Clarissa Delgado Keywords RDFS Forum RDFS Forum 2022 rdfs tg food security rural development agricultural value chains agriculture and natural resources smart agriculture education history Read more about Clarissa Delgado Selected out of over 21,000 applications from 191 countries, Clarissa is a member of the inaugural 2018 class of Obama Foundation Fellows. Clarissa is also a 2019 recipient of the national The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service Award (TOWNS) and the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women Award (TOYM) presented by the President of the Republic of the Philippines, as well as the regional Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leaders Award both in 2016 and the Global Mover Award from Rappler, the organization of Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa.
B.V. Phani Keywords engineering industrial education innovation entrepreneurship Read more about B.V. Phani B. V. Phani is the head of the Department of Industrial & Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur. His research interests are financial intermediaries, credit risk modeling, entrepreneurial finance, innovation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, market micro-structure and valuation, and corporate governance.
Promoting What to Whom? Read more about Promoting What to Whom? Most technical and vocational education and training (TVET) promotion efforts currently emphasize the course, not the resulting job. Conducting market research is critical to understand who TVET’s audiences are, their interests and concerns, and what they aspire to be.
Communicating Technical and Vocational Education and Training Read more about Communicating Technical and Vocational Education and Training Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s technical vocational and education training (TVET) portfolio is increasing—from 18% of the total education portfolio (2009-2011) to 42% (2016-2018). As developing economies require more skilled workforce with technical training, there has been growing emphasis on expanding TVET across many Asian countries.
Pham Van Quan Keywords education skills forum international skills forum ADB k-12 new normal Read more about Pham Van Quan Dr. Pham Van Quan is currently a Rector of Hue Industrial College, Vietnam. He got a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2009. From 2013 to 2019, he was Deputy Head of the Department of Training and Human Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade. Before that, he worked as a lecturer in the Environmental Engineering Department at Hanoi Architectural University, where he researched energy-saving techniques to mitigate climate change. Dr. Quan has written numerous papers on sustainability topics.
Abhinav Madan Keywords education capacity development Read more about Abhinav Madan Abhinav Madan is the co-founder and CEO of Gran Tarang Employability Services. Prior to this, he was a Business Planning Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Business Analyst at GE. He had an MBA from the Xavier Institute of Management.
Scale With Quality: The Citizens' Foundation Approach to Providing Education Read more about Scale With Quality: The Citizens' Foundation Approach to Providing Education The Citizens Foundation (TCF) addresses the massive educational challenge in Pakistan by empowering children to become agents of positive change. TCF provides student-centric academic interventions and offers leadership, teacher, and pre-service training programs.
Shazia Kamal Keywords education social inclusion Read more about Shazia Kamal Shazia, in this role, oversees all the functions of TCF’s Education Programme. She comes with a rich 11-year experience across diverse fields including FMCG industry, education, and social and development sectors.
Boosting Student Learning: Programme for International Student Assessment for Development Read more about Boosting Student Learning: Programme for International Student Assessment for Development Issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in mathematics, reading, and science. PISA for Development, among its other goals, aims to enhance PISA to make it more relevant to a wider range of countries and thus enable greater PISA participation by middle- and low-income countries.
Guntur Sugiyarto Keywords principal economist nvestment tourism economics labor markets poverty CGE modeling trade liberalization taxation commodity prices biofuel and food security education infrastructure fragility and migration Read more about Guntur Sugiyarto Guntur has published a significant number of papers on a wide range of development issues, such as competitiveness, investment, tourism economics, labor markets, poverty, CGE modeling, trade liberalization, taxation, commodity prices, biofuel and food security, education, infrastructure, fragility, and migration. Before joining ADB in 2004, he worked for the universities of Nottingham and Warwick in the United Kingdom and the Central Bureau of Statistics in Indonesia.