Kiyoshi Taniguchi is a senior economist in the Asian Development Bank’s Private Sector Operations Department where he oversees “quality at entry” of non-sovereign projects and conducts economic analysis for project processing and project completion reviews. Outside of ADB he has worked for the World Bank’s Indonesia Country Office and began his career as a development economist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy. He has also taught development economics to post graduate students at International University of Japan. He received a PhD and MA in Economics from Ohio State University and a BS in Economics (Hon.) from the University of Oregon. He also has a Bachelor in Law from Chiba University in Japan.