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Profile: Scott Morris
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Scott Morris

Scott Morris is Vice-President (East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific).

Mr. Morris is responsible for operations in the East Asia Department, the Southeast Asia Department, and the Pacific Department and assumed the position on 1 November 2023.

Mr. Scott Morris joined ADB on 1 November 2023 and has significant prior leadership experience in both government and the private sector. He is currently responsible for overseeing ADB’s operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.

Mr. Morris is an expert on development finance and debt policy with more than 25 years of experience in international economic policymaking and research. Prior to joining ADB, Mr. Morris was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington, DC, where he was Director of the United States (US) Development Policy Program and Co-director of the Sustainable Development Finance Program. Mr. Morris was Co-director of the 2015 High-Level Panel on the Future of Multilateral Development Banking and the principal author of an independent evaluation of the merger in 2014 of ADB’s Asian Development Fund with its ordinary capital resources balance sheet. At CGD, he led work on multilateral and bilateral development finance, including the role of concessional finance in supporting low-income and climate-vulnerable countries.

Mr. Morris previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Development Finance and Debt in the US Treasury. He oversaw the participation of the US in multilateral development banks, including ADB.

Mr. Morris holds a master of public policy studies (international economics) from the University of Michigan, Institute for Public Policy Studies, in Michigan, US. He obtained his bachelor of arts degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, US.