
Kaittisak Kumse
Kaittisak has experience in conducting the cost-benefit analysis of Green House Gas reduction in the rice field under different mitigation options and conducting the impact evaluation of agricultural policy and farmer organisations. His research work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Food Policy.

Tetsushi Sonobe
His research interests are centred on the empirics of economic development, particularly the roles of industrial clusters, human capital, social capital, management practices and market competition in industrial development in developing Asia and other regions. Before joining ADBI in April 2020, Dean Sonobe served for six years as vice president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and taught economics for 30 years at Tokyo Metropolitan University and GRIPS. Dean Sonobe is a recipient of the Nikkei Book Publication Prize and the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and a founding board member of the Japanese Association for Development Economics.

Dil Rahut
Prior to joining ADBI, Dil was a global programme manager for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre’s (CIMMYT) socioeconomics and sustainable intensification programmes. He also served as chair of the staffs’ committee at CIMMYT. He previously worked for the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan’s Research and Statistics Department. He also served as a research fellow at the WorldFish Centre; senior fellow and Japan chair at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations; chief of research, planning, and monitoring and Visa/Mastercard director at the Bank of Bhutan Ltd; and assistant professor of development economics at South Asian University.