Akiko Terada-Hagiwara is a principal country specialist in charge of economics and strategy of ADB’s operations in the People’s Republic of China. She was also at the Economics Research and Regional Integration Department contributing to ADB’s research agenda. Outside ADB, she held various positions at Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan, Global Insight and the World Bank. Her areas of expertise are in international finance, development economics, macroeconomic policies, knowledge management.
Transition finance, which provides financing to high carbon-emitting industries, should be part of a broad range of innovative financing options to address climate change
