Sameer Khare was appointed as Executive Director of Asian Development Bank in September 2020. He is 1989 batch IAS officer. He will serve for this post for a period of three years. Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established on December 19,1966 and it provides assistance to its developing member countries, private sector through grants, loans, technical assistance.Masatsugu Asakawa (Japan) is the current President of the ADB.