Keiju Mitsuhashi

Keiju Mitsuhashi is Country Director for Türkiye at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He is the first ADB Country Director for Türkiye, aspiring to scale up financing for Türkiye to over $3 billion annually, covering both the public and private sectors.

Previously as the regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Keiju has developed over $10 billion of project pipeline in the region. He was instrumental for ADB’s leading role and engagement in regional power interconnectivity, including the ASEAN Power Grid and the Pan-Asia Power Grid Initiative, among others.

Keiju has over 25 years of professional work experience. He joined ADB in 2009. He first worked as energy specialist in Central and West Asia, including a field assignment in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Keiju moved to the Strategy, Policy, and Partnership Department, to lead work on corporate-level operations planning, innovation, and the establishment of a trust fund for high-level technology. He undertook a deputy country director position at ADB Viet Nam Resident Mission in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, before assuming the current position.

Keiju is a national of Japan and has a PhD from the University of Sussex, the United Kingdom.