Razik Fazle is a Team Leader and Senior Technical Advisor at Swisscontact. He is based in Bangladesh and working in various capacities, including project management and technical backstopping.
Razik has 16 years of professional experience in portfolio and project management. His core competence is in enterprise and private sector development (PSD) and market systems development (MSD) approach. He has specific expertise in micro-enterprise development, value chain development, industrial and informal labour skills development, and private/public sector engagement. He is proficient in planning, manoeuvring, and implementing pro poor market/business led growth strategies, research and studies. Razik has worked in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Nepal, Ethiopia, and Uganda and successfully served donors and clients like FCDO (formerly UKaid), SDC, EU, Sida, CIDA, EKN, DANIDA, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organisation (WTO), and various private foundations.
Currently, he is leading the trade portfolio of Swisscontact Bangladesh, consisting projects like Digitalisation of border procedures at Bhomra Land Port (DBLP), of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF), and Prioritising Investment in Sanitary and Phytosanitary, or SPS Standards (P-IMA) to Boost Agri-Exports, funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). He is also backstopping the Swisscontact’s South Asian and global portfolio development and business acquisition.
Razik has a master’s degree of Social Science in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and has numerous contributions in both national and international market systems literature and thinking. He is well familiarised with the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) standards of monitoring and results measurements (MRM).
Lantovololona Felaniaina is a marine biologist working at the Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy in Madagascar, as the Director of Aquaculture department.
In her current role, she coordinates all activities regarding freshwater and marine aquaculture and liaises with national and international stakeholders on these matters.
She holds a double master’s degree, one in bioaquatic sciences and the other in molecular biology, obtained from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and Bangor University in the UK.
In Curaçao politics Charles Fernandes Cooper has held several positions: Commissioner of Health and Social affairs of the island territory, island council member, Commissioner of Infrastructure and Public Transportation of the island territory, Member of Parliament, and currently Minister of Traffic, Transportation, and Urban Planning.
As minister, he focuses on improving the infrastructure with an ambitious multi-year maintenance plan. Other topics that have his attention are aviation, shipping, public transport, living, working, road safety, telecommunications, cyber security, and cyber management. His goal is to create a clear noticeable improvement for a sustainable, livable, and prosperous Curaçao.
After completing his vocational study in electrical engineering, he continued in the Netherlands where he obtained degrees in instrument engineering process techniques, and a bachelor chemical engineering at the university of applied sciences in Breda. In 1992, he received his master degree of chemical engineering at the university of Zulia with support of the Isla refinery.
Beatriz Fernandez is the Associate Programme Management Officer at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
She coordinates UNEP’s portfolio on Environment and Trade, where she manages initiatives and partnerships to advance agendas at the nexus of trade, environment and sustainable development across high-impact sectors, such as the Trade, Development and Environment Hub (TRADE Hub) project on nature-positive trade for sustainable agriculture, and on circular and sustainable solutions for used textiles trade.
She is an experienced sustainability professional with expertise ranging across sustainable consumption and production, trade, circular economy, biodiversity, climate change, and strategic innovation; collaborating with governments, international organizations, private sector, research institutions and civil society.
Beatriz is an Alumni of the Women’s Leaders for Planetary Health Fellowship program, launched at the 2019 UN Climate Summit. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge.
Commissioner Fernandez supervises the lead unit of the SEC tasked with the regulation and development of the Philippine capital market, including the promotion of sustainable finance. He likewise supervises the unit responsible for advancing the Commission’s legislative agenda. He previously served as Supervising Commissioner of the SEC department which formulates corporate governance policies and regulations, and implements sustainability reporting across entities in the Philippine corporate sector.
Before joining the SEC, Commissioner Fernandez served as Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the President of the Philippines, where he crafted issuances articulating the policy directives of the President, evaluated executive agreements and financial instruments, and addressed governance concerns of national government agencies and state-owned enterprises.
Mirna Inés Fernández is a Researcher at the biodiversity programme of Third World Network. She is an environmental engineer from Bolivia with a M.Sc. in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems.? She is a founding member and a former global policy coordinator of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, the youth constituency to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
At the national level, Mirna is a co-founder of the GYBN Bolivian chapter and of Reacción Climática, a citizen collective promoting action to address sustainability in Bolivia. Her work experience goes through environmental impact assessments, education and capacity development, environmental advocacy and policy research.