Young Uck Kang currently leads the Development Asia project at ADB. His areas of expertise are knowledge management, economic and social development policy, public finance, cost benefit analysis, income distribution, policymaking process, and strategic leadership. 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 Ph.D. and M.Phil in public administration from New York University, MPP from University of Chicago, and MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.