Taka Masaki
Senior Economist at Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Metro Manila, Philippines
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Top SchoolTaka Masaki is a Senior Economist with 11 years of experience applying GIS, big data analytics, and rigorous causal methods to improve poverty estimation and spatial targeting of investments across development contexts. Currently at the Asian Development Bank after roles at the World Bank and AidData, he blends policy-facing analysis with technical skills in geospatial and survey data to assess distributional impacts of interventions. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell and has a track record of developing reproducible algorithms and simulation code from his academic work, including Monte Carlo tools for time-series methods. Based in Metro Manila, Taka brings a rare combination of field-relevant development expertise and quantitative research rigor that informs actionable policy choices.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Master’s Degree, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Georgetown UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Bachelor’s Degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Soka University of AmericaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science and Government at Cornell University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
markdown10
gitpod10
github-pages10
jekyll10
shiny7
r6
visualization3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
takaakimasaki/takaakimasaki.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2025
Takaaki Masaki's website
Contributions:2 PRs, 87 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 1 month
reactnextjstypescript
takaakimasaki/FDPDataAtlas
Oct 2022 - Dec 2024
A tool for visualising geographical data in systematic maps
Contributions:4 PRs, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
systematicgeographical-datageographicaldata-visualizationvisualization
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