Doing Business with ADB

Hiroki Kasahara, Senior Financing Partnerships Specialist of ADB's Partner Funds Division spoke at a seminar co-organized by ADB's Japan Representative Office and the ASEAN-Japan Centre on 7 November 2019 to address potential business opportunities in ADB operations funded by the trust funds for companies together with Development Finance International. About 50 participants from Japanese private firms took part in the event.

Training and Public Integrity Network Meeting on Preventing Corruption in Public Procurement

About 50 participants from over 20 countries learned how to prevent and detect corruption in public procurement in a two-day training program organized by ADB's Office of Anticorruption and Integrity in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and United Nations Development Programme Regional Hub in Bangkok, and hosted by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Steven Gillard

Steven Gillard is a Principal Procurement Specialist and the Head of the Consulting Services Unit in the Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department at ADB.

Prior to joining ADB in 2017, he was Associate Director and Head of Operations in the Technical Cooperation Department at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he worked for 12 years procuring consultants.

He is an English law-qualified solicitor and worked as an insurance and projects lawyer in private practice before joining EBRD.

Ajay Guha

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Since 2012, Ajay Guha has been an International Procurement Advisor at ADB, where he was a former Lead Energy Specialist. He is also currently an adjunct faculty at the Asian Institute of Management.