Moderator: Lance Gore, Principal Water Resources Specialist, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Sectors Group, Asian Development Bank
Welcome remarks:
- Bruno Carrasco, Director General – Climate Change and Sustainable Development, ADB
- Meike van Ginneken, Special Water Envoy, Government of Netherlands
- Lidia Brito, Assistant Director General of Natural Sciences, UNESCO
Presentations:
- Sulton Rahimzoda, Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Water and Climate Coalition Leaders / Chairman of EC IFAS, Government of the Republic of Tajikistan / Executive Committee of the International Fund for saving the Aral Sea (EC IFAS)
- Aditi Mukherji, Director, CGIAR Climate Change Impacts
Panelists:
- Qingfeng Zhang, Senior Director, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development, ADB
- Koen Verbist, Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, UNESCO
- Takahiro Konami, Director, International Affairs Office, Water and Disaster Management Bureau, MLIT, Japan
- Rachael McDonnell, Deputy Director General, Research for Development, IWMI,
- Tjitunga Elijah Ngurare, Deputy Executive Director of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform of Namibia
- Kate Gibson, Global ESG Director, Diageo
- Kenzo Hiroki, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Closing: Satoshi Ishii, Director, Water and Urban Development, ADB
