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Lan Mercado

Regional Director, Oxfam International Secretariat Asia

Lan Mercado is the Regional Director for Oxfam in Asia. Lan is an activist and development worker, with over 30 years of experience working with civil society coalitions, environmental movements, and international women's rights organizations. Since 1999, she’s been with Oxfam, starting as a…

   Topic(s): Economics, Gender Equality, Health, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Laura Crow

Principal Product Manager, M-Pesa Africa Ltd

Laura is part of M-Pesa Africa’s Product team responsible for designing and rolling out platforms which the 7 M-Pesa markets can commercialise. Her focus within the team is to develop the product strategy, set the commercial priorities, drive thought leadership and specify the features and…

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

Laura Phelps

Principal Consultant Shock Responsive Social Protection, Oxford Policy Management

Laura is a shock responsive social protection specialist with over 22 years-experience, working across the nexus from complex protracted crisis and into development. Her programme and policy experience in LMIC across Africa, SE Asia and Central Asia has focused on socio economic vulnerability to…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Economics
   SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 13: Climate Action

Li Lian Ng

Co-Founder & Managing Director, etsuyu Healthcare

Ms. Ng Li Lian is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Tetsuyu Healthcare, Singapore, where she leads strategic and corporate development, marketing, and operations. With nearly two decades of experience in consumer banking, including her role as Head of Personal Banking at OCBC Bank, Li Lian…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Energy
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Lida Loem

Co-founder and Program Manager, SHE Investments

SHE Investments (Support Her Enterprise Co. Ltd.) is a social enterprise that delivers the first and only gender-focused and culturally tailored business incubator and accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs in Cambodia.

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

Lily Riahi

Coordinator, the Cool Coalition

Lily coordinates the Cool Coalition, a new initiative that was an official outcome of the Energy Transition Track of the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019. The Coalition supports governments’ transition to efficient, climate-friendly cooling through a holistic approach to meet the goals of the Paris…

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

Linda Sew

Independent, Consultant

Linda Sew is an independent consultant who has more than 20 years of experience from the insurance industry where she worked with several multi-national insurers and reinsurers. Her corporate experience includes risk management, pricing, underwriting, reserving and technical accounting. In her…

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

Litea Biukoto

Team Leader Risk Reduction, Pacific Community

Litea has over 15 years of experience working in the region with Pacific Island Countries on disaster risk reduction programmes. She has worked with technical experts from various countries, research and technical institutes and development partners to expand the use and application of risk…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
   SDG: Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Lizti Irene Pinta

Associate Project Officer (Infrastructure), ADB

Liz joined IRM ADB in August 2021 as an Associate Project Officer (Infrastructure). She supports processing and administering sovereign projects and technical assistance in the transport sector in Indonesia. She possesses over 10 years of professional experience, mainly in international development…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Lizzie Collins

Vice President of Engineering, Build Change

Lizzie Blaisdell Collins is the Vice President of Engineering for Build Change, a non-profit social enterprise with a critical mission of preventing housing losses caused by disasters. After working early in her career with a private sector earthquake engineering firm in San Francisco, USA, Lizzie…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Social Development and Protection, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action