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 , Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),  and is 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 $1bn in the strategic areas of Infrastructure, Climate Change, Agribusiness, SME, Gender, etc. across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. Also, he was seconded to the Energy Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC., leading several multidonor climate change initiatives such as geothermal development, energy efficiency, distributed energy, etc.

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