Søren Hansen is an expert on master planning, urban development, transportation and transport planning services as well as environmental assessment studies. Over the last 10 years, Mr. Hansen has been developing livable cities strategies in urban development projects. He is an experienced Project Director with a demonstrated history of working in and across the civil engineering industry disciplines. He also has strong professional skills in engineering, urban master planning, design management, business development, feasibility studies, and comprehensive infrastructure planning.

Raghu has over twenty-five years of experience in infrastructure advisory, management consulting, and academics. He has been advising various government and multilateral organizations in infrastructure financing, policy formulation, and public-private partnership frameworks across urban, transportation, energy, and social sectors. He has operated a Project Development Fund and a Project Investment Fund in his previous corporate role as the CEO of iDeCK. He holds a Ph.D. (on Public Private Partnerships in urban drinking water sector), MBA and Bachelor of Technology degrees. 

Ms. Sharlene Shillingford-Mcklmon is Senior Procurement Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She is assigned to the South Asia Transport portfolio and is outposted to the Bangladesh Resident Mission. Prior to joining the ADB, Sharlene headed the East Caribbean Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium where she worked for 3 years primarily on negotiation and mobilization of development finance with the European Commission.

Joseph (Joe) Ma is an urban planner with over 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors gained in the UK, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China, and other Asian countries. His extensive and myriad international experience covers strategic development and policy studies, large scale planning and development projects, new town and urban regeneration developments, railway, transportation, and infrastructure investments, as well as leisure, recreation, and tourism projects.

Dr. Kim studied economics at University of Seoul and got his doctorate in 2005. He worked at the Seoul city government for 30 years. In 2011, he temporarily left public office to take on the role of president at Seoul Institute, which is an urban solution think-tank of the Seoul City government. He retired as vice mayor in June 2014. His specialization is transportation and regional industry development. He was involved in majority of the projects that transformed Seoul into a global city.

Sandeepan Roy has a PhD in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay.

Seiji Noda managed environmental safeguards for private sector projects for ADB developing member countries. He holds a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Rhode Island.

Jeremy Knight has extensive experience in market development and key customer management in the transportation industry. He is a former General Manager (Distributor Markets) in Volvo Bus Hong Kong Ltd.