Tanvir Hossain is currently the Sr. Procurement Specialist  is the Procurement Team Leader of the World Bank for the Western Balkans countries, Romania and Turkey.  He has over 26 years of successful experience in various challenging procurement environments, both in development organizations and the private sector.

Director IV Edmon B. Monteverde graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Manuel L. Quezon University. Prior to being appointed as the OIC-Director IV and National Program Manager of the Sustainable Livelihood Programon CY 2022, he worked with Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS).

Syed Hashemi is the Resource Person for Integrating the Graduation approach/economic inclusion into ADB Operations. 

Aude de Montesquiou is FinEquity Community of Practice Facilitator at CGAP. Aude worked at CGAP from 2005 to 2017, last as Financial Sector Development Specialist, leading CGAP’s Graduating the Poorest and Vulnerable Segments work. She oversaw the implementation of the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program, a global effort to understand how safety nets, livelihoods, and microfinance can be sequenced to create for the poorest out of extreme poverty in eight countries with an intensive research agenda and randomized impact evaluations in seven sites (Science, 2015).

Nicolina is an Energy Planning Specialist at SEforAll with more than 6 years of experience in geospatial electricity access planning and energy modelling. She has supported governments across Africa, Asia, and Central America to bridge their access gaps informed by geospatial data and analytics. She has led multiple national electricity access projects and capacity-building programs for client governments to inform the design of country roadmaps’ to scale up electricity access.