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I am a private sector development specialist working over the past 35 years on industrial and technological development, foreign investment, public-private dialogue, and government policy issues in Central, South-East and North Asia. I have led many programs on private sector development, including leadership roles with the ADB in Cambodia and Myanmar from 2010-2016. I joined the UKAid DaNa Facility in Myanmar as Team Leader in 2016, focussed on private sector development. I joined the AI Asia Pacific Institute in 2023 working on the promotion of responsible AI in Asia-Pacific.
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Public & private experience with big projects management/lead.
Research for impactful action is one of my professional drivers.
Both business and political science education tracks (HEC and EHESS PhD in political science)
International track
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Rahul Matthan is a partner at Trilegal, a law firm in India, where he heads the technology practice.
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Shreya is a senior associate at Trilegal and is part of the technology, media, and telecommunications practice group.
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Francesca Polito, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary, human centered design leader, educator and researcher. Her research and practice focus on human development in education K-Ph.D. and explores barriers, needs and technologies to transition to STEM and 21st century learning to benefit individuals and societies. She spent over 20 years in the public sector, leading, building, and educating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver simplified, value-driven human centered experiences for complex problems with diverse scopes and seeks to apply these skills to society's most pressing issues.
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Shashika Rathnayaka is a Research Fellow in Applied Economics at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include Agricultural and Food Economics, Development Economics and Econometric Modelling. Shashika has published in international journals, including; Agricultural Economics, Economic Modelling, Applied Economics, Economics Analysis & Policy and Empirical Economics. She recently published her first book, 'Economic Development and Consumption Patterns in Asian Countries' with Springer.
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Project Management at University of Huddersfield. She is conducting research in the areas of Professional Service Operations Management and Innovation Management. Her key research interests include among others: open innovation, operations management tools like Lean thinking, human resource management, operational efficiency, sustainable project management, artificial intelligence and university industry relations.
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Ravinder Pal Singh is working as Associate Director in Deptt. of Research, Innovation & Incubation at RIMT University-India. His focus is on R&D(Multidisciplinary Research & Innovation, Startups, Incubation through emerging technologies: IoE, AI ML DL, AR VR MR, Embedded Systems , 3D Scanning, Rapid Prototyping). He is a international researcher under DESINNO project (Erasmus+) who applies his research for qualitative innovations for society and community. He has been associated with various startup programs. He is also lifetime Mentor of Change for STEM education initiatives by Niti Aayog.
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Dr. Jean-Denis has a PhD in Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He teaches and performs research in the area of entrepreneurial communities in the developing world. He is originally from Haiti and has published academic research on strategy for firms in several emerging markets.
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Dr. Praveen Naik Bellampalli, an Assistant Professor at the Central University of Karnataka, specializes in Rural Studies, Migration, and Development. Holding a PhD from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, his research explores the impacts of out-migration on rural livelihoods. With extensive fieldwork and international conference presentations, he contributes significantly to academia.