Izumi Kobayashi

Izumi Kobayashi

Director and Member of the Board, ANA Holdings Inc., Tokyo

Izumi Kobayashi is Director and a member of the Board, ANA Holdings, Inc., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., and OMRON Corporation. In 2008 to 13, she was CEO and Executive Vice President of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group. From 2001 to 2008, she was in the position of Representative Director and CEO of Merrill Lynch in Japan. She also served on the Osaka Securities Exchange as a Non-Executive Board Member from 2002 to 08 and Board Member of Japan Association of Corporate Directors from 2007 to 09 and 2015 to 19. Ms. Kobayashi is also co-chair of the Japan chapter of the Women Corporate Directors. She is a graduate of Seikei University in Japan.