Shohei Tada has over 20 years of experience in the field of providing official development assistance of the Japanese Government for developing countries. He is currently deputy director general of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Department of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), responsible for planning, identifying, approving and administrating all types of JICA’s assistance facility, such as sovereign and non-sovereign finance, technical cooperation, grant, training courses, etc. for 23 developing countries in the region.

Before taking on the role as deputy director general of LAC Department, he was director of Private Sector Investment Finance (PSIF) Division of JICA where he managed annual commitment of $1 billion in the strategic areas of Infrastructure, Climate Change, Agribusiness, SME, Gender, etc. across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. He was also at the Energy Division of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC., leading several multi-donor climate change initiatives, such as geothermal development, energy efficiency, distributed energy, etc.

Mr. Tada holds an MBA from la Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain.