Council of Advisors
*In Alphabetical Order by Last Name, as of July 16th, 2024
Hiroshi Amemiya | Founder, President and CEO, Corporate Citizenship Japan Limited |
Tae Ashida | Fashion Designer |
Mariko Bando | Chancellor, Showa Women's University |
Chris Blackerby | COO, Astroscale Holdings, Inc. |
Junko Chano | Executive Director, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation |
Mark Davidson | Member, Board of Overseers, Temple University Japan; Member, Board of Directors, U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation |
Laurent Depus | Director, SMBC Trust Bank President, Escapade Japan |
Royanne Doi | Outside Director, Gojo & Company Representative Director, US-Japan Council (Japan) |
Amb. Ichiro Fujisaki | President, The America-Japan Society, Inc. Former Ambassador of Japan to the United States |
Todd Guild | Senior Advisor, Beam Suntory |
Jim Hardin | Head of School, The American School in Japan |
Yosuke Hariki | President, Office Hariki |
Ernest Higa | Chairman & CEO, Higa Industries Co. Ltd |
Maya Horii | Partner, Tokyo, McKinsey & Company |
Jason P. Hyland | Board of Directors, BrioNexus KK |
Masao Inouye | President, Drivenets KK |
Joi Ito | Co-founder, board member, and chief architect of Digital Garage President, Chiba Institute of Technology |
Mayumi Jones | Community Volunteer |
Masahide Kametaya | CEO, Progressive Corporation |
Tadahiro Kawada | President, Kawada Technologies, Inc. |
Russell Kawahara | Partner, Atsumi & Sakai |
Yasuhiro Kawamura | President, FRONTIER INTERNATIONAL INC. |
Michael Khoo | President, WINE TO STYLE KK |
Amb. Hans Klemm | Japan Representative, PhRMA Commissioner, Japan-U.S. Educational Commission U.S. Ambassador (ret) |
Kosei Kobayashi | President & CEO, K.K. Holdings |
Nobuko Kobayashi | Managing Director & Partner, EY-Parthenon |
Akihiko Kubo | Managing Director/Representative Director, Tag Japan |
Shinichiro Kumagaya, M.D., Ph.D. |
Associate Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, and a director of Disability Services Office, The University of Tokyo |
Paul Kuo | CEO, Edinburgh Enterprise |
Junichi Kurokoshi | Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP |
Stephanie Lee | Community Volunteer |
Mihoko Manabe | Former Associate Managing Director and Board Member, Moody’s Japan |
Anthony Miller | Managing Director, PAG |
Satoshi Nabe | President, NPO Alon Alon |
Mieko Nakabayashi | Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University |
Katsuya Natori | Attorney-at-Law, ITN Partners |
Kevin Naylor | Vice President, Sales, en world group |
Sam Ohta | President & Publisher, OHTA Publications |
Nami Okubo | President, Preigio Inc. |
Kazu Okuno | Community Volunteer |
Kevin Riendeau | CEO, Anextere |
Gen Sakai | Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director, Bank of America Member of the Board, BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd. |
Scott Sato | Chairman, circlace Inc. |
David Slater | Sophia University |
Sakae Suzuki |
Representative Director and CEO, Social Investment Partners |
Koichi KT Tamura | CDP Worldwide Japan, Chairman TRY Group, REVA, CBA, Board Member Japan Activation Capital, Owner's, Genpact, TOTO, Social Investment Partners, Senior Advisor |
Paul Tange | CEO & Senior Principal Architect, Tange Associates Asia |
Haruko Tokura | Community Volunteer |
Yoko Wada | Community Volunteer |
Karin Wellbrock | COO/Partner, Kay Group K.K. |
Marcus Wong | Partner, Global Mobility Services, Vialto Partners |
Seiichiro Yonekura | Professor, Graduate School of Hosei University Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University President, CR Social Innovation School |
[ Overseas Council of Advisers ]
Heike Boeltzwig-Brown | Senior Research Associate & Program Developer, University of Massachusetts Boston |
Neil Bush | Chairman, Points of Light Foundation |
Deva Hirsch | Hands On Tokyo Founder & President, Emeritus |
D. Steven Lin | Managing Partner, C2 Capital |
Jim Small | VP of Asia Pacific, Major League Baseball |
Efrot Weiss | Community Volunteer |