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Alanna Jayne Inserra

Senior Social Development Specialist , Asian Development Bank

Alanna Jayne Inserra is a Senior Social Development Specialist with the Asian Development Bank's Fragility and Engagement Division. Seconded from Plan International, Alanna leads ADB's work on meaningful youth engagement with a focus on empowering young people, particularly marginalized young…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Civil Society, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Anshuman Karol

Lead – Governance & Climate Action, PRIA

Anshuman is a senior governance and decentralized planning specialist at PRIA, India, with two decades of experience in participatory research and local governance. His work focuses on building the capacity of civil society, local governments, and communities to strengthen decentralised planning…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Civil Society
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Benita Ainabe

Financial Sector Specialist (Capital Markets), ADB

Benita Ainabe is a Financial Sector Specialist (Capital Markets) in the Public Management, Financial Sector, and Trade Division of the Southeast Asia Department at Asian Development Bank. She specializes in financial sector development, capital markets, innovative financing mechanisms, and…

   Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade, Private Sector, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Eva Lein

Professor and former Dean, National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of Lausanne

Eva Lein is a Professor at University of Lausanne and Senior Research Fellow in Private International Law, BIICL. ​She is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London.

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Finance, Industry and Trade, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Jaeyoung Wee

Investment Specialist, ADB

Jaeyoung Wee is an Investment Specialist with the Blended Finance Team in the Private Sector Department at ADB. She has extensive experience working in the financial institution sector, managing sustainable and blended finance programs. Before joining ADB, Jaeyoung worked in financial institution…

   Topic(s): Finance, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Maria Lucien

Program Officer, People Powered

Maria brings their experience in deliberative processes and citizen participation to the development of resources and best practices at People Powered. They also support with engaging and building the PP member community. Maria has previously worked on supporting citizens’ juries and legislative…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Michael Ewing-Chow

Professor, National University of Singapore

Michael Ewing-Chow is an Associate Professor and the WTO Chair at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). He has a First Class Honours degree in law from NUS and a Master's from Harvard Law School. Michael worked in Allen & Gledhill before joining NUS where he started…

   Topic(s): Economics, Industry and Trade, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Michelle Ann Ramirez

Senior Social Development Officer (Civil Society and Participation), ADB

Mitch provides strategic operational support and innovation, particularly for SARD, and serves as the NGOC’s focal knowledge products and services. Prior to joining NGOC, Mitch served as an ADB consultant to design and implement capacity development initiatives on knowledge management and Futures…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Civil Society
   SDG: Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Navneet Wadkar

Program Officer, Centre for Environment Education (India)

Navneet leads projects focused on community-based climate resilience, environmental governance, and sustainable rural livelihoods. With over nine years of experience in research, programme coordination, and stakeholder engagement. At CEE, he contributed to initiatives including the Delivering…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Pelagia Makhauri

Governance and Anti-Corruption Specialist and Project Officer, Council of Europe

Pelagia is a Legal professional with 7+ years of experience in anti-corruption law and policy, human rights, public administration, policy development, good governance, civil participation, digital governance, anti-fraud law, and policy and business integrity. She is also…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Governance and Public Sector Management, Public-Private Partnership, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals