Kathy Mulville is the Business Partnerships Director at Investing in Women and is responsible for the establishment and continuing development of the Business Coalitions (BC) in the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar. The BCs support business leaders in the four countries to drive gender equality in their workplaces, and to lead by example in their supply chains, countries and beyond.

Katherine Miles is the gender consultant to the InsuResilience Gender Working Group and a technical expert on the gender dimensions of climate and disaster risk finance and insurance. Katherine co-authored research and guidance including Integrating Gender Considerations into Different Models of Climate Risk Insurance (CRI) and Applying a Gender Lens to Climate Risk Finance and Insurance on behalf of the InsuResilience Global Partnership.

Mildred is a consultant at the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank working on gender, labor, poverty, and SDG measurements. Before joining the bank, she worked as a Supervising Statistical Specialist at the Philippine Statistics Authority and National Statistical Coordination Board.

Uzma Altaf is working with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Gender Specialist (Consultant) since 2011. Based at the Pakistan Resident Mission Islamabad, she has provided technical assistance for mainstreaming gender in various projects and programs in the Central and West Asia Region in some of the key developing member countries (DMCs) of ADB including Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.  She holds a masters’ degree in Public Administration and Public Policy and Management and has been a Commonwealth scholar of the UK Government. 

Sourav believes that the solution to smart cities lies in good governance, adoption of new technologies, and greater public participation. He has an academic background in civil engineering and urban planning. Before joining ADB in 2006, Sourav worked in complex urban infrastructure projects in India, mainly handling their planning, and engineering design and implementation.