Caren Grown

Dr. Caren Grown is Senior Technical Advisor in the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice at the World Bank. From 2014-2021, she served as Global Director, Gender at the World Bank Group.  Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Grown was Economist-In-Residence and Co-Director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics at American University in Washington, D.C. Over the course of her career, Dr. Grown held several senior positions, including as Senior Gender Advisor at USAID and Director of the Economics Team at the International Center for Research on Women.  Dr.

Dave Albao

Dave is currently leading the implementation of projects focused on reducing ocean plastic funded by USAID, GIZ, and the EU. Activities include advocating for zero-waste and circular enterprises, including micro businesses that are innovating to reduce single-use plastic waste from their operations.

Recent Financial Conditions in Emerging East Asia and Real Time Macroeconomic Monitoring

Despite the pandemic-induced economic uncertainty, financial conditions in emerging East Asia remained stable. Local currency bonds markets in the region are expanding at a slower pace relative to past quarters. TrackingAsia on the AsianBondsOnline website featured novel tools to help to monitor recent monthly aggregate economic conditions in the region.

John Beirne

John Beirne is Vice-Chair of Research and a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). In this role, he co-heads ADBI’s Research Department, leading research workstreams on macroeconomics, finance, and infrastructure. He was previously a research fellow at the ADBI and before that, he spent over a decade in Germany as an economist at the European Central Bank (ECB), mainly in the areas of international policy analysis and economic research on global financial markets, capital flows, and commodities.