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• Hiromi Yamaoka: Former Director-General of the Bank of Japan’s Payment and Settlement Systems Department and an internationally-acknowledged authority on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)
• Sayuri Shirai: Professor of Economics, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University and a former member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board
• Naoyoki Iwashita: Professor of monetary economics and FinTech in the graduate programme for public policy studies at Kyoto University and Advisor for the crypto-asset task force at the Financial Services Agency

• Yu Miri: author of "Tokyo Ueno Station" - Winner of Akutagawa Prize and U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature

• Dr. Naoko Ishii: professor, executive vice president, and inaugurating Director of the Centre for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo and former Deputy Vice Minister of Finance of Japan
• David J. Semaya: Executive Chairman and Representative Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co. Ltd., Tokyo, and former Executive Chairman of Nikko Asset Management in London and Tokyo
• Jesper Koll: Senior Advisor to fund management group WisdomTree and formerly Chief Strategist and Head of Research for US investment banks J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch.

It took place on Thurs., February 4th.

• President, Isabel Reynolds
• Second Vice President, Walter Sim
• Director, Mary Corbett
• Kanji, Gregory Clark
• Kanji, Vicki L. Beyer
• Former President, Peter Langan