Anna is Commercial Liaison to ADB for Business France, based at the Embassy of France in Manila. Her main role is to provide business support to French firms in their international development, in line with ADB-financed projects, a position she has held since 2019. Prior to that, she was a trade advisor for Infrastructure, Cleantech and Agrotech sectors for Business France in the Philippines. Anna holds an undergraduate degree from the University of the Philippines in Diliman and a Masters from the Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3.

Tomohiro Yabushita is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Supreme Energy Muara Laboh (SEML). In this role, he oversees financial management, investment structuring, and project financing for the Muara Laboh geothermal development, including its expansion projects supported by international lenders such as JBIC and ADB.

Roger Cruz is the Co-Director of Infrastructure Quality and Finance at Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation and the Business Development Director of the FAST-Infra Label. 

With more than 18 years of experience in world-leading companies, he has spearheaded new business development, market positioning plans, sustainable supply chain programmes, ESG best practices implementation across several countries in Latin America and North America, and the FAST-Infra Label’s global expansion. 

Ms. Laura Iglesias has nearly 30 years of business development experience, with specialization in bilateral and multilateral donor-funded architecture & engineering (A&E) projects in developing and transitional countries.

Alwin is Business Developer on Climate Resilience APAC at Royal HaskoningDHV. He is responsible for the strategy & business development of water resilience portfolio in Asia Pacific. He is also project manager of flood resilience, river and coastal projects in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia.

Neslihan leads Stantec’s international business development activities in IFI business focusing Central Asia, Turkey, Balkans and MENA region where she is responsible for strategy planning to increase the company’s business in water, wastewater, infrastructure, environmental and energy sectors. To accomplish this, she focuses on technical assistance opportunities with IFI clients such as the European Commission, EBRD, WB, ADB and other IFIs in the region. She reaches out water and public utilities in developing countries to provide sustainable water solutions through IFI projects.

Ryo is Senior Manager in charge of business development at Life Business Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corporation. Since joining Yokogawa in 2016, he has led various business development projects that apply Yokogawa’s innovative technologies to customers’ potential business issues embedded in their work processes. 

Dr. Adhikari has over 30 years of management experience in renewable energy technologies in government, private, INGOs, bilateral & multilateral development agencies and government institutions. He is a Senior Renewable Energy Expert having rich experiences in the areas of policy, planning, resource mobilization & financing, fundraising, business development, technology & engineering, and training and capacity developments.

Maria Goravanchi is a Managing Director at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC), formerly the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). As DFC’s regional representative based in Bangkok, she is responsible for business development in the Lower Mekong, specifically Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand. Ms. Goravanchi brings over 15 years of private and public sector finance experience in underwriting, structuring and negotiating investments in emerging and frontier-market nations.

Anna Lundbom joined EasyMining, an innovation company within Ragn-Sells Group, in May 2020 as the Marketing and Product Sales Manager. She is focusing on leading the project to commercialize EasyMining´s nitrogen removal and recovery process along with business development for the company´s other processes and products. Anna joined the Ragn-Sells Group, one of the Nordic’s largest waste management companies, in 2012 and has been working with business development and sales in various positions. Previous to Ragn-Sells, she worked as a management consultant.