Senior Labor Economist (Green Jobs), ADB Profile / Bio Faiz Hamid is a Senior Labor Economist (Green Jobs) at the Asian Development Bank. He steers ADB initiatives on skills, education, TVET modernization, and job creation to support the low-carbon transition across the Asia–Pacific region. Faiz designs projects and technical-assistance programs that help governments craft workforce-development plans and roadmaps that unlock employment. Before joining ADB, he supported governments and industries in Africa (Guinea, Gabon, Senegal, Nigeria, Morocco), the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE), and Asia (Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Malaysia) on value-chain-driven industrial upgrading that supported the green transition, overseeing projects that created value-added jobs across multiple industries. Faiz was awarded a Postdoctoral Chevening Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where he developed a green global-value-chains framework for developing countries. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Malaya and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Germany. Follow on Materials