Ayako Sera is Executive Manager and Senior Market Strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and has over 34 years of experience in market analysis, with a particular focus on foreign exchange and interest rates. She is currently assigned to market analysis and forecasts for proprietary investment planning.

Prior to her current role, she was engaged in fixed income and equity investment, as well as asset allocation for entrusted portfolios in the Public Funds Investment Department. Before she joined the former Sumitomo Trust and Banking, she graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University in 1990.