March 22, 2021 Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. Changes of Directors and Executive Officers Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. hereby announces changes of Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers (including changes in their areas of responsibility, etc.) of the following entities within the Group : Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (MHFG) Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (MHBK) Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (MHTB) Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (MHSC) Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd. (MHRT) 1 Contents Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (MHFG) .......................................................................................................... 3 1. Changes of Member of the Board of Directors ..................................................................................... 3 2. Changes of Executive Officers .............................................................................................................. 3 3. Directors and Executive Officers as of April 1, 2021 .......................................................................... 5 Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (MHBK) ............................................................................................................................ 8 1. Changes of Directors and Executive Officers ...................................................................................... 8 2. Directors and Executive Officers as of April 1, 2021 ......................................................................... 12 Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (MHTB) ................................................................................................ 15 1. Changes of Directors and Executive Officers .................................................................................... 15 2. Directors and Executive Officers as of April 1, 2021 .......................................................................... 17 Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (MHSC) ........................................................................................................... 19 1. Changes of Directors and Executive Officers .................................................................................... 19 2. Directors and Executive Officers as of April 1, 2021 .......................................................................... 22 Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd. (MHRT)* ...................................................................................... 24 1. Changes of Directors and Executive Officers .................................................................................... 24 2. Directors and Executive Officers as of April 1, 2021 .......................................................................... 26 ＊ A core company formed through the merger of Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc. and Mizuho Research Institute Ltd. on April 1, 2021, to lead Mizuho’s non-financial business domains. 2 Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (MHFG) 1. Change of Member of the Board of Directors Member of the Board of Directors scheduled to resign (Effective as of April 1, 2021) Hiroaki Ehara (Currently Member of the Board of Directors and Managing Executive Officer) 2. Changes of Executive Officers Executive Officers in this section mean either executive officers as defined in the Companies Act or executive officers as defined in our internal regulations. Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2021) Current Position Deputy President & Senior Managing Senior Executive Head of Corporate & Head of Corporate & Executive Officer Seiji Imai Officer Institutional Company /Head of Institutional Company / Head of (Representative (Representative Global Corporate Company Global Products Unit Executive Officer) Executive Officer) Masahiro Senior Managing Head of Retail & Business (same as on the Otsuka (Note) Executive Officer Banking Company left) Head of Global Products Unit / Deputy Head of Strategic Deputy Head of Corporate & Managing Managing Planning Group / Deputy Head Masahiro Kihara Institutional Company / Deputy Executive Officer Executive Officer of Financial Control & Head of Global Corporate Accounting Group Company Head of Strategic Planning Managing Head of Strategic Planning Managing Naoshi Inomata Group / In Charge of Specially Executive Officer Group Executive Officer Assigned Matters Head of Human Resources Nobuhiro Managing General Manager of Corporate Group / General Manager of Executive Officer Kaminoyama Executive Officer Secretariat Corporate Secretariat In Charge of Specific Daisuke Managing Business, Retail & Business － Horiuchi Executive Officer Banking Company In Charge of Specific Business Managing Shuji Matsuura CEO for the Americas Executive Officer of Corporate & Institutional Executive Officer Company Managing CEO for Asia & Oceania excl. Yasuhiro Kubota － Executive Officer East Asia 3 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2021) Current Position Deputy Head of Research & Masato Managing Consulting Unit / In Charge of Managing Joint Head of Global Products Tsuruoka Executive Officer Specific Business, Global Executive Officer Unit for Cross-entity Strategy Products Unit Managing Deputy Head of Strategic Joint Head of Compliance Itaru Shirakawa Executive Officer Executive Officer Planning Group Group for Cross-entity Strategy In Charge of Specific Mitsuhiro Managing In Charge of Specific Business Business, Strategic Planning Executive Officer Kanazawa Executive Officer of Strategic Planning Group Group Managing Deputy Head of Human Deputy Head of Human Satoshi Asai Executive Officer Executive Officer Resources Group Resources Group Tsutomu Deputy Head of Global Executive Officer － Yamamoto Products Unit In Charge of Specific Norifumi Executive Officer Business, Global Products － Akiyama Unit To be Deputy President & Executive Officer Managing Head of Human Resources Hiroaki Ehara Reassigned (Representative Director) Executive Officer Group of MHTB Kazuyuki To be Deputy President & Managing In Charge of Specific Business Reassigned Akiyama Executive Officer of MHTB Executive Officer of Research & Consulting Unit Head of Global Corporate Hiroshi Senior Managing Resigned Company / Deputy Head of Nagamine Executive Officer Global Products Unit Senior Managing Teiji Teramoto Resigned Head of the Americas Executive Officer Managing Head of Asia & Oceania excl. Hidekatsu Take Resigned Executive Officer East Asia In Charge of Specific Business Hiroki Tominaga Resigned Executive Officer of Retail & Business Banking Company (Note) Mr. Masahiro Otsuka will remain Senior Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. due to the change of announcement on February 19, 2021. 4 3. Directors and Executive Officers as of April 1, 2021 Members of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers as Defined in the Companies Act Members of the Board of Directors, President & Group CEO Tatsufumi Sakai President & Group CEO (Representative Executive Officer) Members of the Board of Directors, Chief Digital Innovation Officer / Head of IT & Systems Group / Senior Managing Executive Officer Satoshi Ishii Head of Operations Group (Representative Executive Officer) Members of the Board of Directors, Makoto Umemiya Head of Financial Control & Accounting Group Senior Managing Executive Officer Motomori Wakabayashi Head of Risk Management Group Chairman (Kaicho) Sato engages in the company’s external Members of the Board of Directors, activities, but does not chair the Board meetings. The Board Yasuhiro Sato Chairman (Kaicho) meetings are chaired by the independent director chair Izumi Kobayashi. Member of the Audit Committee Members of the Board of Directors Hisaaki Hirama Chairman of the Risk Committee Member of the Nominating Committee Tetsuo Seki Member of the Compensation Committee Chairman of the Audit Committee Chairman of the Nominating Committee Tatsuo Kainaka Member of the Compensation Committee Member of the Audit Committee Members of the Board of Directors Yoshimitsu Kobayashi Member of the Nominating Committee (Outside Director) Ryoji Sato Member of the Audit Committee Member of the Nominating Committee Masami Yamamoto Chairman of the Compensation Committee Chairman of the Board of Directors Izumi Kobayashi Member of the Nominating Committee Member of the Risk Committee Deputy President & Head of Corporate & Institutional Company / Senior Executive Officer Seiji Imai Head of Global Corporate Company (Representative Executive Officer) Masahiro Otsuka Head of Retail & Business Banking Company Senior Managing Executive Officer Naofumi Fuke Co-Head of Retail & Business Banking Company Managing Executive Officer Masatoshi Yoshihara Co-Head of Global Markets Company 5 Yasuhiro Shibata Co-Head of Global Markets Company Head of Asset Management Company / In Charge of Specific Masamichi Ishikawa Business, Strategic Planning Group Head of Global Products Unit / Deputy Head of Corporate & Masahiro Kihara Institutional Company / Deputy Head of Global Corporate Company Managing Executive Officer Yasuhiko Ushikubo Head of Research & Consulting Unit Naoshi Inomata Head of Strategic Planning Group Head of Human Resources Group / General Manager of Nobuhiro Kaminoyama Corporate Secretariat Masaomi Takada Head of Compliance Group Hisashi Kikuchi Head of Internal Audit Group Executive Officers as Defined in Our Internal Regulations Deputy Chairman & Toshitsugu Okabe In Charge of Specially Assigned Matters Executive Officer Goji Fujishiro In Charge of Western Japan In Charge of Specific Business, Retail & Business Banking Daisuke Horiuchi Company Shuji Matsuura CEO for the Americas