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Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Satoshi Yamada has been a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) since 2022. He has over 25 years’ experience in the Japanese private sector. From 2018 to 2022, Mr. Yamada was stationed in Washington, D.C., where he worked to establish a government relations and public policy team. During that time, he also worked with U.S. industry associations and think tanks engaging the U.S. government (both the Trump and Biden administrations) and the Congress. Prior to 2018, he worked on various social infrastructure projects in emerging economy countries, collaborating with multilateral development banks and development aid agencies. He holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also studied at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Mr. Oya assumed current position from November 2024. Prior to that, he worked at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), where he was involved in financing infrastructure and resource projects and launching a carbon fund, and also served as head of JBIC New Delhi office and Director, head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Tokyo office. Chief Analyst of Sojitz Research Institute from August 2024. Master of Laws, Boston University Master of Finance, George Washington University