Suherman

Dr. Suherman is the Chairperson of Health Promoting Hospitals, Indonesi and a Member of the Asia Advisory Council Health Care Without Harm, Southeast Asia. 

Dr. Suherman is a Professional Doctor with a Master of Health who is currently working with the Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Asia Advisory Council’s Global Green Healthier Hospitals (GGHH).

Esperanza Cabral

Dr. Cabral served as Secretary of the Department of Health in the Philippines. Before her appointment as Secretary of Health, she was previously the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Dr. Cabral, a cardiologist, and clinical pharmacologist graduated from medical school at the University of the Philippines. She extended her medical and pharmacological training at the U.P. Philippine General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Joslin Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts.

Boon-Hiong Chan

20 years of banking experience includes corporate and product development, P&L leadership, and market expansion. He is familiar with transaction banking operations and is specialising in securities market and technology.

He is active in topics including business models; crypto/digital assets, securities post-trade market

practices, financial market infrastructure, funds, new payments methods, and outsourcing; as well as on ASEAN and emerging markets.

Better Local Business Environments for Pandemic Recovery in Southeast Asia

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Southeast Asian economies, accounting for an average of 97% of all businesses and 69% of the national labor force across the region. However, SMEs face unique challenges as they have limited capital, resources, and staff; short life spans; and poor knowledge about government support.

SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Strengthening the Agri-food System

In the 10th SPOT webinar, Omer Zafar, Takashi Yamano, and Noorullah from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Dil Rahut from the ADB Institute, and Jennifer Rosenzweig from Indonesia’s World Food Programme shared their views on factors that threaten the agriculture food system in Southeast Asia. They discussed cyclical factors and structural challenges shaping the global food system, including the effects of high food prices on nutrition and access to affordable diets, and the impact of climate change and other shocks on productivity and food production.