1989: Graduated from Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Law
1989: Joined the Japan Development Bank (currently the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ)) After working in the Urban Development Department, Frankfurt Representative Office, Research Department and Policy Planning Department etc
2005: Chief Representative, Frankfurt Overseas Representative Office?
2009: Chief Manager, CSR Promotion Office of the Public solutions Department?
2011: General Manager, Head of Environmental Initiative &Corporate Social Responsibility-Support Department?
2016: General Manager, Head of Economic &industrial Research Department
2017: Executive Officer, Deputy Chief Research Officer & General Manager, Head of Economic & Industrial Research Department
2023: Executive Director, Research Institute of Capital Formation
2024: Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) (current position)

• Selected publications

<Works>?
? "Impact Assessment and Value Creation Management" (co-author, Dai-Ichi-Houki, October 2024)?
?"A Course to Understand Sustainable Finance" (co-author, Kinzai Institute of Financial Affairs, 2023)
?"Renewable Energy and New Growth Strategies" (co-author, Energy Forum, May 2015)
?"Responsible Finance: Using Evaluation and Certification Loans to Solve Social Issues" (co-author, Kinzai Institute of Financial Affairs, January 2013)
?"Lessons from the German Environmental City Model" (co-author, Energy Forum, November 2011)
?"Environmental Ratings: Information Infrastructure for Environmental Finance" (editor, Kinzai Institute of Financial Affairs, September 2010) etc.
?"In Search of Urban Renaissance: Cities as Social Common Capital 1" (co-author, University of Tokyo Press, May 2003)
etc.

<Papers>?
?"Sustainability management and ESG" (JACO NEWS No. 46, June 2024)
?"Environmental changes and the future of ESG finance" (NIRA Research Institute, "Challenges for Japan and the World 2024" June 2024)
?"Integrated thinking becomes increasingly important toward carbon neutrality" (NIRA Research Institute, "Challenges for Japan and the World 2023" June 2023)
?"Decarbonization efforts in the industry and the role of Shinkin banks" (Japan Shinkin Bank Association, "Shinkin banks" (October 2022)
etc.

• Social contributions

＜Public office record＞
? Chair of the Ministry of the Environment's Decarbonization Leading Region Evaluation Committee (2022-)
? Chair of the Ministry of the Environment's Qualification System Review Committee for the Development of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2022-)
? Chair of the Ministry of the Environment's Nature Positive Economy Study Group (2022-)
? Chair of the Ministry of the Environment's Regional ESG Finance Promotion Project Opinion Exchange Meeting (2020-)
? Provisional member of the Ministry of the Environment's Central Environment Council (General Policy Division) (2019-)
? Member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Study Group on GX Product Markets Contributing to Demand Creation for Strengthening Industrial Competitiveness and Reducing Emissions (2023)
? Member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Study Group on Guidelines for Disclosure of Non-Financial Information (2021-)
? Member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Transition Finance Conditions Development Review Committee (2021-)
? Deputy Chair of the Cabinet Office's "Regional Revitalization SDGs Finance Research and Study Group" (since 2019)
? Chair of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "ESG Investment Promotion Study Group to Address Social Issues in the Real Estate Sector" (2021-2022), etc.