Ramon Abracosa

Ramon's expertise areas are civil and environmental engineering, urban infrastructure development, climate change management, and land and water resource management. He has over three decades of work experience.

He currently serves as Program Manager for the ADB-managed Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA trust fund) and as urban development and climate resilience expert for the multi-donor Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund, also managed by ADB.

Lachlan Guthrie

Lachlan is a Research Fellow and Project Manager (Integrated Water Management and WASH) at the International WaterCentre in Griffith University, Australia. He has extensive experience in integrated water strategic planning and water security. He has recently completed several high-level water assessments, most notably Key Dimension 1 of the Asian Development Bank’s Asian Water Development Outlook 2020 which addresses access to water, sanitation, health impacts, and affordability within countries across Asia and the Pacific.