Mr. Yuichiro Akita

Following seven years of experience in corporate and project financing at MUFG, Mr Yuichiro Akita joined NEXI in 2003. Since then, he has led underwriting teams in the infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, power, and mining sectors. His experience spans sovereign, corporate, project, and asset-backed finance, as well as political risk insurance for equity and subordinated debt. He also led the corporate planning division, overseeing strategic policy and the agency’s mid-term and annual plans. While seconded to the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of Japan, he coordinated overseas infrastructure business promotion policy. He developed untied loan policy guidelines of the LEAD initiative and enhanced loan insurance incentives for green innovation. He was NEXI’s chief negotiator for the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits. As a senior advisor, he currently oversees international and strategic policy issues. He served as Vice Chair of the ECA Committee (2021–2023) and is a member of the Management Committee. 
 
He holds an MBA from the University of Manchester, an MSc in Development Finance from SOAS, University of London, and is currently a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo.