Resource Speakers
Topic(s): Economics, Finance, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
Mr. Abdur Rouf Talukder joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in February 1988 (BCS 1985 batch). He worked in a wide range of government positions in his long illustrious career but his specialization in public finance and economic management has brought him back to Finance Division at almost every rank of his career. He worked more than 18 years in Finance Division before elevating to the position of Finance Secretary on 17 July 2018.
Topic(s): Finance
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Finance
Abhinav Bhushan, as Director for South Asia of the ICC Arbitration and ADR International Court of Arbitration, ICC, focuses on helping companies, investors, and attorneys in the region understand how they can efficiently resolve international commercial disputes by raising their awareness on the ICC's Dispute Resolution Services and its commitment to international arbitration, the procedure, and thought leadership.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Abigail has more than 16 years of in-depth experience in internal auditing; from setting up an internal audit function, to internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing, to conducting external quality assessment reviews of internal audit functions of clients.
She is active in professional organizations such as The Institute of Internal Auditors Philippines (IIA-Philippines) and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Philippines (ACFE-Phils). She was the 2020 Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the IIA-Philippines.
Topic(s): Finance
Abu Farah Md. Nasser is the Deputy Governor of the Bangladesh Bank. He has been Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank since March 2021. He started his career as Central Banker at Bangladesh Bank in October 1988. With over 32 years of experience in different positions in Bangladesh Bank, he supervised the activities of the Banking Regulation and Policy Department, Department of Off-site Supervision, Department of Banking Inspection, Agricultural Credit Department, SME & Special Programmes Department, etc.
Topic(s): Economics, Finance
Adam Triggs is the Director of Research at the Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Crawford School of Public Policy. Formerly a visiting researcher at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Topic(s): Economics, Finance, Governance and Public Sector Management, Industry and Trade
Adrian Torres is the Chief of ADB's Public-Private Partnership thematic group. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Director of ANZ and Societe Generale.
He graduated from RMIT University with a degree in Business Administration and received his Master of Finance and Economics from the University of Sydney. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School.
Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Finance, Public-Private Partnership
Agnes Surry joined the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in September 2022 and is Deputy Head of Capacity Building and Training and Senior Economist.
Her areas of interest include development and public finance, aid effectiveness, climate change adaptation, gender equality, social policies, fiscal policies, public debt sustainability, resource mobilization, and country risk analysis.
Topic(s): Capacity Development, Climate Change, Finance, Governance and Public Sector Management
Aisuluu Osmonkulova has been the Head of the Complaints and Penalties Department of the Public Procurement Department under the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic for the last 4 years. Works in the Department of Public Procurement since 2015 to the present.
She has an economic and legal education (bachelor's degree). She has a Masters degree in Public Procurement Management (Master's) from the Tor Vergata University (Italy).
Topic(s): Finance, ICT
Mr. Akhtiar Ahmed, Senior Joint Director has been associated with State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for the last 22 years and is working in Development Finance Group (DFG) of SBP since last 14 years. Currently, he is heading SME Finance Policy & Regulations Division and leading various initiatives for facilitating SMEs access to finance from formal sources. Among other responsibilities, currently, he is closely working with related stakeholders to promote Supply Chain Finance (SCF) in the country. Moreover, Mr.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Completed PhD in Migration Studies (Economics) at Sussex Centre for Migration Research at University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Using advanced applied quantitative/econometric analysis and household surveys, the PhD research focused on migration and development, especially the effects of remittances on Filipino households.
Topic(s): Finance, Poverty
Alain Morel is the Principal Country Specialist at Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Topic(s): Finance, Water
Alex Chen is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Asia Risk Transfer Solutions (ARTS), a Singapore-based technology company founded with the mission of establishing insurance for the masses in Asia. From product design to portfolio management and more, ARTS helps insurers build new digital business strategies in the areas of Natural Catastrophe and Agriculture Insurance, geared at increasing risk protection levels of entire communities.
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Finance
Alexander R. Malaket, CITP, CTFP, is the president of OPUS Advisory Services International Inc., established in 2001, focusing on international business, trade, and investment with a specialization in trade finance/supply chain finance. He has undertaken a range of consultancy assignments, from operational and tactical to technology and global strategy, and delivered various training programs for clients around the world.
Topic(s): Economics, Finance
Holding a degree in industrial engineering, Alexander Bohm joined the Fichtner Group in 2010, supporting the business development activities in the energy and environmental sector in Western Europe as well as coordinating different international subsidiaries within the Group. While tending to the development of new business fields and new clients, he has mainly concentrated on renewables, covering wind, photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower, as well as on cooperating with various financing institutions and private investors.
Topic(s): Energy, Finance
Alex, both a Certified Public Accountant and lawyer, is the Chairman Emeritus of PwC Philippines and served as Chairman and Senior Partner for eight years. He leads the firm’s Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) practice and continues to be a Tax Partner. He is the managing partner and co-founder of the law firm Cabrera & Company, a member firm of the PwC network.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Alfred Hannig is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), a global network of policymakers and regulators dedicated to providing the world’s 2 billion unbanked safe access to the formal financial system through smart policy initiatives. Before officially launching the initiative in 2008, Dr. Hannig spent three years leading the design and development of AFI’s unique institutional peer-to-peer cooperation model, aimed at scaling up financial inclusion policy and regulatory solutions that have proven successful in developing and emerging countries.
Topic(s): Finance
Dr. Alisa DiCaprio is the Chief Economist at R3 in New York City. In this role she oversees R3’s research and market intelligence functions. This includes providing economic advice on developments in digital assets, CBDC, trade and payments as well as contributing to R3 interactions with the public sector.
Topic(s): Finance, Private Sector
Aliya has a PhD and MPA. She is a research fellow at the Natural Resources Institute, DKU, Kazakhstan. Her research focus is on financing water infrastructure, mobilizing blended finance, WASH, and gender aspects in water sector.
Topic(s): Finance, Water
Topic(s): Finance, Gender Equality, Private Sector
Amina Hassan is the Business Group Head of Khushhali Microfinance Bank in Pakistan. She has over 20 years of service sector experience focused on managing grassroots initiatives for socioeconomically vulnerable groups. Amina joined KMBL at inception as a branch manager and has progressed to become the first woman in the senior management team. In fact, this year, Khushhali is celebrating its 22nd year and that’s also how long Amina has been with the bank.
Topic(s): Finance, Gender Equality, Private Sector
Anand has 15 years’ experience in Infrastructure Industry, ranging from Project and Structured Financing, Corporate Financing and Private Placement of Capital, Regulatory Affairs and Mergers and Acquisitions. Anand also has strong experience with government and multilateral financing institutions, including most of the export credit agencies. Anand has successfully achieved Financial Close of projects worth US$ 7 billion, many of them being competitively tendered bids.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Ms Ananya Basu is currently Director at the Pacific Department (PARD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She works on public sector management operations in PARD, and with the economics team on the Asian Development Outlook and the biannual Pacific Economic Monitor publications.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Finance
Anbu Anbumozhi is a Senior Energy Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia. His previous positions include Senior Capacity Building Specialist at Asian Development Bank Institute, Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Senior Policy Researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and Assistant Manager in Pacific Consultants International, Tokyo.
Topic(s): Finance