Masato Kanda
Japanese bureaucrat
Masato Kanda (神田 眞人) is a Japanese bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance. Since 2021, he has served as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs (財務官, zaimukan), the country's top currency diplomat.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Masato Kanda (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Jan 17, 1965.1
About
Due to the yen being traded in the weakest range in the past three decades during his tenure, his remarks on the possibility of currency intervention often make news headlines, in which he is sometimes referred to as the country's 'FX Tsar'.
He was born in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, on January 17th, 1965. He attended Nada High School in Kobe, then went on to study law at the University of Tokyo. At the university, he learnt international politics from Yōichi Masuzoe, later Governor of Tokyo. After graduation, he started working for the Ministry of Finance. From 1989, he studied economics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, from which he graduated with an MPhil. Although most of his career has been spent at the ministry, he has also spent a few years each working for the World Bank and the OECD.
In November 2024, Kanda was elected the 11th President of the Asian Development Bank and assumed office on 24 February 2025.
From Wikipedia’s article on Masato Kanda, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Asian Development BankChair Feb 24, 2025 to now10
Early life and education
Career
Occupation: bureaucrat.6
- Since 2025Chair, Asian Development Bank5
- Date not recordedWorked at Ministry of the Treasury4
Personal life
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- 1WikidataMasato Kanda on Wikidata
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- 11Wikimedia CommonsMasato Kanda photo by 財務省, CC BY 4.0