Rodrigo has over ten years of experience in originating, structuring, and implementing infrastructure projects. Prior to joining ADB, he was a Southeast Asia Business Development Manager at CENTUNION S.A., a Spanish General Contractor specialized in industrial and transport projects, and worked also as Trade and Investment Advisor in the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in Manila. He holds an MBA and obtained his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. 

Experienced Environmental Economist, Director and Team Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental services industry. Skilled in Economic Analysis & Research, and Management. Strong professional with a Master of Science focused in Environmental and Resource Economics from UCL under the late Dr. David Pearce. Working experience in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and New Zealand. Strong inter-personal skills and fluency in 6 languages.

Christiaan Kaptein is a Partner and member of the investment committee at Integra Partners.

Stephan Kuester is the Head of Global Ecosystem Strategy at Startup Genome.

Stephan works with clients in government and private industry consortia all around the world, advising on the creation and the acceleration of tech and innovation clusters. Prior to his role at Startup Genome, Stephan headed up the International Consulting practice at UK ecosystem agency Tech Nation (fka Tech City UK) in London and served as Managing Director of digitalswitzerland.

Sayed Ikram Afzali has been the Executive Director of Integrity Watch Afghanistan (www.integritywatch.org) since 2014. He has also served as the Chief Information Commissioner of Afghanistan between 2015–2018. He has worked in the area of governance with a focus on civil society and anti‐corruption for more than a decade. He was the architect behind Afghanistan’s Access to Information Law (currently considered to be the best law globally: www.rti-rating.org).

He is involved in initiating and leading action research related to corruption, service delivery, business ethics, economics, and climate change. Corruption is secret, complex and hidden in nature. 

It is also worth noting that research is one of the prevention and education strategies of the ACC and provides an evidence-based systemic and policy recommendation to improve systems and the way business is conducted.

Guillaume has over 15 years of experience in international project development as a water and environmental engineer and economist. He specializes in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (FCAS).

His work with Development Finance Institutions (DFI) essentially consists in informing project design and packaging, such as economics and quantitative risk analysis at the project appraisal stage.

Lotis is an Economics Officer at ADB since 2017. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a BS degree in Business Economics and a master’s degree in Development Economics. Prior to joining ADB, she was a consultant at the World Bank.