Masato Kanda
Masato Kanda | |
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| File:President Masato Kanda meets President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan (54923368329) - cropped.jpg Kanda in 2025 | |
| Born | January 17, 1965 |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo (BA) St Hugh's College, Oxford (MPhil) |
| Occupation | Senior bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance |
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Masato Kanda (神田 眞人) is a Japanese bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance. Since 2021, he has served as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs (財務官, zaimukan), the country's top currency diplomat.[1] Due to the yen being traded in the weakest range in the past three decades during his tenure, his remarks on the possibility of currency intervention often make news headlines, in which he is sometimes referred to as the country's 'FX Tsar'.[2][1]
He was born in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, on January 17th, 1965. He attended Nada High School in Kobe, then went on to study law at the University of Tokyo.[3] At the university, he learnt international politics from Yōichi Masuzoe, later Governor of Tokyo. After graduation, he started working for the Ministry of Finance. From 1989, he studied economics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, from which he graduated with an MPhil.[4] Although most of his career has been spent at the ministry, he has also spent a few years each working for the World Bank and the OECD.[5]
In November 2024, Kanda was elected the 11th President of the Asian Development Bank[6] and assumed office on 24 February 2025.[7]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b "Japan's Kanda reappointed as top FX diplomat amid markets jitters". Reuters. 2022-06-17. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
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- ^ "CHRONICLE October 2016- September 2017". St Hugh's College, Oxford. 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "Short bios". Minister of Finance. 2023-05-08. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
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External links
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