Alfred Hannig is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), a global network of policymakers and regulators dedicated to providing the world’s 2 billion unbanked safe access to the formal financial system through smart policy initiatives. Before officially launching the initiative in 2008, Dr. Hannig spent three years leading the design and development of AFI’s unique institutional peer-to-peer cooperation model, aimed at scaling up financial inclusion policy and regulatory solutions that have proven successful in developing and emerging countries.

Alex Chen is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Asia Risk Transfer Solutions (ARTS), a Singapore-based technology company founded with the mission of establishing insurance for the masses in Asia. From product design to portfolio management and more, ARTS helps insurers build new digital business strategies in the areas of Natural Catastrophe and Agriculture Insurance, geared at increasing risk protection levels of entire communities.

Elvira is an Economist at Jefa de Evaluación del Gasto Público - Ministerio de Hacienda, Government of Paraguay.

She graduated from University of Paraguay with a Masters in Finance. 

Over 9 years of working experience in international development projects
- International working experience in emerging Asia, Central Asia, and Europe.

Specialties:
- internal audit
- project management
- international development
- Upstream oil and gas operations

Language - Fluent in English , Chinese and Malay

Junkyu Lee is currently serving ADB’s financial sector operations as Chief of Finance Sector Group. He is an economist of seasoned policy-making experience and knowledge in financial development and stability, and international economic policies. Since 2013, he has been leading policy and operational discussions on Asia’s banking sector stability, NPL resolution and capital market development in ADB.

He is a consultant of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change (SDCC) Department of ADB. He has over 35 years of experience in energy sector, working internationally with development organizations, governments, private sectors and research institutions. He worked for ADB as a senior energy specialist (Smart Grids) from 2017 to 2020. He holds a MSc degree in electrical engineering from the Han Yang University (Korea).

Srinivasan Janardanam is the Principal Financial Management Specialist in the Public Financial Management Division of ADB’s Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department. He is currently assigned in the South Asia Public Management, Financial Sector and Trade Division.

Henry Roxas is Associate Director at R3 based in Singapore. In this role he is in charge of R3’s trade finance strategy and building partnerships with key industry players to promote the adoption of Corda, R3’s open-sourced distributed ledger platform specially designed for the financial services industry.

Henry has a background in transaction banking technology, with seven years’ experience in payments, trade and liquidity management. 

Antony works in Temasek's blockchain venture building and investment team. He builds game-changing commercial businesses using decentralized technologies, and invest in these technologies too. Current ventures are in the areas of digital identity, digital assets, and digital money.

Mr. Abdur Rouf Talukder joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in February 1988 (BCS 1985 batch). He worked in a wide range of government positions in his long illustrious career but his specialization in public finance and economic management has brought him back to Finance Division at almost every rank of his career. He worked more than 18 years in Finance Division before elevating to the position of Finance Secretary on 17 July 2018.