Dr K A S Murshid, Director General, BIDS attended the ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum 2016 on 27-28 October , 2016 in New Delhi, India. This year's theme was ‘Promoting Sustainable Urbanization in Asia and the Pacific.” There were three major sessions for this forum: Economic Outlook (session 2); Financing for Sustainable Urbanization (session 3); and dialogue between think tanks and their government clients (session 4). Dr Murshid was a discussant in the session titled Financing for Sustainable Urbanization.