Ms. Lay is deputy director general of DGTVET, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training in Cambodia. Ms. Lay oversees the TVET development policy and strategy and guides to operationalize the TVET policies. Ms. Lay has been a key government counterpart staff of the ADB-financed Skills for Competitiveness project since 2019. She holds a Master of Education in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), Cambodia; and an M.A. in Global TVET Management from KOREATECH, Republic of Korea.

Mr. Kaltau is providing leadership and management in setting strategic direction and planning the implementation of activities within the Tertiary Education Directorate, including scholarship, skills development, higher education, and teacher education development.  He has served the Vanuatu education system since 1998.  

Mr. Mendiola has served the education system in his country since 2003 in roles such as Assistant Secretary for the division of Formal and Non-formal Education, Assistant Secretary for the department of Quality and Effectiveness, and administrator for Post Secondary Education. Mr. Mendiola started his work with the Government as a School Health Program coordinator and has been instrumental in driving reforms for improved quality in basic education.

Mr. Jitoko is heading the PacREF Facilitation Unit (PFU), hosted at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji. The PacREF program is a regional education policy framework under the overall oversight of Ministers of Education from the Forum Island Countries in the Pacific. Before moving to the USP, Mr. Jitoko was Social Policy Adviser at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat where he coordinated the development of the PacREF policy document in collaboration with the 15 participating countries together with regional and international agencies supported by development partners.

Nihal Ranasinghe graduated in Bsc.(Business Administration) Special from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura and obtained a Master Degree in Public Administration with a Merit pass (MPA) from the Post Graduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenapura.

Dilli Ram Luintel is working as a Joint Secretary of Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. He has been working for 30 years in the field of education as a School Supervisor, Trainer, Educational Administrator and has a lot of experience in curriculum design as well as policy making in the field of Education.

Norbu Wangchuk is the Director of Department of Workforce Planning and Skills Development under the Ministry of Education and Skills Development. The Department is mandated with the responsibility to manage the growth and development of Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) system in Bhutan. Assumed the post of Director in 2017 and has been the main person driving the National TVET Reform Initiative in Bhutan

Prof. Dr. Shamsun Nahe joined as a lecturer of Bengali in BCS on 16 November 1993 and taught in five government colleges until 16 November 2003. She performed in DPE until 11 May 2005. Later, she worked in DSHE as a planning and monitoring officer and DD (Planning & admin) in SESIP. Now, she is working as Joint Program Director in SESIP and the Gender Focal Point of SESIP.

Thomas Kelly leads 3ie’s agenda to strengthen evidence cultures and to develop practical solutions to facilitate evidence use. Previously, Mr. Kelly served as the Deputy Vice President for the Department of Policy and Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and has taught universities in the United States, Kenya, and Mexico.

Najma is the Chief Economist in the Global Public Policy team at Netflix. Prior to working for Netflix, she was Chief Economist at the UK public service broadcaster for over thirteen years. She has also worked in the UK government and as an economic consultant.  She started her career working as a researcher at a think-tank.