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Masatsugu Asakawa (浅川 雅嗣, Asakawa Masatsugu, born 25 January 1958), a Japanese civil servant, is the president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Asakawa, who took office on 17 January 2020, is the 10th president of ADB. [1]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, [3] which is headquartered in 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila 1550, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field offices around the world [ 4 ] to promote social and economic development in Asia.
Although most of his career has been spent at the ministry, he has also spent a few years each working for the World Bank and the OECD. [5] In November 2024, Kanda was elected the 11th President of the Asian Development Bank and is set to assume office on 24 February 2025. [6]
A former top Japanese currency diplomat, Asakawa became ADB president in January 2020 and oversaw the Manila-based lender's launch of measures to help the regi Asian Development Bank says ...
On July 2, 2021, Wong was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the next director of the Asian Development Bank. [6] The Senate's Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on her nomination on October 26, 2021. On December 15, 2021, the committee voted to report her nomination favorably to the Senate floor.
Groff was appointed as Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in September 2011. [23] Previously, he served as Deputy Director for Development Cooperation at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and as Deputy Vice-President for Operations at the Washington-based Millennium Challenge Corporation. [24]
Viscount Takeshi Watanabe (渡辺 武, Watanabe Takeshi, 1906 – 23 August 2010) [1] was a Japanese bureaucrat and the first President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He was in office from 24 November 1966 to 24 November 1972. [1] Watanabe was born in Tokyo in 1906.
Fatima Yasmin is a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and vice-president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).She served as senior secretary of the Finance Division. [1] She is the first female Secretary of finance division in the history of Bangladesh.