Dean and CEO, ADBI Profile / Bio Profile / Bio Tetsushi Sonobe is the Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the Tokyo-based think tank of the Asian Development Bank that promotes the realization of a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific through policy research and capacity building. Born in 1960 in Tokyo, Dean Sonobe obtained his PhD in economics from Yale University and BA in economics from the University of Tokyo. His research interests are centered on the empirics of economic development, particularly the roles of industrial clusters, human capital, social capital, management practices, and market competition in industrial development in developing Asia and other regions. Before joining ADBI in April 2020, Dean Sonobe served for six years as a vice president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and taught economics for thirty years at Tokyo Metropolitan University and GRIPS. Dean Sonobe is a recipient of the Nikkei Book Publication Prize and the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and a founding board member of the Japanese Association for Development Economics. Materials Title Date Learning Materials Topics [Video] Opening Remarks and Session on Plenary on Health and Socioeconomic Well-Being of Older Persons 30 September, 2021 Multimedia Economics [VIDEO] Opening Remarks, Congratulatory Remarks, and Keynote Speech 17 November, 2020 Multimedia Education, Evaluation, Health, Poverty