ADB Experts

ADB has a range of experts available for interview to provide information, background and analysis to the media. Begin by searching for an expert by theme or name. Then contact ADB's Media Team who will arrange an interview with the expert or an alternative. Please indicate your deadline when contacting us. This list is updated regularly. ADB's Media Team can also help with subjects not covered by the experts' list.

Agriculture and natural resources

Capacity development

  • Bhushan, Indu
    Strategic planning and management, policy analysis, interagency relations, health sector policy

  • Ogawa, Noriko
    Managing for development results, corporate strategic planning, country assistance strategy, policy analysis, development finance and economics, knowledge management, strategic communications and public relations

  • Senapaty, Manju
    Long term strategy development, policy analysis, and coordinating partnerships with external partners

  • Tokeshi, Joji
    Afghanistan, regional cooperation and integration in Central Asia

Climate change

  • Bhandari, Preety M.
    Climate Change

  • Gupta, Sujata
    Private sector operations, credit enhancement mechanisms, local currency financing, infrastructure financing, upstream business development and origination, and clean energy and climate change financing

  • van Zwieten, Robert
    Financial Sector Development

  • Zhou, Aiming
    Techno-economic, environmental and policy analysis for sustainable-energy related projects, market mechanisms for financing energy efficiency and renewable energy projects

Conflict-affected situations

  • Safran, Patrick
    Aid effectiveness; environment and natural resources; disaster and emergency; policy and strategic planning; results management

Disaster

  • Britton, Neil
    Integrated disaster risk management, disaster legislation, public policy and disaster, disaster reduction strategies, risk transfer, disaster and development, risk and vulnerability assessments, damage and needs assessments

Economics

  • Akamatsu, Noritaka
    Financial Markets, Financial Sector Development, Financial Sector Regulation, Public Financial Management, and Monetary Economics

  • Buentjen, Claudia
    Public financial management, Decentralization, Combating corruption

  • Fernandez Lommen, Yolanda
    Macroeconomics and economic policy advice in PRC

  • Jain, Neeraj K.
    Philippines

  • Lindfield, Michael R.
    Infrastructure finance

  • Park, Cyn-Young
    Financial sector regulation and development issues, Capital market development

  • Park, Donghyun
    Macroeconomics, finance, Asian Development Outlook (ADO)

  • Rhee, Changyong
    Macroeconomics; financial economics; policy research; finance and debt management; fixed income markets

  • Ruthenberg, Adrian H.
    Regional cooperation, Economic policy

  • Siackhachanh, Avonechith
    Financial sector, bond markets

  • Tokeshi, Joji
    Afghanistan, regional cooperation and integration in Central Asia

  • Zhuang, Jian
    Economic growth, inflation, foreign trade and current account balance, monetary and fiscal policy, income distribution, labor markets, statistics

  • Zhuang, Juzhong
    Economic growth, poverty, and inequality in Asia; growth diagnostics; economics of climate change; the PRC economy; and early warning systems of financial crises

  • Zveglich, Joseph Ernest
    Development economics, labor economics, economic growth, and macroeconomic management