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A. Kumarasiri

Director General, National Planning Department (Sri Lanka)

R.H.W.A. Kumarasiri is the Director General of the Department of National Planning Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies in Sri Lanka.

   Topic(s): Economics, Education
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Agnes Meiria

Project Manager, YAKKUM Emergency Unit, Indonesia

Agnes Meiria is a program manager and gender focal point at YAKKUM Emergency Unit. She is in charge of program design and oversee its implementation, integrating cross-cutting issues, and building partnerships, as well as providing support and contribution/inputs to the program and management…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Ashish Dhawan

Founder and Chairperson , Central Square Foundation

Ashish Dhawan is one of India’s leading philanthropists and a key voice for system reform in the country. Ashish is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation (CSF) with the mission to improve the quality of school education for all students (especially from low-income communities) through…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education, ICT
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

B.V. Phani

Head of Department, Department of Industrial Management & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

B. V. Phani is the head of the Department of Industrial & Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur.  His research interests are financial intermediaries, credit risk modeling, entrepreneurial finance, innovation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, market micro-structure and valuation, and …

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

Caterina Meloni

Founder and Gender Finance Advisor, Connecting Founders

Caterina is a gender finance specialist with 25 years of experience working at the crossroads of finance. She supports international finance institutions, development partners, and government bodies in integrating a gender and climate lens across finance and infrastructure programs in a way that is…

   Topic(s): Environment, Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Chutima Waisarayutt

Associate Dean of Corporate Relationship, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Chutima Waisarayutt has graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. She started her career in the field of Agricultural and Food Safety and Quality Management in Supply Chain with risk management principles. Since 2014, She has extended…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Education
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Claire Charamnac

Social Development Specialist, ADB

Claire Charamnac is a Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) in the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department at the Asian Development Bank. In this role she focuses on gender and transport, health and water and urban development. She has over a decade of experience in…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Clarissa Delgado

Co-Founder and CEO, Teach for the Philippines

Selected out of over 21,000 applications from 191 countries, Clarissa is a member of the inaugural 2018 class of Obama Foundation Fellows. Clarissa is also a 2019 recipient of the national The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service Award (TOWNS) and the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women Award…

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

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

Don Pomb Polye

Minister, Ministry of Higher Education of Papua New Guinea

The Honourable Don Pomb Polye hails from Wabag in the Enga Province, within the Kandep Electorate. He did his Primary and High School in the Western Highlands Province from 1975 (Grades 1-6) to 1984 (Grades 7-10). Minister Polye was selected to do his Secondary Education at the Passam National High…

   Topic(s): Education, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals