Mr. Takada is the Director for Strategy Development at the JFSA responsible for financial market policies including promotion of international financial centres and sustainable finance. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1995 and worked on various policy areas including public finance, tax and financial services. His secondment experiences include: study in the UK (1997-99); HM Treasury (the UK finance ministry, 2003-06); National Policy Unit (2009-11); OECD, Paris, where he was engaged in green finance (2015-18); and the Climate Change Office at the Cabinet Secretariat (2021). From 2018, in his private capacity, Mr. Takada runs the Green Finance Network Japan, an informal network of key players on green finance in Japan. Mr. Takada received a Bachelor degree in Law (University of Tokyo), a Master degree in Law (Cambridge University) and an MBA (Imperial College London).