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Rafaelita Aldaba

PhD, Strategic Advisor, PQF-NCC Permanent Secretariat, Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines

Dr. Rafaelita M. Aldaba is the Strategic Advisor of the Department of Education’s Center for AI Research (ECAIR) and the Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) Council Secretariat. She also serves as an Emeritus Fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). Prior to her…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education

Rafaelita Aldaba

Undersecretary, Department of Trade and Industry, Philippines

Serving as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary since 2019, Rafaelita led the science-, technology-, and innovation-based Industrial Stargety of DTI. She also initiated DTI’s Innovation and Industry 4.0’s activities such as Articificial Intelligence Roadmap, Startup…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education

Rafaella Potestades

Co-Executive Director for Programs, BAYI, Inc.

Rafaella Potestades is currently the Co-Executive Director for Programs of BAYI, Inc and National Co-Convener of the Philippine Anti-Discrimination Alliance of Youth Leaders (PANTAY). She is part of various gender-transformative programs focused on women's political participation and decision-…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Rafal Chomik

Senior Research Fellow, University of New South Wales

Rafal Chomik is an economist specialising in social policy, poverty, and population ageing. He is also an expert in data visualisation and policy-oriented research translation. Mr. Chomik has previously worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the British…

   Topic(s): Poverty
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Rafid Shidqi

Youth Project Designer for the Atoll Youth Climate Project, ADB

Rafid's career aspiration is to work on the intersection of the marine ecosystem and protect the community's livelihoods. He is currently working as a Project Leader in a local NGO, Thresher Shark Indonesia. Their goal is to protect the declining and endangered thresher shark population in one of…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Rafique Mustafa Shaikh

Special Secretary / Project Coordinator, Planning and Development Department, Government of Sindh, Pakistan

Rafique Mustafa Shaikh is a BPS-20 Civil Servant with a diverse experience in managing public services at the project, program, and policy levels. These experiences cut across government administration, institutional development, policy formulation and implementation, project initiation and…

Rafiqul Islam Maruf

Associate Professor, Kyushu University Hospital

Rafiqul ISLAM Maruf is an Associate Professor at the Division of Healthcare Digital Transformation, Data-Driven Innovation Initiative, Kyushu University, Japan. His interest covers in the areas including ICT for agriculture, education, environment, information and healthcare. Currently, Dr. Islam…

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

Raghava Neti

Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, The World Bank

Raghava is a Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist with the World Bank. He has over 20 years of experience in urban and rural water supply, natural disaster risk mitigation and urban infrastructure. Based in Fiji, Raghava is working on the World Bank's recently approved South Tarawa…

   Topic(s): Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala

Infrastructure Financing Expert (Consultant), ADB

Raghu has over twenty-five years of experience in infrastructure advisory, management consulting, and academics. He has been advising various government and multilateral organizations in infrastructure financing, policy formulation, and public-private partnership frameworks across urban,…

   Topic(s): Energy, Transport
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Raghuram Rajan

Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth

India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than labor-intensive manufacturing,…

   Topic(s): Economics
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth