YOKOSHIMA Naohiko

Mr. YOKOSHIMA Naohiko was appointed as President of NEDO in October 2023.

Prior to joining NEDO, Mr. Yokoshima spent most of his career as a legal and legislative officer at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, where he held various director positions, amongst them with the Minister’s Secretariat, the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, and the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy. During his career in public service, Mr. Yokoshima served at several other government agencies including the Japan Patent Office, the Prime Minister’s Office, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. He also worked at the Japanese Delegation to the OECD as First Secretary, where he covered trade and industrial policy.

Mr. Yokoshima earned an LLB from The University of Tokyo in 1994 and an LLM from New York University in 2000. He also studied public relations at the Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies, University of Tokyo from 1992 to 1994, and international relations at Columbia University East Asian Institute in 2001.