Japan (Tokyo)

Mr. Takejiro Sueyoshi was appointed Special Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme Financial Initiative (UNEP FI) in the Asia Pacific region in July 2003, after 4 years as Deputy President at Nikko Asset Management. He spent the majority of his career with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, joining The Mitsubishi Bank Ltd. from The University of Tokyo in April 1967, where he rose to become head of US sales in 1989, based in New York, before being appointed New York Branch Manager and member of the Board in 1994. In 1996 he was appointed President of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, New York, a post he held until joining Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. in June 1998.