Navonil has been working in the Indian skill development ecosystem for more than 11 years. He is currently looking after GIZ's TVET Program, focusing on E-Mobility, Green Skills, and Just Transition. He facilitates cooperation, initiates dialogue and establishes partnerships among stakeholders in the fields of skilling, livelihoods and CSR.

Since 01 January 2020 she is the Head of Skills Identification and Development Unit, within the Knowledge Hub department of the ETF. As Head of Unit, Manuela is responsible for steering ETF’s work in the area of skills relevance and anticipation, development of skills and validation, leading the knowledge co-creation and sharing across ETF partner countries, with the EU and the international community.

Ji-Youn Seo is an assistant professor of Nanoenergy Engineering in Pusan National University. She received her BSc & MS degrees in Ajou University in 2009 & 2011 and her PhD degree from É cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Michael Grätzel.

Dr Tricia Seow is the Assistant Head of the Humanities and Social Studies Academic Group and co-chair of the Sustainability Learning Lab at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests focus on the pedagogies that support sustainability and environmental education.

Dr. Tuga is the President of the Philippine Normal University (PNU). Outside PNU, he serves as the Regional Chair of Philippine Association of State University and Colleges and as the President of the Philippine Association for Teachers of Educational Foundations (UPDATE). He also serves as lead consultant of an international project on Global Citizenship Education implemented by UNESCO Bangkok.
 

Ms. Anttalainen has 15 years of experience in the coordination of multilateral affairs, especially in the field of education. She has followed extensively the work on promoting 2030 Agenda within the Ministry’s branches of administration. She acts as the focal point of Finland in UNESCO’s global Greening Education Partnership.

Rika Yorozu has experienced education and development specialist with a demonstrated history of working in developing countries context. She is skilled in gender-responsive programming, education and learning for sustainable development, participatory programme design and evaluation. She also effectively networks and build alliances with government and civil society partners and has strong and ethical professional with an MA in International Development Economics from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan.

Wim van den Doel has been professor of Contemporary History at Leiden University since 2003. From 2007 to 2016 he was Dean of the faculty of Humanities of Leiden University. From 2017 to 2020 he was member of the Executive Board of the Netherlands Organizations for Scientific Research (NWO). Since February 2020 he has been dean of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities Alliance.

Dimple has recently worked on an innovative degree Energy Engineering to address the need for workers in energy transition and created curricula on resources and the circular economy. She sponsors a working group on embedding UN Sustainable Development Goals into the science and engineering curriculum , and represented Curtin University on a government-led Roundtable on Clean Energy in Australia.

Mr. Zohaib Mushtaq is a civil servant from the Pakistan Administrative Service. He is currently working as Project Director of ADB funded Improving Workforce Readiness in Punjab Project which intends to uplift the TVET Sector by addressing the quality and relevance of TVET in priority economic sectors, increasing equitable access to TVET and strengthening of the TVET sector institutional framework.