Nobuya “Nobu” Kawasaki was appointed Chief Executive for Asia Pacific of MUFG Bank on 1 April 2025. He is responsible for overseeing the safety and soundness of the bank’s operations across the 18 markets in the region as well as business promotion led by the Global Corporates, Japanese Corporates and Commercial Banking business groups.

Prior to his current appointment, he was Deputy Group Head of Global Commercial Banking Business Group, responsible for promoting collaborations among MUFG and MUFG’s invested financial institutions.

A seasoned banker with almost three decades of M&A and corporate finance experience, Nobu was involved in various M&As including MUFG’s strategic investments in Security Bank in the Philippines, Bank Danamon in Indonesia, Ascend Money in Thailand and GCash in the Philippines.

Nobu graduated from Keio University with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering in 1995 and a Master of Mechanical Engineering in 1997.