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Aditya Handa

Founder and Managing Director, Abellon Group Aditya

Aditya Handa is the founder and managing director of Abellon Group. Abellon is engaged in finding sustainable development-led solutions to India's most difficult problems, such as climate change, waste management, energy security, food security, and realizing untapped human…

   Topic(s): Energy, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Amit Jain

Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank

Amit is a solar engineer, with a Ph.D. in solar energy and Fulbright Scholarship from NREL, USA and Chevening Fellow at King’s College, London. He loves to shares real-life stories on how solar energy is transforming people’s lives across health, transport, water, and agriculture sector. He works…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Health
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Ancha Srinivasan

Principal Climate Change Specialist, ADB

Ancha is a Principal Climate Change Specialist at the Southeast Asia Department (SERD) of ADB. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK and as the Climate Change Focal Point for Southeast Asia, he formulates and oversees the implementation of several projects on climate change…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Engr. Taqsem Khan

Managing Director and CEO , Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority

Taqsem Khan is the Managing Director and CEO of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA), Bangladesh. Taqsem is credited for the utility’s transformative reform – the “Dhaka WASA Turn Around Program” – and has helped build Dhaka WASA into a profitable, environment friendly, and sustainable…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection, Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 15: Life on Land

Helen Newing

Independent Consultant and Senior Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science at Oxford University.

​​Helen has been working on issues related to biodiversity conservation and indigenous peoples/local communities for over twenty-five years. ​In the past she has worked both as an academic and the NGO sector. Currently her work is principally in three areas: biodiversity conservation and local…

   Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 15: Life on Land

Jittima Rodsawad

Public Health Technical Officer, Health Impact Assessment Division, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)

Jittima is the Public Health Technical Officer in the Health Impact Assessment Division at the Department of Health. Since 2002, she has experience with HIA applications for public parks in the Yala municipality in Thailand. She is also responsible for developing HIA training courses for…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Environment, Health
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Jocelyn Erlinda Munsayac

Director, ADB

Jocelyn Erlinda Munsayac is the Director for Regional Operations Services 3, Southeast Asia Office of Safeguards at ADB.  She graduated from the University of the Philippines. 

   Topic(s): Environment, Private Sector, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 15: Life on Land

Laksmi Dhewanthi

Director General of Climate Change Control, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia

Laksmi Dhewanthi is a government official with more than 25 years of experience in the field of environment and sustainable development. She is currently a Senior Advisor to the Minister on Industry and International Trade, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia.…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Environment, Health
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Mark Sutton

Environmental Physicist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Professor Mark Sutton is an environmental physicist based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) Edinburgh, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. An expert on atmospheric ammonia, he leads international research activities on nitrogen at the science–policy…

   Topic(s): Environment, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Sonal Shah

Independent Consultant, ITDP India

Ms. Shah leads urban planning, gender and transport strategy, research, projects and policy at ITDP India. She has 13+ years' experience across multiple scales on city development, neighborhood plans, transit-oriented development and station accessibility planning, street design, historic precinct…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection, Transport
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 15: Life on Land