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Douglas Gayeton

Consultant, ADB

Douglas Gayeton is co-founder of Lexicon of Food, a US-based NGO. The platform has gathered over 1000 companies and organizations across the globe to build impact movements tackling our food systems' greatest challenges, from food waste to food as medicine, transparent supply chains to climate…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 14: Life Below Water

Edward Maningo

Crop Survey Consultant, Rice-SDP

Mr. Maningo has extensive experience working in Cambodia, working mostly on monitoring an evaluation of natural resource management, agriculture, livelihoods, environment and development projects, and project design. His area of expertise includes conducting and designing baseline, mid-term and…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Elin Andersdotter Fabre

Manager, HerCity, UN-Habitat

Elin is managing the Her City initiative at UN-Habitat’s (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Global Public Space Programme.   She previously worked as the Sustainable cities programme director at the Swedish independent think tank for Global Utmaning. She has been active in advocacy…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Eline Boelee

Senior researcher and advisor, Deltares

Dr. Eline Boelee, senior researcher and advisor for water-environment-health interlinkages at Deltares, discussed how an integrated approach contributes to the understanding of health risks in water systems. She focused mainly on freshwater systems, looking at drivers, pressures, state, impact, and…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Health, Water
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Elizabeth Burges-Sims

Former Senior Social Development Specialist, ADB

Elizabeth Burges-Sims was a Senior Social Development Specialist of the Southeast Asia Department at ADB.  She left ADB in June 2021.

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Elliott Grant

General Manager, X

Dr. Elliott Grant is a recognized business leader and innovator in food and ag tech. He is the General Manager of Mineral at X, Alphabet’s “Moonshot Factory.” The mineral is using machine learning (ML) and robotics to scale sustainable agriculture globally. He was the founder and CEO of HarvestMark…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, ICT
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Emiko Usui

Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Emiko Usui is an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University, Japan. She received her B.A. in economics from the University of Tokyo and her Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. Her research interests are in the area of labor economics, and include gender issues, compensating…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Emily Schmidt

Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Emily Schmidt is the Papua New Guinea Country Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Her research focuses on the dynamic process of rural land transformation, rural employment…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger

EmPower

Organization, EmPower

According to the 2016 World Risk Report, 10 out of the 15 most at risk countries to climate change and disasters are in Asia and the Pacific. The region combines high exposure to frequent and damaging natural hazards with a low capacity to manage the resulting risks.   Climate change and…

   Topic(s): Energy, Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Enkhtsetseg Byambaa

Professor, National University of Mongolia

Enkhtsetseg Byambaa has been working as a Professor at the National University of Mongolia (NUM) since 1998. She has a Bachelor degree in Demography from NUM, post-graduate diploma in “Population and Development” from the Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India, MA in Economics from NUM…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger