Tokyo Sustainable Finance Forum

Director, Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Human Resources Division in Charge of Group Human Resources/Business Relating to Administration, Group Safety and Health, Group ESG
After graduating from Keio University’s Faculty of Economics in 1987, Seo joined Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., now IHI, and mainly engaged in work related to personnel affairs/labor management, human resources development and organizational development. He set up an auto parts-making joint venture as a new business in Moscow in 2006 and stayed in the Russian capital as the JV’s president for six years. Seo became manager of the Planning & Control Department at IHI’s Global Marketing Headquarters in 2013, manager of the Corporate Business Development Division in 2017 and general manager of the Corporate Planning Division in 2018. He assumed his current posts in 2022. Seo has worked to solve social issues utilizing “the largest and only asset”–human resources–as the driving force and promoted appropriate corporate management with consideration for society and the environment while placing ESG at the center of his values.

Olivier joined the Green & Sustainable Hub as senior cross-asset originator in October 2020 and has been appointed Head of Green & Sustainable Hub, Asia Pacific on July 2021.Olivier brings 20 years of expertise in advising & financing clients in the Energy & Metals commodity sectors built in EMEA and Asia Pacific. After few years in corporate banking within Natixis Shanghai branch, Olivier joined our Energy & Natural Resources franchise in 2004 in Paris and Hong Kong where he specialized in commodity structured & trade finance accompanying EMEA clients until 2010 and APAC clients until 2016.More recently, Olivier was acting as senior banker advising and financing large commodity trading houses in the Energy & Metals sectors.　Olivier holds a Master’s degree in Management, majoring in Corporate Finance from Neoma Business School.

Responsible for: Finance Planning & Management Dept., Structured Finance Dept., 1st to 3rd Corporate Finance Dept., Metropolitan Area Corporate Finance Dept., Corporate Finance Dept., Tokai Area Corporate Finance Dept., Osaka Corporate Finance Dept., Kyushu Area Corporate Finance Dept., Real Estate Investment Dept.
May 8, 1963
Born
Apr. 1986
Joined Nippon Life Insurance Company
Mar. 2017
Executive Officer
Jul. 2018
Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Mar. 2021
Senior Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Jul. 2022
Managing Executive Officer (present)

Having joined SDG impact, a flagship initiative of UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub in 2019, Fabienne is the lead developer of the SDG Impact Standards, the first and only independent management standards in the market that places sustainability at the core of operations. She was a working group member of the G7 Impact Taskforce, the co-chair of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing and recently co-chaired the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative’s working group on making better decisions. She previously enjoyed a 30-year executive career, including 22 years with S&P Global Ratings where in her final role she was the Australian Country Head and Head of Developed Markets Asia-Pacific. She is also an experienced non-executive director who holds, and has held, numerous board positions in the housing, education, financial and arts sectors. She was also a part-time Professor of Practice for Finance at Deakin Business School.

Director for Strategy Development, Financial Services Agency / Director for Budget, Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan Mr. Takada has been working as a government official at the Ministry of Finance since 1995. He has had a wide range of experience in policy-making at the heart of the government including public finance, tax, trade policies and financial services. During over 20 years of his career he spent 5 years in the UK: study at Cambridge and LSE (1997-99), and secondment to HM Treasury (the UK finance ministry, 2003-06) where he worked on financial regulation, investment market policies and public spending.
In 2009, Mr. Takada became the first staff of the newly created National Policy Unit and worked in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Cabinet Secretariat as an architect of the new public finance framework and as a private advisor to the Prime Minister. After having held senior positions in the Finance Minister’s Secretariat responsible for overall coordination and public relations of the Ministry, he was seconded to the OECD, Paris, where he worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Green Finance and Investment team, Environment Directorate, from 2015 to 2018.
After his return to Tokyo, Mr. Takada worked at the IR Promotion Office, Cabinet Secretariat (2018-20), the Civil Service Remuneration and Benefits Division, Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance (2020- March 2021), and the newly established Climate Change Office at the Cabinet Secretariat (March – July 2021). From July 2021, he works as the Director for Budget responsible for local government finance at the Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance. From 2022, as a concurrent post, Mr. Takada also works as the Director for Strategy Development at the Financial Services Agency, responsible for financial market policies including promotion of international financial centres and sustainable finance.
Alongside his official jobs, in his private capacity, Mr. Takada launched the Green Finance Network Japan (GFNJ) in 2018 as its Secretary General. The GFNJ is an informal network that brings together key players on green finance in Japan from both public and private sectors and provides a platform for collaborating with international stakeholders.
Mr. Takada received a Bachelor degree in Law (University of Tokyo), a Master degree in Law (Cambridge University) and an MBA (Imperial College London).

Tsukasa Kanai, born in 1961, entered Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., a predecessor of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, in 1983. After working at the London branch and the pension investment division of Sumitomo Trust and Banking, Kanai became leader of the group’s sustainability-related businesses in 2003. He assumed the post of fellow officer in April 2018. His experience includes developing the first ESG (SRI) fund for a corporate pension plan, launching environmental real estate operations, developing positive impact finance and creating a technology-based finance team. He was involved in drafting the Principles for Financial Action towards a Sustainable Society and the Japan Impact-Driven Financing Initiative and served as the first chair of steering committees of the two initiatives.　He was part of a group exchanging opinions on the Environment Ministry’s project to promote ESG finance in local communities and was a member of a group of the Cabinet Office discussing ways to support regional revitalization projects utilizing SDGs as a driving force. He was also on the committee of the Financial Services Agency on impact investment. He is a coauthor of books including “Senryakuteki Nenkin Keiei no Subete -Nenkin Kikin Unei wo Sapoto Suru Shikin Unyo Sabisu” (All about Strategic Pension Management -Asset Management Services Supporting Pension Fund Operations) and “CSR Keiei to SRI -Kigyo no Shakaiteki Sekinin to Sono Hyokajiku” (CSR Management and SRI -Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Evaluation Axis).

Mitsuaki Aoyagi entered the Nippon Foundation in 1991. At the foundation, after serving as an executive secretary, he engaged in the promotion of public interest activities by the private sector, including efforts to provide assistance for the transportation of persons with disabilities and those to strengthen NPO support centers. From immediately after the 2011 major earthquake and tsunami that mainly hit northeastern Japan, as the leader of the foundation’s special support team, he engaged in planning and implementing many reconstruction support projects in collaboration with companies and central and local governments. He then took charge of measures against child poverty, and has been in his current position since 2017. He has been implementing pilot models and research studies for the diffusion of impact investment, including the introduction of Japan’s first social impact bond. He also serves as a director at the Benesse Foundation for Children and a part-time lecturer at a graduate school of Showa Women’s University.

Okada graduated from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology’s Department of Applied Chemistry with a master’s degree. After working for Net Protections and a startup in Southeast Asia, Okada moved to LINE and worked there for launching the LINE Pay business, designing business strategies and engaging in service growth such as product designing. He then established BeatWagon, offering support services for fintech and startups. In October 2020, Okada set up Kaeru, which tackles social issues through Agetech x Fintech, assuming the post of representative director.

Hiroshi Suetsugu started his own business after building his career in the consulting industry for over 10 years by working on projects in various industries with a focus on data science. In parallel, he conducted research on multi-agent reinforcement learning at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology and worked on solution R&D at a satellite constellation startup, before founding sustainacraft. Through transparent forest valuation techniques, Suetsugu is engaged in a mission to create a financial cycle for natural capital. From the University of Tokyo, he earned an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering, a master’s degree in technology management strategy studies and a doctor’s degree in advanced interdisciplinary engineering, and is a graduate of the INSEAD Management Acceleration Programme.

After graduating from Tokyo University, he Joined ENEOS in April 2004 and had experience in Financial and Accounting for upstream area (oil and gas exploration and production). 3 year experience as a manager of finance and accounting in Vietnam as an expat.
He joined Tsubame BHB in November 2021, has a record of promoting equity finance of about 4 billion Japanese Yen.

Ian Simm is the Founder and CEO of Impax, one of the world’s leading investment managers dedicated to investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy. Prior to Impax, Ian was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company advising clients on environmental strategy. Outside Impax, Ian is a member of the UK government’s Net Zero Innovation Board, and is a board member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the European membership body for investor collaboration on addressing climate change. Ian has a first-class honors degree in physics from Cambridge University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University. In the last century he initiated and led an expedition to complete the first summer crossing of the Sahara Desert by tandem bicycle.

After working at NTT DATA Corporation and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Makiko Hashizume joined the Japan Research Institute, limited in 2012. Alongside conducting ESG research and consulting for corporations, she has been engaged in designing and managing financial products for sustainable finance, as well as promoting impact investments in Japan. In recent years, her focus has been on creating an ecosystem where funds flow into responsible companies and businesses, through endeavors such as designing local government systems to generate social impact, promotion of B Corp certification, and capacity development in the sustainability field.
She has co-authored books including “Financial Literacy for Me,” “Introduction to Community Finance x SDGs for Local Officials,” “SDGs Textbook for Business Professionals,” and “ESG Handbook for Investors and Companies”(all in Japanese). In addition, she has conducted lectures and writing activities.

Tetsuya is a senior chief researcher of financial markets and digital business at Nomura Research Institute with rich experiences in policy research with more than 20 years’ experience of working for Bank of Japan.
During his time at BoJ, he served as Head of Financial Markets Facilitation Division,
Head of Foreign Exchange Division, and Associate Director General for International Finance, to mention but a few. In 2022, he joined FinCity.Tokyo as head of policy research. He holds an MA of Economics from Yale University.

Mr. Fumihiro KAJIKAWA has served as the Director for the GX Finance Promotion Office and Office for Opening the GX Promotion since his appointment in July 2023. He entered the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2002, and served as the Director for the Environmental Economy Office from 2019 to July 2023.

Fumiyo Harada serves as Managing Executive Officer of the Development Bank of Japan, Inc. (DBJ). Prior to this appointment she was an Executive Officer of DBJ with particular responsibility for the GRIT Strategy (Green, Resilience & Recovery, Innovation, and Transition/Transformation), a core initiative of the bank’s Fifth Medium-term Management Plan. While Executive Officer she concurrently served as General Manager of the Corporate Planning & Coordination Department and Chief Manager of the Sustainability Management Office.
Ms.Harada has a long and dynamic career in development banking, including cross-border corporate and infrastructure finance in energy, transportation, and PPP/PFI projects worldwide, with a special focus on the renewable energy sector.
She has also been involved in Japanese government policy-making for energy by sitting on several key government committees as a specialist in infrastructure and energy finance. Focusing on areas include power cost, offshore wind power, battery and hydrogen.
She previously led DBJ’s Structured Finance Department and was a Deputy CEO of DBJ Singapore Ltd., a DBJ subsidiary covering corporate and structured finance deals in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Her experience also includes a secondment to the Infrastructure and Natural Resource Department (East Asia) of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank as a Senior Investment Officer.
Ms. Harada holds a BA in Economics from The University of Tokyo.

July 2020　Re-elected to a second term as Governor of Tokyo
July 2016　Elected Governor of Tokyo
October 2011　Director, Committee on Budget, House of Representatives
September 2010　Chairperson, General Council, Liberal Democratic Party
July 2007　Minister of Defense
September 2006　Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs
September 2004　Minister of the Environment and Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
September 2003　Minister of the Environment
July 1993　Member of the House of Representatives
July 1992　Member of the House of Councillors