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Lorena Aguilar

Former Costa Rica Vice-Chancellor, Independent Consultant, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Global leader passionate about human rights, inclusion, and sustainable development, with over three decades providing strategic contributions to national and international policies. Leading inclusive collaboration with government counterparts, UN agencies, international organizations, and civil…

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

Lormelyn Claudio

Director, Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau, DENR

Lormelyn E. Claudio is a seasoned environmental management professional with an extensive and distinguished career in public service. She currently serves as Director IV of the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB) under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), where…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Louis Verchot

Principal Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Dr. Louis Verchot is a Principal Scientist and Lead of the Land Restoration Group at the Alliance Bioversity – CIAT, based in Colombia. He has been working throughout the tropics on forestry and agriculture issues with a climate change focus for the past 35 years. His work in Asia focuses on…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Environment
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Lourdes Adriano

Former Advisor (Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Development), Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, ADB

Lourdes Adriano’s technical and work experiences are in the fields of food security, agricultural, rural and regional development, agriculture trade, and poverty.

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

Luisa Daya-Garcia

Architect, LDG Architects

Luisa is an influential ASEAN Architect known as the Philippines’ Queen of Green who redefined architecture with daring breakthroughs, including the reinvention of the Bahay Kubo. Honored with the Green Leadership Award for this innovation, the Professional Regulation Commission recognized her…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment
   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

Lukas Arenson

Principal Geotechnical Engineer , BGC Engineering

Dr. Lukas Arenson, Ph.D., P. Eng. (BC, YK, NU, NT), is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with primary areas of expertise in geotechnical and mountain permafrost engineering, including specializations in frozen soil mechanics and geothermal modeling. He is a renowned expert in the dynamics of ice-…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 13: Climate Action

Lusia Sefo-Leau

CEO, Pacific Water and Wastewater Association

Lusia Sefo Leau is the CEO of PWWA and has held this role since late 2016; she helped establish PWWA as a permanent regional organization for Pacific water and wastewater in Samoa. She has held senior leadership roles in a number of government Ministries, including CEO of the Ministry for Revenue,…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Water
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Lyndal Hugo

Co-founder, Orlar

Dr. Lyndal Hugo is the co-founder of Orlar, an innovative Australian agritech company operating in both Australia and Vietnam. With a background in Agricultural Science and a PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Science from the University of Sydney, Dr. Hugo brings deep scientific insight to…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

M.V. Lee Badgett

Professor of Economics, Williams Institute

M. V. Lee Badgett's new book is "The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fairness and Equality Benefit Us All" from Beacon Press. Her research focuses on economic inequality for LGBT people, including wage gaps, employment discrimination, and poverty, and on the global cost of homophobia and…

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

Ma Luisa (Lulu) Zuniga-Carmine

Gender Specialist, Consultant, ADB

Ms. Ma Luisa (Lulu) Zuniga-Carmine is a Gender Specialist, who has over 20 years of experience working on poverty, involuntary resettlement, and gender in 14 Pacific countries including Kiribati, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu and Fjij. She has also worked in Asia including Sri Lanka, Kyrgyztan, Mongolia and…

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