Cebele joined ADB in 2018, where she supports the Bank’s social sector portfolio in Central and West Asia. She has over a decade of experience coordinating with government officials, development agencies, and local partners to strengthen health systems and improve access to health services. Prior to joining ADB, Cebele worked in the private sector and at the Clinton Health Access Initiative to increase access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Gerald has more than a decade of combined research and consultancy experience in economics, project monitoring and implementation, and policy impact evaluation and analysis. He carried out consultancy work for various institutions such as the Department of Trade and Industry in the Philippines, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, and the ASEAN Secretariat.

Shuvechha has 15 years of work experience in development sector designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating projects and programs in areas such as agriculture, food security, transport, energy, urban and water, education, and skills development. Before joining ADB she worked at both national and international levels through think thanks, bilateral and multilateral organizations and has engaged in research related to climate change, adaptation, and resilience.

Michael Timbang is an Economic Analyst at the Macroeconomics Research Division. He provides research and technical support for the Asian Development Outlook (ADO), ADB’s flagship publication, and conducts macroeconomic surveillance, monitoring, and forecasting. He has written and co-authored several research papers and policy briefs for the department, and now leads the preparation and update of the Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting Tool for the ADO country teams in resident missions. His research interests include macroeconomics, poverty analysis, growth, and development.

Jiro has nearly 30 years of international development expertise in infrastructure, electronic government, and development evaluation. Since September 2021, he has overseen ADB's Indonesia country strategy and operations as Country Director. He was Director of the SPD's Strategy, Policy, and Business Processes Division and Principal Evaluation Specialist in the Independent Evaluation Department before his current assignment.

As a Resident Mission economist, Aji conducts economic surveillance and research and writes papers and articles, including contributions to the Asian Development Outlook series. He assists in the design and implementation of loans, as well as technical assistance in macroeconomic management, connectivity, technological innovation, and financial inclusion, among other things.

Ms. Audrey Tan was previously an assistant news editor and environment correspondent at The Straits Times, Singapore’s national broadsheet, where she covered environmental issues and climate change for about a decade. Audrey holds a master’s degree in climate science and policy from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is an advisory committee member of the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund for Southeast Asia.

Keshan obtained a master’s degree in environmental engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Moratuwa specializing in Chemical and Process Engineering. He was a training engineer at the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority. He has been involved in different assignments in the energy sector under the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department and the South Asia Regional Department in ADB.

João has helped ADB and its clients in the design and implementation of initiatives that advance fiscal and public financial management reforms (including fiscally responsible PPP ecosystems), financial sector and markets development, SMEs’ access to finance, and investment climate improvement, among others. He has an academic background in economics, financial markets, and monetary and financial economics.