Reset, Recover and Bounce Forward: Sustainable Cities in Asia Lecture

Reset, Recover and Bounce Forward: Sustainable Cities in Asia Lecture

Monday Nov 23, 2020 5–6 pm (PST)

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Dr. Bambang Susantono is the Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He is the first Indonesian in this position. He holds a PhD in Infrastructure Planning, and has 2 Master’s degrees in Transportation Engineering, and City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated  from Bachelor of Engineering from Civil Engineering Department, the Bandung Institute of Technology. 

Dr. Susantono is responsible for managing knowledge in ADB, and coordinating researches and  studies on various topics such as energy, transport, education, health, finance, urban; and also cross cutting nexus themes such as climate change, governance, gender, social development,  environment, rural development and food security, and regional cooperation. He also coordinates  ADB annual flagship publications such as the Asian Development Outlook, Key Indicators of Asia  Pacific, and Asian Regional Economic Integration Report. 

Prior to this, Dr. Susantono was the Acting Minister, and Vice-Minister of Transportation of Indonesia,  and Deputy Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development at the Office of Coordinating  Ministry for Economic Affairs. He was also a Member of the Board for airline, port, telecommunications, and media companies. 

He chaired several research institutes and taught in universities. He is actively doing research,  publishes several books, and writes articles in the subject of infrastructure, transportation, urban and  regional planning, sustainable development, and climate change.