Cai Li is the lead project manager specialist at ADB. She also served as deputy director of ADB Bangladesh. 

Peter Knoll has more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector, including as regulator, lawyer, investment banker, consultant, and project manager.

Amr J. Qari currently serves as principal public-private partnership specialist in ADB’s Office of Public-Private Partnership (OPPP). He advises clients on structuring and tendering of PPP transactions and also leads the PPP Coordination and Support Team in OPPP, which is tasked with coordinating ADB’s PPP activities. Before joining ADB, Mr. Qari worked as a corporate lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, where he specialized in syndicated lending, acquisition finance and project finance transactions.

Karl Lomibao is a seasoned change manager with over 15 years of experience in driving adoption and managing change. Throughout his career, Karl has demonstrated a unique combination of technical and interpersonal skills, making him an expert in navigating complex organizational changes. With a proven track record of success, Karl has helped organizations of all sizes to effectively embrace new technologies, processes, and ways of working.

Steve Blaik is a Principal Urban Development Specialist with ADB’s Pacific Department. He is a civil engineer by trade and spent most of his 37-year career working on urban and water sector activities in the Pacific including the past 17 years as ADB staff.

Prior to joining ADB in 2009, Atsushi Kaneko was Director and Chief Representative at the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Chief Representative at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, and Engineer at Pacific Consultants International.

Sean Crowley is ADB's multimedia and web editor. Before joining ADB in 2010, he  worked as communications specialist and multimedia journalist for UN-WIDER, IRIN, the BBC and the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

Chimi Thonden has more than 20 years of experience in the area of international education development in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and the United States. She currently leads ADB’s education sector projects in the Pacific, which include basic education, tertiary education, and technical and vocational education training. In the past, Ms. Thonden has worked with USAID, developing and managing large-scale education programs in Indonesia as well as education-in-conflict programming in Nepal.