Hirotaka Hideshima

Counsellor on Global Strategy to President and the Board of Directors

From April 2021, Hirotaka HIDESHIMA is Counsellor on Global Strategy to President and the Board of Directors of the Norinchukin Bank.  In November 2022, he became a Taskforce member of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).

Hirotaka HIDESHIMA has worked for the Bank of Japan from April 1989 to March 2021.  He has represented the Bank on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) between August 2010 and September 2012, and then again between January 2018 and March 2019.  He co-chaired the Definition of Capital Subgroup (when it developed the definition of regulatory capital for Basel III), and the Macroprudential Supervision Group (when it developed the G-SIB assessment framework).  From July 2002 to July 2005, he was seconded to the BCBS Secretariat at the Bank for International Settlements.  After being part of a team dealing with Japan’s banking sector problems in the mid-1990s, he served on various working groups of the BCBS.

He was also a member of the Resolution Steering Group of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and its Official Sector Steering Group on interest rate benchmark reform.  He has also been members of the Committee on Financial Markets of the OECD and the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) of the BIS.

He has published a book entitled “BCBS from the inside: how international financial standards are developed” (in Japanese) in May 2021.

Hirotaka Hideshima studied economics and has a master’s degree from the University of Essex and a bachelor’s degree from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.