Mr. Craig Roberts is Senior Advisor in the Office of the Director General. As the Chief Operating Officer of Private Sector Operations he is accountable for all aspects of business and operational risk management, running a team that covers communications, Investment Committee Secretariat, change management, business analytics, performance reporting, budget, finance, people, planning and systems. In addition, he has supervisory responsibility for the direct equity investment, portfolio management and risk analytics teams. Between 2014 to 2020. Mr.

Rachana Shrestha is a Public Management Specialist in ADB’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department and is responsible for multi-level governance pillar, which constitutes decentralization, public service delivery, public financial management, localizing SDGs, and policy and institutional reforms at subnational and local government levels.

Hiranya Mukhopadhyay is currently working as Chief, Governance Thematic Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank. Prior to joining ADB in 2001, he worked at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (New Delhi, India). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also visited Boston University and Oxford University as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and completed research projects.

Mr. Yuji Miyaki is a tax specialist with over 25 years of experience in tax policy and administration, joined ADB in 2014 supporting ADB’s member countries on the development and implementation of fiscal policies, including tax policies, and capacity building. Prior to joining ADB, he worked for 20 years in the Ministry of Finance and the National Tax Agency in Japan.

Mr. Patrick Duong leads UNDP’s work on local governance and SDG localization in Asia and the Pacific. He is based in Bangkok in the UNDP Regional Hub that serves 26 countries. Patrick has over 20 years of experience at policy and technical level. He has advised governments in several senior advisory positions in Asia and Africa. He earlier worked with civil society organizations, DFID, and the EU in Africa, the Middle East, and in the Balkan region.