Akiko is an internationally experienced Non-Executive Director and strategy adviser. Akiko has more than 30 years’ experience as an executive in the financial services industry including with CBA, Macquarie Bank and Westpac in Australia and MUFG and Shinsei Bank in Japan, and as a strategy management consultant in the US and Australia.
Akiko has worked in both the private and the public sectors, in large corporations and start-ups and has extensive experience in strategy & business development, risk management and large-scale transformation, including digital transformation.
Akiko is a Non- Executive Director of the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (‘ACECQA’) and of the Foundation and Friends (F&F) of the Botanic Gardens, and a member of the Portfolio Advisory Council of Services Australia and of the Audit & Risk Committee of Infrastructure NSW. She also chairs the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee of the F&F and is a member of the Audit & Risk Committee of ACECQA.
Akiko’s past directorship includes a Non-Executive Director of 86 400 Limited, as well as being a member of the Advisory Committee of the Australian Treasury and the Strategy Advisory Committee of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
Akiko is a Fulbright Scholar with an MBA from Stanford University in California and has a Bachelor of Law from Keio University in Tokyo.