Dr. Mari Kobayashi

Dr. Kobayashi is a professor at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda. She was a president of the Board of Audit of Japan from 2018-2019, and the deputy president of the Board of Audit of Japan from 2013-2018. Dr. Kobayashi is the chair of JICPA Self-Regulatory Monitoring Conference from 2021. She is the chair of Subcommittee on Financial Inspection, Intellectual Property Committee, Industrial Structural Counsil from 2021. She is also a member of a JICPA project team studying governance for public service deliverers from 2023.

In Japan, Dr. Kobayashi was a member of the Fiscal System Council; Business Accounting Council; Secretariat of Supervisory Commission for Public-Private and Private-Private Competitive Tenderings; Committee for the Promotion of the Private Finance Initiative; and Commission on Policy Evaluation and Evaluation of Incorporated Administrative Agencies, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Dr. Kobayashi was also a member and chief of executive committee for the working group on local public enterprise strategy throughout the 21st century for the Local Public Enterprise preCommunications, and an expert advisor for the Committee for the Promotion of the Private Finance Initiative.

Dr. Kobayashi earned a PhD in commerce at Waseda University and has published many articles and books including, the Management Accounting for the Government.

Her Technical Advisor is Takeo Fukiya.