Takehiko Nakao has been unanimously elected President of the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) by its Board of Governors.
Nakao, 57, Japan’s former vice minister of Finance for International
Affairs, will assume office as ADB’s ninth President on April 28. He succeeds
Haruhiko Kuroda, who resigned in March. Nakao will finish the unexpired
term of his predecessor, which ends November 23, 2016.
“The ADB Board of Governors looks forward to working with Takehiko
Nakao and his strong leadership of the institution,” said chair
of the ADB Board of Governors and Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram. “His extensive
experience in international finance and development and broad and deep
knowledge of the Asian region will serve ADB well in pursuing its vision of an
Asia-Pacific region free of poverty.”
In a career spanning more than three decades, Nakao has held senior
positions in the Ministry of Finance of Japan, with extensive experience in
international finance and development.
Nakao also served as visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo in
2010 and 2011, teaching international finance.
Born in 1956, Nakao
holds a BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Business
Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. 
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