Professor Puji Lestari is currently appointed as a Chair of Research Group on Air and Waste Management of ITB. She does work in the field of air pollution, conduct research on air quality monitoring and modeling, aerosol characteristics and composition, and GHGs emission inventory.

Muthukumara Mani is a Lead Environmental and Climate Change Economist for the Southeast Asia Region of the World Bank. He is based in Hanoi and brings to us his extensive knowledge and experience on green growth and climate change issues. Mani is leading the Country Climate and Development Report-a new diagnostic being prepared by the World Bank—for Vietnam and Cambodia and policy dialogue on climate change issues in the Southeast Asia region.

Toshiyuki Yamasaki joined the MOEJ in 2001 and served as Deputy Director for Waste Management prior to his current role. Mr. Yamasaki was also dispatched from MOEJ as a JICA Expert and served as an Environmental Policy Advisor for Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment.

Dr. Shiqiu ZHANG is a Professor of Environmental Economics at Peking University. She has been teaching and conducting research on environmental economics, environmental policy and governance. Dr. Zhang is currently a Senior expert member of UNEP Technology and Economic Assessment Panel for implementing Montreal Protocol, Board member of Clean Air Asia. She also served as President of Asian Association on Environment and Resource Economics from 2017-2019.