Pooja is the Manager/Lead, Economics of Development and Inclusion for PwC. She received her MsC degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sudarshana Anojan is the Senior Social Development and Gender Specialist in ADB’s Sri Lanka Country Office.  He carries over 15 years of experience in multi-sector project and program management. He co-leads the processing and administration of ADB’s Emergency Assistance Project in Sri Lanka which is ADB’s first social protection project in the country.

Nithya Sharma is the Director of Global Strategy at Women’s World Banking where she is responsible for driving the development and implementation of the organization’s 10-year strategy to reach 100 million women, as well as country strategies in each of Women’s World Banking’s priority markets. She incubated the global Making Finance Work for Women FinTech Innovation Challenge to identify Fintech innovations serving unbanked and underserved women, which has now become a flagship event for the organization.

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 22^nd year and that’s also how long Amina has been with the bank.

Ms Sumaya Saluja is the Inclusive Governance Specialist for the Regional Governance Team.

Queentries is a gender and business specialist. She co-founded RAKARU utilizing her solid project management skills with women participation and empowerment in the economy as her forte. She has expertise in working with businesses, government, consulting firms, NGOs in entrepreneurship programs for women and youth. With nearly a decade of experience in effecting change at the nexus of gender, business, and investment, Queentries has delivered more than 50 tailored trainings and facilitations on gender and business and gender lens investing.

Lily coordinates the Cool Coalition, a new initiative that was an official outcome of the Energy Transition Track of the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019. The Coalition supports governments’ transition to efficient, climate-friendly cooling through a holistic approach to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Xiaoyi Jin is a Senior Associate at the ClimateWorks Foundation and serves as the Head of Access for the Clean Cooling Collaborative (CCC). She manages CCC's activities on passive cooling and support the Access portfolio, including awareness raising initiatives and exploratory work on sustainable agriculture cold chain. Prior to ClimateWorks, Xiaoyi was a Program Associate at The Asia Foundation where she supported the Foundation’s annual planning and budget process and researched on international development aids to Advanced Middle-Income Countries (AMICs) in Asia.

Eric Roeder boasts of two decades of service to the United Nations, specializing in diverse sustainability projects. Notable contributions encompass mitigating dust storms with UNCCD, promoting energy efficiency via UNEP, fostering smart agriculture with UNESCAP, and enhancing rural infrastructure in Laos through ILO. Eric's private sector involvement champions inclusive and self-sustaining growth, exemplified by his initiative linking companies with tsunami monitoring infrastructure.