• 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