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Dr. Marek Dubovec is the Director of Law Reform Programs at the International Law Institute (ILI). For over 15 years, Marek has been working with international standard-setters, including UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT to draft conventions, model laws, principles and guides that assist States in modernizing their commercial law frameworks. He has worked on the implementation of these standards under projects funded by the World Bank Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, FSD-Kenya, and others.
Ben Sandstad, an Australian citizen and dual Hong Kong SAR and New South Wales qualified lawyer, is the Senior Counsel for the trade and supply chain finance programs at the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
As Chief of the Rural Development & Food Security Thematic Group, Mr. Zhang provides leadership over the formulation and implementation of the Bank’s strategy and knowledge in agriculture, natural resources, and food. He also oversees the operationalization of ADB’s vision on agriculture, natural resources, and food in regional and country programs. Each year, Rural Development, Natural Resources, and Food has $3-4 billion investments across the Bank (investments, results-based lending, and policy-based lending). There are about 135 staff members in this sector across the Bank.
Since August 2022, Lamon Rutten is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mining Exchange, in charge of setting up this new securities and commodities exchange. Previous to this, he was CEO of the Indonesian Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (ICDX). He had joined ICDX in 2017, coming from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), an international organization under the European Union-ACP umbrella where he headed operations, including programs on agricultural finance and the use of modern information & communication technologies.
Dr Philine Wehling has been working as a Legal Officer at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) since 2019. She is primarily responsible for the joint project by UNIDROIT and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to develop of a Model Law on Warehouse Receipts, as well as for the implementation of projects related to agricultural trade and sustainable development.
Jairus Ferrer aims to redefine agriculture in the Philippines for generations to come. He started planting his roots in the industry trading a Bukidnon center's farm produce to local markets and restaurants in Cagayan de Oro. His penchant for the business moved him towards moving agri-products—from probiotic chicken to premium coffee—to commercial products and nationwide distribution. At 32, he founded his own agri-technology company, iFarms Inc., which aims to dignify agriculture through technology.
Manohari Gunawardhena is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist attached to the South Asia Regional Department of ADB. In her present capacity she originates loan and technical assistance projects in the financial sector and related operations on private sector development, in member countries in the region. She is a commercial and development banker with 25 years’ experience gained at Standard Charted Bank in Colombo, with training in Singapore and Dubai. She held positions of responsibility in treasury, lending, investment banking, and risk management.
Cathy Marsh, a British national, is Assistant General Counsel for the Nonsovereign Operations team and joined ADB on 28 August 2018. Prior to joining ADB, Cathy was a Partner in the London office of the US law firm Milbank from 2004 to 2013 (and a consultant from 2014 to 2018), and an Associate at Milbank in London from 2001 to 2004.She was previously an associate at Clifford Chance (in London and Washington DC) from 1993 to 2001, including secondments to IFC (Washington DC) and Airbus (Toulouse).
Nigel is a partner at Clyde & Co, an international law firm, where he specializes in insurance. He leads their Resilience and Climate Risk practice, which spans all of the firm’s main practice areas, and frequently writes and speaks on climate litigation.
Dr. Nicola Ranger is Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and Head of Climate and Environmental Analytics at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, University of Oxford. Nicola specialises in financial and fiscal risk management and the role of finance in resilience and sustainability. Her interests and experience span private finance, public finance and policy and development finance. She works extensively in emerging and developing economies.