Sunita Pitamber Keywords gender equality gender mainstreaming Read more about Sunita Pitamber Dr Sunita Pitamber is the Associate Director for Gender Mainstreaming and Access to Services and Infrastructure Development at the EBRD. In this role, she leads on advising clients and colleagues in promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment through Bank investments. Sunita has extensive experience in Africa through her role at the African Development Bank where she led the Bank’s priorities on Human Capital Development, Youth Employment, as well as Education and Health.
Kelera Kolivuso-Ravono Keywords gender equality Read more about Kelera Kolivuso-Ravono Kelera Kolivuso-Ravono works at the Ministry of Economy under the Budget and Planning Division as a team leader for the Social Services sector. She is involved in the coordination of policies, planning and budgeting of the Education, Health, Housing, Youth and Sports, Women and Social Protection sectors. She has been with the Ministry of Economy for the last 19 years working in various sections with majority of her working career in the budget division.
Julia Newton-Howes Keywords gender equality Read more about Julia Newton-Howes Dr. Julia Newton-Howes is CEO of Investing in Women, an Australian Government initiative to catalyse women’s economic opportunity in South East Asia by improving workplace gender equality in the private sector; increasing intentional impact investments in women’s SMEs; and shifting gender norms which limit women in the world of work.
Caren Grown Keywords gender equality macroeconomics Read more about Caren Grown Dr. Caren Grown is Senior Technical Advisor in the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice at the World Bank. From 2014-2021, she served as Global Director, Gender at the World Bank Group. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Grown was Economist-In-Residence and Co-Director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics at American University in Washington, D.C. Over the course of her career, Dr. Grown held several senior positions, including as Senior Gender Advisor at USAID and Director of the Economics Team at the International Center for Research on Women. Dr.
Padma Shri Reema Nanavaty Keywords gender equality womens empowerment Read more about Padma Shri Reema Nanavaty Reema Nanavaty is former General Secretary of the Self Employed Women's Association in India. She has worked with SEWA for more than 35 years expanding its membership to over 1.7 million members, making it the single largest union of informal sector women workers.
Suranjana Gupta Keywords gender equality Read more about Suranjana Gupta Suranjana Gupta is currently the India-based Special Advisor for Community Resilience at the Huairou Commission - a coalition of grassroots women’s organizations and partners focused on women’s leadership in resilient, sustainable, gender-just communities. Suranjana has worked for twenty years on disaster and climate resilience from a women’s empowerment perspective.
Lorena Aguilar Keywords gender equality human rights Read more about Lorena Aguilar Global leader passionate about human rights, inclusion, and sustainable development, with over three decades providing strategic contributions to national and international policies. Leading inclusive collaboration with government counterparts, UN agencies, international organizations, and civil society towards advancing inclusive and equitable sustainable development. Lorena has field experience in more than 50 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. Ms. Aguilar also served as Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica.
Maria Vassilakou Keywords gender equality Read more about Maria Vassilakou Maria Vassilakou, MSc, founder and CEO of Vassilakou Urban Consulting GmbH - Vienna Solutions, works worldwide as an advisor to cities, organizations, NGOs and corporations sharing know-how on green and fair urban transformation strategies and transition management. She also serves as a member of the EU Mission Experts-Board advising the European Commission on the design and implementation of Europes „100 Climate neutral smart Cities by 2030“ Mission.
Isira Perera Keywords gender equality Read more about Isira Perera Isira holds over two decades of diversified industry experience in senior leadership capacity on digital mobility and digital payments enabling service inclusion. He carries hands on experience on market dynamics and consumer behaviors supporting equal opportunity.