{"id":169217,"date":"2025-02-27T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T06:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=169217&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T06:52:14","slug":"fukuoka-appoints-alison-birch","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-appoints-alison-birch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Appoints Alison Birch as International Financial Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture has appointed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alison Birch<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, COO of State Street Trust &amp; Banking, as an International Financial Advisor to support efforts in attracting global financial institutions and promoting local startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Burch, who also leads the bank&#8217;s Fukuoka branch, brings over 30 years of experience from JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup. At the appointment ceremony, she highlighted Fukuoka&#8217;s talent pool and low natural disaster risk as advantages for international financial hubs.<\/span><b> Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/press-release\/internationalfinancialadvisor-r70219.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169191\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fn_gofukuoka-atago_2025_WEB-001.jpg?resize=1281%2C1036&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1281\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fn_gofukuoka-atago_2025_WEB-001.jpg?w=1281&amp;ssl=1 1281w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fn_gofukuoka-atago_2025_WEB-001.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fn_gofukuoka-atago_2025_WEB-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C828&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fn_gofukuoka-atago_2025_WEB-001.jpg?resize=768%2C621&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Prefecture has appointed Alison Birch, COO of State Street Trust &#038; Banking, as an International Financial Advisor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":169191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-169217","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/169217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}