Tim Benton

Professor Tim G. Benton leads the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. He joined Chatham House in 2016 as a distinguished visiting fellow, at which time he was also dean of strategic research initiatives at the University of Leeds.

From 2011-2016 he was the ‘champion’ of the UK’s Global Food Security programme which was a multi-agency partnership of the UK’s public bodies (government departments, devolved governments and research councils) with an interest in the challenges around food.

Solutions Search: Meaningful Youth Engagement in ADB's Greater Mekong Subregion Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program

This contest is a solution-sharing platform for Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) youth. Through the form of a short video (2 minutes maximum) or an essay (500 words maximum), GMS youth are encouraged to showcase their current project/business/initiative that is relevant to any of the three main themes of ADB’s GMS SAFSP:

William Wu

Dr. William Wu is CEO of Quantitative Engineering Design (QED.ai), a mission-driven firm working in global health and food security. He brings +15 years of experience with data systems and A.I. to help partners scale their operations. Example projects include land cover mapping in Africa and Asia, and surveillance of HIV/malaria/covid-19 through automated transcription of handwritten medical registers (ScanForm). Dr. Wu previously worked as a telecommunications engineer at NASA JPL, and has been featured in The Gates Notes. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and M.S.