Author: Masahiro Kawai

Editors Masahiro Kawai is the Asian Development Bank Institute’s dean and CEO. He was previously special advisor to the Asian Development Bank president in charge of regional economic cooperation and integration. Before that he was in academia, first as an associate professor of economics at The Johns Hopkins University and later as a professor of economics at the University of Tokyo. He also served as chief economist for the World Bank’s East Asia and the Pacific region and as deputy vice minister for international affairs of Japan’s Ministry of Finance. His publications focus on economic regionalism. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Tokyo and a Ph D in economics from Stanford University. Giovanni Capannelli is special adviser to the dean at the Asian Development Bank Institute. He was previously principal economist at the Asian Development Bank Institute and in the Asian Development Bank’s office of regional economic integration. His research work focuses on Asian economic development and regional integration. Prior to joining the Asian Development Bank in 2002, he was a faculty member of the Asia–Europe Institute, University of Malaya, and worked for the Tokyo delegation of the Bank of Italy. He is an economics graduate of Bocconi University, Milan, and holds a master’s degree and Ph D in economics from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.