Anqian Huang

Anqian Huang is a Principal Financial Sector Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. He works on developing sustainable finance solutions across Asia and the Pacific region. He has collaborated with government agencies and public/private sector financial institutions and led numerous financial sector projects, including two $500 million financing facilities in India for renewable energy development.

ASEAN Economies: The Road to Recovery

At the start of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the ASEAN region responded relatively well to the crisis compared with other parts of the world, with travel restrictions and country-wide lockdowns keeping the spread at bay.

As of April, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast Southeast Asia's gross domestic product to grow at 4.4% in 2021, which would take the region back to pre-COVID-19 levels.

David Gallacher

David is a Corporate Member and Accredited Monitoring Professional of the HKIEIA, and a qualified ecologist with 14 years of professional and academic experience in the environmental sector.

He completed his postgraduate studies at The University of Hong Kong, where he developed a rapid biological assessment protocol to assess the ecological value of rivers and streams. When based at the Department of Ecology & Biodiversity at the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Gallacher was responsible for a government-funded study to devise a biomonitoring scheme for the Mai Po Ramsar site.

Shyam Sunder Mehndiratta

Shyam S Mehndiratta is an engineer with post-graduation from IIT Roorkee. He has more than 20 years of experience in ‘Procurement and Contract Management for the public sector at the central, state, and local government levels in India and South Asia. 

He is associated with Asian Development Bank (ADB) since 2010 and presently working as Senior Procurement Officer at Indian Resident Mission (INRM) of ADB in New Delhi. Previously he has also been associated with World Bank and DFID.

Bisma Husen

Bisma Husen is a  Principal Procurement Specialist of ADB and has been assigned to support ADB operations in India since 2007. 

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Missouri Science and Technology, USA and an MBA in Finance from Monash University. He has worked with the World Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in procurement for more than 20 years.

LEAP 5: COVID-19, Nonperforming Loans, and Cross-border Bank Lending

In the fifth LEAP series, ERCI Director Cyn-Young Park discussed how international banks respond to a rise of their own non-performing loans and those of emerging market borrowers; and how these reactions change depending on their perceived risk exposures and risk management practices (such as the share of US dollars in their balance sheet liabilities).

James Villafuerte of SERC moderated the discussion.