Rui Koike

Chief of Staff

Rui Koike is Chief of Staff for the Americas at MUFG Bank, Ltd. He assumed this New York-based position in April 2022. His duties include oversight of Latin America and Canada, effective April 2023. 

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Koike was Global Head of Planning for the Global Financial Crimes Division in Tokyo since March 2019. He has more than 27 years of experience in banking, having worked in Japan and the United States while developing his career in strategic planning, organizational development and change management. 

From 2001 to 2019, Mr. Koike held a number of senior roles across multiple divisions of MUFG and its predecessor organizations. He also has previous experience with MUFG in New York, where he was a Director in the Americas Holdings Division in 2015, Manager of Corporate Planning for the Americas from June 2001 to October 2002, and a Banking Officer in Japanese Corporate Banking from April 1999 to June 2001, and with Union Bank, N.A. in San Francisco from 2011 to 2014 as a Director in Liaison Affairs.
 
Mr. Koike graduated from the University of Tokyo with a BA in Law and earned a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.