Chair of SCSI
Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan
Ryozo Himino has served as deputy governor of the Bank of Japan and as chair of SCSI since March 2023. Before joining the Bank, he chaired the Expert Advisory Group on Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) at the European Central Bank (2022-2023), taught at the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Tokyo (2021-2023), headed the Japanese Financial Services Agency (2020-2021), and chaired SRC (2019-2021). At the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, he helped the Committee finalize Basel II in 2004 as its secretary general and led the launch of the Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) in 2012 when he chaired the Standard Implementation Group.
Ryozo graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1983 (LL. B) and Harvard Business School in 1987 (MBA). His publication includes The Japanese Banking Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).