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Jan Bakkes

Senior Strategic Advisor to the Director-General, PBL Netherland Environmental Assessment Agency

Jan BAKKES specialises in assessing and processing environmental information to be used in decision-making. He led Getting into the Right Lane for 2050, a high-profile back casting study into the key challenges facing the European Commission. He has worked with the OECD and the World Bank and was…

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

Jan Newton

Senior PrincipalOceanographer and Affiliate Professor/Oceanograph, University of Washington

Dr. Jan Newton is a Senior Principal Oceanographer with the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington and an affiliate professor with the UWSchool of Oceanography and the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, both in the UW College of the environment. She is the Executive…

   Topic(s): Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 14: Life Below Water

Jan Skjoldhammer

CEO and Founder, NoviOcean AB

Jan Skjoldhammer is an ex. Airline Captain, display pilot and Instructor who has seen many of his ideas turned into products by other Entrepreneurs. After success in a large Real Estate land investment, Jan decided to invest time and money in the Hybrid O

   Topic(s): Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Janaka Ekanayake

Professor, University of Peradeniya

Prof.Janaka Ekanayake joined University of Peradeniya (from 1st April 2013) as a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Institute of Energy at Cardiff University, UK. Prior to joining Cardiff in 2008, he has been attached to the University of Peradeniya and was promoted to…

   Topic(s): Energy, Public-Private Partnership, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Jane Olley

Technical Manager, Water and Sanitation for Urban Poor (WSUP), United Kingdom

Jane, a Technical Manager with WSUP, is a sanitation specialist and chemical engineer with over 26 years of experience working on sanitation and waste management projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.  Since 2016, she has worked on citywide inclusive sanitation for…

   Topic(s): Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Jane Toothill

Flood Risk and Insurance Specialist, JBA Risk Management

Dr. Jane Toothill holds a BSc and Ph.D. in natural hazard studies and has over 20 years of experience in the modelling of flood hazards to assess financial losses and to support the development of financial mechanisms, particularly in the insurance sector. Jane is JBA’s Director for its specialty…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Jaquelin Cochran

Group Manager for the Grid Systems Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jaquelin Cochran analyzes best practices to integrate renewable and distributed energy resources to the electric grid. She recently co-led a renewable energy grid integration study of India and is currently leading the City of Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study. Before joining NREL, Dr.…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy, Environment
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land

Jason Bogovich

Lead Consultant for the Southeast Asia Development Solutions, ADB

Jason Bogovich has over 19 years of experience in the energy, housing, and economic development fields with extensive knowledge of policy and procedural deliveries of local, state, regional, national and international programs in Asia. He has also implemented effective “Innovation through…

   Topic(s): Economics, Energy, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Jasper Dijkstra

Senior Researcher/ Consultant on Nature-based Solutions, Deltares

Jasper is a hydraulic engineer with a keen interest in interactions between hydrodynamics, morphology and biology in all kinds of environments. For his MSc-thesis at Delft University of Technology (TUD), he combined fieldwork and numerical modelling to study the effect of riparian vegetation on the…

   Topic(s): Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Jay Turner

Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis

Jay Turner is a Professor of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, and Vice Dean for Education in the James McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis/USA.  He also holds a Visiting Scholar appointment with the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group at Harvard…

   Topic(s): Energy
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities