Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADB Institute); Professor Emeritus of Keio University, in Tokyo, Japan; and Senior Adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute). He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1979, where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (who was Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser). He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and has been a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France), and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He was an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an Economics Professor at Keio University from 1991 to 2014. He was appointed chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007, and also served as chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s Council on Foreign Exchange and its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). He was also a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors (Ministry of Finance), and was President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was conferred honorary doctorates by the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004 and by Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013; he also received the Fukuzawa Award for his contribution to academic research in 2013.

나오유키 요시노는 아시아 개발 은행(ADB)장이며, 현재 게이오대학교(도쿄) 명예교수이다. 일본 금융 서비스국의 금융연구센터 (FSA Institute)의 수석고문을 맡고 있다. 존스홉킨스 대학에서 1979년에 박사학위를 취득하였으며, 마가릿 대처의 경제고문으로 있었던 Alan Walters의 지도를 받았다. MIT에서 객원연구원으로 있었으며, 뉴사우스 웨일즈 대학(호주), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques(프랑스), University of Gothenburg(스웨덴) 등의 여러 대학교에서 객원연구원으로 활동하고 있다. State University of New York at Buffalo에서 조교수로, 게이오 대학교에서 경제학 교수로 1991년부터 2014년까지 재직하였다. 2007년에 금융계획 기준 심의회 의장으로 임명되었고, 일본 재무부의 외환 및 재정 시스템 위원회(재정투자 및 대출 프로그램 부문) 의장으로 있었다. 또한 일본 예금보험공사의 이사, 일본 정부 채권 투자자 회의 의장(재무부), 일본 재무 시스템 위원회 의장을 역임했다. University of Gothenburg(스웨덴) 에서 2004년에, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (독일)에서 2013년에 명예박사 학위를 받았다. 또한 학문적 연구 성과를 인정받아 2013년에 Fukuzawa Award를 수여 받았다.