Ram is the Project Director for the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation (Sector) Project with the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage Management under the Ministry of Water Supply in Nepal. The country is currently undertaking a significant program to upgrade and expand its water and sanitation services. For example, in 2016, only 34% of urban households have septic tanks and only 15% have sewer connections. Overall, municipalities lack funds and skilled personnel to provide cost-effective services.

Allison Woodruff is an environmental and natural resource economist with more than 15 years’ experience working on urban water supply and sanitation and natural resource management projects in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. She joined ADB in 2008 as a Young Professional. Prior to this, she held positions with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, United Nations Development Programme, and other Canadian government and nongovernment organizations.

Dr. Donghyun PARK is currently Principal Economist at the Economics Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which he joined in April 2007. Prior to joining ADB, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Park has a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his main research fields are international finance, international trade, and development economics.

Shuji has over 14 years of experience with the Asian Development Bank covering Southeast Asia, East Asia and South Asia. As an experienced infrastructure finance expert, Shuji’s recent transactions include: regional blue loan for PET recycling; large-scale solar power projects in Viet Nam; mass rapid transit lines in Thailand; first green bond issuance by an energy company in Thailand; first utility-scale solar power project in Cambodia; and first international project financing of an independent power plant in Myanmar, among other things.

Wendy Walker is the Chief of the Social Development Thematic Group at the Asian Development Bank. She has more than 25 years of professional experience in social development and social protection. She has led multi-sector teams for designing and implementing complex and innovative projects and has worked across diverse sectors. She currently co-leads the implementation of ADB Strategy 2030's operational priority on Addressing Remaining Poverty and Reducing Inequalities.

Ms. Jingmin Huang, a national of the People's Republic of China (PRC), holds a Doctorate degree in water science from the Oxford University, and two bachelor’s degrees in industrial economics and environment engineering from Tianjin University, PRC. She has more than thirty years’ experience in the fields of urban planning, water, wastewater and solid waste management and project development.