After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Mr. MIZUTANI Tadayuki started his career at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan in 1997. He has been working mainly in the policy areas of healthcare, nation-wide health insurance system, and health and welfare for the elderly and the persons with disabilities. He also served as the health attaché at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC from 2008 to 2011. He assumed the Director of the Office for Dementia of MHLW in 2014 and was in charge of formulating “Comprehensive Strategy to Accelerate Dementia Measures,” which focused on creating an age- and dementia-friendly society. After that, he was taking care of general coordination type of things, including Secretary to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Counsellor for General Coordination overseeing MHLW’s countermeasures against COVID-19 outbreak, and Secretary to the Chief Cabinet Secretary. In 2021, He came back from the Cabinet Secretariat to MHLW and is now serving as the Director, Division for the Coordination of Health Care and Long-term Care, Health Insurance Bureau. Among many issues he is working on, he has launched the so-called “Online Confirmation System for Health Insurance Qualification” which is the basis for data-based health management, and also has initiated the discussion of healthcare and long-term care provision in communities eyeing the year 2040.