Ms Kaori Iida is the Senior Editor of the Economics News Division at NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster. Kaori joined NHK after graduating from Keio University in Tokyo with a major in Political Science. She was assigned to the Economics News Division in 1996 and was the Senior Economics Correspondent in the Washington DC News Bureau from 2004 to 2008.She was also the anchor for NHK’s flagship business news programs “Biz and Sports” and “Biz Plus” conducting in-depth interviews with world leaders in business, government and finance from 2010 through 2014.