Junko Sagara

Junko Sagara is a Water Resources Specialist in Southeast Asia Department. She works on water resources management, irrigation, and flood risk management projects. Prior to joining ADB, Junko was with an engineering consulting firm for over 14 years and worked on various projects in water resources planning and management, flood control and forecasting, and disaster risk management.

Cesar Llorens Alvarez

Cesar Llorens is a Spanish citizen working for Asian Development at the Central West Department (CWRD) within the urban division (CWUW)

He holds a Master's in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

He developed his professional career mainly in Spain and France in the water and transport sectors and joined ADB in 2010 as a Secondee from the former Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Syed Hasnain

Dr. Syed is part of Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team supporting the Asia region on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). He is a seasoned professional with more than 13 years of experience in public, private, humanitarian, and development sectors. He is a registered medical doctor with a master’s degree in Public Health from Australia.

Brian McSorley

Brian is a Water and Sanitation Advisor in Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team. He has 30 years of professional engineering and management experience, which includes 25 years of working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states managing water and sanitation programs and teams responding to protracted humanitarian crises as well as long-term development.

Michelle Farrington

Michelle is originally from Manchester and works in Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team specializing in public health during emergencies. In the last few years, she has worked in Iraq, Nepal, Sierra Leone, and Yemen, helping families to overcome poverty due to conflicts or natural disasters.

Michelle is currently deployed in a remote village in northeast Nigeria which has been affected by the armed conflict with Boko Haram.