Takeshi Mizuguchi

President of Takasaki City University of Economics.

After working for a trading company and an auditing firm, he became a lecturer at Takasaki City University of Economics in 1997, a professor in 2008, and has held his current position since 2021. In the 1990s, he served as the secretariat of the Valdez Study Group, a non-profit organization that introduced concepts such as socially responsible investment (SRI) and environmental reporting to Japan. He specializes in responsible investment and non-financial information disclosure. He is also chair of the Ministry of the Environment's Green Finance Committee, chair of the Financial Services Agency's Expert Panel of Sustainable Finance, and chair of the Impact Consortium.