Takahiro YASUI was the Deputy Vice Minister for International Tax Policy of the Ministry of Finance, Japan since July 2018. He was responsible for the policies on international taxation in the Ministry. He also served as Vice Chair of the OECD’s Committee on Fiscal Affairs and a member of Steering Group for the Inclusive Framework on BEPS, as well as Co-Chair of the Forum on Harmful Tax Practices and of the Country-by-Country Reporting Group of the OECD.

He has long experience in tax policy and administration. In the Ministry of Finance, he held the positions of Director of Corporation Tax Policy Division and Director for Property Tax Policy at the Tax Bureau during 2008-2011. He then worked for the National Tax Agency of Japan from 2011 to 2014 as Director of the Criminal Investigation Division, then as Director of the Administration and Legal Division, supporting the Commissioner in the management of the Agency, and from 2017 to 2018 as Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs.

Mr. Yasui also has expertise in corporate governance and financial regulation. He worked at the OECD as Head of Special Projects and Outreach Unitin the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise during 2014-2017, managing the projects in particular for Asian countries on corporate governance and financial regulation issues. He took positions at the Financial Services Agency of Japan from 2003 to 2006.

Mr. Yasui was born in Osaka, Japan in 1963. He received the degrees of Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tokyo and of Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.