Ryoma Ikeda
Head of Digital Currency Experiments Group, Payment & Settlement Systems Department, Bank of Japan
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Ryoma Ikeda is the Head of the CBDC Experiments Group at the Bank of Japan's Payment and Settlement Systems Department, a position he will hold starting in June 2025. In this role, he oversees the planning and management of the CBDC Forum, which brings together over 60 private-sector companies to discuss a wide range of topics related to retail payments. From March 2023 to June 2025, he supported the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan across a broad range of administrative and policy-related tasks as the policy secretary. Prior to this, he was involved in various areas of monetary policy, international financial regulations, and macro and micro prudence. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Tokyo (2006) and an MBA from the University of Cambridge (2012).
