Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia / ADB Institute Series on Development Economics (PDF)

book is the "Handbook of Green Finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development" (With Jeffery D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo and Naoyuki Yoshino) (Springer: 2019). Dr. Taghizadeh-Hesary led, managed and has been involved in dozens of research, capacity building and training (CBT) and consulting projects on energy, economic and financial related topics for international organizations, development banks, and governments of various countries.



Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and Director of Financial Research Center (FSA Institute, Government of Japan). He obtained a PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 (where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Economic Adviser)). He taught as assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, He was a visiting scholar at MIT (USA), visiting scholar at the Central Bank of Japan, visiting professor at the University of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France). He received Honorary Doctorates from Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He also conferred Fukuzawa award from Keio University for his contribution to research. He was the Dean/CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in Tokyo (2014-2020).

Mr. Chul Ju Kim is Deputy Dean (CBT and Special Activities) of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). A national of the Republic of Korea, Chul Ju Kim was a secretary to the country's President for economic and financial affairs before joining ADBI. For more than 30 years, he has been a key policy maker, dealing with a wide range of macroeconomic, financial, and social issues. He was deputy minister for planning and coordination, director general of the Economic Policy Bureau, and director general of the Public Policy Bureau, Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He also has extensive experience in international development, specifically at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He holds a BA in economics from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, and an MS in finance from Georgia State University, USA.


Mr. Kunmin Kim is Deputy Director of Public Institutions Reform Division at Ministry of Economy and Finance-Korea and in charge of management policies for SOEs and public institutions. He has studied National Graduate institution for Policy Studies (Master's Degree) and Waseda University (Ph.D. Program). He has working experiences at ADBI as a Task Manager for policy capacity building & training program. His Korean government career encompasses both industrial and corporate policies.