Janet Arlene Amponin is an Associate Climate Change Officer of the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division (SDCD) of ADB. Arlene engages in SDCD’s work on implementation of the Climate Change Operational Framework, particularly the implementation of NDC Advance, ADB’s technical assistance platform supporting the implementation of the nationally determined contributions of ADB DMCs.

Julie Rozenberg is an Economist with the World Bank Sustainable Development Group. Her work includes green growth, climate change mitigation strategies and climate change adaptation and disaster risk management.

Jun Rentschler is a Senior Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist for Sustainable Development, working at the intersection of climate change and sustainable resilient development. Prior to joining The World Bank in 2012, he served as an Economic Adviser at the German Foreign Ministry. He also spent two years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) working on private sector investment projects in resource efficiency and climate change.

Stéphane Hallegatte is the lead economist of the World Bank Climate Change Group. He joined the World Bank in 2012 after 10 years of academic research. His research interests include the economics of natural disasters and risk management, climate change adaptation, urban policy and economics, climate change mitigation, and green growth. Mr. Hallegatte was a lead author of the 5^th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals in multiple disciplines and of several books.

Prof. Dr. Niklas Höhne is a founding partner of NewClimate Institute. He is also Special Professor “mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions” at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He follows the international climate negotiations since 1995. He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries’ performances in climate change and two publications in Nature.

Stefania is responsible for ADB’s projects in the agriculture and rural development sector in Myanmar, Viet Nam and Timor-Leste. She is committed to sustainable agriculture as a means to reduce our environmental footprint and achieve food and nutrition security. She is a development economist with experience in Asia and Africa. Prior to join ADB, she worked at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the European Commission and in the private sector.

Helena Molin Valdes is the former Head Of Secretariat at Climate and Clean Air Coalition. She also held various posts at the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (now United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction), including Deputy Director and Chief of Advocacy and Outreach.