Savaira Manoa is a financial regulator and supervisor, currently serving as Manager in one of the Financial Institutions Supervision Units of the Financial Institutions Group at the Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF). She has worked at the RBF for over 20 years, with experience in the supervision and regulation of the Fijian banking industry, insurance industry, superannuation industry, development and practice of statistics in prudential supervision, and in the development and practice of macro-prudential surveillance in Fiji.   

Sili Margaret Chan Cheuk-Tafunai is the Deputy Governor, Policy Group at the Central Bank of Samoa (CBS), a role undertaken since 29 February 2024. She currently oversees the Economics Department, Financial Markets Department, Financial Supervision and Regulatory Services Department and the Financial Systems Development Department. Previously, she was the manager of the Financial Markets Department at CBS since April 2013 where her main responsibilities included managing CBS operations in both the domestic and international financial markets, with particular focus on exchange rate and foreign reserves management, administration of foreign exchange control, domestic open market operations, monitoring and forecasting bank liquidity and market development issues.  Prior to this, she was with the Economics Department of the Central Bank for nearly ten years since 2004 in various roles from Economist to Assistant Manager, with key responsibilities in the compilation of inflation forecasting, monetary statistics, balance of payments, economic analysis and research. Her main fields of interests are in macroeconomic policy, monetary and financial economics.  With the recent involvement of climate change issues in central banking functions, the development of sustainable finance policies for the Samoan financial sector has become a new area of interest and focus.

Mr. Mohammad Khalid Hossain CFA joined Bangladesh Civil Service in 2001and now holds the position of Executive Director at Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) of Bangladesh. This position entails active engagement with policy making, regulations, and development of insurance sector in Bangladesh. Before joining IDRA, he served diverse government ministries and departments including tax and customs administration, investment promotion, and cultural cooperation. He obtained bachelors in Finance and Banking from the University of Dhaka and also holds MSc in Accounting and Finance from the University of Sussex, UK. He is also a CFA charter holder.