School of Entrepreneurship & Business
Enterprise Fellowship Scheme: Members Bio
Motoo Kusakabe
[Senior Enterprise Fellow]
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Motoo Kusakabe just retired from his post as the Senior Counsellor to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the founder of the Global ICT Education Programme (NetGrowth) to promote ICT policy reform in developing world.
He worked for the President of the EBRD in strengthening the developmental impact of the Bank’s projects and co-ordinating the ICT and development issues of the Bank for its client countries in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. He is now implementing pilot projects to create ICT incubators and seed funds in Central Asia, Caucasus and Russia.
Before joining EBRD, he worked for the World Bank as the Vice-President for Resource Mobilisation and Co-financing for six years. Mr. Kusakabe was responsible for mobilising concessionary and grant resources for the Bank’s operations in poor countries and for enhancing donor relationship. He led the Bank’s initiative to promote global partnership programmes as the Chair of the Council of Development Grant Facility and has been instrumental in drumming up support for the ICT and development, community-driven initiatives and promoted partnership with NGOs and foundations. He promoted various activities of the World Bank and its partner institutions relating to ICT, knowledge sharing and development, including the Community Telecenters.
After the retirement from the World Bank in January 2003, he spent half a year at Stanford University, on the Digital Vision Fellowship programme as a visiting scholar assisting fellows from different countries around the world to develop and implement their innovative projects using ICT for development.
Before joining the World Bank, he worked for the Japanese Ministry of Finance on international finance, liberalisation of domestic financial markets and developmental matters, and was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of National Tax Administration in charge of international transfer taxation issues. He has a MA in Mathematics at the University of Tokyo and MPhil in Economics at Yale University.