Haruhiko Kuroda

• Governor, Bank of Japan, Japan
• Age: 69
• Country of Citizenship: Japan
• Education: Master of Science, Oxford University

Profile

 The chief banker of the world's third largest economy ($5.9 trillion GDP) was hired in March 2013 after serving as president of the Asian Development Bank for eight years. Kuroda is critical to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abee's new leadership team. The new governor's first order of business is stimulus: two percent inflation target in two years. The BOJ has pledged to inject about 60 to 70 trillion yen ($600 to $700 billion) into the economy annually.