Rosie Wheen

Rosie is a passionate advocate for human rights, gender equality, and universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene. She has over two decades of international development experience, having lived and worked in Indonesia for six years before joining WaterAid Australia at its inception in 2004. She was Director of International Programs prior to becoming Chief Executive in 2016. Rosie’s leadership manifesto focuses on being an authentic servant leader who always pushes herself beyond her comfort zone—this is where Rosie believes she learns most and performs at her best.

Joint Gender Equity TG and Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management TG Webinar: Enhancing Women-Focused Investments in Climate and Disaster Resilience

Women are agents of change for resilient development. However, substantial gaps remain in building women’s capacity. In this webinar, Zonibel Woods and Arghya Sinha Roy shared key findings of a recent publication that calls for women-focused investments in resilience to meet the gender and climate targets of ADB's Strategy 2030.

Masanobu Kii

Masanobu Kii is Associte Professor of Urban and Transportation Planning in the Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University in Japan. He is the co-chair of the SIG F1: “Transport and Spatial Development” of the World Conference of Transport Research Society (WCTRS), and has worked at the Institute for Transport Policy Studies (2000-2003), the Japan Automobile Research Institute (2004-2008), and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (2008-2009), before joining Kagawa University in 2009.

ADB's First Innovation Fair

ADB’s first Knowledge Innovation Fair (“the Fair”) was held on 10 January 2020 at ADB headquarters in Manila. It was a 1-day learning and knowledge-sharing event for ADB staff, with more than 460 attendees. The Fair is a part of the innovation framework initiatives aligned with Strategy 2030 which clearly articulates ADB’s role in promoting, facilitating, and driving innovation.

Reema Nanavaty

Reema Nanavaty leads Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) economic and rural development activities reaching out to seventeen million women and their families across India. Since 1989 she has pioneered revival, restoration, and innovation of rural livelihoods from district to global level. Reema is being recognized across India and in the neighboring countries as a champion of making livelihoods of the poor women reach markets they deserve.

Tamkeen Faisal

An HR Leader with over 15+ years of comprehensive human resources experience including cultural transformation, talent management, reward management, end-to-end HR operations and change management. I have proven experience of collaborating with organization leaders and BoDs to conduct Human Resources strategic planning in order to support and further corporate goals.