Eisuke Tajima

Eisuke Tajima is the Director for the Central and West Asia Team within the Human and Social Development Sector Cluster (SD3-HSD) at the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

He joined Asian Development Bank in 2008 and has worked on projects and technical assistance in the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, Bangladesh, and Nepal. In particular, from 2011 to 2017, he was a team leader of secondary education projects in Bangladesh, working closely with the Bangladesh Government, other development partners, and NGOs with a sector-wide approach.

Prior to joining ADB he worked at Basic Education Division in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in  Headquarters in France from 2000-2004, and became a Chief of Education Section in UNESCO Hanoi Office in Viet Nam, being responsible for assisting the Ministry of Education and Training in planning in 2004-2008.  He obtained his Masters in Rural Development, in which he specialized in skills training and non-formal education for poverty reduction, from the University of Sussex, the United Kingdom in 2000, and his Bachelor in Business and Commerce from Keio University, Japan in 1994.