Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the ADBI; Professor Emeritus of Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; and Senior Adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute).  He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (who was Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser).  He served as chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s council on Foreign Exchange and its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section), a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors (Ministry of Finance), and was President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was a visiting professor at Science Po.

Chul Ju Kim is the Deputy Dean (Capacity Building and Training, and Special Activities) at the ADBI and Lead Co-Chair of the T20 Task Force-10 on Aging Population and Its Impact & Immigration. A national of the Republic of Korea (Korea), he was a secretary to the President of Korea for economic and financial affairs before joining the ADBI. For more than 30 years, Mr. Kim had been a key policymaker on a wide range of macroeconomic, financial, and social issues at the Korean government. He served for core positions such as Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination, Director General for Economic Policy Bureau, and Director General for Public Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He also has extensive experience in international development issues, having worked at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.  Mr. Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Seoul National University in Korea, and a master’s degree in finance from Georgia State University in the United States.

Yasuyuki Sawada is the Chief Economist and Director General of ADB’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. He is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends and leads the production and dissemination of ADB’s flagship knowledge products, as well as ADB’s support for various regional cooperation forums such as ASEAN+3 and APEC. Before joining ADB, Mr. Sawada was professor of economics at the University of Tokyo. He did research in a variety of institutions, such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute and the World Bank, where he led a number of large-scale development policy evaluation projects in Asia and other developing countries. His key research areas are macro- and micro-development economics, microeconometrics, economics of disasters, and field surveys and experiments. Mr. Sawada obtained his PhD in economics and master’s degree in international development policy from Stanford University.

Sang-Hyop Lee is a professor of economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a senior fellow at the East-West Center. He is also the chairperson of the Executive Committee of the National Transfer Accounts project (http://www.ntaccounts.org) which involves researchers from more than 70 countries around the world. Mr. Lee’s research focuses on issues related to individual and population aging, such as topics on labor market, pension and retirement, fiscal policy, and social welfare. He has been investigator of numerous projects and has collaborated with many international agencies and governments. He has published numerous articles including 10 books. His recently edited books include Demographic Dividend and Population Aging in Asia and the Pacific (2016); Social Policies in an Age of Austerity (2015); Inequality, Inclusive Growth, and Fiscal Policy in Asia (2015); and Aging, Economic Growth, and Old-Age Security in Asia (2012). Mr. Lee received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Seoul National University, and PhD in economics from Michigan State University.

Cyn-Young Park is Director of the Regional Cooperation and Integration Division in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the ADB. She manages a team of economists to examine policy issues and develop strategies related to regional cooperation and integration (RCI). During her career with ADB, she has been main author and contributor to ADB flagship publications, including the Asian Development Outlook and the Asian Economic Integration Report, as well as the Asia Capital Markets Monitor, Asia Economic Monitor, Asia Bond Monitor, and ADB Country Diagnostic Study Series. She has also participated in various global and regional forums, including the G20 Development Working Group, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ASEAN+3, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and Asia-Europe Meeting. She has written and lectured extensively about the Asian economy and financial markets. Prior to joining ADB, she served as Economist (1999–2002) at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She received her PhD in economics from Columbia University and bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University.

Aiko Kikkawa Takenaka is Economist at ADB’s Economic Research and Cooperation Department. She covers research portfolio of aging and demographic changes, international migration and remittances, and regional research collaboration. Prior to joining ADB, she was with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and managed several technical assistance programs and research projects. Ms. Kikkawa Takenaka obtained her PhD in international development studies (development economics) from the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Japan; and master’s degree in forced migration from University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Jinyoung Kim is a professor of economics at Korea University and a research fellow at IZA. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Seoul National University and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He previously taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for 11 years. His research interests include human capital, labor mobility, technological innovation and intellectual property rights, labor market for scientists and engineers, and economic growth. He is a recipient of the Kuznets Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Population Economics during 2004–2006. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital. His publications have appeared in journals such as Economic Inquiry, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Rand Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Dynamics.

Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the ADBI; Professor Emeritus of Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; and Senior Adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute).  He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (who was Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser).  He served as chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s council on Foreign Exchange and its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section), a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors (Ministry of Finance), and was President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was a visiting professor at Science Po.

Daiji Kawaguchi is a professor of economics at the University of Tokyo. Mr. Kawaguchi graduated from Waseda University (BA, 1994), Hitotsubashi University (MA, 1996), and Michigan State University (PhD, 2002). In addition to his position at the University of Tokyo, Mr. Kawaguchi is a research associate at the Tokyo Center for Economic Research. Before joining the University of Tokyo faculty in 2016, he was an assistant professor of economics at Osaka University (2002–2003) and University of Tsukuba (2003–2005), and associate and full professor at Hitotsubashi University (2005-2016). He has also been a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley (2005–2006).

Mr. Shin is Professor of Economics at Korea University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas for four years and occasionally taught at UCLA, Claremont Graduate University and Claremont McKenna College as a visiting professor. He was elected as "One of the Fifty Future Leaders in Korea” by the Seoul Economic Daily in 2010 and a MaeKyung Economist by the Maeil Business Newspaper in 2011. He also served as a council member for the National Economic Advisory Council from 2010 to 2011. He has published widely on the subjects of business cycles, monetary economics, international finance and labor economics in a number of leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance and Journal of Labor Economics.

Yasuyuki Sawada is the Chief Economist and Director General of ADB’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. He is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends and leads the production and dissemination of ADB’s flagship knowledge products, as well as ADB’s support for various regional cooperation forums such as ASEAN+3 and APEC. Before joining ADB, Mr. Sawada was professor of economics at the University of Tokyo. He did research in a variety of institutions, such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute and the World Bank, where he led a number of large-scale development policy evaluation projects in Asia and other developing countries. His key research areas are macro- and micro-development economics, microeconometrics, economics of disasters, and field surveys and experiments. Mr. Sawada obtained his PhD in economics and master’s degree in international development policy from Stanford University.

Junsen Zhang is currently Wei Lun Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research (both theoretical and empirical) has focused on the economics of family behavior, including crime, fertility, marriage, education, intergenerational transfers, marital transfers, gender bias, and old-age support. He also works on family-related macro issues, such as ageing, social security, and economic growth. He has published over 100 papers in major refereed international journals. Many of them were published in leading economics journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and Economic Journal, or in leading field journals such as Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. He has been co-editor of the Journal of Population Economics since 2001 and Journal of Human Resources since February 2019. He was also the President of the Hong Kong Economic Association from 2007 to 2011.

Mr. Shin is Professor of Economics at Korea University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas for four years and occasionally taught at UCLA, Claremont Graduate University and Claremont McKenna College as a visiting professor. He was elected as "One of the Fifty Future Leaders in Korea” by the Seoul Economic Daily in 2010 and a MaeKyung Economist by the Maeil Business Newspaper in 2011. He also served as a council member for the National Economic Advisory Council from 2010 to 2011. He has published widely on the subjects of business cycles, monetary economics, international finance and labor economics in a number of leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance and Journal of Labor Economics.

Yasuyuki Sawada is the Chief Economist and Director General of ADB’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. He is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends and leads the production and dissemination of ADB’s flagship knowledge products, as well as ADB’s support for various regional cooperation forums such as ASEAN+3 and APEC. Before joining ADB, Mr. Sawada was professor of economics at the University of Tokyo. He did research in a variety of institutions, such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute and the World Bank, where he led a number of large-scale development policy evaluation projects in Asia and other developing countries. His key research areas are macro- and micro-development economics, microeconometrics, economics of disasters, and field surveys and experiments. Mr. Sawada obtained his PhD in economics and master’s degree in international development policy from Stanford University.

Cyn-Young Park is Director of the Regional Cooperation and Integration Division in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the ADB. She manages a team of economists to examine policy issues and develop strategies related to regional cooperation and integration (RCI). During her career with ADB, she has been main author and contributor to ADB flagship publications, including the Asian Development Outlook and the Asian Economic Integration Report, as well as the Asia Capital Markets Monitor, Asia Economic Monitor, Asia Bond Monitor, and ADB Country Diagnostic Study Series. She has also participated in various global and regional forums, including the G20 Development Working Group, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ASEAN+3, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and Asia-Europe Meeting. She has written and lectured extensively about the Asian economy and financial markets. Prior to joining ADB, she served as Economist (1999–2002) at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She received her PhD in economics from Columbia University and bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University.

Jun Kazeki is the Deputy Director-General of the Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of the Japanese Government. Mr. Kazeki has 29 years of experience in the fields of trade and economic policies. He joined METI in 1990. Most recently, he was the director for Manufacturing Industries Bureau, where he was in charge of manufacturing industries, including automobile, aircraft, aerospace, machine tools, steel, and chemical. He was also engaged in foreign workers’ new qualification system as Japanese manufacturing industries were facing a severe labor shortage. Currently, he is involved in the “Growth Strategy/Future Investment Strategy” in order to achieve the innovation-driven Society 5.0 and to move forward on social security reform for 100-year life society. In the past, he took important posts, including director for Natural Resources and Fuel Department, Security Export Control Policy Division and Multilateral Trade System Department. He also took several international posts including Senior Trade Policy Analyst for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretariat in Paris, Counsellor for Permanent Mission of Japan to international organizations (e.g. World Trade Organization or WTO) in Geneva. He was the chairman for the Subsidy Committee in the WTO (2008–2009). He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo in 1990. He earned a master’s degree from Columbia University Law School (LL.M. 1995) and was admitted to the New York State Bar. He earned another degree at the School of Law of New York University (LL.M. Trade Regulation 1996), focusing on anti-trust and economics.

Cyn-Young Park is Director of the Regional Cooperation and Integration Division in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the ADB. She manages a team of economists to examine policy issues and develop strategies related to regional cooperation and integration (RCI). During her career with ADB, she has been main author and contributor to ADB flagship publications, including the Asian Development Outlook and the Asian Economic Integration Report, as well as the Asia Capital Markets Monitor, Asia Economic Monitor, Asia Bond Monitor, and ADB Country Diagnostic Study Series. She has also participated in various global and regional forums, including the G20 Development Working Group, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ASEAN+3, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and Asia-Europe Meeting. She has written and lectured extensively about the Asian economy and financial markets. Prior to joining ADB, she served as Economist (1999–2002) at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She received her PhD in economics from Columbia University and bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University.

Radhicka Kapoor is a senior fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to joining ICRIER, she worked at the Planning Commission and at the International Labour Organization in Geneva. Her broad areas of research interests include poverty and inequality, labor economics, and industrial performance. She holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics, a master’s degree from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s degree from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi.

Mahatmi Parwitasari Saronto is currently the director of Labour and Employment Creation at the  Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) of the Republic of Indonesia. Her tasks are, among others, (1) formulating development planning of and (2) coordinating, monitoring, evaluating and controlling the implementation of skill development and labor reform policies in IndonesiaDuring her long career in Bappenas which started in 1998, she was in charge of development planning in various sectors such as industry, trade, tourism, labor, population, and social protection. During 2016-2017, she was the director of Population Planning and Social Protection. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology and master’s degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States.

Waseem Noor is Adjunct Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He has extensive experience advising international leaders on strategic planning, growth strategy, and talent engagements. He is based in New York. Mr. Noor spent over 20 years in the private sector as a strategy and leadership consultant. Most recently, he was a member of Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) global Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, and Nonprofit Practices, where he specialized in the assessment and recruitment of senior executive leaders and board members for his clients. Prior to joining RRA, he was Vice President and Global Lead for Strategy and Portfolio Analysis group at IMS Consulting Group (now IQVIA). While there, he advised large pharmaceutical, biotech, and global health executives on strategic planning, growth strategy, and business acquisition engagements. Earlier, he consulted for the Harvard Institute for International Development, the International Labour Organisation, and the World Bank. Mr. Noor holds a bachelor’s degree in quantitative economics from Stanford University and a master’s degree and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. He served for 6 years on the National Advisory Board of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, and is currently on the board of directors for Only Make Believe, a nonprofit organization. He speaks French and Bengali and is on LinkedIn.

Hideaki Nishizawa is Coordinator, Office of G20 Ministerial Meetings in Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). He has been working for the Japanese Government, mainly in MHLW since 2001. He served as Health Attaché at the Japanese Mission in Geneva from 2015 to 2018. He earned Master of Public Policy from the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan in 2010.

Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the ADBI; Professor Emeritus of Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; and Senior Adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute).  He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (who was Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser).  He served as chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s council on Foreign Exchange and its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section), a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors (Ministry of Finance), and was President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was a visiting professor at Science Po.