Takaaki Masaki
Takaaki Masaki is a Senior Economist (Data Science) in the Data Division of the Economic Research and Development Impact Department at ADB. His work focuses on leveraging GIS, big data, remote sensing, and machine learning to strengthen development statistics—particularly agricultural and rural statistics—and to advance high-resolution welfare and poverty mapping. Through these approaches, he supports spatial targeting to maximise development impact and evaluates the distributional implications of policy interventions.
Prior to joining ADB, he worked as a Senior Economist at the World Bank, where he led a number of analytical projects using innovative data sources—such as satellite and remote-sensing data—to improve welfare and poverty measurement, enhance agricultural statistics, assess spatial inequalities, and inform evidence-based policy design in data-scarce environments.