Dr. Altaf Iqbal is an economist with over 35 years of international consulting experience across diverse projects, including agriculture, water management, and infrastructure development. He has excelled in developing policies, conducting institutional reforms, and performing economic evaluations. His expertise extends to cost analysis, investment budgets, planning, training, feasibility studies, socio economic surveys, pricing models, and area development studies.

Ben is the founding CEO of Water Sensitive Cities Australia, continuing his work from his time as CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC), where he also served as the Chief Operating and Finance Officer. He leads multidisciplinary projects on water-sensitive city approaches. Before CRCWSC, Ben spent ten years on Melbourne Water’s executive team, handling water resource and sewerage system planning, regulation, customer service, public affairs, and research and development.

Erik is a senior project lead for TNC’s Nature for Water Facility, a specialist team that helps local programs analyze, develop, and execute NBS for water security. Erik led Nature for Water’s first project and has since directly supported 15 NBS programs worldwide with various detailed analyses. As a trained economist, he typically focuses on return on investment, economics, sustainable finance, and governance, as well as developing “program intelligence” analyses and dashboards. Before joining TNC, Erik worked at Pegasys, a management consultancy based in Cape Town.

Rajesh Yadav is a Senior Project Officer (Natural Resources and Agriculture) for India Resident Mission, South Asia Department in Asian Development Bank.

Mr. Kre has been with Water PNG for the last 15 years attached to Operations Division and now Commercial Division.

His experience encompasses business management, strategic/tactical planning, resource utilization, revenue growth, cost reduction, and general administration of business centers.