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Ms. Keiko Tashiro, CFA

Member of the Board
Deputy President
Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

Ms. Tashiro began her career with the Daiwa Securities Group in 1986, following her graduation from Waseda University with a BA in Political Science. She received an MBA from Stanford University in 1991 and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2011.

She has held various positions at Daiwa, including overseas assignments in Singapore, London and New York. In Japan, in addition to her role as Head of Investor Relations between 1999 and 2005, she spent six years in the retail division of the Group, expanding the non-branch channel (online and call center) and defining a business model for the Group’s retail operations. She held the position of Senior Managing Director, Head of FICC for two years before serving as Executive Managing Director and Chairperson of Daiwa Capital Markets America from 2013-16. She was appointed Senior Executive Managing Director of Daiwa Securities Group, Head of Overseas Operations in 2016 and Deputy President in 2019. From 2020 to 2024, she held various sectors as Deputy President, including Overseas Operations, SDGs, Sustainability, and Think Tank initiatives. Currently, she continues to serve as Deputy President, overseeing Sustainability, Financial Literacy and Education, Securities Asset Management, and Think Tank functions.

She serves various roles in the development of our economy systems:
-Vice Chairman at the Japan Association of Corporate Executive
-Trustee of the IFRS foundation
-Member of the Harvard Business School Japan Advisory Board
-Member of the Business Accounting Council at the Financial Services Agency of Japan