Biography of speakers(The sequence is based on the appearance in the agenda)

Opening Remarks
Last NameYoshikawa

First NameInstitution

Tokai UniversityCountryJapan

NaotoShort Bio
Naoto Yoshikawa is a Vice-Chancellor of Global Initiatives and a Professor of theDepartment of International Studies at Tokai University. He was the Chancellor ofHawaii Tokai International College, US, for ten years. He worked for the Food andAgriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as acting representative in
Bangladesh and Trinidad and Tobago. He also served as the economist at the FAO
headquarters in Italy and as the administration and finance officer of the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zambia. He earned a B.A. degreefrom Chuo University, Japan; M.A. from University of Chicago, US and Ph.D. fromthe University of Hawai’i at Manoa, US.

Opening Remarks
Last Name

LeeFirst Name

Institution

Yonsei University

Country

Republic of Korea

Taejeong

Short Bio
Tae Jeong Lee is Dean, College of Government and Business, Yonsei University, and Professorof Economics at Yonsei University, Wonju, in South Korea. He has served as Director of the In
ternational Education Center, Associate Dean of the College of Government and Business, and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Yonsei University, Wonju. Before his appoint
ment at Yonsei University, Wonju, he briefly taught at the Vanderbilt University and joined
the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago in order to participate in Robert
M. Townsend’s Thai Village Survey Project: He contributed to developing the survey
instruments, sampling the villages and households, and implementing the pilot surveys andthe first round of the major survey in 1997. During the academic year of 2009-2010, he wasa Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, MIT. In 2005, he was one of the firstwinners of the Best Teacher of the Year Award at the Yonsei University.

Keynote speech
Last Name

YoshinoFirst Name

Naoyuki

Institution

Keio University , Financial Research Center(FSA Institute, Government of Japan).

CountryJapan
Short Bio

Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and Director ofFinancial Research Center (FSA Institute, Government of Japan). He obtained a PhD in
economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 (where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan
Walters (UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser)). He taught as assistantprofessor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, He was a visiting scholar at MIT(USA), visiting scholar at the Central Bank of Japan, visiting professor at the University of
New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France). He
received Honorary Doctorates from Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Martin Luther
University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He also conferred Fukuzawa award from Keio
University for his contribution to research. He was the Dean/CEO of the Asian Development
Bank Institute (ADBI) in Tokyo (2014-2020).

Keynote speech
Last Name

YooFirst Name

Kwang-YeolInstitution

Asia Research Center, Yonsei UniversityCountry

Republic of Korea
Short Bio

Kwang-Yeol Yoo is Visiting Fellow at the Asia Research Center of Yonsei University.
He served at the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of the Republic of Korea andhis last position was the First Senior Deputy Governor (2017.11-2020.6). He joined
the Korean Republic government in 1986 and holds several positions at theEconomic Planning Board and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance (MOSF), thatthe last one at the MOSF was the Director-General of the International Finance
Cooperation Bureau. Moreover, he worked as economist at the Economics
Department of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) in Paris, France. Dr Yoo holds a PhD degree from Department ofEconomics, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA (1997) and MA from theGraduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Korea (1988).

Welcoming Remarks
Moderator and Speaker
Last Name

TaghizadehHesaryFirst Name

Institution

Tokai University

CountryJapan

FarhadShort Bio
Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an associate professor of economics at Tokai Universityin Japan. He is a grantee of the Excellent Young Researcher (LEADER) status from theMinistry of Education of Japan (MEXT). Currently, he is serving as Associate Editor ofFinance Research Letters (SSCI, ABDC: A), Associate Editor of the Singapore Economic
Review (SSCI), Associate Editor of the Global Finance Journal (ESCI, ABDC:A) andEditor of the Cogent Business and Management (Scopus). He has guest-edited special
issues for prestigious journals including Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Journal ofEnvironmental Management and Economic Analysis and Policy. His research credits
include authoring more than 110 academic journal papers and book chapters andthe editing of nine books published by Springer Nature, Routledge and World
Scientific. He obtained a PhD in economics from Keio University, Japan in 2015 with ascholarship from the government of Japan (MEXT)

Speaker
Last Name

Miyamoto

First Name

Hiroaki

Institution

Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityCountryJapan
Short Bio

Hiroaki Miyamoto is a professor at the Tokyo Metropolitan University inJapan. His primary areas of research are macroeconomics and labor
economics. He has published articles on fiscal policies and labor market
dynamics at leading journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics
and Review of Economic Dynamics. Before joining the Tokyo Metropolitan
University, he was an economist in the International Monetary Fund, anassociate professor at the University of Tokyo, and a professor at theInternational University of Japan. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison in the US.

Speaker
Last Name

HyunFirst Name

InstitutionYonsei UniversityCountry

Republic of Korea

SukShort Bio
Suk Hyun is currently Dean of EastAsia International College (EIC) and head of Asia
Research Center in Yonsei University. Prior to joining EIC in 2018, he was a visiting
scholar in the Department of Economics, University of Southern California and a
research fellow at Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI). He worked as an
economist at Bank of Korea for 2009-2010 and spent three years for 2006-2009 inJapan as a bond market specialist in charge of Asian Bond Markets Initiative(ABMI) Task Force at Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). His expertiselies in international finance, bond market, and Japanese economy with the recent
research covering infrastructure bond, green bond and capital market
development and financial integration in Asia. He has a bachelor’s degree ineconomics from Yonsei University and earned both his master’s and PhD degrees
in economics from Keio University.

Speaker
Last Name

RimaudFirst Name

CedricInstitution

Climate Bond Initiative

CountrySingapore
Short Bio

Cedric Rimaud is the ASEAN Program Manager at the Climate Bond Initiative. With 20+year experience in the fund management industry with more than 10 years at topranking investment banking firms (JP Morgan, Citi and Credit Suisse), Cedric has been
managing fixed income portfolios and analyzing corporate bonds during the most part ofhis career, most recently as the Head of Emerging Markets Corporate Credit Research at
an independent credit research company. He’s been managing teams of analysts andacting as a principal of small investment teams in various capacities. He earned aBusiness Degree from EM Lyon in France, including a one year exchange program atWaseda University in Tokyo, a Master’s in Finance from the London Business School andhe is currently enrolled in the joint Executive MBA program of INSEAD in Singapore andTsinghua University in Beijing. He is a CFA charter holder and member of the CFA Societyin Singapore. He’s been a consultant for the United Nations-ESCAP on Green Finance.

Speaker
Last Name

HiragaFirst Name

Institution

Tokai University

CountryJapan

Kazuki

Short Bio

Kazuki Hiraga is an associate professor at the school of political science andeconomics, Tokai University, and a special research fellow of the FinancialServices Agency (FSA) in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the school ofeconomics of Keio University in both undergraduate (2006) and graduate(2011). His research interests are mainly public finance and macroeconomics,e.g., the effect of fiscal policy and fiscal sustainability. Hiraga has published apaper in for refereed International journals, e.g., International Tax and Public
Finance, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, andInternational Review of Economics and Finance.

Speaker
Last Name

Salah Uddin

First Name

Institution

Linpoking University

Country

SwedenGazi

Short Bio
Gazi Salah Uddin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Financial Economics at theDepartment of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden. His
research interests emphasize strongly on multidisciplinary aspects, whereeconometric techniques and methodologies from economics, physics, engineering,and psychology are implemented in studying the complexity of economic andfinancial systems on a macro level, focused on areas such as international
economics and financial markets, energy and corporate finance. He received the“Jan Wallanders and the Tom Hedelius Scholarship” for a doctoral thesis in
economics during 2016. Recently, he received the “TRISS” award as a visiting
scholar at Trinity College, Ireland. He has publications in well-renowned journals
such as European Journal of Operation Research, Journal of Economic Dynamicsand Control, Energy Economics, etc.

Speaker
Last Name

PirouzFirst Name

Institution

TCX FundCountry

The Netherlands

JeromeShort BioJérôme Pirouz, is responsible for transaction origination and structuring and for allof a fund’s product engineering. He was previously a senior bond manager andtrader for the bank UBS in London and Fortis Bank in Brussels. He graduated inBusiness Administration from HEC Brussels and holds a Master’s Degree fromICMA Centre.

Speaker
Last Name

Ivan

First Name

Institution

Astris FinanceCountryMexico

JavierShort Bio
Javier Ivan joined Astris Finance on January 2016 in the Mexico City office and has
been working as Associate at Astris Finance Vietnam office since mid-2019. Javier
has worked as lead financial modeler in connection with the structuring andexecution of debt financing arrangements in the renewable and transportation
sectors in several developing markets including Mexico, Uruguay, Caribbeancountries, Vietnam and Myanmar.
Javier holds a BA in Finance from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
(ITAM) and has passed the Level III exam of the CFA Program. He is fluent inSpanish & English and has an upper intermediate level of French.

Panel Discussion
Last Name

JiFirst Name

KwangchulInstitution

Ministry of Economy and FinanceCountry

Republic of Korea
Short Bio

Kwangchul Ji is currently Director of International Financial Institutions Division
Ministry of Economy and Finance, Republic of Korea who is responsible forcovering issues related to multilateral development banks, including ADB, IDB,EBRD, AfDB and CABEI. Prior to this, he served as the director of the Trade Policy
Coordination Division and the Green Climate Policy Division. He also worked as aliaison officer in the World Bank Group. He is an expert on international
development policies, having formulated and implemented the country’s official
development assistance programs.

Panel Discussion
Last Name

YoshinoFirst Name

Naoyuki

Institution

Keio University , Financial Research Center(FSA Institute, Government of Japan).

CountryJapan
Short Bio

Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and Director ofFinancial Research Center (FSA Institute, Government of Japan). He obtained a PhD ineconomics from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 (where his thesis supervisor was Sir AlanWalters (UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser)). He taught as assistantprofessor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, He was a visiting scholar at MIT(USA), visiting scholar at the Central Bank of Japan, visiting professor at the University of
New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France). He
received Honorary Doctorates from Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Martin Luther
University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He also conferred Fukuzawa award from Keio
University for his contribution to research. He was the Dean/CEO of the Asian Development
Bank Institute (ADBI) in Tokyo (2014-2020).