Mr. Chakravarti is currently serving as a Director in the Human and Social Development Sector Office (SD3) at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He is responsible for education / TVET, health, and social protection operations across 14 Pacific countries and ADB’s engagement in social protection. Between Sept. 2021 and Oct. 2024, he was ADB’s Country Director in Bhutan.

Nuno Meira Simoes da Cunha is the Senior Specialist on Social Protection (Decent Work Technical Support Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific) of the International Labour Organization. Prior to joining the ILO, he worked in the Portuguese Ministry of Labour and Social Security.

Before joining the Open Society Georgia Foundation in 2016, Anano Tsintsabadze most recently worked as a legal consultant at GNT Service LLC and a Project Coordinator in Social Rights Program of the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center.

Ms. Tadevosyan has about 20 years of practical experience in social development field. She has joined ADB in 2014. Her role is to ensure that the urban and social sectors’ projects in East Asia Department are socially inclusive, human-centered, and sustainable. Prior to joining ADB, she worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Yerevan State University, Armenia. She was one of the leading specialists in the field of applied social researches and analysis. Parallel to her teaching Ms.