2023 Recap

Mr. Makoto MINEGISHI joined the Bank of Japan in 1994. He currently represents the Bank on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). Since 2014, he participated in international discussion around prudential issues as a member of various groups of the Basel Committee and the Financial Stability Board. Between 2015 and 2017, as the Head of Financial Institutions Division 3, he was engaged in off-site monitoring of financial institutions.

Prior to working in the area of financial stability, he held various senior positions in Research and Statistics Department and Monetary Affairs Department. During 2007-2010, he was an economist at the Economics Department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Mr. Minegishi holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (in 2000) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Hitotsubashi University (in 1994).

Motoko started her career in 2001 at Mizuho bank Paris branch before joining Societe Generale Group in 2006, where she served for 10 years in Paris and Tokyo to develop the Group’s business with Japanese Financial Institutions.

In 2016, she joined HSBC Asset Management as Fund Manager and contributed to the growth of ESG investment in Japan as Senior Market Specialist. Most recently, Motoko was with RepRisk Japan Limited, established by the world’s largest ESG technology firm RepRisk AG in 2022, as General Manager to support the acceleration of green finance in Japan by best-in-class ESG risk data.