Tadao Yanase

Tadao Yanase

Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Member of the Board
NTT, Inc., Japan

Mr. Yanase currently serves as the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Member of the Board at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation(NTT), and Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company, Inc. Before taking up the current post, Mr. Yanase held several positions.

He served as the executive secretary to Prime Minister Abe and Aso, which is now known as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. He had also served as the Director General of METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry). Mr. Tadao Yanase holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Tokyo University and a master’s degree from Yale University in economics.