Ninebeth Carandang

Ninebeth Carandang is the Country Operations Head in ADB’s Indonesia Resident Mission, where she leads country programming and portfolio performance oversight and monitoring. She also manages cross-cutting functions such as capacity building for executing and implementing agencies, and project related communications with government stakeholders. Ms. Carandang brings over a decade of experience in project processing, administration, and monitoring across diverse sectors in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. She previously served as Principal Social Development Specialist, concurrently Sector PAU Head with the Human and Social Development sector team—responsible for sector-level portfolio management. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Safeguards Specialist and served as Gender and Civil Society Organization focal in the Pacific, supporting teams to navigate complex social safeguards issues during project preparation and implementation. She began her ADB career in 2011 as a Young Professional in the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources sector within the South Asia Department. Ms. Carandang holds a Ph.D. in International Development, specializing in social development and culture, from the Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University, Japan.