Yosuke Kawakami

Yosuke Kawakami has been a Member of the Board (Director for Japan) at the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) since July 2015. He has spent the majority of his career since 1983 in the Japanese Ministry of Finance (MoF), covering public finance, financial regulation and supervision, financial markets, as well as international finance and trade.

Mr. Kawakami also has extensive overseas experience, serving at the IMF (1985-88), OECD (2003-06), as well as the Embassy of Japan in Moscow (Financial Secretary; 1996-98) and London (Financial Minister; 2010-13). He is one of the “Founding Members” of the EBRD, having been involved in its establishment 25 years ago.

He has lectured on Japan, Asia and the international economy in London, Dublin, Berlin and Riyadh, as well as in Asia (ex-officio at the University of Tokyo, Keio University, and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan, as well as at Seoul National University in Korea).

Mr. Kawakami is a graduate of the University of Tokyo and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C. He is fluent in Japanese and English, and has working knowledge of French, and basic Russian.