Yasuaki Watanabe

Representative Director of GIC. Holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Tohoku University. Served as a professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Kindai University from 2013 to 2026, has held posts as a visiting professor at Stanford University and a visiting researcher in the Department of Economics at MIT, and completed an executive program at Harvard Business School. Brings extensive hands-on experience in finance, including at JPMorgan Chase, and is a Chartered Member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan (CMA) and a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA). As a management consultant, has worked with many companies, including Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide, Vector, Daido Life Insurance, and Nippon Kanzai.