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Samantha O’Riordan

Program Officer, GIGA, the joint ITU and UNICEF initiative

Samantha O’Riordan is the Giga Program Officer at ITU for the joint ITU and UNICEF Giga initiative, which aims to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. Samantha has worked on multiple information, communications, and technology programs…

   Topic(s): Education, ICT
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sameer Khatiwada

Senior Public Management Economist, ADB

Sameer is an economist who leads preparation and implementation of ADB loans and technical assistance projects in public resource management. Prior to joining Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office in Sectors Group, he was with the Southeast Asia Department where he prepared ADB’s…

   Topic(s): Economics, ICT
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sampath Amaratunge

Chairman, University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka

Sr. Professor Sampath Amaratunge has been appointed as the Chairman of the University Grants Commission by His Excellency the President, Hon. Gotabaya Rajapakse, effective January 2020. Professor Amaratunge received his BA (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, MA in…

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

Samsideth Dy

Deputy Director General for Sports Education, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia

Prior to his current role, Samsideth worked as education officer for UNESCO and as education specialist for ADB. He was also the director of the M.Ed. program and the founding dean of the Faculty of Education of the Royal University of Phnom Penh. He has provided consultancy services to OECD, GIZ,…

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

Samuel Ang

Chairperson, Pollinate (SG)

Samuel Ang is the Chairperson of Pollinate and Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Temasek Polytechnic.

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

Samuel Harris

EdTech Business Development Lead, Amazon Web Services

Currently based in Singapore I am working for Amazon Web Services in the Worldwide Public Sector team. I have a keen interest in this field and my experiences span the Public Sector, Education, Research and Not-For-Profit space at AWS. Public policy is a passion of mine, and learning how policy…

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

Samuel Mark Nicholls

Interns, Asian Development Bank

Samuel Mark Nicholls worked in the ADB's Governance Thematic Group as part of the LKYSPP-ADB internship program.

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

Sana Kazmi

Head of Partnerships and Lead, STEAM Policy Unit, Sindh - STEAM Pakistan

Sana works on mobilising diverse stakeholders for STEM/STEAM outreach to government schools; and on providing technical assistance on STEAM to the Sindh Province’s School Education Department. In the past, she has worked on government school reform, establishing school enrichment programs (e.g. in…

   Topic(s): Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Sandeep Bhattacharya

Senior Public Management Specialist, ADB

Sandeep Bhattacharya focuses on domestic tax policy initiatives and managing the Secretariat of ADB’s Asia Pacific Tax Hub. Dr. Bhattacharya has over 25 years of experience in tax policy and administration, consulting, and academia. Prior to joining ADB, he taught classes in taxation, public…

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

Sang-Hyop Lee

Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii

Dr. Sang-Hyop Lee is Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaii and Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He has served as Chair of the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) project, which includes research teams in more than 90 countries. His studies have focused on…

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