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.