Current Visiting Researchers

As of 17 June 2008

• Ying Yi Tsai - Taipei,China
• Renato E. Reside, Jr - Philippines
• Ramkishen S. Rajan - India
• Saori N. Katada - Japan

Ying Yi Tsai

Ying Yi Tsai is a visiting researcher at the ADB Institute. He has a full-time position at the Department of Applied Economics, National University of Kaohsiung, Taipei,China. His professional experience includes the Fulbright Program on U.S. Political Economy and the World Economic System (2004), and the 7th Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE) (2007).

Prior to his academic appointment, Tsai had served as an investment supervisor to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on behalf of the Development Fund, Executive Yuan (which is equivalent to the Prime Minister’s Office), and a Director on the Board of the Grand Cathay Securities Company. Tsai’s research interest centers on the issues of cross-border negotiations of intellectual property protection, cross-border coordination of infrastructure development, and the outsourcing activities of integrated circuit within the context of vertical supply chain in the technology sector. Tsai holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Essex University, United Kingdom.

Renato E. Reside, Jr

Renato E. Reside, Jr. is on the faculty of the University of the Philippines School of Economics, where he teaches graduate macroeconomics. As visiting researcher with ADBI, he specializes in the analysis of infrastructure- and agency-related issues, such as the main cross-country determinants of private and public investment in infrastructure, incentives in contracts with public-private participation, infrastructure finance, guarantees and contingent liabilities. He has done extensive work in the above areas, as well as in the areas of public expenditure, investment and investment legislation as consultant or resource person with the Philippines Department of Finance and National Economic Development Authority, investment promotion agencies of the Philippine government, as well as with the Philippine Congress and Senate.

He obtained his bachelors degree from Ateneo de Manila University in 1988, and his doctorate in economics from Fordham University in New York in 1996. His research interests in infrastructure and in the areas of fiscal incentives, human capital accumulation, regional banking and financial markets and regional monetary integration have led him to work recently as a consultant to ADB, the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, USAID and other donor agencies.

Ramkishen S. Rajan

Ramkishen S. Rajan joined the faculty at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University as Associate Professor in January 2006. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the School of Economics, University of Adelaide for five years, where he remains a Visiting Associate Professor. He is also currently an Associate Faculty at the Center for Global Studies, George Mason University, and an Adjunct Fellow at RIS (Delhi-based think tank). He has held one year visiting positions at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and at the Department of Economics, Claremont McKenna College in California and shorter visiting positions at Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research, National University of Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and other institutes in Asia.

Rajan specializes in International Economic Policy with particular reference to the developing Asia-Pacific region. He holds economics degrees from the National University of Singapore (B.Soc. Sci., Hons), Michigan (M.A.) and Claremont (M.A., Ph.D.) Specific topics of interest include international capital flows and trade in Asia, exchange rate regimes and reserve policies in Asia, and Asian economic regionalism (monetary, financial and trade). He has published 100 journal articles and book chapters, nine books (five authored/co-authored and four edited) and 90 policy briefs, op-eds and book reviews on various aspects of international economics. Rajan is currently editing a two-volume Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy with his colleague, Kenneth Reinert. He is on the editorial board of various academic journals. He has been a consultant with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, UN-ESCAP, Development Bank of Singapore and other places.

Saori N. Katada

Saori N. Katada joins ADBI as a visiting scholar. She is Associate Professor at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California. She is the author of a book Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (University of Michigan Press, 2001), which was awarded the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book Award in 2002. She also has co-edited two books Global Governance: Germany and Japan in International System (Ashgate, 2004) and Cross Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia (Springer, 2008). Her current research focuses on the trade, financial and monetary cooperation among East Asian countries. She has her Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science) in 1994, and B.A. from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). Before joining USC, she served as a researcher at the World Bank in Washington DC, and as International Program officer at UNDP in Mexico City.