Sessions
Global Sustainable Development
This session will discuss areas of economic and environmental issues related to the planet’s biodiversity, energy usage, the need for clean waters, land degradation, air pollutants and ozone depletion.
Featured Speakers:
CHAIR
Advisor
Arun Kashyap
Private Sector Development
Capacity Development Group
Bureau for Development Policy
UNDP
Arun Kashyap is Advisor for Private Sector Development in the Capacity Development Group of the United Nations Development Programme. Previously, as UNDP’s Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism Advisor, he initiated UNDP’s engagement in Clean Development Mechanism and issues of adaptation to climate change. Earlier, Kashyap was Associate Director, Global Environment Division, at the Rockefeller Foundation where he designed strategies to build global leadership capacity for equitable development and entrepreneurship based models for provision of sustainable energy services. Prior to that, as Senior Project officer with the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International’s Regional Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he was responsible for capacity development activities and projects in environment, agriculture, forestry and human health in the Asia Pacific region. He also managed Forestry Research Support Program for Asia Pacific (FORSPA) knowledge network to promote multi stakeholder partnerships for meeting the needs of the poor through sustainable forestry management.
Kashyap has considerable practical experience with global project management, partnership building, and support for local capacity development. On the policy side, he has helped countries integrate global mandates into national development priorities. His current work focuses on supporting locally led private sector development in UNDP’s client countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The emphasis is on the creation of a stable, predictable and transparent policy environment and the capacity to encourage a competitive, socially and environmentally responsible private sector suited to individual country needs. Kashyap is working on inclusive models for provision of sustainable financial services including those of credit, savings and market based safety net mechanisms like micro-insurance that build upon the role of remittances in the context of strengthening entrepreneurship at the bottom of the pyramid. He also has experience in engaging the private sector in building up disaster relief interventions.
Kashyap began his career in the Indian civil service. His multidisciplinary academic background includes a PhD in economics and business administration from the East West Center and the University of Hawaii, master’s degrees in business administration, economics and physics, and a post-graduate diploma in forestry.
Founder and Executive Director
Joseph Adelegan
Global Network for Environ and Econ Dev Research
Joseph Adelegan is a Chartered Civil Engineer, Chartered
Structural Engineer, Certified Public Health Engineer and an
Entrepreneur. He is the Founder of the Global Network for
Environment and Economic Development Research, a frontline
African non-governmental organization involved in environment and
sustainable development issues in sub-Saharan Africa. The
organization implements development projects to alleviate identified
local, national, regional and global environment and development
problems.
He has over 16 years professional experience spread across engineering consulting on internationally financed (African Development Bank and World Bank) water and sanitation projects, construction, project management, research, university lecturing, policy advocacy and social development.
In 2001, he pioneered a partnership called “Cows to Kilowatts [PDF]”, a CDM project converting slaughterhouse waste into renewable energy in Nigeria with replication across Africa. The partnership project is a recipient of the Prestigious 2005 SEED International Environment and Development Award.
He was recently selected by the World Economic Forum based in
Geneva, Switzerland as 2006 Young Global Leader in recognition of
his noteworthy global contribution to Environment and Sustainable
Development issues in Africa. He has been invited to attend and
speak at several International Environmental Leadership Summits
around the World. He has also attended and presented research
papers on environment and development issues at international
conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and North America
spreading over 26 countries of the World. He has over 10
international research publications. He is a recipient of several
international research awards and fellowships on environment and
sustainable development issues.
Quentin T. Kelly
World Water and Power Corporation
Quentin T. Kelly is WW&P’s founder and has been Chairman of the Company since its inception in 1984. He has many years experience in international business involving water and solar power needs in the developing world, and has worked with several international assistance agencies, including UNDP, UNICEF and USAID. He holds three patents relating to water and solar systems. In 1998, he was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. Earlier, Mr. Kelly was Assistant to the President of Westinghouse Electric Corp., and CEO of corporations manufacturing and marketing specialized water and solar systems internationally.
GUEST
Jaime Lerner
Renowned architect and urban planner
The luncheon speaker will be Jaime Lerner, renowned architect and planner. As mayor of Curitiba, Mr. Lerner consolidated the urban transformation of the city and implemented the integrated mass transportation system known worldwide for its excellence and efficiency while reforming social measures that place Curitiba among the capitals of the world with the highest quality of life. While elected Governor of Parana, Jaime Lerner promoted the greatest economic and social transformation in the history of the State.
Jaime Lerner is a United Nations consultant in urban planning. He has been distinguished with such awards as the United Nations Environment Award, UNICEF Children and Peace Award, Netherlands Prince Claus Award for Culture and Development, the World Technology Award and the UIA Sir Robert Matthew Prize for Improvement in the Quality of Human Settlements.
