Cécile has been working and consulting in the field of business and project development, start-up acceleration and access to financing in the sectors of clean energy, adaptation and mitigation, WASH and agriculture for more than 12 years and is no stranger to Cambodia and the region. She recently served as PFAN coordinator in Cambodia, where she worked to bring investment into clean energy projects and served as a mentor to several companies working with PFAN to review their business plans and strategy and help them reach financial closure.

Roger Packham is an independent consultant and an associate professor at the University of Western Sydney.

Gulzar Natarajan is a Senior Managing Director at GIF. He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, the elite tier of the Indian bureaucracy, and was, before joining GIF, working in the Office of the Prime Minister of India.

Mio Oka is currently the Director of the Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Division in the South Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Since 2015, she has been responsible in administering several climate adaptation projects including flood and coastal management, water use efficiency, rural connectivity improvement and agriculture value chain projects in the following ADB developing member countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Asadullah Sumbal is a Principal Regional Cooperation Specialist at ADB’s Southeast Asia Department. He works as project officer for the flagship housing for integrated rural development program.

Jiangfeng Zhang is the Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Team; Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office; Sectors Department 2 of Asian Development Bank (ADB). 

Since joining ADB in 2002 to date, he has been leading and supporting the development, design, and implementation of agriculture, natural resources, and rural development sector projects covering countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central and West Asia, and the Pacific. 

Ahsan was associated with ADB for over 26 years, with 11 years at the field offices in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. His working experience included developing and managing projects, primarily in agriculture and rural development in South Asia, South East Asia, and Central West Regions.

Earlier in his career, he worked with the United Nations Office for Project Services as a Portfolio Manager and was responsible for a range of rural development initiatives in Pakistan, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.