Special Advisor and member of the Board of Directors at the Canon Institute for Global Studies, a research think tank in Tokyo for which he regularly writes articles. He is also a member of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives); the Trilateral Commission; and the Board of Councillors of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs. He was Assistant Governor at the Bank of Japan in 2006-2010, responsible for the Bank’s all international activities and represented the Bank at G7D, G20D, FSB, OECD/WP3, et. al. Before that, he had worked at the Bank for three decades and also at the BIS in Switzerland and Japan’s Ministry of Finance. After he left the BoJ, he worked as an advisor or a board member at Tokio Marine Holdings (2011-2023); Nomura Securities(2012-2018); Promontory(2010-2016); Japan International Cooperation Agency(2017-2022); the US-Japan Foundation(2012-2022), et al. Mr. Horii received his MBA with distinction, and as a Beta Gamma Sigma, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo.
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