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James Lang

Senior Gender Specialist, ADB

James Lang is the Senior Specialist on Gender-based Violence for the Gender Equality Division at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) where he provides leadership for preventing gender-based violence across ADB operations and knowledge work. James has over 25 years of experience promoting gender…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

James Leather

Chief of the Transport Sector Group, ADB

James Leather is the Chief of the Transport Sector Group at the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Leather has 30 years of experience in transport, working internationally with development organizations, governments, the private sector, and research institutions. Mr. Leather leads ADBs transport…

   Topic(s): Transport
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Jamie Leather

Director - Transport Sector, ADB

Mr. Leather leads ADB's Sustainable Transport Initiative, providing support to ADB's transport operations across Asia and the Pacific and acts as the transport focal point for ADB with international organizations. He is also a Committee member of the transport community of practice and urban…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Transport
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Jari Kaupilla

Head of Secretary-General's Office, International Transport Forum

Jari Kauppila is Head of ITF Secretary-General’s Office at the International Transport Forum and and Head of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight Division at the OECD. Prior joining the ITF in 2007, he worked at the Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland for almost 10 years. He is…

   Topic(s): Environment, Transport
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala

Former Goodwill Ambassador, Women's Rights Sri Lanka Ministry of Women's Affairs

Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala is a women's rights activist with 18 years of experience in the field of women's rights and gender equality. She holds a MA in Gender Studies from Sussex University (UK), and a post graduate diploma in Women’s Studies from Colombo University. In 2016, she became the first Sri…

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

Jayati Ghosh

Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Jayati  Ghosh  taught  economics  at  Jawaharlal  Nehru  University,  New  Delhi for  nearly  35  years.  She  is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.  She has authored and/or…

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

Jeremy Knight

Managing Director, TRANSPORT CONNECT LIMITED

Jeremy Knight has extensive experience in market development and key customer management in the transportation industry. He is a former General Manager (Distributor Markets) in Volvo Bus Hong Kong Ltd.

   Topic(s): Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Jessica Espinoza

CEO, 2X Collaborative

 Jessica Espinoza is the CEO of 2X Collaborative, a global industry body that convenes the entire spectrum of investors to promote gender lens investing. She is also Chair of the 2X Challenge that has raised more than US$ 11 billion of gender lens investments since its launch at the G7 Summit…

   Topic(s): Finance, Gender Equality, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Jiangbo Ning

Deputy Country Director, ADB

Mr. Jiangbo Ning is Deputy Country Director, Bangladesh Resident Mission, Asian Development Bank. Mr. Ning has more than 30 years of professional experience, in central and western Asia and south Asian, in transport sector and project management. He joined ADB as a senior transport specialist in…

   Topic(s): Transport
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Jim Fletcher

Senior Consultant, SCJ Alliance

Jim Fletcher, P.E. has demonstrated project management experience in design, planning and implementation for transit and transportation projects nationally and internationally exemplified by his work as Project Director for the Automated Transit Systems at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and as…

   Topic(s): Transport, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities