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Rajat M. Nag
Managing Director General
ADB

Mr. Rajat M. Nag is the Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank. He assumed office on 15 December 2006.

As Managing Director General, Mr. Nag supports the President through high-level coordination and synthesis of the work of the Management Committee. He is also responsible, under the President's guidance, for the management of the Office of Regional Economic Integration; Department of External Relations, including the Representative Offices; and the Risk Management Unit.

Before taking his current office, Mr. Nag was Director General of ADB's Southeast Asia Department, as well as concurrently Special Advisor to the President on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration.

Mr. Nag is a Canadian with 30 years of professional experience. He joined ADB in 1986 as Project Economist in the Agriculture Department. After 4 years, he transferred to the Programs Department (West) and was assigned to Nepal Resident Mission from 1991 to 1994. He held various senior positions in ADB's Programs Department (West) and in the Financial Sector and Industry Division, Infrastructure Department (West).

In 2001, Mr. Nag was a member of the management committee that formulated proposals for the reorganization of ADB operations. He was appointed as Deputy Director of the Programs Department (West) in May 2000 and then as Director General of the Mekong Department under the reorganized structure of ADB in 2002.

As Director General of the Southeast Asia Department, Mr. Nag was responsible for designing and implementing the strategic agenda of ADB in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, and the Greater Mekong Subregion.

As Special Advisor to the President, Mr. Nag coordinated the various subregional and regional cooperation activities being undertaken by ADB. He also oversaw the strategic measures and initiatives ADB undertakes in further regional economic cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific.

He started his professional career at Canada's central bank, the Bank of Canada, where he worked for 5 years as an Economist/Financial Analyst. Prior to joining ADB, he worked as an Energy and Water Resources Planning Specialist with an international consulting firm; his last position being Chief Economist of a large multidisciplinary team on a River Basin Planning study in Indonesia.

Mr. Nag has degrees in Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Business Administration (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), and Economics (London School of Economics, United Kingdom).