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Susann Roth Advisor and Chief of Knowledge Advisory Services Center, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department Asian Development Bank
	Responsibility Susann heads ADB’s Knowledge Advisory Services Center. The Center manages the implementation of ADB’s Knowledge Management Action Plan 2021-2025. The plan moves the Bank from transactional to transformational knowledge management with the objective to achieve higher quality, more efficiency and innovation in the bank’s business. Susann’s team supports cross-sector knowledge programs and works on innovation ecosystem development in countries. Susann’s team developed ADB’s first futures and foresight program, and designed ADB’s first technology innovation challenge. Before this role, Susann managed several ADB trust funds, which piloted innovative social sector interventions for regional health security and pandemic preparedness. Susann launched the first ADB health bond, developed the first digital health flagship program, championed health impact assessment across sectors and supported ADB’s first private sector investments in health sector companies and equity funds. She launched ADB’s Operational Plan for Health 2015-2020 which brought back the health sector in ADB. Susann also led the ADB-UNDP-ESCAP partnership during the preparation of the SDGs. She joined ADB in 2009 as Social Development Specialist in Central and West Asia, where she worked on social and gender development issues across all sectors. Education Susann, a German national, holds a Medical Doctor degree and a PhD in medical science from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and a Master of Public Health and Policy from the University of the Philippines. She has been trained in transplant and general surgery, and emergency medicine in Germany and the US (Baylor College, Duke University, University of Washington and University of Heidelberg) and is board certified in emergency medicine. She also attended a fellowship program in dermatology and tropical medicine in the Philippines and joined post-graduate courses in adult medical education and didactics at the University of Dundee, UK, which she applied to support the reform of Germany’s medical curriculum at the University of Heidelberg. She has worked in public and private sector before joining ADB, where she led transformation projects, and she served as Adjunct Professor at LKY School of Public Policy in Singapore from 2016-2018. The World Health Organization invited Susann to their external technical advisory group for innovation and digital health in 2019 for a term of two years. She is trained in futures thinking and strategic foresight techniques in change and knowledge management, in adult learning and in corporate management. LinkedIn: https://ph.linkedin.com/pub/susann-dr-roth/15/29a/940 Twitter: https://twitter.com/adb_susannr Blog: https://blogs.adb.org/author/susann-roth

Susann Roth
Advisor and Chief of Knowledge Advisory Services Center, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department
Asian Development Bank

Responsibility
Susann heads ADB’s Knowledge Advisory Services Center. The Center manages the implementation of ADB’s Knowledge Management Action Plan 2021-2025. The plan moves the Bank from transactional to transformational knowledge management with the objective to achieve higher quality, more efficiency and innovation in the bank’s business. Susann’s team supports cross-sector knowledge programs and works on innovation ecosystem development in countries. Susann’s team developed ADB’s first futures and foresight program, and designed ADB’s first technology innovation challenge. Before this role, Susann managed several ADB trust funds, which piloted innovative social sector interventions for regional health security and pandemic preparedness. Susann launched the first ADB health bond, developed the first digital health flagship program, championed health impact assessment across sectors and supported ADB’s first private sector investments in health sector companies and equity funds. She launched ADB’s Operational Plan for Health 2015-2020 which brought back the health sector in ADB. Susann also led the ADB-UNDP-ESCAP partnership during the preparation of the SDGs. She joined ADB in 2009 as Social Development Specialist in Central and West Asia, where she worked on social and gender development issues across all sectors.

Education
Susann, a German national, holds a Medical Doctor degree and a PhD in medical science from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and a Master of Public Health and Policy from the University of the Philippines. She has been trained in transplant and general surgery, and emergency medicine in Germany and the US (Baylor College, Duke University, University of Washington and University of Heidelberg) and is board certified in emergency medicine. She also attended a fellowship program in dermatology and tropical medicine in the Philippines and joined post-graduate courses in adult medical education and didactics at the University of Dundee, UK, which she applied to support the reform of Germany’s medical curriculum at the University of Heidelberg. She has worked in public and private sector before joining ADB, where she led transformation projects, and she served as Adjunct Professor at LKY School of Public Policy in Singapore from 2016-2018. The World Health Organization invited Susann to their external technical advisory group for innovation and digital health in 2019 for a term of two years. She is trained in futures thinking and strategic foresight techniques in change and knowledge management, in adult learning and in corporate management.

LinkedIn: https://ph.linkedin.com/pub/susann-dr-roth/15/29a/940
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adb_susannr
Blog: https://blogs.adb.org/author/susann-roth