Mizuho Financial : Announcement of Changes in Representative Executive Officer(PDF/33KB)

		March 6, 2020
Company Name	: Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Representative	: Tatsufumi Sakai, President & Group CEO
Address	:	1-5-5 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Security Code	:	8411 (Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section)

Announcement of Changes in Representative Executive Officer

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (MHFG) hereby announces the following changes in MHFG's Representative Executive Officer.

1. Changes in Representative Executive Officer

1. Reason for Changes
   Changes in Representative Executive Officer due to changes in Directors and Executive Officers.
2. Changes in Representative Executive Officer

(Effective as of April 1, 2020)

Name		New Position	Current Position
		Senior Managing Executive
		Officer*	Senior Managing Executive Officer
		(Representative Executive Officer)
Seiji Imai
	Head of Corporate & Institutional	Head of Global Corporate
		Company
		Company /
		Head of Global Products Unit
		Member of the Board of Directors,	Member of the Board of Directors,
		Senior Managing Executive Officer*
		Senior Managing Executive Officer
		(Representative Executive Officer)
Satoshi Ishi
	Chief Digital Innovation Officer /	Chief Digital Innovation Officer /
		Head of IT & Systems Group /
		Head of IT & Systems Group /
		Head of Operations Group
		Head of Operations Group
			Senior Managing Executive
			Officer*
Junichi Kato		Resigned	(Representative Executive Officer)
			Head of Global Markets Company
(Note) * : Executive Officers as Defined in the Companies Act

As a result of the changes, the Representative Executive Officers will be three persons; Mr. Tatsufumi Sakai, President & Group CEO, Mr. Seiji Imai and Mr. Satoshi Ishii.

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2. Brief Personal Record of New Representative Executive Officer

MHBK refers to Mizuho Bank, Ltd. in the following Brief Personal Record.

Name	Seiji Imai
Business Experience	Apr. 2019	Deputy President & Executive Officer, In charge of Specially
		Assigned Matters of MHBK. (current)
	Apr. 2018	Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Global Corporate
		Company of MHFG. (current).
	Apr. 2016	Managing Executive Officer, Head of Asia & Oceania excl.
		East Asia of MHFG.
		Managing Executive Officer, Head of Asia & Oceania excl.
		East Asia of MHBK.
	Apr. 2014	Executive Officer, General Manager of Seoul Branch of
		MHBK.
	Joined our group in Apr. 1986
Education	Mar. 1986	Graduated from Faculty of Law, Kyoto University
Date of Birth	June 25, 1962
Number of shares of our common stock owned (as of September 30, 2019): 111,111
Name	Satoshi Ishii
Business Experience	Apr. 2019	Senior Managing Executive Officer, Chief Digital Innovation
		Officer, Head of IT & Systems Group and Head of Operations
		Group of MHFG. (Member of the Board of Directors, Senior
		Managing Executive Officer from June 2019) (current)
		Deputy President & Executive Officer, In charge of Digital
		Innovation Department, Head of IT & Systems Group and
		Head of Operations Group of MHBK. (current)
	Apr. 2017	Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Business
		Promotion of MHBK.
	Apr. 2015	Managing Executive Officer, Head of Human Resources
		Group of MHFG.
	Apr. 2014	Executive Officer, General Manager of Corporate Secretariat
		of MHFG.
	Joined our group in Apr. 1986
Education	Mar. 1986	Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Date of Birth	September 1, 1963

Number of shares of our common stock owned (as of September 30, 2019): 249,929

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