Profile
Keisuke Ito, CFA, joined the Industrial Bank of Japan (now Mizuho Bank) in 1991 and has worked as a financial engineer at Mizuho group for 34 years. In addition to serving as a guest professor at Waseda, he is a professor at Seikei University Faculty of Business Administration, a guest professor at the University of Tsukuba, and an executive advisor at Mizuho-DL Financial Technology. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Waseda University, his MBA from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Science Tokyo.
Selected Publications
<Journal Articles>
Ito, K. 2025. When Do Green Stocks Outperform Brown Stocks? Journal of Impact and ESG Investing. 5(4):133-157.
Ito, K. 2023. Carbon Neutral and Equity Investments. Securities Analysts Journal. 61(1), 89-100.
<Books>
Ito, K., S. Ogishima, and T. Suwabe. 2009. New Securities Investments II: Practical Edition. Nikkei Business Publications. (Co-authored)
Ito, K., and S. Uematsu. 2021. CMA Program Textbook Level 1: Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management Session 4 -Fundamentals of Derivatives Analysis-. The Securities Analysts Association of Japan. (Co-authored)
Courses in charge
Business Ethics for Financial Professionals
AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data for Financial Professionals
Asset Allocation Exercises (Evening MBA)
Seminar on Asset Allocation (Evening MBA)
Others
Member of the Investment Committee, National Pension Fund Association
Member of the Investment Committee, Police Mutual Aid Association
Member of the Investment Committee, Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center
Member of the Pension Investment Committee, the Mutual Aid Association of Prefectural Government Personnel