Mr Masaru Honma joined the EBRD in 2002 as Director for Central Asia and Mongolia, based in London. He also covered Uzbekistan as head of the Tashkent Resident Office until 2017. He retired from EBRD in 2018 and is Senior Visiting Researcher of the Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance, Japan. Mr Honma has published several books and many articles on banking supervision, international finance as well as on economic reforms in transition economies.