Linda is an Investment Specialist with ADB PSOD Agribusiness Investment Team (AIT). Over the past five years, she has been leading AIT’s investments in East Asia, developing/leading investment projects in other Asian countries, and supporting Chinese companies to expand abroad. Linda’s specialty includes project origination, structuring, and execution, negotiation with C-level clients, portfolio management, and client relationship management, etc. Her investment experience covers the entire Agri value chain and extended sectors.

Dr. Mischa Lentz is an Investment Specialist in PSIS and a dedicated fund manager for the Canadian Climate Fund as well as the ADF Private Sector Window. Dr. Lentz has over 12 banking and financeyears of banking and finance experience in developing countries. Prior to joining ADB, he spent 7 years with EBRD, with roles in Infrastructure and Project & Corporate Finance.

Martin Lemoine is the Unit Head, Agribusiness at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Martin has 23 years of professional experience and has led more than 50 equity and debt investments of a total value of around $10 billion in the agribusiness and infrastructure sectors.

Mohammed Zulyaminayn is a Principal Procurement Officer in ADB Bangladesh Resident Mission (BRM) who provides procurement support across all sectors, including large and complex procurement packages, and facilitates capacity development on procurement of goods, works, and consulting services under Bangladesh portfolio.

Dechen Wangmo is a Senior Procurement Officer working under Ministry of Finance since 2011. In this role,  Ms. Dechen is responsible for managing the e-procurement sytem development project in Bhutan. She is mainly involved in conducting  requirement study and stakeholder meetings for the  system development. She is also responsible for providing capacity building to the eGP system users which include procuring agencies, bidders and financial institution users.

Ishita Ganguli Tripathy is an officer of Government of India’s Indian Economic Service. In the past 22 years she has worked in different Ministries and Departments of the Government of India, including the Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and Ministry of Commerce and Industry in various capacities. She is currently Additional Development Commissioner in the Office of Development Commissioner (MSME). Her PhD from IIT Delhi is on Managerial Economics.

Manjula Hettiarachchi is the Additional Director General, Department of Development Finance, Ministry of Finance, Sri Lanka. In addition, he is covering the duties of the Chief Executive Officer, National Insurance Trust Fund Board. Further, he has been working as the Project Director of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Line of Credit Project (SMELoC) funded by the ADB.

Md. Mafizur Rahman is the Managing Director of the Small and Medium Industries Foundation. He is a Former Additional Secretary of the Government of Bangladesh. Md. Mafizur Rahman joined as the Managing Director (MD) of Small and Medium Industries Foundation (SMEF) on 28 December 2020. Prior to joining this post, he was the Director General of Bangladesh Industrial Technical Assistance Center (BITAC) from 27 February 2018 to 31 August 2020. Dr. Rahman was born on 01 September 1971 in an aristocratic Muslim family at Hijla upazila of Barisal district.

Sabyasachi (Saby) Mitra is the Director of Public Management, Financial Sector & Trade Division of the South Asia Department of Asian Development Bank. He has been with ADB for 15 years and specializes mainly in development finance, policy planning, regional cooperation and institutional partnerships.