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Arnaud Heckmann

Country Operation Head, ADB

Arnaud Heckmann is the Country Operation Head at the Asian Development Bank’s Nepal Resident Mission. He was formerly Principal Urban Development Specialist at ADB’s East Asia Urban and Social Sectors Division. He has extensive experience designing, processing, and administering integrated economic…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Bruno Carrasco

Director General concurrently Chief Compliance Officer, ADB

Bruno Carrasco leads ADB-wide knowledge and innovation work in all thematic and sector operation areas, establishes sector and thematic policies and strategies, and ensures compliance with environment and social safeguards policies. He also oversees the administration of trust funds and global…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, ICT
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Dawit. Mekonnen

Senior Research Staff, International Food Policy Research Institute

Dawit Mekonnen is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Environment and Production Technology Division. He completed his PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia. He holds M.Sc. and B.A. degrees in Economics from Addis…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

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

Esther Kimani

CEO, Farmer Lifeline Technologies

Esther Wanjiru Kimani is a CEO of FarmerLifeline. A trailblazer in the ClimaTech Agriculture space in Africa, driven by the passion to transform marginalized smallholder farmers lives using renewable energy, AI and Machine Learning.  

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

Gloria Kraus

Chief Executive Officer, Hollbium

Gloria is a German Sustainability Scientist who moved to Sweden in 2020. In 2021 she was recognized as Sweden’s Top Leader in Impact and Sustainability under 35 by Nova111. She has worked as a banker, as a trainee in the European Commission and coordinated international EU-research projects; on…

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

Gulzar Nataran

Senior Managing Director, Global Innovation Fund

Gulzar Natarajan is a Senior Managing Director at GIF. He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, the elite tier of the Indian bureaucracy, and was, before joining GIF, working in the Office of the Prime Minister of India. He has previously held leadership positions as municipal…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Junyi Zhang

Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan

Professor Junyi Zhang is a professor at Mobilities and Urban Policy Lab of Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is also the Director of  Center of Asian Sustainable Mobility Research at Hiroshima University, Japan. Prof. Zhang’s research fields…

   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

Krishan Rautela

India Resident Mission, ADB

Krishan Singh Rautela is working as Associate Project Officer in the Agriculture and Natural Resources team of ADB’s India Resident Mission. He is working on agriculture value chain development, farmer producer organizations, digital agriculture, climate change, coastal protection, irrigation and…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, ICT, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger

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