Akiko Jackson is a senior executive with deep and broad financial services experience. She has worked in both strategy and line roles for large financial institutions in Australia, Japan and the U.S. for more than twenty years. She is currently an independent management consultant with a focus on large-scale corporate transformational change management, strategy development/execution and risk management.
Her experience includes leading strategy team and running incubator businesses for Commonwealth Bank of Australia and implementing transformational changes such as post-merger integration and new risk management implementation for Westpac as well as turning around Corporate Banking business and coordinating Initial Public Offering for Shinsei Bank. Akiko has a management consulting background combined with diverse line roles encompassing product development, sales force management, and process and system management.
She recently chaired the capability review of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and was a senior reviewer for the capability review of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the Australian Customs and Border Protection.
Her academic background is in business administration (M.B.A., Stanford University, 1993) and in law (B.Law, Keio University, 1987). Akiko is a Fulbright scholar and a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Akiko is an external representative on the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Board.
