Alain Morel

Alain Morel is a Principal Urban Development Specialist and Project Administration Unit Head with the ADB Water and Urban Development Sector Group, with over 33 years of experience in project design, management, and implementation. He previously served as the Philippines Country Operations Head for ADB, overseeing projects and coordinating with government agencies, and has held roles in procurement and consulting services within ADB.

Aliya Mukhamedyarova

Ms. Aliya Mukhamedyarova is currently responsible for the Bank’s portfolio of projects in agriculture, food, nature, and rural development sector ensuring high quality of project implementation and achievement of key portfolio performance indicators. Before 1 July 2023, Aliya served as the PAU Head for Southeast Asia in the AFNR sector as well as the Financial Sector Specialist processing and implementing policy-based loans, financial intermediation and education projects and technical assistance in Central and West Asia.

Emma Allen

Emma joined ADB’s Lao PDR Indonesia Resident Mission in 2020 as their country economist supporting the economics, strategy, and programming unit. Prior to this she was country economist for ADB’s Indonesia Resident Mission between 2016 and 2020. Prior to joining ADB, Emma was a Labor Market Economist with the International Labor Organization and worked in several locations, including South Africa, Geneva, Tanzania and Indonesia.

Aziz Haydarov

Aziz, a national of Tajikistan, joined ADB in 2009 as a Young Professional (Economics). In 2011-2012 he continued there as Country Economist. From 2013–to March 2015, he was a PPP Specialist at the Southeast Asia Department’s Public Management and Finance Division. From April 2015 to June 2017, he was an Infrastructure Economist in the Indonesia Resident Mission. From June 2017–June 2020, Aziz was with Azerbaijan Resident Mission as Senior Portfolio Management Specialist.

Start the Conversation: Connecting with the People Formerly Known as the Target Audience

Learn about digital disruption, a change that occurs when new digital technologies and business models affect the value proposition of existing goods and services. This presentation provides a snapshot of readers’ habits and behavior at present, some general trends about where it is heading, and how ADB is responding to some of these emerging trends.

Andrew Perrin

Andrew Perrin manages strategic communications for ADB operations in Central and West Asia, and leads the Bank’s social media program. Prior to joining ADB in 2008, he worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent in Australia and Asia. His journalism has won many awards, including the Henry R. Luce Award for Editorial Excellence, the Society of Publishers in Asia Award, and the Amnesty International Press Award. He has won Australia’s most prestigious journalism prize, the Walkley Award, and twice been named Australian Geographic’s Magazine Writer of the Year.

Partnering to Promote Anti-Money Laundering Reforms in Mongolia

If an effective reform program were to successfully navigate the road from “current equilibrium” to the “desired equilibrium,” it may have to address four questions at the onset. The questions follow a cyclical process that starts with the identification of internal champions and grows wider to capture technocrats and key supporters in government, and the much wider realm of the private sector. This presentation features ADB’s anti-money laundering technical assistance project in Mongolia as a case example.