Resource Speakers
Topic(s): Economics, Finance, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
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
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
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
Topic(s): Capacity Development, Industry and Trade
Dr. Park is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic issues. He leads the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD), which publishes key knowledge products such as the Asian Development Outlook, Asian Economic Integration Report, Asia Bond Monitor, and Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific. Before joining ADB, Dr. Park was Chair Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Policy at HKUST.
Topic(s): Economics, Industry and Trade
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
Amr J. Qari currently serves as principal public-private partnership specialist in ADB’s Office of Public-Private Partnership (OPPP). He advises clients on structuring and tendering of PPP transactions and also leads the PPP Coordination and Support Team in OPPP, which is tasked with coordinating ADB’s PPP activities. Before joining ADB, Mr. Qari worked as a corporate lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, where he specialized in syndicated lending, acquisition finance and project finance transactions.
Topic(s): ADB Administration and Governance, Industry and Trade, Public-Private Partnership
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
Andrew is a Senior Financial Sector Economist within ADB’s Public Finance and Financial Markets Group, with over 25 years of experience working in emerging economies. He is currently responsible for designing and implementing major policy-based programs and advising governments on financial markets transformation across Central and West Asia.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Topic(s): ICT, Industry and Trade
Topic(s): ICT, Industry and Trade
Anthony Harold Cumberland Thomas Gates CF was the chief justice of Fiji from 2008 to 2019.[1] Justice Gates is best known for his decision in Chandrika Prasad v. Att-Gen of Fiji [2000] 2 FLR 89; Prasad v. Republic of Fiji & Another [2001] 1 LRC 665; [2001] NZAR 21 in which he held that the Constitution of Fiji had not been abrogated by the military intervention in 2000, and that the Constitution continued to be the law of the land.[2] His decision was upheld by Fiji’s Court of Appeal, in February 2001.
Topic(s): Capacity Development, Finance, Industry and Trade, Public-Private Partnership
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific took office on 1 November 2018. Ms. Alisjahbana was a Professor of Economics at Universitas Padjadjaran and was Minister of National Development Planning and the Head of the National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Indonesia from 2009 to 2014. In 2016, Ms. Alisjahbana was a member of the High-Level Independent Team of Advisors to support the ECOSOC Dialogue on the longer-term positioning of the United Nations for the 2030 Agenda. Ms.
Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
He is a social worker and philanthropist. He is an Electrical Engineer by profession and graduated from UET Lahore in 1971. He worked for PTV for 9 years (1972 – 1981).
Topic(s): Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, ICT, Industry and Trade, Public-Private Partnership
Asha Sundaram is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland. She has an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University, United States. Her research interests are in the fields of International Trade and Development Economics.
Topic(s): Economics, Industry and Trade
Founder of Pinoytravel.com.ph, an online booking aggregator for long distance buses and ferries in the Philippines. More than 20 years of marketing and business development experience in the mobile telecommunications industry.
Topic(s): Environment, Industry and Trade
B. V. Phani is the head of the Department of Industrial & Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur.
His research interests are financial intermediaries, credit risk modeling, entrepreneurial finance, innovation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, market micro-structure and valuation, and corporate governance.
Topic(s): Economics, Education, Industry and Trade
Ben Sandstad is the Senior Legal Consultant for the trade and supply chain finance programs at the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Ben, a dual Hong Kong SAR and New South Wales qualified lawyer, has over twenty years' legal experience across the spectrum of banking, structured finance and trade finance, and has been appointed to senior in-house banking roles and partnerships at global law firms.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade
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.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade, Private Sector, Social Development and Protection
Benjamin E. Diokno is the current Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Prior to his appointment, he served as Budget Secretary from 2016 to 2019, marking his third tour of duty at the Department of Budget and Management. As Budget Secretary, he pursued an expansionary fiscal policy to finance investments in human capital development and public infrastructure.
Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
Topic(s): Economics, Finance, Industry and Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration
Business graduate and a corporate banker with over 20 years of experience. Bilal is currently working as Head of Supply Chain Finance – CIBG at Bank Alfalah. He took this role back in 2019 to establish a global best practice SCF business for the bank. During his career, Bilal has worked on key assignments within Pakistan and GCC in Corporate, Structured finance and Transaction banking businesses with different banks.
Topic(s): Finance, Industry and Trade