Dr. Junkyu Lee is currently the Director for Strategy, Planning and Knowledge Solutions of the Finance Sector Office in ADB. 

He is an economist of seasoned policy-making experience and knowledge in financial sector development and international economic policies. From 2019-2023, he was Chief of Finance Sector Group in ADB, leading innovative knowledge support for ADB financial sector operations, playing advisory roles for policy and operational discussions with developing economies in Asia and the Pacific. He has led the ADB’s collaboration with the GFANZ APAC and the G20 Finance process. He also led the sustainable finance team in the finance sector with a focus on transition finance, sustainable finance including green and climate finance, and financial sector stability and resilience. He is working closely with the finance teams to support scaling up sustainable finance with operational knowledge.   Before joining ADB in 2012, he worked in the Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance as G20 and Senior International Economic Advisor. He was the AMRO (ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office)’s advisory panel member in 2011-2012. He also has deep policy experience of macroprudential policy, capital flows management measures, and financial development policy in APEC FMM, and ASEAN+3 Finance Process. He has coauthored numerous publications such as “Green Investment Banks”, “Greening the Financial System: climate financials risks and how ADB can help (2023), “the Influence of US dollar Funding Conditions on Asian Financial Markets’, “Financial Integration and Macrofinancial Linkages in Asia: crises, responses, and policy considerations”, and “Nonperforming Loans in Asia and Europe” with the European Central Bank.

Appointed Deputy Minister of the republic of Armenia as of January 15, 2025. Coordinating functions related to green economy, small and medium-sized enterprises, capital markets, as well as the business environment. Previously led the Ministry’s International Cooperation Department in 2025 and headed the Public Investments Department from 2022 to 2025. Since 2013, has held senior positions across state institutions and the private financial sector.

Sayuri SHIRAI is a Professor at Keio University's Faculty of Policy Management, where she teaches Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Green Finance and Sustainable Business Management. She also serves as an ADBI Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), where she oversees the ADBI–ADB Asian Climate Finance Dialogue—an initiative aimed at promoting information exchange and enhancing understanding of climate-related disclosures and financial policies among financial regulators and central banks in Asia. The project information is avilable at https://www.adb.org/adbi/news/adbi-adb-asian-climate-finance-dialogue. Previously, she also served as an advsior to Nisshin Oillio Group and Nomura Research Center of Sustainablity. In 2024, she worked as a senior consultant for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), contributing as a resource person to the ADB’s technical assistance for the Women’s Finance Exchange. In 2020-21, she served as a senior advisor at EOS, part of Federated Hermes in London, where she played a key role in providing ESG stewardship services to listed companies in Japan. Her extensive experience also includes serving as a Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan from 2011 to 2016, where she participated in monetary policy decisions. Prior to that, she taught at Sciences Po in Paris and worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Shirai holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

Carlo Houblie is Senior Advisor at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, where he supports strategic initiatives in capital markets and sustainable finance. A former Commercial Director at LuxSE, he was instrumental in developing the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX). With over 30 years of experience, including roles at CETREL Securities and SIX Financial Information, Carlo brings deep expertise in issuer engagement, financial infrastructure, and ESG innovation. He is fluent in English, French, and German.

Ephyro Luis B. Amatong is a corporate and securities lawyer, sustainable finance advocate, and former Commissioner of the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (2014-2022).  From Nov. 2016 to March 2022, Mr. Amatong was Co-Chair of the Sustainable Finance Working Group of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Capital Markets Forum.  In that capacity, he played a key role in the development of the ASEAN Green, Social and Sustainability Bond Standards as well as the ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance.

After returning to the private sector, Atty. Amatong has continued to advise on sustainable finance matters including on the development of sustainable finance roadmaps, transition finance and energy transition.  He is also currently an independent director of a number of companies listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange and a Partner with the MOSVELDTT Law firm. 

Mr. Amatong was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2002 and the New York Bar in 2007. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M., 2006) degree, International Finance Concentration, from Harvard Law School, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B., 2001) degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics (B.S.B.E., 1997) degree, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines School of Economics.