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David Evans

Senior Fellow, World Health Organization

David Evans is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, working on education, health, and social safety nets. Previously he was at the World Bank, where he co-authored the World Development Report 2018, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, coordinated impact evaluation work for sub…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education, Health
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Faisal Mueen Qamer

Group Lead, ICIMOD

Faisal leads the food security and climate services related work at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). He is responsible for framing geospatial information based approaches to support decision making process in the agriculture sector and also contribute in…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Climate Change, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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

Lasse Leponiemi

Executive Director & Co-founder, HundrED

Lasse Leponiemi is a Partner and the Head of Operations at HundrED, a company focusing on educational innovations. He is also supporting Idealist Group as the Head of Operations. Lasse has been working with youth education and career planning since 2003. In 2008, he founded an e-student counseling…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education, Health
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Peter Matthews

Executive Director, CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

Petter has been involved in CoST since its origins and he has led CoST International since 2011. As Executive Director, he has overall responsibility for CoST policy, strategy and programme delivery. In addition to his role in CoST, Petter is Executive Director of Engineers Against Poverty, an…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Governance and Public Sector Management, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Rohan Schaap

Director, Investigations Division (AIID), Asian Development Bank

    Rohan Schaap is the Director, Investigations Division (AIID), Office of Anticorruption and Integrity (OAI).  As Director, AIID, he provides strategic direction and oversight of OAI’s integrity violation investigations function.  Rohan is a seasoned investigator and a…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Governance and Public Sector Management, Knowledge Management, Water
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Sanjay Upadhyay

Founder and Managing Partner, Enviro Legal Defence Firm

Sanjay Upadhyay, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, is the Founder and Managing Partner of the India’s first environmental law firm, Enviro Legal Defence Firm. Sanjay has been practicing environment and development law since 1993. An India Visiting Fellow at the Boalt Hall…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Climate Change, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Shai Wade

Head, Upstream Oil and Gas Disputes Team; and Partner, International Arbitration Group, Stephenson Harwood LLP

Mr. Shai Wade is the head of Stephenson Harwood LLP’s Upstream Oil and Gas Disputes Team and a partner in the firm’s International Arbitration Group. He enjoys more than 20 years of experience serving both as counsel and arbitrator in many large scale complex disputes arising in the oil and gas,…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Finance, Industry and Trade, Knowledge Management, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Shawn Crispin

Southeast Asia Editor, Asia Times

Shawn W. Crispin is Southeast Asia editor at Asia Times. He has worked as a journalist and editor based in Thailand for the past 20 years, serving previously as Bangkok bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Asian Wall Street Journal and contributing editor to The Diplomat. Mr.…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Shruti Mehta

Postgraduate Researcher Sport for Development, ADB

Previously worked on youth development at the Asian Development Bank and through this experience, I have been able to appreciate the power of sport to be an agent of change. I spearheaded a project on the potential to leverage sport as tool for socio-economic development in Afghanistan and will…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Health, ICT, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities