Noor Ahmed

Elected as Executive Director for Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, and Timor-Leste effective 1 July 2021.

Mr. Noor Ahmed is a career civil servant with 32 years of public service experience in key government positions. Mr. Ahmed holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Development from a prestigious school in the Netherlands. He was extensively trained in the areas of public policy, fiscal management, and public enterprises at renowned academic institutions in the United Kingdom and Japan.

Weihua Liu

Mr. Weihua Liu was elected as Executive Director of Asian Development Bank effective January 2021.

Mr. Liu previously served as the Deputy Director General of the Department of International Economics and Financial Cooperation at the PRC Ministry of Finance and the Executive Director for China at the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Mr. Liu started his career in 1987 at the School of Finance and Accounting in Hunan Province. And then moving on with different positions with the Ministry of Finance.

Tahlim Sudaryanto

Prof. Tahlim Sudaryanto, Ph.D. is Senior Agricultural Economist at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Prior to his current position, he served as Senior Agricultural Economist at the Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economic and Policy Studies (ICASEPS), Ministry of Agriculture. He has also held several senior management positions at the Ministry of Agriculture. He holds a doctorate degree in economics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. His major interest is in agricultural and rural development policy.