Ashley is the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong. He was first appointed in October 2011. In May 2016, Ashley was elected as Chair of the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and was re-elected for a further two-year term in June 2020.

Ashley was previously Chair of the IOSCO Asia-Pacific Regional Committee and Vice Chair of the IOSCO Board. Ashley has represented IOSCO as a member of the Financial Stability Board Steering Committee and Plenary since his election as IOSCO Board Chair.

Ashley started his career as a lawyer in London in 1984. He moved to Hong Kong in 1989 with the international law firm Herbert Smith, practicing corporate and business law. He was Executive Director of Corporate Finance at the SFC from 2001 to 2004, before returning to Herbert Smith, where he became head of the firm’s Asia Region.

Morita Tokio is the vice minister for international affairs of the Japan’s Financial Services Agency from July 2020 after serving as director-general for strategy development and management bureau at the JFSA from July 2019-July 2020. He also served as the chairperson of the IOSCO Asia-Pacific Regional Committee from September 2020, and the co-chairperson of the IOSCO Follow-Up Group to the Task Force on Cross Border Regulation from October 2020. He graduated from the University of Tokyo (BEc).

Jhinyoung Shin is the Professor of Finance of School of Business, Yonsei University in Korea. Starting from June 2019, he has assumed the duty of the president of Korea Corporate Governance Service, which carries out ESG evaluation, proxy advisory service and policy research to promote the sustainability of Korean firms and the development of Korean capital market. He is also a chairman of Fair Disclosure Committee of KOSDAQ.In 2019, Professor Shin served as a president of Korea Securities Association, the academic society with the longest history and the largest membership in the area of finance in Korea.
He started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Finance in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and he was also invited as a Visiting Senior Fellow in National Singapore University, and Singapore Institute of Management.
Professor Shin graduated from Seoul National University in 1985 with B.A. degree of Economics, and earned an M.A. degree of Economics from the same university in 1987. He received Ph. D in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 while he was a recipient of Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

Ms. Zeniya is Fellow, Corporate Planning Unit of Dai-ichi Life Holdings and also Fellow, Investment Planning Dept. and Head of Sustainable Finance at The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company whose AUM is about 36 trillion yen. She has been responsible for ESG investing and ESG integration into all assets. Before the current role she had been responsible for engagements and proxy voting. Prior to joining The Dai-ichi Life in 2013, she was a
managing advisor for Polaris Capital Group and had been Deputy President of a Japanese regional bank. She is a member of PRI Japan Network Advisory Committee and had been assigned as Working member by MOFA, METI, MOE and is a member of FSA and a board member of GSG NAB Japan.

Takuji Okubo is the North Asia Director of The Economist Corporate Network, managing the Networks in Japan and in South Korea.

Prior to joining The Economist Group, Takuji was the Managing Director and Chief Economist at Japan Macro Advisors, serving global fortune 500 companies and financial institutions in Japan and abroad. In his past career, Takuji was a Chief Economist at Societe Generale, in charge of Japan and of South Korea, and a senior economist at Merrill Lynch and at Goldman Sachs. Outside his role at ECN, Takuji also serves as a non-executive director at Japan Risk Forum, an association of Chief Risk Officers among Japanese financial institutions.

Takuji holds B.A in Economics from Tokyo University and while at the university he was a recipient of prestigious INOUE scholarship. He holds MBA from INSEAD and Msc. In Economics from UPF in Barcelona. Apart from work, he enjoys motor-cycling, scuba-diving, cooking as well as worrying about the future of the Japanese economy.