Young Uck Kang currently leads the Development Asia project at ADB. His areas of expertise are strategic leadership, policy-making process, microeconomics, economic analysis, statistics/econometrics, economic and social development policy, public finance and income distribution, governance, and knowledge management. Before joining ADB in July 2014, he was a professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in the Republic of Korea. He has a PhD and MPhil in Public Administration from New York University, MPP from University of Chicago and MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.