Ramon Abracosa

Ramon's expertise areas are civil and environmental engineering, urban infrastructure development, climate change management, and land and water resource management. He has over three decades of work experience.

He currently serves as Program Manager for the ADB-managed Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA trust fund) and as urban development and climate resilience expert for the multi-donor Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund, also managed by ADB.

Wiwandari Handayani

Wiwandari Handayani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, Indonesia.

She is an expert in the field of urban–rural linkage and regional planning. Her research focuses on urban and regional resilience in the context of disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and governance. She recently assisted the Semarang City Government to develop the Semarang Resilience Strategy and leads the governance cluster within the Cascading Semarang Consortium.