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Marina Best

Senior Social Development Specialist, ADB

Marina is a Senior Social Development Specialist in the NGOC and Civil Society Center at ADB where she focuses on local and community-based development.  Prior to ADB, she served as Associate Vice President of Sector Operations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Senior Policy Advisor…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Civil Society, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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

Mike Crosby

Senior Conservation Officer (Asia), BirdLife International

Mike has more than 30 years’ experience in wildlife conservation and a good understanding of environmental and development issues in Asia. He coordinates the BirdLife Asia Partnership’s programme on Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, which works for the conservation of the most important sites…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Civil Society, Climate Change, Environment, Knowledge Management
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Mohsen Gul

Senior Technical Advisor, ADB

Dr. Mohsen Gul is the senior technical advisor for youth-led climate innovation in Atoll nations in the Pacific region at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has previously served as the climate change youth specialist at ADB. Additionally, he has led climate research strands at British Council as…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action

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

Oliver Chapman

Senior Social Development Specialist, ADB

Oliver’s work focuses on youth engagement and youth employment through ADB’s youth initiative, Youth for Asia, and also on Civil Society Participation. He also supports some of ADB’s work on citizen-led approaches to governance, including from the perspective of encouraging active citizenship in…

   Topic(s): Civil Society
   SDG: Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Patricia Zurita

Chief Executive Officer, BirdLife International

Patricia leads BirdLife International, the world’s largest nature conservation partnership, bringing together over 100 organisations worldwide to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. An economist by…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Civil Society, Climate Change, Environment, Regional Cooperation and Integration
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

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

Phearong Sdeung

Executive Director, Banteay Srei

  Phearong is a woman's rights activist with more than 9 years of working experiences. Phearong is an Executive Director of Banteay Srei Organization. She begins her journey with Banteay Srei in October 2021. Before joining Banteay Srei, she was the Program Manager for Citizen and Youth…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Climate Change
   SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action

Piyasiri Wickramasekara

Vice-President (former ILO Migration Specialist), Global Migration Policy Association

Piyasiri Wickramasekara is Vice-President of Global Migration Policy Associates; he is an internationally recognized expert in development, migration, and employment issues. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK). He joined the International Labour Organization in…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Poverty, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions