Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning (PDF)

¿Venkatachalam Anbumozhi is a Senior Economist and the Director of Research Strategy and Innovations at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia. His previous positions include Capacity Building Specialist and Senior Fellow at Asian Development Bank Institute and Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. A distinguished fellow of Asia Pacific Rim University (APRU) Forum on Development and Environment, he also advised ADB, JICA, JBIC, UNESCAP projects on sustainable development. He has published several books, authored numerous research articles, and produced many project reports on natural resource management, climate friendly infrastructure design, and private sector participation in green growth. Anbumozhi was invited as a member of the APEC Expert Panel on Green Climate Finance and the ASEAN Panel for promoting climate-resilient growth. He has taught resource management, international cooperation, and development financeat the University of Tokyo and has speaking engagements at some of the leading international organizations. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo.
Kaliappa Kalirajan is a Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Australia. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Madras School of Economics, India and the Institute for Development Studies, Visakhapatnam, India. His areas of major interest include macroeconomic and trade policies, sources of growth, regional cooperation in low carbon energy systems, and technology issues in emerging Asian countries. He has 165 publications in those areas in refereedacademic and policy journals. He has authored and edited 18 books. He is currently serving on the editorial board of the following journals: The Developing Economies; The Journal of Applied Economic Research; Journal of Social and Economic Development; and Asia and the Pacific Policies Studies; Review of Development and Change, Sage Publications;