Vickie is an independent consultant currently engaged by the Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF), which is administered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She is an architect and urban planner by profession. She has cultivated a career in the development sector for more than 20 years, focusing on urban climate resilience, local economic development, urban governance, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, and private sector development.

Her consulting assignments have been with multilateral and bilateral agencies such as ADB, GIZ, and the World Bank.

Bronwyn Powell is a ‘pracademic’ (practitioner-academic) whose professional purpose is to translate evidence to practice including by building the capacity, knowledge and leadership skills of water professionals to make positive change. Bronwyn is an advisor, program leader, trainer, researcher, facilitator and mentor across integrated water, WASH, and GEDSI spheres. Bronwyn has been WASH Advisor and Team Leader of ADB’s Pacific WASH TA for the last four years.

Choikhand is the Project Manager for Managing Soil Pollution through Improved On-Site Sanitation in the Ger Areas of Ulaanbaatar City project, under the Ministry of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia. She has been working for the country’s environmental sector for nearly two decades, and her focus has primarily been on biodiversity conservation and climate-related projects.