Rehan Kausar is the Director of the Portfolio Management Division in ADB’s Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department (PPFD). He started his ADB career as an infrastructure specialist in the Indonesia Resident Mission in 2007, and then served in different roles in the Southeast Asia Department until 2018. after which he moved to PPFD. Prior to this post, he was a consultant for ADB and the World Bank, and he worked extensively on the Aceh tsunami recovery program. He spent the first 20 years of his professional life in the private sector in Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, Middle East, and Europe. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's degree in economic management and policy from the University of Strathclyde.