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

Welcoming Remarks
Last NameYamadaFirst NameInstitution

Tokai UniversityCountry

JapanKiyoshi

Short Bio
Prof Kiyoshi Yamada currently serves as Chancellor at Tokai University, Japan and
Board chairman of the Hawaii Tokai International College (HTIC), USA. He is anexperienced educator as well as a highly accomplished global school administrator.
He graduated from School of Law, Waseda University. He received an honorary
PhD in Business Administration from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang (Thailand) in 2010 and a title of Professor Emeritus from Moscow
State University (Russia) in 2011. His research areas include Economic andAdministrative Law, Intellectual Property Law, Policy Study on University Industry
Collaborations, and International Education.

Welcoming Remarks
Last NameKwon

First Name

Myong Joong

Institution

Yonsei University (Mirae campus)

Country

Republic of Korea
Short Bio

Prof Myung Joong Kwon is the Chancellor of Yonsei University, Mirae Campus. He
obtained his D.Phil. and MSc from Oxford University, UK. Currently, he is aprofessor at the Department of economics, Yonsei University, Mirae Campus(since 1995) and also serves as the editorial director of the journal of Oikonomia
by the Korean Christian Economic Association (Since 2016). He was Assistantprofessor at Warwick University in the UK (1992-1995). He has extensive publicati
ons in international journals including; Economic Journal and Economic Researchand books published by prestigious publishers including the Cambridge UniversityPress.

Keynote speech
Last Name

Matsushita

First Name

Institution

Kyoto University

Country

Japan

Kazuo

Short Bio
Prof Kazuo Matsushita is Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University, Chairman of theJapan Society for GNH Studies, Co-chair on Climate and Environment of T20 SaudiArabia, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies,
Examiner for Environmental Guidelines at JICA.
He served as Professor of environmental policy at the Graduate School of Global
Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.
Also worked at the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan,
OECD, and the UN Conference on Environment and Development.
Major research areas are sustainability studies, climate change and global
environmental policies. His publications include “Environment in the 21st Centuryand New Development Patterns” and “Environmental Governance”.

Keynote speech
Last Name

YooFirst Name

Kwang-YeolInstitution

Asia Research Center, Yonsei UniversityCountry

Republic of Korea
Short Bio

Dr 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 ofKorea and his last position was the First Senior Deputy Governor (2017.112020.6). He joined the Korean Republic government in 1986 and holds several
positions at the Economic Planning Board and the Ministry of Strategy andFinance (MOSF), that the last one at the MOSF was the Director-General of theInternational Finance Cooperation Bureau. Moreover, he worked as economist atthe Economics Department of the Organization for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD) in Paris, France. Dr Yoo holds a PhD degree fromDepartment of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA (1997) andMA from the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University,Korea (1988).

Distinguished speaker
Last Name

YoshinoFirst Name

Naoyuki

Institution

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

CountryJapan
Short Bio

Prof 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).

Welcoming Remarks
Moderator
Last Name

TaghizadehHesaryFirst NameInstitution

Tokai UniversityCountry

JapanFarhad

Short Bio
Dr Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an associate professor of economics at Tokai University inJapan. He is a grantee of the Excellent Young Researcher (LEADER) status from the Ministryof Education of Japan (MEXT). Currently, he is serving as Associate Editor of FinanceResearch Letters (SSCI, ABDC: A), Associate Editor of the Singapore Economic Review (SSCI),
Associate Editor of the Global Finance Journal (ESCI, ABDC:A) and Editor of the Cogent
Business and Management (Scopus). He has guest-edited special issues for prestigious
journals including Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Journal of Environmental Managementand Economic Analysis and Policy. His research credits include authoring more than 100
academic journal papers and book chapters and the editing of eight books published bySpringer Nature, Routledge and World Scientific. He obtained a PhD in economics from Keio
University, Japan in 2015 with a scholarship from the government of Japan (MEXT) and MAin energy economics from Tehran University, Iran.

Speaker
Last Name

HongoFirst Name

TakashiInstitution

Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies InstituteCountryJapan
Short Bio

Takashi Hongo is Senior Fellow at the Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies Institutein Tokyo, Japan. He analyses policies and markets of climate change and energy, suchas climate and energy scenario, climate finance and emission trading and advise tolong term strategy for Mitsui & Co. He participated in many government committeesand study groups.
Before joining the institute, he worked for Japan Bank for International Cooperation(JBIC) as Special Advisor to Governor. Also he had experiences of preparation ofeconomic restructuring plan (“Maekawa Report”, 1986) at Economic Planning Agency.
He is Board of Directors of International Emission Trading Association and ProjectManager of DIAS (government digital platform of earth observation data)

Speaker
Last NameRimaud

First 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 a
Business Degree from EM Lyon in France, including a one year exchange program at
Waseda 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

KimFirst Name

HoseokInstitution

Korea Environment Institute (KEI)Country

Republic of Korea
Short Bio

Dr Hoseok Kim is Director General of Sustainability Strategy Research Group, theKorea Environment Institute (KEI) that is a publicly funded policy-oriented thinktank focused on green economy, sustainable development and environmental
assessment.
Dr Kim was a senior advisor to United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UNITAR) on green economy and the SDGs, and also served as a principal
economist and head of Green Growth Modeling at the Global Green GrowthInstitute (GGGI). Earlier, he served as a research professor of sustainable
development at Yonsei University, where he received his PhD in Economics.

Speaker
Last Name

HyunFirst Name

InstitutionYonsei University

Country

Republic of Korea

Suk

Short Bio
Dr 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 avisiting scholar in the Department of Economics, University of Southern California
and a research fellow at Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI). He worked as aneconomist at Bank of Korea for 2009-2010 and spent three years for 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 (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 degreesin economics from Keio University.

Speaker
Last Name

Kim

First Name

WilliamWoong RyeolInstitution

Bank of Communication

Country

Republic of Korea
Short Bio

Dr William Woong Ryeol Kim is working at the Bank of Communication. He designs
and introduces Korea Won and China Yuan home currency transactions for Korean
financial institutions. He worked at Investment banking department for 13 years
and foreign currency trade department for 5 years in previous Woori Bank. He
also developed KRW-RMB trade business platform for the first time in Korea inWoori Bank. In order to improve financial stability in Asia, he is studying for thedevelopment of Asian home currency transactions among Asian countries.

Speaker
Last Name

ParkFirst Name

Donghyun

Institution

Asian Development BankCountry

Philippines
Short BioDr Donghyun Park is currently Principal Economist at the Economic Research andRegional Cooperation Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB),
which he joined in April 2007. Prior to joining ADB, he was a tenured Associate
Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Park
has a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his main research fields are internationalfinance, international trade, and development economics. His research, which has
been published extensively in journals and books, revolves around policy-oriented
topics relevant for Asia’s long-term development, including middle-income trap,
service sector development, and financial sector development. Dr. Park plays aleading role in the production of Asian Development Outlook, ADB’s biannual
flagship publication on macroeconomic issues, and leads the team that produces
Asia Bond Monitor, ADB’s quarterly flagship report on emerging Asian bondmarkets.

Speaker
Last Name

TianFirst Name

Institution

Asian Development BankCountry

Philippines

Shu

Short BioDr Shu Tian is an Economist at the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation
Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Prior to joining ADB,
she was an Associate Professor of Finance at Fudan University in China. Her main
research interests include financial services and institution, investments, andempirical asset pricing. Her research has been published in academic journals on
topics relating to financial asset pricing, portfolio allocation and financial market
development. Dr. Tian works in the teams that produce Asian Development
Outlook and Asia Bond Monitor. She is part of the team that maintains
AsianBondsOnline (https://asianbondsonline.adb.org/) , an online bond market
data portal for ASEAN+3 bond markets under the ASEAN bond market initiative.