Christina Cheong is a Climate Change focal at the Pacific Department in ADB. She joined ADB 3 years ago and supports Pacific governments to plan for and adapt to climate change induced hazards. As a civil and structural engineer, she is especially keen on promoting resilience in the built environment through policy and infrastructure solutions. Christina has worked with the Global Green Growth Institute where she led the institution’s Green Buildings program. She also managed the UN Women Safe Cities Program in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Erick Sarut serves as Senior Climate Change Officer at ADB’s Port Moresby Resident Mission, where he leads strategic engagement on climate resilience, adaptation financing, and institutional capacity building in Papua New Guinea. Prior to joining ADB, Erick worked for over 12 years with the Government of Papua New Guinea through the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA). His tenure at CCDA involved leading and supporting a wide range of national and regional climate initiatives, including policy development, program implementation, and multilateral negotiations.

Mr. Malik Fida A Khan has over 30 years of extensive experiences spanning across the diversified fields of Water Resources Planning and Management, Climate Change, Information Technology, and development projects in Bangladesh. He has skills for development of integrated planning and implementation through multi organizational involvement and participation of stakeholder for optimum utilization of resources. Besides, serving CEGIS as the Executive Director, Mr. Khan is also supervising the activities of Climate Change and Disaster Management Division.

Christopher is the Director of WTW’s Asia-Pacific Climate Risk Centre, which focuses on climate risk quantification and management.

Based in Singapore, the Centre works with support corporates, financial institutions, insurers, and governments to understand, quantify and build resilience against climate risks. It focuses on physical and transition climate risk assessment and quantification, and innovative forms of risk management and financing. 
Christopher is also responsible for strategy and solution development for the Climate Practice globally.

Ms. Sumiva Viengkeo is a Deputy Director of Multilateral Division for International Finance and Cooperation Department, Ministry of Finance, Lao PDR.