Md. Mafizur Rahman is the Managing Director of the Small and Medium Industries Foundation. He is a Former Additional Secretary of the Government of Bangladesh. Md. Mafizur Rahman joined as the Managing Director (MD) of Small and Medium Industries Foundation (SMEF) on 28 December 2020. Prior to joining this post, he was the Director General of Bangladesh Industrial Technical Assistance Center (BITAC) from 27 February 2018 to 31 August 2020. Dr. Rahman was born on 01 September 1971 in an aristocratic Muslim family at Hijla upazila of Barisal district.

Sabyasachi (Saby) Mitra is the Director of Public Management, Financial Sector & Trade Division of the South Asia Department of Asian Development Bank. He has been with ADB for 15 years and specializes mainly in development finance, policy planning, regional cooperation and institutional partnerships.

Anil Kumar Sharma is the Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India. Before taking over as ED, he was headed the Enforcement Department of Reserve Bank of India as Chief General Manager. He has done his Masters in Economics from Doaba College Jalandhar, Punjab and was UGC Fellow at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune before joining RBI in 1986. He holds a Diploma in Treasury and Risk Management and is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers. His experience in the Bank lies in the area of management of currency and banking, rural credit, and supervision.

Artessa works in the East Asia & Pacific Region of the World Bank, where she leads a number of projects on disaster risk management, seismic risk reduction, and urban resilience. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2010, she worked in the Office of the President of the Philippines, and was also an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Philippines.

Malte works as Climate Change Specialist in European Investment Bank (EIB).

Dr. Jane Toothill holds a BSc and Ph.D. in natural hazard studies and has over 20 years of experience in the modelling of flood hazards to assess financial losses and to support the development of financial mechanisms, particularly in the insurance sector.

Andreas Raithelhuber has worked for more than 15 years in the fields of economic development cooperation and finance. He was Senior Bank Advisor of Business & Finance Consulting, where he analyzed banks and economies in 20 emerging markets on behalf of ADB’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program.