Pavit Ramachandran serves as Country Director for the Philippines. He leads ADB operations in the Philippines, with an active portfolio of about $8.7 billion, and manages ADB’s relationship with the government, private sector, and development partners. He oversees the implementation of ADB’s current country partnership strategy (CPS) for the Philippines, which identified up to $4 billion worth of sovereign loans for 2023. He will supervise the preparation of ADB’s CPS covering 2024–2029, which aims to advance and enhance ADB’s efforts to intensify climate action; improve climate smart connectivity through transport, digital technology, and energy; and invest in Filipinos’ welfare.
Prior to his appointment to the Philippine Country Office, Mr. Ramachandran was Country Director for Mongolia where he oversaw the preparation and implementation of ADB’s CPS for Mongolia, 2021–2024, managed the overall country portfolio and program, and led its knowledge management efforts.
He has over 25 years of international development experience, including a combined 19 years in ADB both as staff and consultant. He joined ADB in May 2009 as an Environment Specialist in the Southeast Asia Department after serving as a consultant for 5 years. He was later appointed as Principal Environment Specialist of ADB’s East Asia Department.
He will bring with him extensive operational experience in designing and implementing programs and projects spanning 10 countries in Southeast Asia and East Asia. He has sectoral proficiency in the agriculture, natural resource, and environment areas and experience in leading regional programs in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia– Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area, and Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle. He has previously worked on Philippine projects from 2009 to 2014.
An Indian national, Mr. Ramachandran holds master’s degrees in public management from the University of Maryland in the United States (US) and in development sociology from the Delhi School of Economics in India. His previous experience includes stints with management consulting firms in the US, focusing on energy regulation and policies on climate change abatement strategies.