- Speaker: Yuko Kawamoto（President of National Personnel Authority）
- Date: Monday, December 16, 2024, 6:30-8:30 pm (including reception)
- Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall
- Language: Japanese (without interpretation)
- Admission: 5,000 yen/person (registration required, drinks and light meal will be provided.)
*This event is exclusively for I-House members.
*On the day of the event, please present your membership card at the reception desk in front of the venue.
*Members may be accompanied by a spouse or partner.
I-House regularly holds members-only events to which a distinguished member is invited as a guest. The Special Lecture Series for Members in December will feature Yuko Kawamoto，President of National Personnel Authority.
Civil service is an important sector that functions as a country’s backbone. The challenges it faces due to rapid changes in society, economy, and the global situation are becoming more complex, though, enhancing the importance of attracting diverse and talented human resources to the sector and enabling them to perform to their full potential. The number of applicants has been declining in recent years, however, and more workers are leaving their jobs. As competition with the private sector for human resources heats up, can the personnel policies for civil servants be updated to attract more employees? In this Special Lecture for Members, National Personnel Authority President Yuko Kawamoto will discuss the current situation and the measures being taken by the NPA.
Yuko is President of National Personnel Authority, appointed by the cabinet in June 2021 with parliamentary consent and imperial attestation. She started her career at the Bank of Tokyo and worked at McKinsey & Company in Tokyo and Paris for 16 years. After that, she was a Professor at Waseda University from 2004 to 2021 teaching ‘Corporate Governance’ and ‘Financial Systems’ to Japanese and foreign students.
When she was a professor, she served as a board member to more than 20 companies. Her career, consists of public sector, private sector of both Japanese and foreign capital and academic world, is very rare and valuable in this country.
She has spearheaded comprehensive reforms in her capacity as a corporate director as well as a member of various government committees, including the privatization, regulatory reform and as National Public Safety Commissioner supervising National Police Agency.
In her three years as President, she has been successful in the various reforms, such as improving the recruitment of new graduates and experienced personnel, correcting long working hours and increasing the flexibility of work style.
She has consistently served as a role model for women. She has held numerous positions where she was the first woman to do so, including being the first female director of Japanese Mega bank, paving the way for future generations.
Yuko holds a BA degree in Social Psychology from University of Tokyo, and a Master degree in Development Economics from Oxford University.