Benita Ainabe is a Financial Sector Specialist (Capital Markets) in the Public Management, Financial Sector, and Trade Division of the Southeast Asia Department at Asian Development Bank. She specializes in financial sector development, capital markets, innovative financing mechanisms, and regulatory governance and reforms in ADB’s developing member countries in Southeast Asia. She has 15 years’ financial sector experience from commercial financial institutions and multilateral development banks in the project (infrastructure and energy) and structured finance for corporate and sovereign debt and equity, securitization and investment management, serving clients in the UK, US, Asia, Middle East, Africa, and CIS countries. She has an MSc in Molecular Medicine from Imperial College London and a BSc in Molecular Genetics in Biotechnology from the University of Sussex, UK.