Director, Human and Social Development, Sector Group (SG)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Wendy Walker is the director of the Social Development Practice Team in the Human and Social Development Sector Group at ADB. She provides technical leadership in social development and social protection, facilitates collaboration across sector and technical groups in ADB and with external partners. Wendy has been co-leading ADB’s first strategic operational priority on Addressing Remaining Poverty and key initiatives in areas such as demographic transition, migration and disability. She has over 25 years of experience in countries in Asia and Africa on developing and evaluating social protection and social development policies and programs. Wendy has an M.Phil from Oxford University and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University
