Roger Shotton

Roger Shotton has been working on sub-national government issues at policy level and in the field across Africa and Asia for some 30 years, first as senior adviser with the United Nations Capital Development Fund and latterly as consultant for various international agencies (ADB, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, SDC). He has most recently been working on fiscal transfer mechanisms and on local government financing, planning and budgeting arrangements in several countries in East Asia (Myanmar, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Mongolia).

Zolzaya Lkhagvasuren

Zolzaya Lkhagvasuren is a Senior National Programme Officer at the Swiss Development Cooperation Agency (SDC) Mongolia. Zolzaya has more than 15 years of experience in the joined SDC about 10 years ago during which she has responsible for the portfolio that aims to contribute to the strengthening of  good governance and civil society development, in particular through the support for reforms related to decentralisation, democracy and civic participation in Mongolia. 
 

Ehtisham Ahmad

Professor Ehtisham Ahmad has been Directing a Project on Sustainable Transitions in China and Mexico, at the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE over the past three years. He also worked with the ADB to provide recommendations for consideration for the 14th Five Year Plan. During the past decade, he has been Visiting Professor at the LSE, Pao Yu-Kong Professor at Zhejiang University, Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn as well as Senior Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Science/Ministry of Finance Research Institute (2018-21).

Yolanda Fernandez Lommen

Ms. Yolanda Fernandez Lommen is ADB’s Country Director for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). She assumed office in August 2019. As Country Director, Ms. Fernandez Lommen leads ADB’s PRC
Resident Mission (PRCM) that manages the portfolio of about $14 billion in the country; maintains and strengthens strategic partnerships with clients, including central and local governments; assists in loan and technical assistance processing; formulates the country partnership strategy; managesexternal relations; and develops knowledge products.