Bianca is currently a research assistant on the project 'Improving Design Decisions Through Data Visualisations' at SUTD. As Research Assistant, she looks at how data visualisation can help support decision-making in design fields like architecture and urban planning through empirical methods.

Zafirah Zein produces data-driven stories on Asia. She graduated from the Northeastern University in Boston, where she is studying Journalism and International Affairs with a concentration in Middle East Studies. Her dream is to become a Middle East foreign correspondent and, she is excited to be reporting for the Fuller Project for International Reporting in Istanbul, Turkey. She has previously worked for Inter Press Service in New York and interned in humanitarian development in India.

Anna Broberg (Doctor of Science in Land-use Planning and Transportation Engineering, COO) is the COO of Mapita Oy. Her analytical strength and innovative thinking around urban development and participation provides our customers with a world-class understanding and recommendations for the participation projects. Anna has a holistic perspective to the projects as well as an eye for detail. Her track record covers over 10 years of close cooperation with cities in the design of community engagement processes, tools, and analyses. 

Giulia has extensive experience in financial inclusion, women’s economic empowerment, gender equality and sustainable development, acquired by working for various UN agencies, international organizations, governments and management consulting companies, such as the UN Capital Development Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the European Union and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Giulia is currently Financial Inclusion and Gender Consultant for the UNCDF Inclusive Digital Economy Practice.

Nandini Harihareswara is a Senior Advisor on Inclusive Digital Economies, Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment. Formerly, she served as the Digital Finance Regional Technical Specialist, responsible for the creation & implementation of the United Nations Capital Development Fund Digital Economy Strategy in Zambia and Malawi.

Patricia has 8 years of experience in transport, first with the Philippines' Department of Transportation (DOTr) and then with the German development cooperation (GIZ). She works on sustainable transport policy and the role of technology in improving urban mobility, and has experience with airport policy and public-private partnerships. Since 2017, she has been working with Philippine Government on the Philippine Urban Mobility Programme, which has been adopted as an operationalization of the National Transport Policy released by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

Kathy Mulville is the Business Partnerships Director at Investing in Women and is responsible for the establishment and continuing development of the Business Coalitions (BC) in the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar. The BCs support business leaders in the four countries to drive gender equality in their workplaces, and to lead by example in their supply chains, countries and beyond.

Uzma Altaf is working with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Gender Specialist (Consultant) since 2011. Based at the Pakistan Resident Mission Islamabad, she has provided technical assistance for mainstreaming gender in various projects and programs in the Central and West Asia Region in some of the key developing member countries (DMCs) of ADB including Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.  She holds a masters’ degree in Public Administration and Public Policy and Management and has been a Commonwealth scholar of the UK Government. 

Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala is a women's rights activist with 18 years of experience in the field of women's rights and gender equality. She holds a MA in Gender Studies from Sussex University (UK), and a post graduate diploma in Women’s Studies from Colombo University. In 2016, she became the first Sri Lankan (male or female) to summit Mount Everest. In recognition of this achievement, from 2016-2019 she was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Rights by the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Sri Lanka.