Makoto Takashima is Chairman of the Board, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG).
Mr. Takashima joined The Sumitomo Bank, Limited - predecessor of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), the core bank of SMFG - in April 1982. After that, his career mainly focused on global banking and corporate strategy.
Mr. Takashima held the post of Managing Executive Officer and CEO of The Americas Division from April 2012, and took up the positions of Senior Managing Executive Officer, Member of the Management Committee, and Co-Head of the International Banking Unit, supervising SMBC’s businesses in Europe and the Americas in April 2014. He was appointed as President and CEO of SMBC in April 2017, and was made a Director of SMFG in June 2017. In April 2023, he was named Chairman of the Board, SMBC. In June 2025, he was named Chairman of the Board, SMFG.
Outside of his duties at SMBC, Mr. Takashima has served twice as Chairman of the Japanese
Bankers Association (April 2019 to March 2020, and July 2021 to June 2022). He has also served on the Institute of International Finance's Board of Directors (April 2017 to March 2023) and Executive Committee (October 2019 to March 2023). In May 2023, the Japan Business Federation appointed Mr. Takashima as Chair, Committee on Europe, and also appointed as Vice Chair and Chair of Committee on Financial and Capital Markets in May 2024.
Mr. Takashima holds a LL.B degree from Kyoto University (1982) and a LL.M degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (1986).