Mr. Liping Zheng was the Advisor of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) South Asia Department. Mr. Zheng oversees the Climate Change operations of seven sector divisions and six country offices in South Asia regions. The six countries include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Mr. Zheng joined ADB in 2008 and has since occupied progressively responsible positions. Early in his ADB career, he was assigned to project operations in Central West Asia covering the urban sector. Mr. Zheng is a national of China.

Malte works as Climate Change Specialist in European Investment Bank (EIB).

Formerly a lead negotiator for Australia at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including for the Paris Agreement negotiations, Purdie is an experienced policy advisor at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has expertise in climate change and development finance and is currently working on blended finance initiatives, including co-managing the Australian Government’s Emerging Markets Impact Investment Fund (EMIIF).

Mr. Aryal is a Country Programme Officer in Nepal since 2007. Prior to this position, Mr. Aryal entered into the development field as a Banker, for about a decade, in managing agricultural credit in a national development bank. Afterwards, Mr. Aryal  worked with a number of UN and other development agencies (such as GiZ, Unicef, FINNIDA) active in Nepal for about a decade. Before joining to the development field in 1987, Mr. Aryal worked as a school teacher for about a decade in remote rural Nepal. Mr. Aryal holds a Master’s Degree specialized in Development Administration.