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1 Statistics Focus areas: SDG monitoring and statistical capacity development Margarita Guerrero Director, Statistics Division Yoriko Yasukawa Asia and the Pacific Regional Office (APRO) Communications Focal Point: Margarita Guerrero Mr. Mukesh Srivastava Alternate Mr. Dalip Singh ILO: Tite Habiyakare UNAIDS: Taoufik Bakkali Khin Cho Win Htin (Alternate) Bishwa Tiwari UNEP Jonathan Gilman Ananda Dias Bertrand Tchatchoua Aurelie Accoca Christophe Lefranc Technical Adviser, Census and Data Melva Johnson UN Women: Janneke van der Graaff Kukler Strategic Planning and Coordination Specialist Alternate: Ryce Chanchai Programme Specialist 1

2 Resource Efficient Growth Focus areas: climate change mitigation, green economy, consumption/ production; conservation; water; energy Stefanos Fotiou Director, Environment Development Division Ms. Valerie Cliff Deputy for Asia & the Pacific Director, Bangkok Regional Hub, UNDP UNEP: Ms. Dechen Tsering UNEP: UNFCCC: Stefanos Fotiou Aneta Slaveykova Nikolova Aaron Becker Gordon Johnson Jonathan Gilman Regional Development Jayakumar Ramasamy Wenxi Zhu David Abbas Jens Radschinski, Chander Badloe UNODC: Giovanni Broussard Communications Focal Point: 2

3 Sustainable Societies Focus areas: demographic change (migration, youth, aging), human rights, urbanization Nagesh Kumar Director Social Development Division IOM: Maria Nenette Motus Yoriko Yasukawa Asia and the Pacific ILO: UNAIDS: Vanessa Steinmayer (migration and ageing) Patrik Andersson (youth) Nilim Baruah Manuel da Quinta (Migration) Aries Valeriano (Youth) Brianna Harrison (Human Rights) Nadia Rasheed Susan Vize Ushio Miura Christophe Lefranc Technical Adviser, Census and Data Dan Rono Communications Focal Point: UNODC: Devashish Dutta Ben Smith Manon Bernier Regional Manager 3

4 Inclusive Development and Poverty Eradication Focus areas: inequality, poverty alleviation, food security, decent work for all; health and wellbeing and governance Kundhavi Kadiresan Assisant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific Ms. Valerie Cliff Deputy for Asia & the Pacific Director, Bangkok Regional Hub, UNDP Communications Focal Point <pending nomination> ILO: UNAIDS: Sudip Ranjan Basu Alternate: Naylin Oo Aziz Arya Matthieu Cognac Vladanka Andreeva Tony Lisle (Alternate) Joseph D Cruz (joseph.dcruz@undp.org) Phil Matsheza (phil.matsheza@undp.org) Duong Bich Hanh (db.hanh@unesco.org) Misako Ito (m.ito@unesco.org) Anderson Stanciole Technical Adviser, Health Economics (stanciole@unfpa.org) Gaspar Fajth (gfajth@unicef.org) Chemba Raghavan (craghavan@unicef.org) UNODC: Olivier Lermet (Olivier.lermet@unodc.org) UN Women: Smriti Aryal Regional Gender and HIV/AIDS Advisor (smriti.aryal@unwomen.org) Francisco Cos Montiel Regional Women s Economic Empowerment Advisor (Francisco.cosmontiel@unwomen.org), Coordina 4

5 Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Focus on Sendai implementation; climate change adaptation Tiziana Bonapace, Director, Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division Ms. Valerie Cliff Deputy for Asia & the Pacific Director, Bangkok Regional Hub, UNDP UNISDR: Madhavi Ariyabandu Officer-in-Charge Communication Focal Point: Mr. Puji Pujiono Regional Advisor on Disaster Risk Reduction Aziz Arya IOM: Andrew Lind OCHA: Pulse Lab Jakarta: UNEP: Kristen Knutson Daniel Gilman Derval Usher 5 Sanny Jegillos Shairi Mathur Yngvil Foss Jayakumar Ramasamy Ichiro Miyazawa UNFCCC: David Abbas Jens Radschinski, UN-Habitat: UNISDR: UNODC: UNOPS: WFP: Priya Marwah Mariko Sato Carmen van Heese Mioh Nemoto Andrew McElroy Jeremy Douglas Robert Shannon Anthony Cruz Peter Guest Geoff Pinnock (Geoffrey.pinnock@wfp.org)

6 Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Nagesh Kumar Director Social Development Division ILO: Cai Cai Ms. Marianna Bicchieri Joni Simpson UNAIDS: Yuki Takemoto UN Women: Miwa Kato, Brianna Harrison (Alternate) Koh Miyaoi Communication Focal Point: Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa Ramya Vivekanandan Ingrid Fitzerald Technical Adviser Gerda Binder Jane Lawson, Regional Programme Specialist Peace and Human Security Alternate: Bataa Chuluunbaatar 6

7 Education Focus area: Education for All initiative Gwang-Jo Kim Director UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education Bangkok Karin Hulshof UNICEF Bangkok Maki Hayashikawa Chief of IQE UNESCO Bangkok Satoko Yano Jim Ackers Regional Education Advisor, East Asia Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) Emiliya Asadova Regional Programme Specialist, Youth and Volunteerism Communication Focal Point: Ms. Akané NOZAKI 7

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