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SPEAKERS
Noritaka Akamatsu
Regional Advisor for Capital Market Development, East Asia & Pacific The World Bank
Mr. Akamatsu is a Lead Financial Economist of the World Bank and serves as Finance & Private Sector Program Manager
for Vietnam and Capital Market Advisor for East Asia & Pacific (EAP) Region, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. He joined the
Bank in 1993 as Financial Economist and has been specializing in the area of financial market development. Prior to
assuming the current position, he served as a leader of Capital Markets Group of the central anchor unit of the
Bank's financial sector network in Washington. He has worked on numerous lending operations, technical assistance
projects and the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) in: Indonesia, China, Thailand, South Korea, the
Philippines, India, Russia, Romania, Turkey, Croatia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia, Peru and others as well
as Vietnam. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Akamatsu worked for Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo and London
where he was responsible for advising governments on financial market development, privatization and international
bond issuance. Mr. Akamatsu holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MSc in Economics from London School
of Economics.
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