Tanu Priya Uteng

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Tanu Priya Uteng (Ph.D.), senior researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics (TOI) in Oslo, Norway, holds a PhD degree in Transport Planning and has worked extensively across a host of cross-cutting issues in the field of urban and transport planning in the past 18 years. Her areas of expertise include: inclusive cities, mobilities, transport-related social exclusion, travel behaviour studies, evaluation and gender studies. Dr.

CPAG

CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations that works to advance the lives of poor people, especially women, through financial inclusion. Using action-oriented research, we test, learn and share knowledge intended to help build inclusive and responsible financial systems that move people out of poverty, protect their economic gains and advance broader development goals. We research and experiment to achieve proof of concept and extract lessons that can be built to scale by our partners, who apply our insights in the

EmPower

According to the 2016 World Risk Report, 10 out of the 15 most at risk countries to climate change and disasters are in Asia and the Pacific. The region combines high exposure to frequent and damaging natural hazards with a low capacity to manage the resulting risks.
 
Climate change and climate-induced disasters remain the largest threat to the achievement of global sustainable development today. When disasters hit, often women and girls face secondary negative impacts such as gender-based violence, forced marriage and human trafficking.

Despoina Kouria

Despoina Kouria is a Supplier Diversity and Sustainability analyst with Corporate Procurement at the World Bank Group (WBG), which she joined in 2020. She is part of the team that mainstreams sustainability considerations into over $1.7 Billion of annual purchases for the World Bank Group’s global offices and leads Corporate Procurement’s efforts in promoting and increasing the participation of women- and other diverse-owned businesses within WBG procurement processes and across its supply chain.

Theresa Niederle

Theresa Niederle is a Principal Economist and Gender Expert at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. Theresa works and advises investment teams on the intersection between infrastructure and gender equality as well as economic inclusion, with a focus on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as Turkey. Previously to joining EBRD, she gained experience across the private and public sector, including in management consulting and as an advisor to governments in the area of sustainable private sector development.

Anne Kuriakose

Anne Kuriakose is Senior Social Development Specialist at the CIF, where she is responsible for mainstreaming gender across the CIF and its programs, through policy and technical assistance, analytical work, and capacity-building. Anne has over 20 years of experience in gender and social development with particular expertise in climate adaptation, rural development, and water resources.