Keiko Honda

Keiko Honda is a Professor at Waseda Business School. She also serves on the Board of Recruit Holdings, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, as Chair of the Board of the University of Tokyo, and as a member of the United Nations Investments Committee.

Previously, Keiko served as Chief Executive Officer of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group, where she led initiatives to promote foreign direct investment in emerging markets, including the expansion of blended finance. She also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and as Chair of the Nomination Committee of AGC (formerly Asahi Glass) until 2026.

From 2020 to 2024, Keiko was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Earlier in her career, she spent 24 years at McKinsey & Company, where she became the first woman in Asia to be elected Senior Partner.

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