Naoto Shimoda
General Manager, Digital Strategy Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group & Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Naoto Shimoda is a General Manager in the Digital Strategy Department at SMFG and SMBC, where he leads group-wide initiatives on digital assets. He is passionate about modernizing money and finance using new technologies, including blockchain and AI.
Prior to his current role, Naoto accumulated over 30 years of policy-making experience at the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and the Ministry of Finance (MoF). He held a range of senior leadership positions, including Deputy Director General of the Payments Department, Director of the International Department, Head of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Division, and Chief Representative at the Hong Kong office with APAC coverage at the BoJ, as well as Director for International Financial Affairs at the MoF. He also served as a member of various international fora, such as the CPMI, the G7 Digital Payments Experts Group (co-Chair in 2023), the Financial Innovation Network of the FSB, and the BIS-Central Banks CBDC Coalition.
Naoto holds a degree in Law from Hitotsubashi University and studied Computer Science at Harvard University.
