Jindra Samson

Jindra is a senior economics officer at ERCD of ADB, where she contributes to various analytical research on agricultural and natural resources, climate change and low-carbon growth, economic analyses of investment projects, and country diagnostic studies.

Before ADB, she was an assistant scientist and resource economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, stationed at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Philippines. She worked earlier as a researcher in various nongovernment organizations conducting environmental impact assessments in the Philippines. She obtained her master’s degree in environmental science and bachelor’s degree in development economics from the University of the Philippines.