David Lee Kuo Chuen

David Lee Kuo Chuen is a Professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He is also the Vice President of the Economic Society of Singapore and council member of British Blockchain Association. He is the founder of several entities including Libai Academy, the external advisor to Stanford University’s Distributed Trust Initiative, a Fulbright Scholar, and an Independent Director of listed and technology companies. He graduated with BSc, MSc, and PhD from the LSE in Econometrics.

Strengthening Urban Resilience: Integrating Inclusive Infrastructure, Energy, Climate and Health Systems

In our response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are effectively undertaking a massive experiment where we disrupt our entire economy and how we work and live within it. This has implications for our health and infrastructure, as well as gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) linkages. Better health is a measure of progress in diverse dimensions, including sustainable energy, cities, transport, and GESI. Being better prepared and learning how to become more resilient, is a more viable long-term option than waiting for disasters to occur.

Paul Vandenberg

Paul Vandenberg is a Senior Economist at the Economic Research Department of Asian Development Bank in Manila. His research interests include industrialization, the middle-income trap, employment, small and medium enterprises, tech startups, and skills training. He previously worked at the ADB Institute in Tokyo and was a consultant for a number of years with the International Labour Organization. He has taught at the University of Bristol, the International Management Institute (New Delhi) and most recently at Thammasat University (Bangkok).

Ankit Maheshwari

Ankit Maheshwari is the President of Engineering and India Operations at Innovaccer. As a Founding Team Member, he has been at the helm of Innovaccer’s Product Engineering vertical and has worked closely with the organization's clients and clinicians over the years to develop and deploy industry-leading Data Activation Platform at more than 1000 healthcare practices across the globe.

Debopam Raha

Debopam has more than 22 years of industry experience across different sectors and multiple geographies. He has worked for 7 years in USA and last 15 years based in India. He currently serves  as Executive Director in KPMG Government and HealthCare Practice. His experience includes large scale Digital Transformation projects both in public and private sector. Debopam has deep sectoral technology expertise in healthcare delivery in areas of universal health care, hospital information systems, public healthcare, digital technologies for Health IT.

Gilberto Llanto

Gilberto Llanto was formerly the President of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), and currently is a member of PIDS' Board of Trustees. He previously served as the Deputy Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority, Vice-President of PIDS, and Executive Director (with the rank of Assistant Secretary/Assistant Minister) of the Agricultural Credit Policy Council.

Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa

Aimee is an urban development specialist and economist working on urban development and water supply and sanitation, economic analysis of investment projects, and private sector development (tech startups, entrepreneurship, and business environment). Currently she is processing and implementing solid waste management projects in the Solomon and Marshall Islands and is supporting the ADB due diligence of economic analysis of urban development projects in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.