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Ravi Verma

Regional Director, International Center for Research on Women

Dr. Ravi Verma is the regional director at International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). He leads the local and regional efforts to conduct research, build capacity and partake in policy dialogue on an array of issues, including reproductive health, family planning, preventing domestic…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Raymond Francis Sarmiento

Director, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila

Dr. Raymond Francis R. Sarmiento is a physician-scientist and currently the Director of the National Telehealth Center, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of the UP College of Medicine’s Medical Informatics Unit and is the…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Reema Alsalem

UN Special Rapporteur, Violence against Women Human Rights Council Special Procedures

Ms. Reem Alsalem was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences in July 2021 by the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year tenure. She started her tenure on 1 August 2021.   Reem Alsalem is an independent consultant on gender issues,…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Reema Nanavaty

Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association, (SEWA), India

Reema Nanavaty leads Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) economic and rural development activities reaching out to seventeen million women and their families across India. Since 1989 she has pioneered revival, restoration, and innovation of rural livelihoods from district to global level.…

   Topic(s): Energy, Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality

Reihana Mohideen

Principal Advisor, University of Melbourne

Dr. Reihana Mohideen is an electrical engineer leading the work on socio-technical systems applied to the low-carbon energy transition towards inclusiveness and sustainability, at the Nossal Institute for Global Health and the Climate CATCH Lab, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her…

   Topic(s): Energy, Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Renata Fontana

International Consultant on Tax, ADB

Renata Fontana is a consultant for the Asian Development Bank – ADB (since 2018) and for the World Bank (since 2017). She has formally worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) at the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (2010-…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Riana Puspasari

Social Development Officer (Gender), ADB

Riana joined ADB in 2017 as Gender Consultant. Currently working as Social Development Officer (Gender) in ADB Indonesia Resident Mission. She has over 20 years of professional experience working on gender issues with international organizations, including UNESCO, UNIFEM, GIZ, The Asia Foundation.

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Richard Highfield

Consultant, Sustainable and Climate Change Department, ADB

Richard Highfield is a highly experienced tax professional, having worked at very senior levels of the Australian Taxation Office and in the fiscal areas of two major international organizations (IMF and OECD). Through his work over the last 25 years, he has acquired extensive knowledge of tax…

   Topic(s): Finance, Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Richard Stern

Consultant, ADB

Richard has been involved in ADB’s project on digital tax administration under the Asia Pacific Tax Hub. He also leads EY’s Tax Administration and Reform Services, a part of EY’s Global Tax Policy Group since October 2017, advising governments on tax policy and tax administration reform (including…

   Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Rindah Melsen

President, Nusatuva Women’s Savings Club, Solomon Islands

Rindah Melsen, who is a proud mother of three, is the current President of Nusatuva Women’s Savings Club, Solomon Islands. 

   Topic(s): Gender Equality
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities