Mr. Aekapol Chongvilaivan is a Senior Planning and Policy Specialist at ADB’s Strategy, Policy, and Partnerships Department (SPD). His role aims to strengthen operational procedures on loans, grants, and technical assistance under the New Operating Model to achieve ADB's long-term corporate strategy to 2030. He has more than 10 years of ADB's operations experiences in public sector management and governance reforms, preparing over $3 billion of policy-based loans, project loans, and TA for developing member countries in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific. He served as a mission leader for ADB’s various notable operations including the Infrastructure Preparation and Innovation Facility (IPIF), a $500 million facility for preparing large infrastructure projects, for the Philippines in 2017, COVID-19 pandemic response operations ($250 million) for Myanmar in 2020, and ADB’s first dedicated policy-based loan on domestic resource mobilization ($400 million) for the Philippines in 2022. He joined ADB in 2013 through the Young Professional Program and had experience in ADB’s Sectors Group, Southeast Asia Department, Philippines Country Office, and Pacific Department. Prior to ADB, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore in 2008-2013. He holds PhD in economics from the National University of Singapore (NUS).