ADB Distinguished Speakers Program: Driving Food Security through Digitalization of Food Supply Chains

Digitalization of both trade and financial flows can streamline access to finance enabling efficient and timely use of capital by swiftly directing it to pockets of need. Asia’s recovery from the pandemic and the current shocks present opportunities for MSMEs to digitalize without compromising on their traditional strengths in agribusiness, wholesale and retail trade, and their proximity to customers.

Christina Chun-Ling Ho

Christina Chun-Ling HO has been a Senior Specialist of TEPA since 1993. She led the effort to enact the Basic Environmental Law in Dec. 2002. This has become instrumental for the Green Transformation of her country through the successful execution of the Waste Management & Resource Recycling Program.

Since 2017, Ms. Ho has put much effort into the circular economy and helped build TCE100 by integrating plastics, WEEE, construction & demolition waste, and solar panel resource industrial supply chains.

Laurence Vannut Genee

Laurence is a Senior environmental specialist. Assessing environmental risks and impacts, providing advisory for clients on environmental risks management and mitigation throughout project life cycles.

She was previously head of the Corporate Advisory and Transaction Team in Hong Kong. Laurence leads three key practices including Transaction Services, Contaminated Site Management, and Performance Assurance. Member of the management team in ERM in Hong Kong, deeply involved in elaboration and implementation of Hong Kong office.