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Abul Kalam Azad

former Director, Ministry of Health, Bangladesh

Abul Kalam has long experience and excellent skills in the following fields: Planning, implementing, managing, supervising, and monitoring national scale health services with effective ICT-based tools and systems. Experience in working with small to large domestic and international teams and…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Baykham Khattiya

Minister, Ministry of Health, Lao PDR

Baykham Khattiya is an experienced Lao government official currently serving as the Minister of Health. With over 25 years in public service, she has held several key leadership roles, including Minister and Vice Minister of Labour and Social Welfare and Member of Parliament. Her career reflects…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Betty Wilkinson

Formern Director, Public Management, Finance, and Trade, Central and West Asia Department, ADB

Effective innovative leader producing transformational development results. Work longer-term in developing countries with multinational teams. Inaugural Chair of the nine member Financial Sector Deepening Network across Africa. Recognized in 2015 by Asian Development Bank for tripling program to $2…

   Topic(s): Finance, Gender Equality, Governance and Public Sector Management, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Beverly Lorraine Ho

Director of the Health Promotion Bureau and Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, Philippines Department of Health

Beverly Lorraine Ho is the concurrent Director of the Health Promotion Bureau and Disease Prevention and Control Bureau at the Department of Health - Philippines. As HPB Director, she leads risk communication and community engagement, and demand generation for COVID-19 vaccines. As DPCB Director,…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Despoina Kouria

Supplier Diversity and Sustainability Analyst , World Bank Group

Despoina Kouria is a Supplier Diversity and Sustainability analyst with Corporate Procurement at the World Bank Group (WBG), which she joined in 2020. She is part of the team that mainstreams sustainability considerations into over $1.7 Billion of annual purchases for the World Bank Group’s…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Ermira Lubani

Regional Project Manager, UN Women

Mrs. Ernira Lubani is Gender-Responsive Budgeting Technical Advisor and Regional Project Manager for the Promoting Gender-Responsive Policies in Southeast Europe and the Republic of Moldova of UN Women.  She has 15 years of professional experience in international development working with…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Governance and Public Sector Management, Social Development and Protection, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Evangeline de Silva

Program Manager, Gender and Justice Program in Sri Lanka

Evangeline de Silva is a Program Manager of the Gender and Justice Program in Sri Lanka, where she works on improving formal justice sector responses to domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence.

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Francesco Checchi

Anti-Corruption Regional Adviser for Southeast Asia, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Prior to working at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Francesco Checchi was a Public Accountability and Anti-Corruption Specialist at UNDP. He has master’s degrees in International Organizations from Université Paris-Sorbonne and in Political Science from the…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Gene de Guzman

Country Manager, Bot MD

Gene C. De Guzman is the Country Manager of Bot MD Philippines and the Regional Head of Customer Success for Asia-Pacific, leading the implementation of AI-enabled health technology solutions across the region. With a career spanning entrepreneurship, government service, and IT project leadership,…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Imrana Jalal

Former Commissioner, Fiji Human Rights Commission, and the Fiji Law Reform Commission

A lawyer by profession, Imrana Jalal was formerly a Commissioner of the Fiji Human Rights Commission, and the Fiji Law Reform Commission. She is the author of Law for Pacific Women and architect of the Family Law Act 2003 which addressed children's needs and removed systemic legal discrimination…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals