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Valerie Langer

Fiber Solutions Strategist, Canopy

Valerie has been engaged in forest conservation initiatives for over 30 years. Under Canopy, she works to accelerate the global availability of 'Next Generation' alternatives to tree fiber pulp for manufacturing paper, packaging, and man-made cellulosic fibers for textiles, and with Canopy Planet…

   Topic(s): Economics, Environment, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land

Varun Deshpande

Managing Director, The Good Food Institute

Varun Deshpande serves as Managing Director at the Good Food Institute Asia, where he is focused on building the future of food by working with scientists, foundations, governments, entrepreneurs, and corporations to build the alternative protein sector across the continent. As the son of a cancer…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Varun Srivastava

Manager, Accenture Development Partnerships' Global Health

Varun Srivastava is a Manager at Accenture Development Partnerships' Global Health team, based in Bengaluru, India. With over eight years of experience in the development sector, Varun has deep expertise in public health, including immunization, public health supply chains, surveillance, and health…

   Topic(s): Health
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Vasiti Seruvatu

National WASH Officer, Pacific WASH Program, ADB

Vasiti Seruvatu lives and works in Fiji, and is currently the national WASH officer for the ADB Pacific WASH TA, working closely with the Water Authority of Fiji. As a teacher and community worker, Vasiti understands well the value of early education and community programs supporting better health…

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

Vegard Skirbekk

Professor, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Columbia University

Vegard Skirbekk is a Professor of Population and Family Health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and a Professor at Columbia University’s Columbia Aging Center. His research focuses on understanding the links between aging, health, and worker productivity in countries undergoing…

   Topic(s): Health, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Vibeke Jensen

Director, UNESCO

Since 1st January 2020, Vibeke Jensen is the incumbent Director of the Division for Peace and Sustainable Development within the Education Sector at UNESCO Headquarters. The Division covers, amongst others, education for sustainable development, global citizenship education, prevention of violent…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Education, Health
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Vicenzo Massimi

Senior Technical Specialist Rheticus, Planetek Italia

Vincenzo is passionate about techniques of analysis and monitoring of structures, infrastructures, and the environment using geomatics-based techniques with a particular focus on monitoring landslides integrating the displacement data analysis through the Artificial Adaptive Systems (AAS)…

   Topic(s): Industry and Trade, Private Sector
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Victor Ochieng Owino

Nutrition Specialist, International Atomic Energy Agency

Dr. Victor Owino is a Nutrition Specialist in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section. His work focuses on supporting the Member States to apply stable isotope techniques to design and evaluate nutrition interventions that target all…

   Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health
   SDG: Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Vincent O'Brien

Member, Executive Committee, ICC Banking Commission

Vincent O'Brien is Member Executive Committee of ICC Banking Commission and Chair of ICC Banking Commission, Market Intelligence Group. He has been actively involved in trade finance for more than a quarter of a century and has delivered technical trade finance assistance in more than 100 countries…

   Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Vincent Oh

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Vincent is a Senior Solutions Architect at the AWS. He works with public sector customers across ASEAN, owning technical engagements and helping them design cloud solutions across various innovation projects. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Singapore Management University (SMU), teaching…

   Topic(s): ICT, Industry and Trade
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities