Tsuzuri Sakamaki is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  From 2008 to 2013, Sakamaki was a chief advisor seconded from Japan’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to carry out a technical assistance project to enhance the nation’s central bank’s banking supervision capacity.  During this time, Sakamaki instructed the SBV supervisors in methodologies and techniques regarding CAMELS off-site monitoring of the financial conditions of Vietnamese credit institutions and demonstrated Japan’s newly launched bank rating system (FIRST) to help the bank supervisors utilize the financial monitoring results and evaluate the banks’ risk management in an efficient and effective manner.   Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, Sakamaki managed an office of MOF to oversee the development, implementation and maintenance of procedures and practices for measuring, monitoring and managing information security risk incurred by the MOF’s Local Finance Bureaus’ information systems and networks.