Mr. Potter is the former Head of the Markets Group and SOMA Manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York until June 2019. He joined the New York Fed in June 1998 and served as Director of Economic Research and Co-Head of the Research and Statistics Group at the New York Fed, prior to becoming Head of the Markets Group in June 2012. In this role, he oversaw the implementation of domestic open market and foreign exchange trading operations on behalf of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the execution of fiscal agent support for the U.S. Treasury, the provision of account services to foreign and international monetary authorities, and the administration and production of reference interest rates for the U.S. money markets.
Mr. Potter has played a prominent role in the Federal Reserve’s financial stability efforts, including by contributing to the design of the 2009 U.S. bank stress tests, as a member of the international Macroeconomic Assessment Group that supported the Basel Committee’s work to strengthen bank capital standards and, most recently, as Chair of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee.

Ning Zhu is a deputy director of National Institute of Financial Research and Oceanwide Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University, deputy dean and professor of finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, a faculty fellow at the Yale University International Center for Finance, and a Special Term Professor of Finance at University of California, Davis and at Guanghua School of Management at Beijing University.
Prior to coming back to Asia, he was a tenured professor of finance at University of California. Professor Zhu is an expert on behavioral finance, investments, corporate finance, and the Asian financial markets. He has published numerous articles in leading journals in the finance, economics, management and legal fields.
In addition to his academic research, Professor Zhu helps asset management companies in a wide range of capacities. During his leave from the University of California in 2008-2010, he implements his research into practice and leads the quantitative strategies and portfolio advisory teams at Lehman Brothers and Nomura International in Hong Kong, which was top ranked by leading institutional surveys.

OSAMU KUBOTA was appointed in July 2019 to Deputy Director-General in charge of JGB and treasury management, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan. He leads JGB IR team and conducts various IR activities.
Mr. Kubota graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1988 (BEc) and Yale School of Management in 1992. Through his career in the Ministry of Finance, he had experienced various key positions in the realms of public finance, mainly in budget area.
Prior to his current position, he served as Deputy Director-General, Cabinet Office for 2 years. He was in charge of Promotion of Regulatory Reform.

Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu assumed her position as Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on 1 May 2017. Prior to taking on this post, Ms. Nakamitsu served as Assistant Administrator of the Crisis Response Unit at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 2014.
She has many years of experience within and outside the United Nations system, most recently as Special Adviser Ad Interim on Follow-up to the Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants between 2016 and 2017. She was previously Director of the Asia and the Middle East Division of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations between 2012 and 2014, and Director of the Department’s Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training, from 2008 to 2012.
Between 2005 and 2008, Ms. Nakamitsu was Professor of International Relations at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, where she also served as a member of the Foreign Exchange Council to Japan’s Foreign Minister, and as a visiting senior adviser on peacebuilding at the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Between 1998 and 2004, she was the Chef de Cabinet and Director of Planning and Coordination at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Nakamitsu was a member of the United Nations Reform Team of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She also held positions with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), including within the office of Assistant High Commissioner for Policy and Operations Sergio Vieira de Mello, and in UNHCR field operations in the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and northern Iraq.
Born in 1963, Ms. Nakamitsu holds a Master of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor of Law degree from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Mr. Nakaso was appointed Chairman of the Daiwa Institute of Research (DIR) in July 2018 after completing his term as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan. He served as the Deputy Governor of the BOJ since March 2013. In his 39 years at the Bank, his main responsibilities have been crisis management of financial systems and markets focusing on global systems.
He joined the Bank of Japan in 1978 and he was assigned to the London Representative Office from 1987 until 1989. He dealt with the homegrown financial crisis of the 1990s. He headed the exit operation from the Quantitative Easing Policy, a prototypical unconventional policy that lasted from 2001 to 2006.
In addition, He played an instrumental role in addressing the Global Financial Crisis together with his peers at major central banks including the FRB.
He was appointed Chairman of a new organization to promote Tokyo as a global financial center. The new organization is known by its abbreviated name, “FinCity.Tokyo.”

Joined Daiwa Securities in 1986, worked as researcher and securities analyst. Transferred to Daiwa Institute of Research in 1994 and have worked as securities analyst, consultant of environmental management, now engaging in research and study of CSR and SRI environmental and reporting sustainability reporting.
From April 2010 to June 2011 worked as a head of CSR group at headquarter office of Daiwa Securities Group. Also serves as a Chief Executive, Japan Sustainable Investment Forum, and Tokyo Metropolitan Environment Council Member.
She received bachelor degree in public finance from Hitotsubashi University in1983 and master degree in applied economics from Hitotsubashi University Graduate School in 1986.

Stephanie joined the African Development Bank in 2016, as a senior funding officer. In her current role, she oversees funding activities in international capital markets, especially in SRI markets, and is also in charge of Investor Relations. Prior to joining the Bank, Stephanie worked during 8 years in London, as Rates Sales at HSBC covering Nordic institutional investors. Stephanie also worked at Societe Generale in Paris and London. She graduated from Dauphine University and holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Assas University in Paris.

NWB Bank (Aaa/AAA) is a Dutch government owned promotional bank, arranging financing for the Dutch public sector.
Tom Meuwissen is treasurer. His responsibilities include long term funding, investor relations, ALM and Cash Management.
Prior to this Meuwissen worked at MeesPierson (now ABN Amro) where he worked in the bank treasury and on the corporate clients advisory.
Tom Meuwissen was educated at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam where he graduated in Business Economics.

Yasuhiro Matsui is the Director General, Treasury Department of Development Bank of Japan Inc. (DBJ). DBJ has issued first Green Bond as Japanese Issuer in 2014 and he was the Head of Capital Market of DBJ. He joined DBJ in 1994 and has been specialized in both Capital Market and Structured Finance in most of his career. He has the Visiting Researcher position at Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo. He has a MBA from MIT Sloan School of the Management and BE in Urban Engineering from University of Tokyo.