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Armie Jarin-Bennett

President, CNN Philippines

Born and raised in Manila, Armie Jarin-Bennett started her professional career as a radio newscaster for three local stations, before moving to Atlanta in 1996 to intern at CNN’s main headquarters. She became a production assistant at Headline News in 1997 and quickly moved up to writer and…

   Topic(s): Private Sector, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Armin Bauer

Principal Economist Thematic Cluster, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, ADB

Bauer is Principal Economist in ADB’s Sustainable Development Department, a think tank department on sector and cross cutting thematic issues, where he is heading the poverty and inclusive growth team. He also coordinates the Inclusive Business initiative of ADB, in cooperation with ADB’s private…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Economics
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Armine Yedigaryan

Safeguards Specialist (Environment), ADB

Armine Yedigaryan is an Environment Specialist representing ADB Office of Safeguards based in ADB HQ- Manila. She is involved in environmental safeguard management for projects in the Central and West Asia countries. Prior to joining ADB, she worked for 15 years on environmental assessment and…

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

Arturo M. Martinez, Jr.

Statistician, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, ADB

Art works on poverty measurement theory and Sustainable Development Goals indicators. Before joining ADB, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia, where he also received his PhD in Social Statistics.

   Topic(s): Economics
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Arun Agrawal

Group President, YES BANK

Agrawal heads International Banking at YES BANK, developing business and managing relationship with global financial institutions including banks, multi/bilateral agencies, exchange houses, merchant banks and financial sponsors. Focus of the team is on building strategic relationships in important…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Economics, Environment
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Arun Shumshere Rana

Senior Project Officer, ADB

Arun Rana joined ADB in 2011 and is currently the AFNR focal person in the Nepal Resident Mission. Prior to joining ADB, he was a freelance consultant working in a diverse range of fields, including promotion of tourism in the Manaslu Conservation Area in north central Nepal. He has a master’s…

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

Asha Sundaram

Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Asha Sundaram is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland.  She has an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University, United States.  Her research…

   Topic(s): Economics, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Atonu Rabbani

Professor, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University and University of Dhaka

Atonu Rabbani is an applied microeconomist with research interests in health, labor, and organization economics. He has worked extensively on several research areas aiming to understand how knowledge, awareness, perception, monitoring and incentive can motivate human decision making. He has widely…

   Topic(s): Economics
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Aude Demontesquiou

FinEquity Facilitator / Team Lead, CGAP

Aude de Montesquiou is FinEquity Community of Practice Facilitator at CGAP. Aude worked at CGAP from 2005 to 2017, last as Financial Sector Development Specialist, leading CGAP’s Graduating the Poorest and Vulnerable Segments work. She oversaw the implementation of the CGAP-Ford Foundation…

   Topic(s): Capacity Development, Poverty, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Avijit Maji

Associate Professor, IIT Bombay

Avijit Maji is an associate professor, he graduated BS Engineering at Bengal Engineering College (D.U.) now known as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. Master degree at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and PhD in Engineering at Morgan State University,…

   Topic(s): Economics, Governance and Public Sector Management, Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure