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Knut Oberhagemann

Principal, Overseas Projects, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Canada

Since joining NHC in 2001, Knut has worked mostly in Bangladesh and India on long-term multidisciplinary studies and in implementing water resource projects. His main focus has been developing riverbank protection solutions for the extensive flooding of the Brahmaputra River in Assam and…

   Topic(s): Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Kunal Walia

Partner, Dalberg Advisors

Kunal Walia is a Partner in New Delhi and works across essential issues related to financial inclusion, investing for development, and technology for good. Kunal has over 15 years of experience advising commercial and impact investors, philanthropies, the private sector, and NGOs across these…

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

Laarnie Cancio

Co-founder and Managing Director, BTB Ecostore

Laarnie is one of the five women founders of Luntiang Pamumuhay, Inc., also known as Back to Basics Ecostore, a zero-waste refillery store in Maginhawa, Quezon City in the Philippines. She is a top performer graduate of the Zero Waste Academy Asia Pacific Cohort 2022–2023. She actively engages as a…

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

Lachlan Guthrie

Project Manager, Integrated Water Management and WASH, International WaterCentre

Lachlan is a Research Fellow and Project Manager (Integrated Water Management and WASH) at the International WaterCentre in Griffith University, Australia. He has extensive experience in integrated water strategic planning and water security. He has recently completed several high-level water…

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

Lainie Thomas

Unit Head, ADB

Ms. Thomas leads the implementation of ADB’s fragile and conflict-affected situations and small island developing states approach, which institutionalizes differentiated strategies to improve the performance of ADB’s operations in these contexts. Prior to this, Ms. Thomas oversaw ADB's work on…

   Topic(s): Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Lal Muthuwatta

Senior Regional Researcher, International Water Management Institute

Dr. Lal Muthuwatta is a hydrologist by training with a specialization in numerical modeling for water resources management. His research and professional background include over 20 years of experience in the fields of GIS, remote sensing, and numerical modeling. He has worked in multiple river…

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

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

Lara Jean Salaysay

Youth Project Designer (Consultant), ADB

Lara is a professional teacher who specializes in education for sustainable development particularly climate change education. Over the past 6 years, she supported learners and teachers for their meaningful engagement in sustainable development and climate action by serving as a private high school…

   Topic(s): Civil Society, Social Development and Protection
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Laxmi Sharma

Unit Head, ADB

Laxmi Sharma is the Unit Head of Project Administration, Water and Urban Development Sector Office at Asian Development Bank. An engineer with over 25 years of experience in integrated urban planning and development, water and sanitation, solid waste management, inclusive city development, urban…

   Topic(s): Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Lee Baumgartner

Executive Director - Gulbali Research Institute, Charles Sturt University

Professor Baumgartner designs, supervises and undertakes research into various aspects of the biology and ecology of freshwater fish and systems. His interests are fish passage and fish migration, the impact of human disturbance on aquatic ecosystems, developing solutions to global challenges in…

   Topic(s): Urban Development, Water
   SDG: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities