Manohari is Financial Sector Specialist in the South Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank. She is currently working for lending and technical assistance projects in Sri Lanka, Bhutan and India, in the areas of MSME finance, financial market development and industrial development. Earlier, she worked for the nonsovereign operations department of ADB where she was managing portfolio of private sector clients in a multiple countries in South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia and South East Asia.

Ms. Damitha Rathnayake is the Acting General Manager/CEO of the Regional Development Bank (RDB), Sri Lanka while she is also the Additional Director General of the Treasury Operations Department of Ministry of Finance. She holds positions of Director of the Sir Lanka Petroleum Corporation, and Peoples Bank of Sri Lanka. She had served as Acting General Manager of National Savings Bank in the past.

Prof. Han is a Financial Sector Specialist with a long record of working on Policy finance, including SME and low-income financing. He holds a Ph.D in Economics in financial economics and industrial organization from Univ. of Texas at Austin. He also has a bachelor's and master's degree in economics from Seoul National University, Korea. He started his career as an economist in the Research Bureau at the Bank of Korea since 1996. After earning a doctorate in economics in 2006, he worked in the Capital Markets Department at the Korea Institute of Finance.

Minhong Fan is a Senior Procurement Specialist with over 30 years of experience in public procurement. She joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2011, initially serving at the PRC Resident Mission. From 2015 to 2022, she was based at ADB Headquarters, where she served as the procurement focal point for the Central and West Asia Department and later as the regional procurement head for the Southeast Asia Department. In 2023, she was appointed regional procurement head for the East Asia Department and outposted to PRCM.

Walter Poick is the former Procurement Director at ADB. He has retired from this position in 2019 after working for 19 years at ADB. 

Angela is a passionate procurement professional, believing that buying decisions made by governments, funders and implementers in the development sector have long term impacts and by supporting the sector to improve procurement outcomes we can affect real change. With 20 years’ experience in government, the UN and private sector procurement, Angela has seen the difference a well planned and executed procurement strategy can make to the quality of services delivered to citizens and those in need. At DIAL, Angela is exploring models for financing and procurement of digital technologies.