Baptist is responsible for providing intellectual leadership for the EIU’s coverage, for ensuring that our economic and political analysis and forecasts are the best available for international decision-makers, and for managing a global team of economists, consultants and editors. As Managing Director for the EIU’s Asia consultancy arm, he works with governments to design and assess the impact of public policy, and with companies to drive successful strategy and operational performance in Asia.

Eang obtained his PhD from the University of Calgary. Prior to his current position, he was Chairman of the Association of Natural Rubber-Producing Countries, and was Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia, from 2013 to 2016. He was also Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Public Work and Transport from 2011 to 2013. He worked for the Cambodian Construction Company Ltd. (1995 to 1997) and in Bettis Canada Inc. (1994 to 1995). From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Paragon Corporation – Sigma Measurement Inc., in Calgary, Canada.

Gunatilake joined ADB as an environment specialist and served as natural resource economist, economist, and energy economist in different departments. Prior to joining ADB, he served as head of the department and professor of environmental economics in a Sri Lankan university. He had published more than 50 journal articles; about 25 ADB publications; and five books on energy, natural resources, and environmental economics.

Sudijanto has worked in the Ministry since 2008. He obtained his Master of Science in Engineering, Environmental Engineering in 2001 at the University of Michigan, College of Engineering, and his undergraduate degree at the Jurusan Teknik Lingkungan ITS in Indonesia.

Kumar has been the Conservation Programme Manager of the organization since 2009, responsible for organizational strategy development, resource development, communications, programme management. Prior to his position, he was Senior Technical Officer from 2006 to 2009, and and Technical officer from 1999 to 2005 in the Wetlands International - South Asia. He obtained his PhD in Environmental Economics in University of Delhi in 2012.

Pabst is an environmental scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office which serves New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He currently serves as Chief of the Drinking Water and Municipal Infrastructure Branch (DWMIB). In 2014, Pabst served as Chief of the Superstorm Sandy Recovery Green Team (SRGT). The SRGT fosters the inclusion of green infrastructure, green design, resilience, climate change adaptation and community planning in Sandy recovery projects.

Kimmorley is a renewable energy expert and a social entrepreneur. Founding the UN award-winning Pollinate Energy, she is a leading voice in the development of renewable energy in Australia and India. She spoke at the UNFCCC COP 19 and has been recognized by the Financial Review as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence. She has worked in the renewable energy industry for the last 8 years advising private equity investing in the region and running the tender process for the NSW Government’s 100-MW Solar Flagship Program.

Carlo Figà Talamanca is the CEO and owner of SGFE, an international award winning social business, which produces clean and sustainable charcoal from biomass waste. Talamanca is also a member of the Board of Directors of the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia and the chairman of Eurocham’s Green Business Committee. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Rome and he started his professional career in in the consulting business in Italy, joining the international technology transfer group INNOVA S.p.A.

Anthony Halog joined the UQ from the University of Maine, where he was an assistant professor in Industrial Ecology. His research focuses on the sustainability of the human-nature complexity through understanding the nexus of material and energy systems.

Tatiana Gallego-Lizon started at ADB in 2002 under the Young Professionals Program. Between 2002 and 2014, Tatiana led project development and implementation work in South Asia and Southeast Asia and selected policy and strategy development assignments for ADB. Before ADB, she was Senior Environmental Engineer with GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom and a researcher at Imperial College at the University of London, Shell, and Norsk Hydro. She holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College at the University of London.