Training Session - Evidence and Technology to Drive Impact
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 1
Speakers
Fei Yu
Advisor, EROD
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Jamie Leather
Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Sveta Milusheva
Senior Economist
The World Bank
Zhigang Li
Principal Economist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Priti Gautam
Senior Transport Specialist
(Road Safety)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Facilitators
Bhakta Mani Sitoula
Associate Project Officer
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Bidisha Barooah
Economist (Development Impact)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Minhaj U. Mahmud
Senior Economist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Zèi Liu
Global Electric Mobility Associate
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Colin Broadwood
Head of Assets and Climate
TRL
Training Session - Monitoring Progress of the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 2
Astra Bonini
Chief of the Integrated Policy Analysis
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
Katrin Luger
Section Chief
United Nations Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Avinash Dubedi
Program Head
World Resources Institute (WRI) India
Alvin Mejia
Co-Team Leader
Asian Transport Observatory (ATO)
María Belén Vásquez
Data Specialist
Transport and Climate Change, GIZ
Focus Session - Tackling Traffic Related Air Pollution in Cities
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 3
Speakers
Honor Puciato
Associate Director
Ricardo (WSP Group)
Sebastian Mueller
Data Analyst
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Joonho Ko
Full Professor
Hanyang University
Fajar Nugrahaini
Head of the Traffic and Transportation Safety and Vehicle Engineering Section
DKI Jakarta Transport Agency
Showcase Session - From Ideas to Impact — Innovations and Private Sector Engagement
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 4
Moderator
Masayoshi Ono
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Speakers
Syrus Borja Gomari
Founder and CEO
Seermo
Richard van Liere
Partner
Nestra Consultants
Glynda Bathan-Baterina
Deputy Executive Director
Clean Air Asia
Joyce Rivera
Transport Policy Advisor
GIZ Philippines
Training Session - Translating Poverty and Social Analysis into Transport Project Action
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium 1
Moderator
Jeff Turner
Social Development Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Speakers
Gohar Tadevosyan
Senior Social Development Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Teja Malladi
Director
Mapsolve AI Private Limited
Wilson Pak Sang Leung
Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Training Session - Using Transport Data for Better Investment Decisions
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 2
Rika Hayashi
Principal Knowledge Management Specialist, DOCK
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Alvin Mejia
Co-Team Leader
Asian Transport Observatory (ATO)
María Belén Vásquez
Data Specialist
Transport and Climate Change
GIZ
Sveta Milusheva
Senior Economist
The World Bank
Greg Smith
CEO
International Road Assessment
Programme (iRAP)
Michael Anyala
Senior Transport Specialist (Road Asset Management)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Colin Broadwood
Head of Assets and Climate / Ride
TRL Ltd.
Training Session - Electric Mobility—Transforming Public Transport Management
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 3
Diana Páez
Senior Director of Energy & Mobility
William Davidson Institute
University of Michigan
Speakers
Nodir Khudayberdiev
Project Manager
Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan (Tajikistan))
Sveta Harosyan
Public Investment Program Lead
Yerevan Urban Development Investment Projects PIU (Armenia)
Brendan Coleman
Low Carbon Solutions
Specialist (Transport)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Claire Charamnac
Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Bert Fabian
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Training Session - New Modes of Urban Transport — Ropeways as an Innovation Solution
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 4
Nicolas Pralong
Head of Sales Southeast Asia
POMA
Fortunato Sanchez
Manager
Doppelmayr Philippines
Aglaée Degros
Professor, Head of Institute
Institute of Urbanism
Graz University of Technology
Manoj Paudel
Founder and Chair
Aadhyanta
Fund Management Limited
IME Group
Keshab Kumar Sharma
Former Secretary
Ministry of Physical Infrastructure
and Transport (Nepal)
Prashant Jain
Vice President
Ropeways at National Highways Logistics Management Limited (NHLML)
Site Visit - Malolos-Clark Railway Project and Philippine Railway Institute
22 May 2026, Friday | Departure: 7:30 a.m.; Return: 5:00 p.m.
Clark and Apalit, Pampanga; Calumpit, Bulacan; Valenzuela City, Metro Manila
Timothy John Batan
Undersecretary
Department of Transportation
(Philippines)
Narciso R. Preclaro Jr.
Project Manager
Department of Transportation (Philippines)
Sangyeob Lee
Project Manager
POSCO E&C