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Louise McSorley

Social Development Specialist, ADB

Louise works on social dimensions of Just Transition at ADB. Originally trained as a lawyer she has national and international experience drafting labor laws in Australia, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. Louise also served as a diplomat in Australian missions in New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur. Before joining…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Loveelen Kacker

Former CEO , Tech Mahindra Foundation

Loveleen is a published writer, a Civil Servant, and Podcaster. Her career spans over forty years. I worked for the Indian government for over thirty years and in Corporate Social Responsibility for another seven years.  Simultaneously, she has been writing children's fiction and adult…

   Topic(s): ICT, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Luis Gonzales

General Manager, Power Industry Aboitiz Data Innovation

Luis has 24 years of experience leading and developing AI solutions, enterprise software and digital transformation initiatives of industrial enterprises with the development and implementation of ERP, Control, Analytics, Historians, GIS and Machine/Deep Learning AI platform solutions. Luis has…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Lusia Sefo-Leau

CEO, Pacific Water and Wastewater Association

Lusia Sefo Leau is the CEO of PWWA and has held this role since late 2016; she helped establish PWWA as a permanent regional organization for Pacific water and wastewater in Samoa. She has held senior leadership roles in a number of government Ministries, including CEO of the Ministry for Revenue,…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Water
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

M.V. Lee Badgett

Professor of Economics, Williams Institute

M. V. Lee Badgett's new book is "The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fairness and Equality Benefit Us All" from Beacon Press. Her research focuses on economic inequality for LGBT people, including wage gaps, employment discrimination, and poverty, and on the global cost of homophobia and…

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

Ma Luisa (Lulu) Zuniga-Carmine

Gender Specialist, Consultant, ADB

Ms. Ma Luisa (Lulu) Zuniga-Carmine is a Gender Specialist, who has over 20 years of experience working on poverty, involuntary resettlement, and gender in 14 Pacific countries including Kiribati, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu and Fjij. She has also worked in Asia including Sri Lanka, Kyrgyztan, Mongolia and…

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

Madhumita Gupta

Principal Social Development Specialist (Safeguards), ADB

Madhumita Gupta is a Principal Safeguard Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. She attended the Delhi School of Economics, where she obtained here master's degree in sociology.

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Mailene Radstake

Principal Social Development Specialist (Safeguards), ADB

Mailene Radstake is the Principal Social Development Specialist for Safeguards at ADB. 

   Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Malika Shagazatova

Senior Social Development Specialist, ADB

Malika Shagazatova is a Senior Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) at Asian Development Bank (ADB). She has many years of experience in mainstreaming gender into programs and projects in transport, urban infrastructure, energy, education and health.  Before joining ADB she…

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

Maneesh Mishra

Executive Vice President, Strategy National Skill Development Corporation, Government of India

Dr. Maneesh Mishra is the Executive Vice President of Strategy, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). He focuses on initiatives and good practices in promoting the social inclusion of social identity groups and poverty reduction. Dr. Maneesh spoke about how inclusive design of…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions