Maria Anna (Anne) Orquiza is a Senior Public Management Officer (Disaster Risk Management) in the Asian Development Bank. She works across ADB supporting disaster-resilient development and post-disaster recovery. Before joining ADB in 2020, she worked for over a decade with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade managing disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and urban resilience programs, as well as emergency response and humanitarian assistance in the Philippines. Prior to this, she worked with the United Nations Environment Programme, German Development Cooperation and the Japan International Cooperation Agency on climate change, regional and local development, and agricultural programs. Early in her career, she worked with the Philippine Government’s Department of Agriculture and the National Economic and Development Authority on policy and strategy development, investment programming, and monitoring and evaluation. Anne holds a masters degree in environmental science, a bachelors degree in agriculture, and post-graduate certificate on urban development and regional planning from the University of the Philippines. She also earned a diploma of government from the Australian Public Service Commission and a graduate certificate on humanitarian leadership from Deakin University (Australia).