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Agnetha VaveKaramui

Environmental and Forestry Advocacy Officer, Environmental Concerns Action Network

Agnetha Vave-Karamui worked as an environmental/forestry advocacy officer with the Solomon Islands NGO, Environmental Concerns Action Network. She then joined the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management, and Meteorology in 2008. She comes from the Western Province of Solomon…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Alberto Lorenzo Alonso

Geospatial Information Scientist, Indra Company

Alberto Alonso obtained his PhD in Geography in 2009 with a thesis devoted to Earth Observation and Digital Elevation Models and Orthoimagery applied to cartography. He is a geospatial information scientist with long experience in international and national research projects playing different…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Environment
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 15: Life on Land

Amit Bhatt

Executive Director, World Resources Institute

Amit is the Executive Director of Integrated Urban Transport, WRI India. He is based in Delhi and provides vision and leadership to all transport initiatives across WRI India, managing relationships with partners and stakeholders. Amit has around 20 years of experience in the field of urban…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Governance and Public Sector Management, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Annadel Cabanban

Head of Office, Wetlands International Philippines

Dr. Annadel Salvio Cabanban is the Head of Office of Wetlands International Philippines and Program Manager for To Plant or Not to Plant and Building with Nature Initiative Asia – Philippines. She is trained as a Marine Biologist at the University of the Philippines, Quezon City, and…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Energy, Environment
   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

Annemieke Nijhof

Managing Director, Deltares

Nijhof has extensive experience in the worlds of both government and business. As the Director-General of Water at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (now Infrastructure and Water Management), she was responsible for water policy in the Netherlands. She then turned her…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 15: Life on Land

Christian Wertli

Head of Infrastructure Solutions, SwissRe

​Christian Wertli is Head of Infrastructure Solutions and part of the Swiss Re Public Sector Solutions (PSS) team. The PSS team is dedicated to helping governments, government agencies as well as international organizations at all levels to strengthen their resilience strategies. In his role,…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Ellis Penning

xpert Nature Based Solutions and Aquatic Ecology, Deltares

Dr. Ellis Penning is an expert on Nature Based Solutions, aquatic ecology, and eco hydraulics at Deltares (Delft, The Netherlands). She has over 21 years of experience and a Ph.D. in Ecohydraulics. Ms. Penning heads the strategic research line on Nature Based Solutions within Deltares. Ms.…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Helen Crowley

Secretary General, GEM Foundation

Helen graduated with an MEng in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London in 2000 and after working for a year as a graduate engineer, she moved to Italy to complete her MSc and PhD degrees in earthquake engineering at the University of Pavia (ROSE School). Helen worked as a researcher in…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Jane Romero

Technical Assistance Officer, The Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility

Jane Romero is a Technical Assistance Officer in the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF). Jane has an engineering and economics background and has worked in various aspects of infrastructure development in many countries in Asia and the Pacific for over 15 years. In her present role in…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Private Sector, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Kijoon Kim

Independent Consultant, ADB

Mr. Kim has over 30 years of professional experience and academic research in the transport sector in Koreas and United Kingdom and has worked with public and private institutions on various transport and urban transport projects. He is currently working in ADB. Since joining ADB in 2010, he has…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 15: Life on Land