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Simon is an international sustainable development expert with over 13 years of experience in sustainable development and environmental governance ranging from policy research to project design and management. His recent work has involved supporting governments in the Asia-Pacific region strengthen their response to the environment-related SDGs (sustainable consumption and production; life below water, and life on land), as part of an ADB project.

Suzanna Sumkhuu is the Senior Development Policy and Planning Specialist at the National Development Agency of Mongolia. Her primary working areas include developing integrated long and medium-term national development policies, ensuring policy coherence and stability by providing methodological analysis and inputs to the government, and coordinating the localization/mainstreaming of the Sustainable Development Goals in Mongolia. She is the technical focal point for the preparation of Mongolia’s Voluntary National Review 2019.

Lisa Antonio is the project expert for the sustainable business and sustainable lifestyles segment of the Philippine Project on Supporting Implementation of Environment-Related Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific, under the National Development Authority.

Jing Huang is currently the Director-General of the Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21 (ACCA21), Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Among his many responsibilities, Dr. Huang oversees several international cooperation programs in the areas of Sustainable Development and Climate Change. His portfolio also covers the management of the National Key R&D Program of China in areas including Biotechnology, Water Resource, Marine Environment, Deep-sea Exploration, Natural Disaster Prevention and Relief, Solid Waste Management, etc.

Erna is the former UN Special Ambassador for MDGs in the Asia Pacific (2003-2007); Indonesian Minister of Human Settlements and Regional Development (1999-2001), and President of the Consumers International (1991-1997). She was a member of the Commission on Developing Countries and Global Changes (1990-1992), Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (2006-2009), Earth Charter Commission (1997-2014) and Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance (2014-2015).

Charina Cabrido is an environment professional with 15 years of combined experience in mainstreaming biodiversity, transport, environment and natural resources initiatives at policy, programming and implementation levels including resource mobilization and expansion of partnerships. Extensive experience in cross-cutting knowledge work to capture and disseminate findings and lessons from projects.

Meg leads ClimateWorks Australia's international programs, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. She has written extensively on the nexus between climate action and sustainable development and led the development of the ‘Horizon to Horizon’ guide and Strategic Mitigation Adaptation and Resilience Tool to support Pacific Island countries to develop and implement long term strategies.

Jyoti Parikh is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change –India and is a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC authors in 2007. She served as the senior professor and Acting Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai 1986-2003. IIASA, Austria for 8 years (1980-86, 76-78) and Planning Commission, as a senior energy consultant at New Delhi (1978-80).