Hayashi Nobumitsu is Governor of Japan Bank for International Cooperation, or JBIC. JBIC is policy-based financial institution wholly owned by the Government of Japan and conducts worldwide lending, investment, and guarantee operations, in order to support Japanese companies and the sound development of the Japanese economy, and to contribute to the global community in its quest for SDGs and carbon neutrality. Mr. Hayashi, a Japanese national, started his professional career at the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan upon graduating the University of Tokyo in 1980. Since then, he held various senior positions at the Ministry, in charge of economic policy, government finance, and international finance, including Director-General of the Finance Bureau and President of the Policy Research Institute, and finally was appointed Commissioner of the National Tax Administration in 2014. He was Executive Assistant to Prime Minister from 2007 to 2008 and, from 2010 to 2012, served as Executive Director for Japan at the World Bank Group.
