Girlie Grace Casimiro-Igtiben is presently the Director of Social Development Staff, National Economic and Development Authority, Philippines. Girlie has solid experience and rigorous training in leading and managing people, policy formulation and analysis, development planning, program/project development, and evaluation and monitoring. She leads the team in providing technical advice on policies related to social inclusion, social protection, poverty, education, health, human settlements, labor welfare, and migration.

Uzma Altaf is working with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Gender Specialist (Consultant) since 2011. Based at the Pakistan Resident Mission Islamabad, she has provided technical assistance for mainstreaming gender in various projects and programs in the Central and West Asia Region in some of the key developing member countries (DMCs) of ADB including Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.  She holds a masters’ degree in Public Administration and Public Policy and Management and has been a Commonwealth scholar of the UK Government. 

Maria Genieve Edar works at ADB as an Events and Knowledge Management Consultant for the Social Development Thematic Group.