【Short bio】
Kensuke Molnar-Tanaka is the Head of the Asia Desk at the OECD Development Centre, leading a team to produce thematic, region-specific analysis on development in Asia.

He initiated and is in charge of various OECD regular products, such as the OECD Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India from 2010 (altogether 16 editions), OECD Revenue Statistics in Asian and Pacific Economies from 2014 (altogether 6 editions), This Quarter in Asia (2010-13). He also constructed the Medium-term Projection Framework to serve the forecasts for the regional development outlook.

He published four books including a book on macro-prudential policy and two on infrastructure development, and is currently preparing a book on disaster risk reduction. He also set up annual policy dialogue in the Asian region, the OECD-AMRO-ADB/ADBI-ERIA Asian Regional Roundtable on Macroeconomic and Structural Policies, from 2012 (currently the 10th roundtable was held).

Previously, he was a Programme Manager on Southeast Asia, at CCNM, OECD and taught at Sciences Po, France and held lectures at various universities in Asia. He wrote various articles in the field of development and disasters, mainly in Asia, particularly, development/public policy, disasters/catastrophes, and development finance.