Takehiko nakao biography template

中尾 武彦

private sector banker

Takehiko Nakao is a Japanese civil servant who was elected the ninth president of the Asian Development Bank in 2013.

Education

Nakao holds a degree in economics from the University of Tokyo where he later taught international finance during 2010-2011.

He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, he authored the book America’s Economic Policy: Can it Sustain its Strength?.

Career

Nakao was a career civil servant with the Finance Ministry of Japan which he joined in 1978.

During his career, Nakao served variously as Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington District of Columbia and as an economic advisor at the International Monetary Fund in the mid-1990s. As Japan"s top currency official, Nakao oversaw the Japanese government"s largest ever currency market intervention following the sharp appreciati