Julius Caesar Parreñas is Senior Advisor of the Daiwa Institute of Research at the Daiwa Securities Group. He coordinates the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Finance Task Force, the Asia-Pacific Financial Forum (APFF), the Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Partnership (APIP) and the Financial Infrastructure Development Network (FIDN). He represents the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) in the APEC Finance Ministers’ Process. From November 2017 to 2020 he was Senior Advisor at Mizuho Bank Ltd, from 2016 to October 2017 Senior Advisor at Nomura Research Institute and from 2014 to August 2016 Senior Advisor at Nomura Securities Co., Ltd and Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research. From 2009 to 2014, he was Advisor on International Affairs of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd and Senior Advisory Fellow of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs in Tokyo. From 1998 to 2009, Dr. Parreñas was Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Chinatrust Financial Holding Co., Ltd, Policy Advocacy Coordinator of the Asian Bankers' Association and alternate member of the APEC Business Advisory Council from 2000 to 2009. Previous to this, he served in various positions, among others, as Executive Director of the Center for Research and Communication in Manila, Executive Director of the ASEAN Free Trade Area Advisory Commission under the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, and professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific Graduate School of Economics. He was an advisor and consultant to several international, public and private institutions and major companies from Asia, Europe and America. He received his Ph.D., magna cum laude, from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He has authored over 100 publications on international finance, economics and trade.