Lifeng Li is the Director of Land and Water Division, Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), leading FAO’s work on soils, land, water, geospatial and climate financing through partnership with the Adaptation Fund and acting as the FAO Focal Point to UNCCD Convention and Ramsar Convention.  He has over 15 years of experience on water policy, river basin and freshwater ecosystems management through his works in World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Wetlands International, as well expertise of climate financing, national climate planning & programming and count

Ceren Güven Güres has been appointed as Country Programme Manager for Uzbekistan as of 25 April 2023. She has 15 years of professional experience managing peace, humanitarian and development programmes as well as partnership and advocacy work in various duty stations. Prior to her assignment in Uzbekistan, she was serving as the Strategic Planning and UN Coordination Specialist (OiC) for UN Women in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) since May 2022 after she joined the organization as a Programme Specialist in October 2021.

Katja Freiwald leads the UN Women Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) and Migration portfolios in Asia and the Pacific. She oversees UN Women’s work on gender-inclusive entrepreneurship, transformative work on the care-economy and works towards strengthening gender-responsive business conduct to build an ecosystem that supports women's empowerment and gender equality in the world of work.

Ms. Hanaa Singer-Hamdy is the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka and leads the UN Country Team of 22 Resident and Non-Resident UN Agencies. She is the representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sri Lanka.

Ms. Singer-Hamdy has over three decades of experience with the UN, having worked across development and humanitarian contexts in various senior management and strategic leadership roles.