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Young Joo Lee

Director, Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia

Dr. Young Joo Lee is currently the Director of the Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia (CCOP). He served as the leading project manager of Korea IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Project) from 2003 to 2008, and as the Executive Director of…

Young Park

Director, Special Projects, AVPN

Young Park is the Director of Special Projects at AVPN, leading the AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific, an innovative initiative supported by Google.org and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). With nearly 20 years of experience in both the profit and non-profit sectors, Young has established a…

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

Young Uck Kang

Communications Specialist (Knowledge Management), ADB

Young Uck Kang currently leads the Development Asia project at ADB. His areas of expertise are strategic leadership, policy-making process, microeconomics, economic analysis, statistics/econometrics, economic and social development policy, public finance and income distribution, governance, and…

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Young-sook Nam

Secretary-General , World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization

Dr. Young-sook Nam is the Secretary-General of WeGO (World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization), an international organization of 122 cities and 5 national ICT institutions dedicated to pursuing smart sustainable cities for all. Prior to joining WeGO, she was a Professor at Ewha Woman's…

   Topic(s): Economics, Gender Equality, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Young-Tae Kim

Associate Vice President, Institute for Startup KAIST

Dr. Young-Tae Kim is Associate Vice President of the Institute for Startup KAIST. Before he joined KAIST, he was Director-General of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups in the Republic of Korea and He worked in the government for 20 years. He contributed with his specialty to improve the innovation…

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

Youngho Kim

Chief Director, The Korea Transport Institute

Youngho Kim graduated from Seoul National University’s undergraduate and graduate school and received his PhD at Muenchen University of Technology in 2002. Since he joined the Korea Transport Institute in 2005, he has been involved in numerous research projects to develop advanced transport…

   Topic(s): Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Youngsup Choi

Professor, Korea University of Technology and Education

Professor Youngsup Choi received his Doctor of Philosophy in economics (labor economics major) in 1996 from Korea University. During the foreign exchange crisis, Professor Choi was specially appointed as a statistics officer at the Korea National Statistical Office where he was in charge of…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Education, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Youree Lee

Co-Founder and CEO, W-Foundation

A philanthropist and an entrepreneur, Dr. Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of W-Foundation, CBO at Actwo Technologies of Peer, and an Adjunct Professor at Hanyang University School of Business. W-Foundation is an international non-profit organization and one of the most active nonprofits accredited by…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
   SDG: 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

Yu Fang

Professor and Director, Institute of Environmental Planning, Ministry of Ecology and Environment

She is the Leading Technical Expert of the Ministry of Environment and Ecology (MEE), Member of the National Advisory Committee on Environment and Health, Member of the National Committee on Environmental Criteria, Committee member of the Experts on Environmental Damage Assessment of MEE. She is…

   Topic(s): Environment
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Yu Kamei

Director, International Cooperation Office, Ministry of the Environment

Mr. Yu KAMEI was born in Aichi prefecture and graduated from Kyoto University with a Bachelor of Engineering. He joined the Ministry of the Environment, in Japan in 2007. Since then, he worked on climate change measures, waste management, fishery resources conservation, environment impact…

   Topic(s): Environment, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land