Mr. Yoshida started his career at the Japanese Ministry of Finance (MOF) in 1984. After serving in the Minister's Secretariat and the Budget, Tax, Financial and International Bureaus, mostly dealing with international affairs, he was appointed Deputy Director-General and then Senior Deputy Director-General of the International Bureau. He was appointed Deputy Vice-Minister for International Tax Policy in 2016.
From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Yoshida was seconded from the MOF to the International Monetary Fund, where he worked on the Euro Area's Crisis as Mission Chief of the European Department. He also served as Executive Director for Japan at the World Bank Group before retiring from public service in 2021. He was appointed to his current role as Executive Officer in charge of Global Strategy at Japan Exchange Group, Inc. in April 2022.
Mr. Yoshida graduated from Waseda University and holds an M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University. He also worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
