Private Views on Japanese Government Corporations

Thursday, October 6, 2016 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. (Reception to follow) Room 1501, International Affairs Building, Columbia University

Masatsugu (Mat) Nagato President and CEO, Post Holdings Co., Ltd.

will be speaking about

" Privatization: The Political Intention and the Business Effects"

Yasushi Kinoshita Deputy President, Development Bank of Japan Inc.

will be speaking about

"Blending Finance to Grow: The Public-Private Partnership in Developed Economies"

Moderated by Hugh Patrick Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School

Biographies:

Masatsugu (Mat) Nagato began his career at the Industrial Bank of Japan in 1972, beginning a distinguished career that saw him join in 2016 as President and CEO, and Representative Executive Officer.

In the intervening years he held a number of positions, including: Managing Executive Officer at both Industrial Bank of Japan and The Mizuho Bank, Ltd.; Corporate Executive Vice President and later Representative Director and Deputy President of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.; Director, Chairman of Citibank Japan Ltd.; and President and CEO, and Representative Executive Officer of Japan Post Bank.

Mr. Nagato graduated from with a Bachelor of Sociology and holds a Master of Arts of Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Yasushi Kinoshita is the Deputy President at the Development Bank of Japan Inc. He was also the former Administrative Vice Minister at the Ministry of Finance. Since first joining the Ministry in 1979, Mr. Kinoshita focused on fiscal policy, monetary policy, banking supervision, and macroeconomic policy. He spent fifteen years in the Budget Bureau, five years in the Banking Bureau, six years in the Minister’s Secretariat for Policy Coordination, four years in international finance-related areas, and three years at the Prime Minister’s Office. After he left the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Kinoshita served as an advisor at Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business of Columbia Business School from October 2014 – March 2015. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Law degree at The University of .

Hugh Patrick is founder and director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, codirector of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, and R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus at Columbia Business School. He completed his BA at Yale University in 1951, earned MA degrees in Japanese studies (1955) and economics (1957), and a PhD in economics at the University of Michigan (1960). His professional publications include 18 books and some 60 articles and essays including most recently How Finance Is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea (Columbia University Press, 2013), co-edited with Yung Chul Park. Professor Patrick has been awarded Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and the Ohira Prize. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1974. In November 1994, the Government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star (Kunnitō Zuihōshō). He received an Eagle on the World award by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York, Inc., in November 2010.

This event is part of CJEB's 30th Anniversary Public Program Series, celebrating CJEB's establishment at CBS in 1986.