Jiro Tominaga is the Asian Development Bank’s country director for Indonesia. He is responsible for ADB’s country strategy, operations and relationships in Indonesia. He assumed the position in September 2021. Mr Tominaga has almost 30 years of professional experience, including more than six years with the Asian Development Bank.

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Prior to his current position, he was director for the strategy, policy and business processes division of the strategy, policy and partnerships department, where he was responsible for the division’s key deliverables including ADB’s major strategy and policy papers; policy and operations co-ordination; operational business process update; and inter-agency co-ordination with multilateral development banks.

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From 2016 to 2018, he led the team to develop Strategy 2030, ADB’s long-term corporate strategy, in his capacity as principal planning and policy specialist. From 2015 to 2016, he was the principal evaluation specialist in the independent evaluation department, where he led preparation of the 2016 Annual Evaluation Review.

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Prior to joining ADB in 2015, Mr Tominaga worked at the World Bank, where he led a number of major evaluations assessing the development results of the World Bank Group’s country and corporate programmes. He began his professional career as a country officer for the Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund in Japan. He was also assigned as section chief at the Japanese Ministry of Finance between 1997 and 1999.

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Mr Tominaga holds a master’s degree in economics from London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Keio University, Japan.

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