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Welcome to the Science Summit at UNGA76, a major contribution to advancing Science for the UN SDGs. Online from 14- September - 5 October 2021.
ISC will organise the second edition of the UNGA76 Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (SSUNGA76) in September 2021. The objective of the virtual meeting will be to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will demonstrate initiatives that provide models for global science mechanisms and activities in support of the SDGs, particularly in science infrastructure and capacity building. Science is and will enable sustainable economic, environmental, and societal development. Science is more than a funding prioritisation exercise: science is impacting all areas of policy-making and is playing a more critical role in how policy objectives are achieved and the consequent benefit to people everywhere, including responses to global challenges.
Engagement with policy leadership is more important than ever: UNGA76 is a unique forum for science to demonstrate how policy and political leadership can benefit from innovation. Central to this is the role of nonstate actors and the multilateral fora, which increasingly determine how priorities are set. Science needs to be part of this dialogue and inform outputs through thought leadership, evidence, insights, analysis, and innovation.

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Jyoti Mathur-Filipp

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD
Director
Jyoti Mathur-Filipp is the Director of the Implementation and Support Division at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) since 2018 and is leading work on the development of the post2020 global biodiversity framework. Prior to joining the Secretariat, Ms Mathur-Filipp as a Senior Advisor for UNDP worked in the area of results-based payments for REDD+ in the context of the Green Climate Fund both from Jakarta and Geneva.

Ms Mathur-Filipp started her career with a UNDP assignment in 1993, where she began work as a Programme Officer with the Global Environment Facility, after which she worked on UNDP Capacity 21 programme as an information officer. She has also worked with the first private-public partnership between a UN organization and the private sector, Netaid (UNDP and Cisco), to promote awareness of poverty-related issues among the public. She has been a Project Manager for the 139-country UNEP-GEF project 'Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH)'. Prior to joining UNEP, Jyoti had worked at the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Ms Mathur-Filipp holds an Advanced Degree in Urban Policy, Management and Planning from the New School for Social Research in New York as well as a Master’s in Business Administration from the City University of New York.