Midori Takasaki

Biography

Midori is a Principal at King Philanthropies, working across both grants and impact investments.

She began her career at Goldman Sachs, where she first supported the management of the company’s liquidity, funding, capital, and allocation of financing, before she moved to the trading floor to structure complex equity derivatives. She then worked at BlackRock on the Public Policy team, with a focus on ESG policy.

Midori received her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business with a Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation, her Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, and a B.A. from Harvard College.