Muhammad Shahid Rasheed finance researcher with expertise in corporate governance, financial markets, and sustainable finance. He holds a Ph.D. from COMSATS University Islamabad and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. With more than ten years of teaching and research experience, he has published in reputable international journals and book chapters on topics including corporate governance, green finance, digital assets, and financial risk.

Carlos Alberto Coca Gamito is an economist and policy adviser with over a decade of experience supporting governments and international organizations, including the ILO, ADB, UNDP, WTO, and Oxfam, across Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Europe. His expertise covers social entrepreneurship, private sector development, MSME regulation, labour market reform, social insurance, active labour market policies, health and education economics, and public financial management.

Arief Ramayandi joined the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in June 2024 and is a Senior Research Economist. 

Prior to joining ADBI appointment, Arief was a Principal Economist at the Economic Research and Development Impact Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He was mostly responsible for providing inputs for the macroeconomic surveillance and analysis of the Asian Development Outlook (the ADB's main flagship publication) and macroeconomic modeling activities within the bank.

Hasan Aliyev is Head of Trade Policy Division, Trade and Foreign Investment Policy Department, Ministry of Economy of Azerbaija. He joined the Ministry of Economy in 2019 as an Advisor of Trade Policy Division, became a Senior Advisor in 2022, and have led the Division since 2024. He holds a degree in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London. His work mainly focuses on trade policy analysis, trade agreement negotiations and optimizing tariffs to enhance the competitiveness of domestic enterprises, and regional economic cooperation. Mr.

Maria Camila Jimenez is a policy analyst specializing in SME and entrepreneurship finance policy. She is the coordinator and author of the  Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs: An OECD Scoreboard. She has also co-authored and contributed to other OECD reports on topics related to SME finance, including government support for Venture Capital, the SME Policy Response to COVID-19, and Sustainable Finance for SMEs. 

Fatima Javaid is the Senior Joint Director of the SME, Housing and Sustainable Finance Department of the State Bank of Pakistan. Joining the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in October 2005, Ms. Fatima Javaid has a central banking experience of over 20 years. She has vast experience of working in policy, regulations refinance schemes and promotion and development of SME sector and Islamic banking. She is currently working on SME policy and regulations related assignments.