Kursi Yayasan Tun Ismail Mohamed Ali (YTI-UKM) 
Professor Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino
Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino, is currently the Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) under the direction of the President of Asian Development Bank (ADB). He is also a Professor Emeritus at Keio University.
Professor Yoshino obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University and has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other major universities as well. Throughout his academic career, Professor Yoshino has worked on and written extensively about a variety of financial and economic issues, including Japan’s monetary policy and the country’s banking system, as well as Japan’s pension system and the need for financial education.
Professor Yoshino would be one of the best candidates to address of the pertaining issue on cross-border arrangement, particularly the Trans-Pacific Partnership because he has been directly involved in formulating of economic and financial policies, not only for Japan but also Asian countries in general. Looking at his profile, Professor Yoshino has had a rich and varied professional life, serving in numerous important roles as an adviser on financial matters to the government of Japan. He currently serves as Chief Advisor of the Financial Research Center at the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and Chair of asset management for pension funds at the Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare.
Professor Yoshino’s 4-day programs at UKM probably may be considered as a part of his East Asian tour this August. He has been scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at the 1st International Conference on Management in Emerging Markets at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia on 10 August. He is then scheduled to deliver another keynote speech at the International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS) 2016 Asia Conference in Brunei on 17-18 August 2016. The conference is organized by Universiti Teknologi Brunei and Authoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam, in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford, Nottingham, Sheffield and Hull. After his programs at UKM, he is scheduled to deliver another keynote speech at a conference in Singapore on the 23 August 2016.