ATTENDING THE 2023 SINGAPORE FINTECH FESTIVAL

Last week, I attended the 2023 Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF), the World’s largest fintech business promotion and networking event (and therefore festival), hosted at Expo in Singapore, where I gained insights pertaining to the global Fintech trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI); Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); and Digital Inclusion; along with meeting some amazing people along the way!

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WORKING ON THE AUSTRALIAN NSW STATE GOVERNMENT’S WESTINVEST PROJECT

For me, a great part of 2022 was working as a Senior Program Officer (SPO) for the Australian New South Wales (NSW) State Government’s Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC), i.e. the NSW State Premier’s Office, specifically for the WestInvest Project – the DPC’s new AU$5 billion ESG fund that will finance transformational social & environmental infrastructure projects across 15 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the Greater Western Sydney Region.

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CONDUCTING AN E-LECTURE ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP FOR THE PENINSULA FOUNDATION

I had the privilege of recently delivering a e-lecture to the Peninsula Foundation on Zoom specifically for young professionals, specifically from Government, Military Armed Forces, Academia and Private Sector in India titled, “Project Management & Leadership Lessons From India: Case Study – ICRC Enable Makeathon Competition”, a competition which I project managed back in 2015 and 2016 when I was working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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PARTICIPATED IN THE VIRTUAL DEBATE SESSION ON “FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK: WITH WORLD PARTICIPATION ON GLOBAL CHALLENGES"

Through my work at the Urban Economy Forum (UEF) (https://www.ueforum.org/), a Toronto (Canada)-based organisation partnering with the United Nations (UN) system, I had the opportunity and honour to participate recently in a virtual debate session titled “Financial Framework: with World Participation on Global Challenges”, which was jointly organised by UEF and Urban + Futures (U+F).

I joined a cohort of speakers in attendance which comprised of policymakers, academics and town mayors, most of whom being based in Canada, with me being the sole speaker based in Australia.

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PARTICIPATED IN THE URBAN ECONOMY FORUM (UEF) CAMPAIGN FOR INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY (IYD) 2021

It was an honour to have been one of 8 young professionals & entrepreneurs and policymakers, including UN Secretary General António Guterres, to have been involved in this year’s UEF campaign for International Youth Day 2021, focusing on the theme “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health". Please check out my latest blog post, for further information, including the statement which I provided for the campaign.

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CO-MODERATED A WEBINAR ON "IMPACT ECONOMY ON SDGS AND URBANIZATION IN ASIA-PACIFIC WITH UN-HABITAT’S UEF & TTI

I recently project managed and co-moderated, with the assistance of my colleagues at UN-Habitat’s Urban Economy Forum (UEF) and Top Tier Impact (TTI), on May 13th 2021 a webinar titled “Impact Economy on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and Urbanization in ASIA-PACIFIC”. For the webinar’s speaking panel, we had an array of eminent figures from Diplomacy, Public Policy, the Mainstream Corporate & Impact Investing World and Academia. Please click on the link to the blog article for further information, including the Youtube recording of the webinar.

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ORGANISING UPCOMING WEBINAR - IMPACT ECONOMY ON SDGS AND URBANIZATION IN ASIA-PACIFIC

I am pleased to announce that I am organising with Alessandra Sollberger, Founder of Top Tier Impact (TTI), along with her team and my colleagues at the Australian and Canadian Secretariats of the Urban Economy Forum (UEF) (an initiative of UN-Habitat), a webinar on “Impact Economy on SDGs and Urbanization in Asia-Pacific” on May 13th 2021 (i.e. next Thursday).

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URBAN ECONOMY FORUM (UEF)'S VOICES OF SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

Thoth Impact Advisory (TIA)’s Founder & Principal, Kunal Kirpalani, who serves as consultant to the Urban Economy Forum (UEF), was invited to participate in UEF’s Voices of Solidarity campaign by providing the following video message of hope and support out of Sydney (Australia) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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