Tetsushi Sonobe is dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). He also serves as lead chair of Think7 (T7) Japan, the official think tank engagement group of the Group of 7 (G7), under Japan’s 2023 G7 presidency. He obtained a PhD and BA in economics from Yale University and the University of Tokyo respectively. He is a recipient of the Nikkei Book Publication Prize and Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and founding board member of the Japanese Association for Development Economics.