Ayumi Konishi is the Country Director of ADB’s Viet Nam Resident Mission. He assumed office on 3 April 2006.

Mr. Konishi is responsible for setting the priorities for ADB’s assistance programs to Viet Nam. He leads in the preparation of ADB’s results-based country strategy and program for Viet Nam in close consultation with government agencies, development partners, and civil society and nongovernment organizations. He also oversees the implementation of ADB’s current loan portfolio in Viet Nam, consisting of 78 projects totaling about $6.031 billion. 

Mr. Konishi also works in harmony with the government agencies and development partners for improved Greater Mekong Subregion cooperation. 

Prior to this, Mr. Konishi worked on assistance to Thailand in 1997 in the wake of the Asian economic crisis and then became ADB’s principal desk officer for Indonesia between 1998 and 1999. In 2000, he was appointed Program Manager of Programs Department (East) and supported ADB operations in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, and the Philippines. From 2002, Mr. Konishi served as Director, Governance in the Finance and Trade Division of the Southeast Asia Department. Mr. Konishi was employed by the UN from 1982 in various capacities before joining ADB in 1988.

Japanese national, Mr. Konishi is a graduate of Oregon State University in the U.S., and Waseda University in Japan, and has a Master’s Degree in Economics from New York University.