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The 73rd GSDM Platform Seminar: ADB Career Presentation

June 29, 2016

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Type Lecture
Intended for Enrolled students / International students / University students
Date(s) July 11, 2016 11:00 — 14:00
Location Hongo Area Campus
Venue Room 429/433, Engineering Building 14
Capacity 50 people
Entrance Fee No charge
Registration Method Advance registration required
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13geFAWRTEoQzPbtW3-bVjm18FMIwkIkPo4yuxS0jpms/viewform
Contact gsdm-ppoffice@pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is the leading international development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty and improving quality of life in the Asia and the Pacific region. Since its founding in 1966, ADB has been driven by an inspiration and dedication to improving people’s lives. ADB’s team will be visiting The University of Tokyo for a career presentation on July 11, 2016. Students and alumni with a strong interest in pursuing a career in development are invited to this presentation about ADB’s strategic overview and talent needs.  

Speakers:
Toshio Oya, Director General, Budget, Personnel and Management Systems Department (BPMSD), ADB
Yoshie Shibata, Business Partner for ADB’s Board Group and President’s Group, ADB
Chikako Horiuchi, Risk Management Specialist, Credit Portfolio Monitoring Division, Office of Risk Management, ADB

Facilitator: Toshiro Nishizawa, Project Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

*Drop-ins welcome.

*Please bring your CV if you wish to have individual consultations with ADB officers.

Speakers' Profile:

Toshio Oya is the Director General of the Budget, Personnel and Management Systems Department (BPMSD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He was appointed in July 2015. As Director General, he is in charge of human resources, budget, and organizational issues at ADB. He completed his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Law at Columbia Law School, USA and the University of Tokyo, Japan, respectively. He is also Bar certified in Japan and the USA, and holds a US CPA. He joined the Ministry of Finance of Japan in 1986 where he held various positions. He has also worked at the International Monetary Fund as a Senior Advisor to Japan’s Executive Director and the World Bank as the Alternate Executive Director for Japan. With over 28 years of professional experience, he brings expertise and experience in budget management and financial regulations, public pension schemes, the management of human resources issues at international institutions, including diversity and compensation. Prior to joining ADB, he was a Director for Policy Planning and Research at the Ministry of Finance, responsible for the macroeconomic analysis of the Japanese and foreign economies as well as formulating economic policy measures to sustain and boost the Japanese economy.

Yoshie Shibata is currently Business Partner for ADB’s Board Group as well as the President’s Group. She partners with the management in these groups on the full cycle of talent management, providing HR tools and solutions for better business results. Ms. Shibata also oversees ADB’s overall external talent acquisition at strategic and individual levels. She has worked in multiple Human Resource functions at ADB since 2003, starting with the Young Professionals Program, then learning and development, and policy and programs including ADB’s first institutional mentoring program. Prior to joining ADB, she worked for the World Bank’s Human Resources Vice Presidency and African Region as a consultant, working mainly on performance management and mentoring initiatives. She started her professional career as a civil servant in her hometown in Okayama, Japan, and worked on various project base deliverables. Ms. Shibata holds a Master’s degree in Education and Human Development from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan.

Chikako Horiuchi joined ADB in 2014 as a Risk Management Specialist in the Credit Portfolio Monitoring Division of the Office of Risk Management. Prior to ADB, Ms. Horiuchi was a Director at Fitch Ratings in Hong Kong where she was responsible for the assessment of financial institutions in Mongolia, Hong Kong, Macau and Japan, assessing risk areas and mitigation measures and reviewing risk management and monitoring policies to assign risk ratings to bond issuers. She was a member of the rating committee for financial institutions in emerging Asia markets and was an APAC representative in the global peer comparison working group. Before Fitch Ratings, she was an Advisor for Economic Affairs at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangkok where she evaluated and researched on development projects to aid in decision making for continued government funding. She was also a part of the negotiation team for the Japan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement and provided analysis on chapters related to financial institutions. Ms. Horiuchi started her career as an Analyst in the Investment Banking division of J.P. Morgan Securities in Tokyo. She obtained her Master’s degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University, Japan and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tohoku University, Japan.

Toshiro Nishizawa is a Project Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) of The University of Tokyo. He has been teaching at GraSPP since 2013 after serving as Director General of Country Credit Department and Deputy Director General of International Finance Department I both at JBIC and as Director of Asia Department II at Japan Center for International Finance (JCIF). He spent years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IMF and the World Bank. His past teaching positions include a guest professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) of Osaka University, a lecturer at GraSPP and a visiting professor at both Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and the Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP-FGV) in Brazil. Mr. Nishizawa holds a BA from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, a BA in economics from the University of Tokyo and an MSc in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

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