Ms. Nasheeba Selim is currently working as the Social Development and Gender Specialist in the Bangladesh Resident Mission, ADB. In the past, she has worked with UNDP Bangladesh and been directly involved in the administration of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility where she worked closely with disadvantaged ethnic minorities groups. Her areas of specialization include gender relations and equality, women's empowerment, mainstreaming gender in sectoral programs, violence against women, sex work and human rights, early marriage and feminization of poverty.

Emiko Usui is an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University, Japan. She received her B.A. in economics from the University of Tokyo and her Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. Her research interests are in the area of labor economics, and include gender issues, compensating differentials, labor search models, employment protection, nonparametric estimation of returns to schooling, intergenerational links in skills, and testing for employer learning.

Michelle Harding is a senior economist and Head of the Tax Data and Statistical Analysis Unit at the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. She leads the OECD’s work on tax policy and gender and is also responsible for the OECD’s Global Revenue Statistics Initiative, the calculation of effective tax rates on labour income, the Tax Database, Corporate Tax Statistics, and the OECD’s recent report on Taxing Virtual Currencies. Prior to her current role, Michelle’s work focussed on environmental taxation and climate change, including the taxation of energy.

Ms. Ketevan Chkheidze is a gender specialist/consultant for ADB.  Based in Georgia, Ketevan is implementing ADB Regional Technical Assistance Program ‘Strengthening Gender-Inclusive Growth in Central and West Asia’ in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, under which she assists in the preparation of gender-sensitive project designs and pilot projects, supports project teams, provides capacity building for project implementation, and keeps abreast of country-level and sub-regional studies and issues.

Mrs. Ernira Lubani is Gender-Responsive Budgeting Technical Advisor and Regional Project Manager for the Promoting Gender-Responsive Policies in Southeast Europe and the Republic of Moldova of UN Women.  She has 15 years of professional experience in international development working with UN Women, SNV Netherlands Development Organization, Regional Environmental Centre, and other international organizations. Her fields of specialization are human rights, gender-responsive policy making and budgeting, gender mainstreaming, and community development.

Ms. Burdzenidze works as an Advisor for Gender Equity Issues for the Mayor at Tbilisi City Hall, where she develops gender strategies, studies gender issues, and implements projects.  She has worked at nongovernment organizations where she has contributed to the development of democracy support projects around Tbilisi and other regions.  She has also participated in observation missions in Ukraine and Moldova.

Kate Vyborny is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Economics from the University of Oxford. Previously, she worked on research and policy outreach on foreign aid, trade and development at the Center for Global Development and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Dr. Young-sook Nam is the Secretary-General of WeGO (World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization), an international organization of 122 cities and 5 national ICT institutions dedicated to pursuing smart sustainable cities for all.