Speaker 2023

Joel Abraham was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission (FCCC) in September 2016. Mr. Abraham has extensive business and public sector experience. Immediately prior to his appointment to the FCCC, he was a Regulatory, Compliance, Finance and Business Advi

John Cotton is the Senior Programme Manager for Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP) at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). He has been based in Southeast Asia for 20 years, dedicating a decade of which to renewable energy project development and climate change miti

Jon Canto is the Managing Partner of McKinsey Philippines. He has about 15 years of experience working across Asia Pacific and the United States. He specializes in corporate strategy and performance transformations, having led large-scale transformations across Asia. His background is in energy (Pow

Joonho Hwang is the Director, Energy Division, Central and West Asia Department (CWRD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has over 23 years of work experience including 13 years in ADB where he has progressively assumed various posts in CWRD and in Southeast Asia Department. He leads the t

Mr. Joshua Wycliffe is an international executive with a demonstrated 25-year history-leading and mentoring diverse teams. An inclusive leader who has designed and built high performing administrative systems, processes and teams across geographies ; he is a global expert with best practice virtuosi

A development professional, with 20 years of experience in Nepal, currently involved in the transport sector development, focusing on road, bridges and tunnels. She represents Switzerland as a Board Member for Salleri Chialsa Electricity Company established by the Swiss and Nepali Governments in the

Kadida Konare currently serves as International Finance Corporation’s Asia-Pacific Captial Markets Lead for Infrastructure where she has worked in Bangkok, Thailand and Washington, DC to secure financing for renewable energy projects. Prior to that she was an Agile Fellow at the World Bank CEO Str

Kasan Muhri is the Head of the Trade Policy Agency under the Ministry of Trade in Indonesia.

Kate has 18 years of experience working on climate change and sustainable development policy, financing, and technology projects across the Asia Pacific region. Kate is a Senior Climate Change Specialist at ADB and focuses on climate policy and financing, including developing and managing programs a

Kayla Slobodnik (BA, University of Western Ontario, 2015; MPA, Queen’s University, 2017) began her career with the Government of Canada at the Ontario Regional Office of the Trade Commissioner Service in the field of international business development. At Headquarters, she has served in several as

Kee-Yung Nam is Principal Energy Economist at the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC) of Asian Development Bank. Developing strategies and policies, advising projects, overseeing trust funds, and analyzing issues on energy sector are among his responsibilities. Before SDCC,

Mr. Tamaki has more than 40 years’ experience in urban development. From 2001 to 2017, he worked for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a number of urban, water supply, urban transport and tourism projects in South Asia, in particular India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. He started his career at