MARI KOGISO

Co CEO, SDG Impact Japan

Mari is a sustainable finance expert with extensive background in inclusive business, sustainable finance, and entrepreneurship. Most recently, Mari founded the SDG Impact Japan to promote ESG and impact finance in Japan and Asia and serve as CoCEO. Before the SDG Impact Japan, She was the global head of diversity and human rights of the Fastretailing Group. Before FR, she led the establishment of the Asia Women Impact Fund, USD 100 million Impact Fund at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, with the objective to catalyze capital to improve the lives of women and remove gender barriers in Asia. Mari held various senior positions at the World Bank Group in Washington DC and Tokyo including the representative of the MIGA Tokyo.

She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo and an M.A. in Environment and Finance from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is an outside director of Mitsubishi Corporation and Terumo Corporation and . She also serves on many other government and public sector committees and as an ESG advisor to corporations.