\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\nMs. Megumi Muto<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nBefore being appointed Vice President in February 2021, Ms. Megumi Muto held leadership roles at Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, Global Environment Department, and the France office. From 2010 to 2015, she was responsible for the Philippines and the Pacific. Ms. Muto has written extensively in the area of impact evaluation. She has also co-led a WB-ADB-JICA book on the impact of climate change on Asian coastal mega cities. <\/span>She received her Master’s in Public Affairs from Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and her Ph.D. from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | <\/span>18:45-20:30 (JST) | In-person in <\/span><\/span>Seminar Room E<\/span>\u00a0& online<\/span> | <\/span>In English<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMr. Takehiko Nakao, Chairman of the Institute at Mizuho Research <\/span>\uff06Technologies Ltd.; former President of Asian Development Bank (ADB)<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nAbout the guest speaker<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\nMr. Takehiko Nakao<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMr. Nakao is currently the Chairman of the Institute at Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd. Concurrently, he teaches as Visiting Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)\u00a0and Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo.\u00a0<\/span>From April 2013 to January 2020, Mr. Nakao served as President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), based in Manila, with a membership of 68 countries, including 46 regional developing countries<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Mr. Nakao was the Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs between 2011 and 2013. He was in charge of foreign exchange markets, G20 and G7 processes, ASEAN+3 financial cooperation, and bilateral financial relations with the US, Asian countries, and European countries.\u00a0<\/span>Mr. Nakao has gained extensive experience in international finance and development since he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1978. He was assigned as Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington DC between 2005 and 2007 and worked as an advisor at IMF’s Policy Development and Review Department between 1994 and 1997.\u00a0<\/span>He has published books and numerous papers on financial and economic issues in Japanese and English. He took the initiative and was a “lead editor”\u00a0 for the ADB’s recent publication of\u00a0 “Asia’s Journey to Prosperity,” a comprehensive account of Asia’s development history over these several decades. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo in 2010 and 2011.\u00a0<\/span>Mr. Nakao holds a BA degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo (1978) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California-Berkeley (1982).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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