Kenji Takamiya is an economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), where he has been working on country economics for developing and transition economies. Prior to joining ADB in 2000, he worked at the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) and a commercial bank in Japan. Kenji holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil., both from the University of Cambridge, an M.A. from Yale University, and an Executive Certificate from the John. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His publications include “Recently Acceded Members of the World Trade Organization: Accession, the Doha Development Agenda, and Dispute Settlement” from Palgrave Macmillan (2019).