Books By Shintaro (Asian Development Bank, Philippines) Hamanaka - Author

Shintaro Hamanaka is an Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He also holds the position of Honorary Research Fellow at White Rose East Asia Centre in the United Kingdom (UK). In the Office of Regional Economic Integration of ADB, he is currently responsible for economic and political analysis of regional trade and investment integration in the Asia-Pacific, including FTAs and bilateral investment treaties. He also designs and organizes ADB trade and investment capacity building projects. Before joining ADB, he served as a service negotiator for the Doha Round at the Japanese Mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Prior to this, he was an economist at the Bank of Japan (BOJ), where he was involved in macroeconomic research and policymaking on international financial relations. His research interests include international political economy; global and regional economic governance; political economy of regionalism; regional economic architecture in Asia; and FTAs, particularly region