Takuya Fujii
Takuya Fujii
Takuya Fujii is the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of CP Group, the largest agri/food company in the world (based in Thailand) and is the Vice-Chairman of Financial Group Advisory Board Asia, an IBM company. Beside the business, he is President of Shimonaka Memorial Foundation established in 1962, the aim of which is to enhance “Peace” and “Education”. He had a distinguished three-decade career at The Bank of Japan, where he was steeped in both banking supervision and monetary policy. He was appointed in 1998 by the Prime Minister of Japan to be President and Chief Executive Officer of Nippon Credit Bank after the struggling bank was placed under government control due to a high volume of bad loans. Over the course of three years, he ran the nationalization of the company and succeeded in its subsequent sale to a consortium of SoftBank Corp., Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., and Orix Corp. After the Nippon Credit Bank assignment, Fujii assumed Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies Japan and Special Adviser to the Board of UFJ Holdings, a leading Japanese bank holding company that is now part of Mitsubishi UFJ Holdings. Fujii graduated from the University of Tokyo and received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
