#25 Roundtable

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 16:00 to 17:00 JST: Talk session

Hidehiko Yuzaki

Hidehiko Yuzaki is Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture. It is his fourth term since he was first elected in 2009. He co-founded ACCA Networks in 2000 and served as Executive Vice President and Representative Director to engage in the diffusion of...

#24 Roundtable

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 16:00 to 17:00 JST: Talk session

Yasuo Takahashi

Yasuo Takahashi is Research Manager of the Biodiversity and Forests Area at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) since 2019, mainly involved in biodiversity-related science-policy interfaces and socio-ecological system research. He has contributed to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on...

#23 Roundtable

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 14:30 to 15:30 JST: Talk session

Mahesti Okitasari

Mahesti Okitasari is a Research Associate at UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability based in Tokyo, Japan. She joined the Institute in 2014 as a JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Prior to joining UNU, she has several years of...

#22 Roundtable

Friday, August 5, 2022 11:30 to 12:30 JST: Talk session

Stuart Kay

Stuart Kay has over two decades of experience in business leadership in the real assets sector. He is an innovator in ESG-driven value creation strategies for real assets with depth of experience in decarbonization and cost optimization across multiple asset...

#21 Roundtable

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 14:30 to 15:30 JST: Talk session

Aki Saito

Aki Saito is a Japanese designer and the founder of PLASTICITY. After having spent most of her life in multicultural environments, she returned to Tokyo to start her career. Living and working in one of the most convenient cities in...

#20 Roundtable

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 15:30 to 16:30 JST: Talk session

Kaori Sasaki

Kaori Sasaki is a well-known diversity expert who invented the Diversity Index, produces, and chairs the largest diversity conference in Asia, ICWB, with over 1000 participants each year over 30 years. She is a well-known entrepreneur and a role model...

#19 Roundtable

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:30 to 11:30 JST: Talk session

Michael Magee

Michael Magee is Managing Director of BRITA Japan where he works to bring to life the company’s vision “to change the way people drink water sustainably.” In this role he has turned around a struggling business while addressing his concern...

#18 Roundtable

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 12:00 to 13:00 JST: Talk session

Amelia Juhl

Amelia is a Design Director at IDEO Tokyo. Raised in a multicultural community in Tokyo, she thrives on having open-minded conversations with people that alert her to her own blind spots – which is her fuel for new ideas. Amelia...

#17 Roundtable

Monday, Ferburary 14, 2022 14:30 to 15:30 JST: Talk session

Marthy Pomphrey

Marty Pomphrey is the General Manager of Patagonia International Inc., Japan Branch. Pomphrey began his professional career as a market analyst at Nike Japan. Since 2007, after serving as vice president at Fossil Japan, he was involved in a number...

#16 Roundtable

Friday, January 14, 2022 15:30 to 16:30 JST: Talk session

Gavin Dixon

Originally, from Australia, Gavin has lived and worked in Europe and Asia in a wide variety of industries ranging from consulting, journalism, travel management, professional sport and NPOs. He is now co-founder and Director of Global Perspectives K.K., a Tokyo...

#15 Roundtable

Tuesday, December 9, 2021 13:00 to 14:00 JST: Talk session

Naofumi Suzuki

Naofumi Suzuki, PhD. Executive Director of Diversity Soccer Association and Professor (Sociology of Sport) at Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. His research and practical interest has been in how sport and play can contribute positively to creating inclusive...

#14 Roundtable

Date and time: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 15:00 to 16:00 JST: Talk session

Kathy Matsui

Kathy Matsui is General Partner of MPower Partners, Japan's first ESG-focused global venture capital fund. Kathy is the former Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs Japan and Chief Japan Equity Strategist. Her groundbreaking ‘Womenomics’ research spurred the Japanese government to promote...