1 Biography of moderators and speakers 3 rd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum (GIFF) Thursday, 13 - Friday, 14 October 2016 In association with the ADB Institute Location: ADBI: Kasumigaseki Building 8F, 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda- ku, Tokyo 100-6008, Japan GIFF Website | #OECDGIFF | Flickr This booklet assembles short biographies of moderators, speakers, commentators and lead organisers participating in the 3 rd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum in Tokyo on the 13 th and 14 th of October. Only biographies received by 5 October are included in this booklet.
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Biography of moderators and speakers
3rd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum (GIFF) Thursday, 13 - Friday, 14 October 2016
In association with the ADB Institute
Location: ADBI: Kasumigaseki Building 8F, 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6008, Japan
GIFF Website | #OECDGIFF | Flickr
This booklet assembles short biographies of moderators, speakers, commentators and lead organisers
participating in the 3rd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum in Tokyo on the 13th and 14th of October.
Only biographies received by 5 October are included in this booklet.
Kenneth Alston Special Advisor to the United States Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy, United States Session 12 Chair
Kenneth Alston is Special Advisor to the United States Secretary of Energy. Since joining the U.S. Government in 2012, he has worked at the White House and U.S. Department of Energy on financing clean energy technologies and projects. Kenneth is co-founder of the Clean Energy Investment Center, chairs the Department's Energy Finance Working Group, led the Department's efforts to raise $4 billion for the White House Clean Energy Investment Initiative, and is an advisor on regional energy issues in Asia and Africa. Prior to this, Kenneth worked in venture capital/private equity investing at Penta Group and Investor's Circle, in startups Simbol Materials and Editas, and as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MS in Environment and Resources from the Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences.
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Masatsugu Asakawa
Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Japan
Keynote Speaker
Masatsugu Asakawa is Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs and responsible for all international policies of the Japanese Ministry of Finance (MOF).
Since he joined the ministry in 1981, he has held many senior positions, including Director-General of the International Bureau, Deputy Vice Minister for Policy Planning and Co-ordination. He also served as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister (2008-09), and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister (2012-13). He was also Head for Technical Assistance Management Unit, Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF, and Executive Assistant to the President of Asian Development Bank.
Besides, he held several positions at the Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), OECD, including Co-Chair for Board for Co-operation with Non-OECD Economies, and Co-Chair for Forum on Harmful Tax Practices, and Member of the Advisory Board, and Chair for CFA since June 2011.
He obtained his BA from University of Tokyo (Economics Faculty) in 1981, and MPA from Princeton University in 1985.
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Preety M. Bhandari
Director, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division, Sustainable Development and
Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank
Session 11 Speaker
Preety M. Bhandari is currently the Director for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
Division of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC) at ADB, and also
serving as Technical Advisor for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management thematic group. She
is responsible for providing policy and strategic direction to ADB’s climate change program and
also leads the work on climate finance, with a particular focus on accessing finance from the Climate
Investment Funds (CIFs) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Coordination of ADB’s activities in
disaster risk management is also part of her portfolio.
Prior to joining ADB, she was heading the Finance, Technology and Capacity Building Program of the
secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She led the support to the
international negotiations on climate finance, which culminated in the launch of GCF and the
Standing Committee on Finance. She coordinated the establishment of the Technology Mechanism
under the Convention, which includes the Climate Technology Centre and Network.
She has also worked as the Director of the Policy Analysis Division at TERI (The Energy and Resources
Institute) in India.
She has over 28 years of experience in environment, climate change and sustainable development,
having worked on projects across Asia, and in multicultural and diverse organizations. She is on the
editorial board of Climate Policy and has in the past served as a member of the core group on
climate change, established by the Government of India to assess India’s strategy for the UN climate
change negotiations.
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Timothy Bishop
Senior Advisor, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
Session 10 Commentator
Mr. Timothy Bishop is Senior Advisor within the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD Secretariat. He has been with the OECD since 2006 and is currently responsible for leading selected Directorate-wide projects, including the launch of the new OECD Centre on Green Finance and Investment. He previously led, for several years, the Financial Affairs Division which supports the activities and outputs of the Committee on Financial Markets, the Insurance and Private Pensions Committee, and their sub-bodies, including the Working Party on Private Pensions and the G20/OECD Task Force on institutional investors and long-term investment financing. Mr. Bishop has been responsible for such outputs as the OECD Policy Framework for Effective and Efficient Financial Regulation (2009), Report on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Insurance Sector and Policy Responses (2010), the revised OECD Guidelines on Insurer Governance (May 2011), and the G20/OECD Methodological Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing (2012).
Prior to the OECD, Mr. Bishop worked in the Financial Sector Policy Branch at the Department of Finance in Ottawa, Canada. For close to a decade, he worked on a wide range of financial sector policy issues, including domestic and international financial stability and regulatory policy, deposit insurance, payment clearing and settlement systems, and corporate governance and market integrity. Prior to this experience, he worked on a broad range of economic policy issues within the Government of Canada. Mr. Bishop has an M. Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford and BA from McGill University.
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Adrian Blundell-Wignall
Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Financial Markets and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
Session 5 Speaker / Session 7 Chair
Dr. Adrian Blundell-Wignall is the Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Financial
Markets and Enterprsie Affairs. The OECD supports governments to improve the domestic and global
policies that affect business and markets. Key areas of work include anti-bribery, competition,
corporate affairs, international investment, financial markets, insurance and private pensions.
He is founder and chairman of a charitable foundation (The Anika Foundation) that raises and invests
an endowment fund to provide scholarships in a critical area of healthcare.
Mr. Blundell-Wignall is an Australian citizen. He has a 1st class Honours degree and PhD in
Economics from Cambridge University, UK.
He is the author of extensive publications on financial markets and monetary policy in learned
journals and books, as well as broker analyst studies and reports.
He held senior positions such as:
2014- 2016 Director in the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs
2007 -2014 Deputy Director in the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs
2000 - Executive Vice-President, head of Asset Allocation, BT Funds Management
1993 - Head of Derivative Overlays and Levered Products at Bankers Trust Funds
Management, building a new $4 billion business
1991 - Head of the Research Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia: directing a
department and participating in monetary policy discussions at the internal pre-Board
meetings
Early in his career he held economist positions in: the OECD Economics Department, the Reserve
Bank of Australia and the Economic Planning Advisory Council of Australia.
Managing Director, Moody’s Investors Service Pty Ltd
Session 4 Speaker
Brian Cahill is Managing Director of the Corporate Finance and Public, Project and Infrastructure
Finance Groups for Asia and Australia. In this role, he has overall responsibility for Moody’s ratings
and research for the region’s corporate, public, project and infrastructure finance institutions,
managing teams in Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Brian is also the global executive sponsor for Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance
initiatives which coordinates Moody’s activities in this area of growing market focus.
Brian has held various senior analytical and management positions with Moody’s. He joined the
company in 1996, working first in Structured Finance and then Corporate Finance.
He was appointed MD of the Corporate Finance Group for Asia Pacific in 2002, was MD and country
manager for Australia from 2005 to 2009 and Managing Director with overall responsibility for
Moody’s Financial Institutions Group for Asia Pacific from 2009 to May 2016.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Brian practiced as a lawyer in London, New York and Sydney. He received
an MA and Master of Law from St. John’s College, Cambridge University.
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Ben Caldecott
Director, Sustainable Finance Programme, University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the
Environment
Session 4 Speaker
Ben Caldecott is Director of the Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford Smith
School of Enterprise and the Environment. The Sustainable Finance Programme incorporates and
builds on the Stranded Assets Programme that he founded in 2012. He is concurrently an Adviser to
The Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, an Academic Visitor at the Bank of
England, and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Ben has authored and edited a wide range of publications related to the environment and is an
experienced media commentator and public speaker. He is also a regular peer reviewer and has a
number of board and advisory panel appointments, including with the City of London Green Finance
Initiative, the University of Oxford Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee, Green
Alliance, Carbon Tracker Initiative, and the Natural Capital Declaration.
Prior to joining the Oxford Smith School he was Head of Policy at investment bank Climate Change
Capital, where he ran the company’s research centre and advised clients and funds on the
development of policy-driven markets. Ben has previously worked as Research Director for
Environment and Energy at the think tank Policy Exchange, as Head of Government Advisory at
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, as a Deputy Director in the Strategy Directorate of the UK’s
Department of Energy and Climate Change, and as Sherpa to the UK Green Investment Bank
Commission.
Ben read economics and specialised in development and China at the University of Cambridge and
the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been a Visiting Scholar at
Peking University and held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Sydney,
and the University of Melbourne. Ben is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and Royal
Geographical Society, an Associate Fellow at Bright Blue, a Senior Associate at E3G, and a Member of
the Senior Common Room at Oriel College, Oxford.
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Andrea L. Colnes
Coalition for Green Capital / Executive Director of the Energy Action Network
Session 8 Speaker
Andrea Colnes currently serves as Executive Director of the Energy Action Network (EAN), a systems-based effort to transform Vermont’s energy economy to one based on efficiency and renewables. She also serves on the board of the Coalition for Green Capital, working to accelerate the growth of clean energy markets through establishing Green Banks at the local, state, federal, and international levels. Andrea has led strategic energy and environment campaigns over a 30 year career at the regional and national levels. Prior to joining EAN, Andrea worked on natural resource public policy and coalition building in New England and nationally, focused on large-scale land conservation, sustainable forestry and energy. She co-authored Vermont's first Comprehensive Energy Plan under Governor Madeleine Kunin, served as policy director for the Biomass Energy Resource Center with a focus on community-scaled biomass and atmospheric carbon research, was the founding executive director of the Northern Forest Alliance, policy director of the Northern Forest Center, policy leadership director for the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, and deputy director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. She co-founded “Americans for Our Heritage and Recreation” and the “Eastern Forest Partnership” and helped launch the “National Rural Assembly.” She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New England Forestry Foundation. Andrea holds a BA in Political Science from Williams College and Master’s in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Maine. Andrea currently serves on the following boards and commissions:
Coalition for Green Capital
New England Forestry Foundation
Governor Peter Shumlin’s Council on Energy and the Environment
Vermont Climate Change Economy Council of the Vermont Council on Rural Development
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Asger Garnak
Chief Advisor for Climate and Energy Finance, Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate
Session 10 Speaker
Chief Advisor for Climate and Energy Finance at the Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate.
Responsible for linking the international negotiations on climate finance to operational
implementation through international channels and bilateral cooperation.
From his background as an economist, focuses on climate finance and climate change mitigation, in
particular mobilizing private investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency through
innovative instruments.
Over time covered several areas of international collaboration from positions in government,
financial institution, consultancy, and civil society:
As a practitioner developing and promoting instruments and policies that redirect
investments toward a low-carbon economy.
In international processes and forums that focus on finance mobilization and greening of
investments by public and private financial and development institutions.
In policy processes and negotiations related to climate change and finance.
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Matthias Helble
Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Session 9 Chair
Matthias Helble joined ADBI as a research fellow in August 2013. His research interests include
international trade, health, environment, and urban economics. His work has been published in
flagship reports of international organizations such as the World Trade Organization's World Trade
Report, as well as in numerous books and scientific journals, including the Review of World
Economics, Kyklos, Journal of World Trade, World Economy, Japan and the World Economy, Health
& Place, Health Policy & Planning, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. His columns
and policy work have been published and cited in prominent international media such as the
Associate Press, BBC, Jakarta Post, Nikkei Asian Review, and VoxEU. He also teaches regularly at
Hitotsubashi University and the University of Tokyo. Matthias began his professional career in the
trade team of the Development Research Group of the World Bank in Washington, DC, before
joining the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for
research on the intersection of trade and health. He then worked as an economist for the World
Trade Organization in the areas of environment, climate change, and technical standards. Prior to
coming to Tokyo, he managed the statistics program, including a project on big data together with
the United Nations Global Pulse, of the United Nations' Universal Postal Union in Bern. He holds
degrees in economics from the University of Tübingen (BA, MSc) in Germany, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison (MA) in the United States, and the Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies (MSc, PhD) in Geneva. During his doctoral studies he was a research fellow at
Yale University. Matthias is fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish. He has good knowledge
of Portuguese and speaks basic Japanese.
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Iain Henderson
Programme Officer, UNEP
Session 3 Speaker
Iain Henderson has been working on sustainable finance at UNEP since 2012. He currently is a
Programme Officer in Geneva at the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System,
which is an initiative to advance financial policy options that more effectively mobilise capital for an
inclusive, green economy. Most recently, this role has included supporting the G20 Green Finance
Study Group as part of the secretariat. Prior to that he led UNEP Finance Initiative’s work
programme on Sustainable Land Use.
Iain previously spent over a decade in the investment banking and wealth management divisions of
UBS and Deutsche Bank in the City of London. This included a variety of structuring, sales and risk
management roles across multiple sectors and asset classes. He also spent several years in Hong
Kong with WWF working on a range of sustainable finance issues before joining the UN.
Iain is an Oxford University Geography graduate and has postgraduate qualifications in Management,
Economics & Politics (St. Andrews) and Agricultural Economics (SOAS). He became a Chartered
Financial Analyst in 2002 and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on
Forests.
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Emma Howard Boyd
Chair, the U.K. Environment Agency
Session 10 Chair
Emma Howard Boyd was Acting Chair of the Environment Agency. She was appointed to the Board
of the Environment Agency in 2009 and was made Deputy Chair in 2015.
Emma has spent her 25-year career working in financial services, initially in corporate finance, and
then in fund management, specialising in sustainable investment and corporate governance.
As Director of Stewardship at Jupiter Asset Management until July 2014, Emma was integral to the
development of their reputation in the corporate governance and sustainability fields.
She currently serves on various boards and advisory committees including the Future Cities Catapult
(Vice Chair), ShareAction (Chair of Trustees), the Aldersgate Group, Menhaden Capital PLC, the 30%
Club Steering Committee, the Executive Board of The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project
and the Carbon Trust Advisory Panel.
Her past board and advisory roles have included being a director of Triodos Renewables PLC; Vice
Chair and Chair of the UK sustainable investment and finance association (UKSIF), and a member of
the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance, set up by the UK
government to make detailed proposals specifically on enhancing the UK environmental industries,
technologies and markets.
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Bert Hunter
EVP & Chief Investment Officer, Connecticut Green Bank
Session 8 Speaker
The Connecticut Green Bank (“Green Bank”) formed in 2011 is recognized as the first full-scale state-
level Green Bank in the US. As CIO, Mr. Hunter leads the development of new and innovative
financing programs and in the past four years, the Green Bank team has:
Attracted more than $185 MM for residential and commercial programs including a Solar Lease Fund, a Solar Loan fund and “Smart-E” Clean Energy Loan program using structures with tax equity, non-recourse financing, loan loss reserves and “crowd funding”;
Arranged a $100 MM funding facility with Hannon Armstrong to fund the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (or “C-PACE”) program – recognized as the leading C-PACE program in the nation;
Pioneered the technique to secure power purchase agreement payments using C-PACE;
Attracted a $5 MM PRI from MacArthur Foundation to finance energy efficiency projects for low-income multifamily housing;
Structured a $6 MM subordinated secured loan to facilitate the development of the largest fuel cell project in the US ($70MM / 15 MW);
Auctioned a $20 MM portfolio of C-PACE loans totaling to private investors;
Arranged Qualified Energy Conservation Bond funding for 1 MW of solar PV for ~15 affordable housing properties;
Arranged New Clean Renewable Energy Bond financing for “run of river” hydroelectric facilities.
Before joining the Green Bank, Mr. Hunter was VP Finance / CFO of Spectrum Capital, an investment
bank focused on global commercial aircraft finance and investment in US electric power generation.
Prior to Spectrum, he was VP/Treasurer of the international leasing company of Chemical Bank (now
JP Morgan Chase). Mr. Hunter holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BS in Mathematics and
Economics from Wake Forest University.
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Suk Hyun
Research Fellow, Korea Capital Market Institute
Session 9 Speaker
He is a research fellow at Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI) since 2010 and concurrently a
director of center for global financial collaboration of KCMI and also serving as a secretariat
representing Korea in the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum, an appointment made by Ministry of
Strategy and Finance in Korea.
He is also a founding member of Capital Market Association for Asia, and a visiting research fellow at
Waseda University since 2007. Before that, he worked as an economist with Bank of Korea for a
year (2009-2010) conducting research on Korean flows of funds system and for three years (2006-
2009) in Japan as a bond market specialist in charge of Asian Bond Markets Initiative (ABMI) Task
Force at Japan Bank for International Cooperation which is the export credit agency of the Japanese
government.
His recent research areas includes the internationalization of Asian currencies and developing Asian
bond markets, cross-border use of currency and volatility of exchange rates, and establishment of
regional settlement intermediary and Asian capital market development and integration.
Dr. Suk Hyun’s undergraduate was done in Korea, with Yonsei University, but for both his Master’s
and PhD’s degrees, he went to Japan, with Keio University, all in economics.
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Ali Izadi-Najafabadi
Head of Japan, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Session 3 Speaker / Session 12 Speaker
Ali oversees an analyst team focused on research and analysis of Japan’s energy sector covering topics such as impact of nuclear restarts on LNG demand, new energy retail strategies as a result of energy market reform, and the future of electrified transport. His prior experience includes working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and the fuel cell manufacturer, Ballard Power Systems. Ali has an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a Doctorate in Materials Science from Meijo University.
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Shigemoto Kajihara
Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Session 3 Speaker / Keynote Speaker for reception
Mr. Shigemoto KAJIHARA is the Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, overseeing international affairs including the climate change negotiations at the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. He started his career as a civil servant in 1979. Since then he held various important positions at the Ministry including Director of Public Relations Office, Minister’s Secretariat; Director of Environmental Impact Assessment Division; and Director of Climate Change Policy Division. Recently, he was Director-General of Waste Management and Recycling Department, and then DirectorGeneral of Global Environment Bureau. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Urban Engineering.
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Christopher Kaminker
Economist and Project Manager, Environment Directorate, OECD
Session 6 Speaker / Lead organiser of the Forum
Mr. Christopher Kaminker FRGS is an economist and project manager in the Environment
Directorate of the OECD in Paris. He manages an empirical research project focusing on the role of
institutional investors and capital markets in financing sustainable infrastructure investment and
oversees the Green Investment Financing Forum as well as annual high-level policy dialogues with
investors.
The author or co-author of over 20 publications, his research has been featured in The Economist,
Institutional Investor, Environmental Finance, Euromoney and other media. Prior to his appointment
at the OECD in 2010, Christopher worked in investment banking at Société Générale and Goldman
Sachs in New York. Christopher is a PhD candidate at Oxford University and graduated from the
School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and other current appointments include: OECD
delegate to the G20 Green Finance Study Group; Research Associate at Oxford University’s Smith
School; and Reviewer of the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. He has held faculty
appointments as adjunct lecturer at SciencesPo Paris, and as research associate at Columbia Law
School.
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Hiroyuki Kato
Director General, Treasury Department, Development Bank of Japan
Session 6 Commentator
Hiroyuki Kato is the Director General, Treasury Department of Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) since June 2016. He served as the CEO of DBJ Europe (DBJ’s UK subsidiary) for three years from May 2013. He has held a number of different positions at DBJ since April 1990 (then known as Japan Development Bank), including: Assistant Director, International Co-operation Department; Deputy Director, Planning Department for Investment Banking; Director, Finance Division, Treasury Department; and Director, International Strategy and Coordination Department. Between January 2001 and September 2004, he was seconded to the International Energy Agency of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Mr. Kato graduated from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in March 1990 and earned a Master Degree from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, MA, USA in May 1997.
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Mariko Kawaguchi
Managing Director, Research Division, Daiwa Institute of Research
Session 4 Speaker / Session 7 Commentator
Joined Daiwa Securities in 1986, worked as researcher and securities analyst Transferred to Daiwa
Institute of Research in 1994 and have worked as securities analyst, consultant of environmental
management, now engaging in research and study of sustainable economy including CSR and ESG
investment, sustainability reporting , ethical consumption, and social business.
From April 2010 to June 2011 worked as a head of CSR group at headquarter office of Daiwa
Securities Group.
Also serves as a Board member of Global Compact Japan Network, Chief Executive & Secretary
General of Japan Sustainable Investment Forum, Tokyo Metropolitan Environment Council
Member(2004-2014) Part-time instructor at Nanzan University in Japan.(2004-2007)、and
Aoyamagakuin University(2006~2010), both teaching CSR and SRI.
Author of ‘Social Finance text book’ (2015 Seisansei Shupppan) Co-author of ‘Guide to Socially
Received bachelors degree in public finance from Hitotsubashi University in Japan in1983. Received
Masters degree in applied economics from Hitotsubashi University Graduate School in 1986.
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Hoseok Kim
Senior Research Fellow, Korea Environment Institute
Session 9 Speaker
Dr. Hoseok Kim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Environment Institute (KEI). His primary
research field is the economics of sustainable development, with a focus on economic analysis of
environmental, energy and climate policy issues, and a green economy transition. Prior to KEI, Dr.
Kim was Principal Economist and Head of Green Growth Methodology Development at GGGI, where
he led GGGI’s role in offering knowledge services for green growth. After his first book UNFCCC and
Climate Policy (2005), he explored many areas of climate economics and policy, from theoretical
studies on induced technological change to empirical analysis of climate policy using various types of
models, and worked on these matters with many research institutions and international
organizations, including UENP, UNFCCC, World Bank, OECD, ADB, ADB Institute, SEI, JICA, Nautilus
Institute, and Columbia University. In 2008, Dr. Kim served as advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office
on climate policy, and from 2003 to 2006 he was a research professor of Institute of East and West
Studies at Yonsei University.
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Teiko Kudo
Director & Unit Leader, Growth Industry Cluster Department,
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Session 6 Commentator / Session 12 Speaker
Ms. Teiko Kudo is the Director & Unit Leader, Growth Industry Cluster Department, covering new industry and incubating new business, in Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. She has in-depth understanding of finance with over 20 years of project finance and structured finance experience especially in Emerging Country, Environment, Growth Industry, and Renewable Energy fields. She also has overseas working experience in Hong Kong. She is a member of committees relevant to environment, power, and infrastructure fields under the Japanese Governmental Authorities. She graduated from Keio University, Economics.
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Ma Jun
Chief Economist, People’s Bank of China
Keynote Speaker / Session 6 Speaker
Dr. Ma Jun is Chief Economist at the People’s Bank of China (PBC)’s Research Bureau, Co-Chair of the
G20 Green Finance Study Group, and Chairman of Green Finance Committee of China Society of
Finance and Banking. Before joining the PBC in early 2014, he worked for 13 years at Deutsche Bank,
where he was Managing Director, Chief Economist for Greater China, and Head of China and Hong
Kong Strategy. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2000, he worked as public policy specialist,
economist and senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank from 1992-
2000. From 1988-1990, he was a research fellow at the Development Research Center of China's
State Council.
Dr. Ma received his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in 1994, and his master's degree
in Management Science from Fudan University in 1988. He is a member of China Finance-40 Forum,
a Director of Eco-Finance Research Center at People’s University, Co-Chair of Green Finance
Dialogue Forum at China Finance and Economics University, member of the academic committee of
International Finance Forum, member of World Economic Forum’s Agenda Council on International
Monetary System, and Adjunct Professor at Fudan University.