Dr. Thanapon Piman has 15 years of work experience in water resources engineering, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), river basin planning, climate change, and adaptation and disaster risk management.  He specializes in meteorological and hydrological analysis, water resources modeling and GIS for water resources and land-use planning, assessing impacts of water resources development and climate change on water, water-related resources and sectors, developing flood and drought warning system as well as decision support system for water resources management.

Tina Eonemto Stege is the Climate Envoy for the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Born in Saipan, raised in Kwajalein and Majuro, and educated in Honolulu, she brings a Pacific focus to her community-based work on a range of issues, from the impacts of nuclear testing to sustainable development and climate adaptation. Stege received her BA from Princeton University and her M.A. in Anthropology from the Université d’Aix-en-Provence. The RMI is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change, mainly as a result of rising sea levels.

Mareer Mohamed Husny is an Assistant Director in the Climate Change Department of Ministry of Environment, Maldives with a speciality in island coastal dynamics. Mr. Husny is a lead author for Maldives Second National Communication to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and contributing author for the Maldives Climate Change Policy Framework. He is actively engaged and has contributed to developing the Maldives Climate Change Policy Framework, which will form the base of Climate Change agenda in the Maldives.

Andrew Jones is currently a Divisional Director within the Pacific Community (SPC), the principal scientific and technical organization in the Pacific region. Andrew shapes the strategic direction of SPC’s Geoscience, Energy and Maritime (GEM) Division by overseeing and ensuring provision of high quality scientific, technical and policy support for activities across a range of sectors including Resources, Energy, Oceans, Maritime, Water and Sanitation, Disaster Reduction and Climate Change.

Noelle is the Chief of the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Thematic Group concurrently Director, of the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department of ADB. Previously, Noelle was a Principal Climate Change Specialist for the Pacific region and has worked on expanding ADB’s work on mitigation investments, scaling up adaptation investments in the 14 Pacific member countries, and raising climate finance.