Mr. Jose Antonio Tan III is currently Director at ADB’s Southeast Asia Department where he handles operations in Public Management, Financial Sector and Trade. He had also held several positions in ADB - as Advisor at the Independent Evaluation Department, Senior Advisor to the Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development and Senior Economist at the Central and West Asia Department. Prior to ADB, he had worked with the Government of the Philippines as Deputy Treasurer of the Philippines and officer at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Obtaining his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines, he has done post-doctoral research as a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, New York and Boston. He was also a Humphrey Fellow at Boston University in 1998-1999 where he focused on economic development and finance. His areas of interest are in monetary and fiscal policies and reform, public finance, financial economics and econometric modeling.