Hiroki Kawai is the Executive Officer in charge of the Equities Department and Financial Literacy Support Department at the Tokyo Stock Exchange. After graduating from the Waseda University Faculty of Law, he began his career at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Bond Department in 1990.

He then acquired extensive experience and took on progressively more responsibility in many various roles around the exchange within the Equities, Human Resources, IT Development, and Corporate Strategy Departments.

In these roles, he oversaw various educational and promotional activities to encourage household asset building by Japanese individual investors through equity investment as well as revised the Tokyo Stock Exchange market rule framework to improve convenience for investors