Yixin Yao joined the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) as a Senior Research Fellow in September 2021.

I am the London Water Leader at the international engineering and technical consultancy Arup. I bring design and advisory water expertise to projects across Building Engineering and Infrastructure.

I lead on the City Water Resilience Approach (CWRA) which supports design and helps prioritise interventions to enhance urban water resilience in cities from Miami to Addis Ababa and from Cape Town to Hull.

Faisal leads the food security and climate services related work at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). He is responsible for framing geospatial information based approaches to support decision making process in the agriculture sector and also contribute in capacity building through close engagement with local, national, and international partners. His work spans across ICIMOD’s eight regional member countries, with special focus in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.

Halim is a Senior Research Assistant at United Nations University - Flores (UNU-FLORES), currently working on the sustainability of transformation processes in post-coal mining regions. Prior to joining UNU-FLORES, she worked as a researcher at the Environmental GIS/RS Laboratory in Korea University, where she researched climate change and global/regional environmental issues and collaborated in projects involving the food-water-ecosystem nexus in Central Asia. She worked at Lockton Companies Inc.

Dr Espindola is a Brazilian young water professional based in London and working at the International Water Association (IWA) as the Membership Engagement Officer responsible for the young water professionals community within IWA.

Isabela holds a PhD in Human geography from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), focusing on South America's transboundary water governance and management. She also has an MSc. in Environmental Sciences and a BA in International Relations and Economics.