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.

Education

  • Lateef, Shireen
    Gender and development, social development, human trafficking

  • Sarvi, Jouko E.
    Education sector policies, strategies, and financing; education project/program design and implementation; regional cooperation, cross-border collaboration and partnerships in education

Energy

  • Barseghyan, Areg
    Energy and transport management, financial management

  • 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

  • Kim, Gil-Hong
    Institutional focal point for scaling up sustainable infrastructure investment in developing member countries

  • Wermert, Stephen F.
    Public and private sector development issues, regional infrastructure

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

Environment

Finance

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

  • 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

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

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

  • van Zwieten, Robert
    Financial Sector Development

Gender

  • Lateef, Shireen
    Gender and development, social development, human trafficking

  • Tanaka, Sonomi
    Community Development, gender, NGOs and Civil Society, poverty, rural development, social development, social protection, vulnerable groups

Governance and public sector management

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

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

  • Kim, Gil-Hong
    Institutional focal point for scaling up sustainable infrastructure investment in developing member countries

  • Morris, Christopher I.
    Government and nongovernment institutions, project management, institutional and capacity development, water, rural and urban development

  • Nicoll, Sandra
    Governance, public management and civil service reform, public financial management, decentralization, and capacity development

  • Ruthenberg, Adrian H.
    Regional cooperation, Economic policy

  • Thomas, Frederic
    Development and promotion of PPPs in the Asia and Pacific region

Health

  • Moser, Patricia
    Health and development, health systems development, regional health issues

Private sector development