Yasutoshi Nishimura

Former Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization, Former Minister in charge of Novel Coronavirus Disease Control

A member of the House of Representatives, Yasutoshi Nishimura served as Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization, Minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Minister in charge of Novel Coronavirus Disease Control, Minister in charge of Social Security Reform, and Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy. He has held other positions in government such as parliamentary vice minister for foreign affairs and deputy chief cabinet secretary.

A graduate of the University of Tokyo, Nishimura also holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Maryland.

Fiona Reynolds

CEO, PRI

Fiona Reynolds is the CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The PRI is a UN supported organisation, with more than 4000 signatories who collectively represent over US $121 trillion in Assets Under Management. She is responsible for the PRI’s global operations.

Appointed at the beginning of 2013, Fiona has 25 years' experience in the financial services and pension sector. She joined the PRI from Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), where she spent seven years as the CEO.

Fiona also serves on the Board of the UN Global Compact, she Chaired the Financial Services Commission into Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (The Liechtenstein initiative) and is now a member of the Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) Global Steering Committee. Fiona is also a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the Global Advisory Council on Stranded Assets at Oxford University, the Advisory Board for the Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road and the Steering Committee for Climate Action 100+ which is the largest ever investor engagement with listed companies. She is also on the Investment committee for Laudes foundation and the Advisory Board for BASF and the Advisory Council of Bloomberg Green.

Fiona was named by Barron’s magazine as one of the 20 most influential people in sustainability globally and has twice been named by the Australian Financial Review (AFR) as of one of Australia’s one hundred women of influence for her work in financial services and responsible investment.

Yasuyuki Konuma

Director, Executive Vice President, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

Mr. Konuma joined Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in 1984. He has served in the listing, equities, and international business development departments. His experience includes being seconded to the Bank of Tokyo (currently, MUFG Bank, Ltd.). He is charge of developing and improving the listing rules for ETF and other asset backed products and bringing them to the TSE market. He also leads activities to encourage domestic and overseas companies to list in Japan and increase their corporate value in the market. He graduated from Keio University and received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Chie Toriumi

Senior Managing Director of Nomura Holdings, Head of Content Company
Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities

Chie Toriumi is Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities, and Senior Managing Director of Nomura Holdings, Head of Content Company. Prior to her current roles, Ms. Toriumi was in charge of Retail Business Strategy at Nomura Securities. From April 2014 to March 2018, she was President and CEO of Nomura Trust and Banking. She also served as Senior Managing Director of Nomura Holdings in charge of Group Strategy and Asia Strategy from 2012 and Executive Assistant to the CEO of Nomura Holdings from 2005. Since joining Nomura in 1989, Ms. Toriumi has held several positions in various groups within the firm, including the New Products Development Group in Equities and the Corporate Finance Group. Born in Kanagawa, Ms. Toriumi holds a B.A. in Law from Waseda University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Gillian Tett

Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large, US
Financial Times

Gillian Tett is Chair, Editorial Board, and Editor-at-large, US at the Financial Times. She previously served as US Managing Editor, leading the Financial Times’ editorial operations in the region across all platforms. She writes weekly columns for the FT, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues throughout the globe. Ms. Tett served as Assistant Editor, US Managing Editor from 2010 to 2012, and prior to this Assistant Editor responsible for the FT’s markets coverage. Other roles at the FT have included Capital Markets Editor, Deputy Editor of the Lex column, Tokyo Bureau Chief, Tokyo Correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and also received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. She is the author of The Silo Effect: Why Putting Everything In Its Place Isn’t Such A Bright Idea (Simon & Schuster, 2015), New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, US, 2009), and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from Its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). Before joining the FT in 1993, Ms. Tett was awarded a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, where she also earned her Bachelor’s degree.

Hiromi Yamaji

President & CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.
Director & Representative Executive Officer,
Group COO, Japan Exchange Group, Inc.

YAMAJI Hiromi is the President and CEO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. and Director and Representative Executive Officer as well as Group COO of the Japan Exchange Group, Inc. Since joining the group in June 2013 as CEO of the Osaka Exchange. Inc., he has led the developing of the strong derivatives arm of Japan Exchange Group. He now keeps leading this active role into the Japanese Equity Market after his appointment as CEO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in April 2021. Before joining the group, Mr YAMAJI had 36 years experience specialising in the investment banking area and served as Executive Vice President, and Head of Global Investment Banking at Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. During his professional career, he worked in Europe and the US for 18 years and served as President and CEO of Nomura Europe Holdings plc in London, and Chairman of Nomura Holding America Inc. in New York. He graduated from the Law Faculty at Kyoto University, and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hideki Ito

Vice Commissioner for Policymaking
Financial Services Agency, the Government of Japan

Hideki Ito is Vice Commissioner in charge of overall policy making for the JFSA.

Mr. Ito joined the Ministry of Finance in 1988, where he mainly engaged in formulating the national budget. Since 2007 he has worked mainly for the JFSA, where he has been engaged in a wide range of responsibilities such as market regulation, supervision and monitoring of financial institutions, Executive Secretary to the Minister for Financial Services. He was appointed to his present post in 2020.

Mr. Ito received a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo and obtained an MBA at Georgetown University in the US.

Hiroshi Nakaso

Chairman of the Institute, Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.
Chairman, FinCity.Tokyo

Hiroshi Nakaso was appointed chairman of the Daiwa Institute of Research (DIR) in July 2018 after completing his term as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan. He served as the Deputy Governor of the BOJ since March 2013. In his 39 years at the Bank, his main responsibilities have been crisis management of financial systems and markets focusing on global systems.

Mr. Nakaso joined the Bank of Japan in 1978. He dealt with the homegrown financial crisis of the 1990s. He headed the exit operation from the Quantitative Easing Policy, a prototypical unconventional policy that lasted from 2001 to 2006. In addition, he played an instrumental role in addressing the Global Financial Crisis together with his peers at major central banks including the FRB.

He has participated in numerous international meetings, and during his terms as Director-General of the Financial Markets Department and Assistant Governor, he chaired the BIS Markets Committee and Working Group on Financial Reference Rates, the G20 Study Group on Commodities and several other international forums.

Nakaso was appointed chairman of a new organization to promote Tokyo as a global financial center. The new organization is known by its abbreviated name, “FinCity.Tokyo”.

Michael Syn

Senior Managing Director and Head of Equities, Singapore Exchange

Michael Syn is Senior Managing Director and Head of Equities at Singapore Exchange. Syn has management responsibility for SGX equity businesses, serving as CEO of the stock market (SGX-ST), depository (CDP) and futures market (SGX-DT/DC).

Prior to this role, Syn led the Exchange’s successful derivatives business in equity, commodity and currency assets. He joined SGX in 2011 with a background in investment banking and investment management.

Syn serves on the council of Economic Society of Singapore and the board of Sentosa Development Corporation. He chairs One Faber Group, one of Singapore’s leading operators of a suite of leisure and lifestyle services, anchored around the Singapore Cable Car Sky Network of six stations. He graduated with MA and PhD degrees from Cambridge University and attended the Harvard Advanced Management Program.

Toshiyasu Iiyama

Executive Managing Director, Nomura Holdings
Representative Director, Deputy President, Nomura Securities

Toshiyasu IIYAMA was appointed Executive Managing Director, Nomura Holdings Inc., in April 2021. He is responsible for Public Policy and Regulatory Engagement, which covers communications with regulators and various external entities as well as other related activities. He is also in charge of the Group's China business as Head of the China Committee. In June 2019, Mr. liyama also took on the role of President & CEO of Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research.

Prior to his current roles, Mr. liyama was Head/Chairman of Asia ex-Japan from April 2015 to March 2019.

During his career spanning over 30 years with Nomura, he has spent most of the time in the firm's capital markets businesses as Head of Asia Investment Banking, Head of Fixed Income for Asia Pacific, and Head of Syndicate before becoming a Senior Managing Director in charge of Investment Banking Division in 2012.

Mr. liyama holds an MBA degree from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the U.S.A., and a B.A. in Commerce from Waseda University in Tokyo. He is also a CFA® charterholder.

Akira Amari

Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party

Akira Amari was born on August 27, 1949, in Kanagawa, Japan, located just south of Tokyo. After graduating from Keio University with a major degree in political science, he joined Sony Corporation in 1972.
Two years later, he started working for his father Tadashi Amari, who served as the Member of the House of Representatives.

In 1983, Amari began his own political career. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time, and is currently serving his twelfth consecutive term.

Amari has held numerous positions in multiple administrations and in the Liberal Democratic Party including:

-Minister of Labor (1998-Obuchi administration)
-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (2006- Abe administration, Fukuda administration)
-Minister of State for Regulatory Reform, Administrative Reform, and Civil Service Reform (2008- Aso administration)
-Chairman, Policy Research Council, LDP (2012-)
-Chairman, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, LDP(2017-)
-Chairman, Election Strategy Committee, LDP(2018-)
-Chairperson,Research Commission on the Tax System,LDP(2019-)
-Head, Strategic Headquarters on the Creation of a New International Order, LDP(2020-)
-Head, Headquarters for the Promotion of a Digital Society, LDP(2020-)

In December 2012, Amari was appointed as the Minister for Economic Revitalization, and the Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Amari’s responsibilities covered policy-making and implementing Abenomics, negotiating and reaching agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal, and initiating corporate tax reform. He has been chosen as one of the "50 Most Influential" people in global finance in the 2013 edition of Bloomberg market magazine.

In September 2021, Amari was appointed Secretary-General of LDP.

Chieko Matsuda

Masatoshi Koide

President and Representative Director,
Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd.

*American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Japan Branch)

Yasuhiko Ushikubo

Senior Executive Officer, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

Ryushiro Kodaira

Editorial Writer / Senior staff writer, Nikkei Inc.

Ryushiro KODAIRA is an editorial writer / senior staff writer for the Nikkei Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) . Prior to it, he worked for Editorial Headquarters for Asia (Bangkok), covering the global economies, industries, and financial & capital markets from the pan-Asian perspectives. He had been the Editorial Writer for the Capital Markets, for eight and half years since Sep.2009 He graduated from Waseda University, BA, Literature in 1988. Then he joined NIKKEI Inc., and covered investment banks, capital market and corporate finance as Staff Writer of the Capital Market News Dept.. He was based in London as Staff Writer of the Editorial Headquarters for Europe, Middle East & Africa Editorial Bureau in charge of financial news in Europe from 2000 to 2004. After coming back to Tokyo, he headed NIKKEI reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange Press Club, then he was assigned as Senior Staff Writer of the Financial News Dept..

He has written the books, “Global Corporate Governance “,”Asian Capitalism” and “Understanding of ESG “.

Akio Fujii

Chair of Editorial Board, Nikkei Inc.

Since he joined in 1985, he has held various positions with Nikkei, including being the Bank of Japan and Ministry of Finance correspondent, New York Bureau Correspondent, Chief Correspondent for economic affairs at Washington Bureau from 1998 to 2002, London based Senior Writer from 2009 to 2011 and Washington Bureau Chief from 2012 to 2014.

He has also served as Senior Editor for International News Department, Editor-in-Chief for Nikkei Asian Review from 2015 to 2016, Senior Managing Editor, Head of Global News Operations from 2016 to 2017, Senior Editorial Writer from 2017 to 2020.

He covered issues related to global governance, economic policy and international finance.

Fujii obtained his BA in Economics from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Main publication:
G20-The Great Game in 21stCentury (2011, Nikkei)
Yellen’s Federal Reserve(2013　Nikkei)
Introduction for Japan’s Economy(2018 Nikkei) Ambition of Libra(2019 Nikkei)
New Introduction for Japan’s Economy（2021 Nikkei)

Haruhiro Ikezaki

Managing Director / Executive Officer, Co-Head of Capital Markets Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.(MUMSS)

Haruhiro Ikezaki has an extensive career in the capital markets with over 20 years of experience through a numerous transactions including both domestic and international deals.
With respect to ESG bonds, he has spearheaded to support the penetration of the ESG bond market in Japan, and also strongly committed for further expansion of the market.

Shigeru Kobayashi

Rating and Investment Information, Inc.
Executive Managing Director
Head of ESG Division
Chief Analyst
C.M.A.

Born in 1966

Lionel Barber

Former editor, Financial Times

Lionel Barber is a writer and broadcaster. Between 2005 and 2020, he served as editor of the Financial Times. During his tenure, the FT transformed itself from a print-led newspaper into a global, multichannel news organisation, winning multiple awards for its journalism. These include UK Newspaper of the Year three times, as well as Overseas Press Club, Gerald Loeb and Society of Publishers in Asia awards.

Lionel has co-written several books and lectured widely on foreign affairs, international economic policy and business matters. He appears regularly on TV and radio. As FT editor, he interviewed many of the world's leaders in business and politics, including: US President Barack Obama, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran.

Lionel has received several distinguished awards for his contribution to journalism and to the transatlantic community. In February 2009 he was awarded the St George’s Medal, 2018 he received the Media Society’s annual award for his outstanding contribution to journalism and in 2020 he received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award.

He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Corporation in New York, Chairman of the Wincott Foundation, a member of the Chubb International Advisory Board, Trustee of the Nico Colchester Fellowship and was Chair of Tate Galleries from 2018 to 2021 having been a Trustee since 2011.

Lionel’s book The Powerful and the Damned was published in the UK in November 2020.

Koike Yuriko

Governor of Tokyo

Tomokazu Sekiguchi

Head, Sustainability Reporting and Assurance / Department of Professional Practice (Disclosure), KPMG AZSA LLC

Tomo Sekiguchi is the head of sustainability reporting and assurance as well as the head of Department of Professional Practices (DPP)-disclosure at KPMG AZSA LLC, where he leads the firm’s practices of sustainability reporting and assurance services. He is also involved in various ESG-related activities of the KPMG’s global network. Concurrently, he assists companies in the financial services industry including those relate to fintech area.

He has strong expertise in standard-setting and regulatory activities via the following experiences:

- Involved in accounting/auditing/disclosure related policy-making activities of the International Organization of the Securities Commissions (IOSCO), when he worked for the Financial Services Agency of Japan;

- Served as the full-time board member for the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ), where he leads its international activities; and

- Serviced as the part-time board member for the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB), where he is involved in standard-setting of international auditing and assurance standards.

He is the CPA admitted in Japan and the US. He received MBA from Hitotsubashi University - ICS.

Kurt Campbell

Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs
National Security Council

Kurt Campbell serves as Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council. He was previously Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic advisory and capital management group. From 2009 to 2013, Campbell served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is widely credited as being a key architect of the “pivot to Asia.” For advancing a comprehensive U.S. strategy that took him to every corner of the Asia-Pacific region, Secretary Hillary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2013) — the nation’s highest diplomatic honor. He was formerly the CEO and co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security and concurrently served as the director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly. He is the author or editor of ten books including Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset of Power and Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security. He received his B.A. from the UC San Diego and his doctorate in international relations from Brasenose College at Oxford University.

Kazuhiro Nishimura

Operating Officer, Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corporation
（Corporate Communication Department,Group Planning Strategy Department,Group Finance Department） Operating Officer, TOKYU LAND CORPORATION
（Corporate Communication Department,Planning Strategy Department,Finance Department）

Ayako Nomizu

Manager, Climate Action 100+, PRI

Ayako is a Manager for Climate Action 100+ at PRI, and facilitates collaborative engagements across Asia for Climate Action 100+, a global investor initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change. Ayako joined PRI in 2019, after working as a senior analyst at an international credit rating agency and serving as a director of an educational non-profit organization. Ayako is a graduate of Carleton College, and holds a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.