa is currently the Deputy Director of Thailand’s Hub of Talents on Air Pollution and Climate (HTAPC). She is also an air Modeling Consultant working on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with Chemistry for the assessment of PM2.5 Mitigation measures across Thailand. This…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Verena Streitferdt

Green Finance/Sustainable Energy Policy Consultant, Pertiwi-Consulting

Verena has over 10 years of work and research experience in the field of policy advisory/project development especially on the topics of energy efficiency: policy & finance, energy/climate policy and urban governance in the South East Asian context. In her PhD research, she explored how far the…

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

Vijay Jagannathan

Secretary General, CityNet

Vijay Jagannathan comes from the World Bank where he was Sector Manager for infrastructure in the East Asia and Pacific region. He was responsible for an annual lending program of about $5 billion in the urban, water, transport and energy sectors. Mr. Jagannathan has been also …

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Vincent Aloysius

Team Lead, SEURECA

Dr. Vincent Aloysius is the Team Lead of the Technical Assistance project: “Promoting Action on Plastic Pollution from Source to Sea in Asia and the Pacific.” This project delivered city action plans and recommendations to shift towards plastic circularity in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam…

   Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Virinder Sharma

Senior Consultant and former Principal Urban Development Specialist, ADB

Mr. Sharma takes a lead role in managing delivery, maintaining strategic relationships, providing technical and advisory support to the ADB and to the UK Department for International Development (DFID), leading a team of 10 technical professionals and managing the implementation of 50 projects…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Yayah Soleha

Head of Integration and Transport Development Section, Jakarta Transportation Agency

   

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

Yidan Chu

Researcher And Co-Coordinator of The Cities Cluster, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)

Yidan Chu is a Researcher and co-coordinator of the Cities cluster at the ICCT. Her current research focuses on EV markets, policies, and technologies. Ms. Chu holds a Master of Environmental Policy from Duke University and a B.S. in Environmental Science from Hangzhou Dianzi University (China).…

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

Yu Kamei

Director, International Cooperation Office, Ministry of the Environment

Mr. Yu KAMEI was born in Aichi prefecture and graduated from Kyoto University with a Bachelor of Engineering. He joined the Ministry of the Environment, in Japan in 2007. Since then, he worked on climate change measures, waste management, fishery resources conservation, environment impact…

   Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land