Roundtable

The English-language events will invite readers of The Japan Times to be guest speakers.

Havary’s recyclable paper bottles make water special

Nader Sammouri CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Perhaps the primary issue in achieving sustainable targets is not an absence of awareness but a lack of something far...

IGES: Preserving biodiversity with science, foreteller insects

Nader Sammouri Contributing writer

How blind are we to things too big to see directly? Take the environment — why should people care? Our...

The venue is the message for G7 talks host Hiroshima

Warren Meehan Contributing writer

As the host city for next year’s Group of Seven summit, Hiroshima conveys a particularly intrinsic message about humanity’s capacity...

U.N.U. Mahesti Okitasari – Sustainability needs not uniformity but coherence

Warren Meehan
Contributing writer

Growing up in an “informal settlement” in Indonesia, an urban village community that formed organically with unplanned spatial layouts and...

Decarbonizing built environments: Who’s taking action?

Nader Sammouri
Contributing Writer

People once struggled through forests to reach home. Today, one may look desperately to find a line of trees among...

At upcycled bag brand Plasticity, sustainability is style

Warren Meehan
Contributing writer

Aki Saito hopes the fashion brand she created will be doomed by environmental progress — in fact, the company’s tag...

Entrepreneur Kaori Sasaki makes diversity a science

Warren Meehan
Contributing writer

While today’s companies fight for the innovative edge out in the marketplace, they also increasingly tout their commitment to diversity...

For ‘water optimizer’ company Brita, every drop counts

Warren Meehan
Contributing writer

Finding and defining a company’s purpose is not an easy task, and once found, it is even harder for a...

Designing from the Earth up: IDEO puts long term first

Joe Muntal
Contributing writer

In 1980, Steve Jobs asked a new design firm to develop a mouse for what would be one of the...

Patagonia sets examples on food, farms and future

Joe Muntal
Contributing writer

Sustainability presents a catch-22 for the business world. While shifting to renewable energy and removing environmentally harmful materials from supply...

Gavin Dixon: changing organizations, and the world

Timothy Schultz
Contributing writer

In the corporate world, sustainability is one of the hottest topics and biggest goals. Unfortunately for most companies, it is...

Kicking for inclusion: How soccer is helping homeless

Timothy Schultz
Contributing Writer

When you see an adult soccer team practicing in Japan, you usually don’t pay much attention. They will be running...

Ross Rowbury

Ross Rowbury is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Group Corporate Communications at Nomura Holdings. He has observed Japan while living and working here for four decades. Commencing his career in finance in Tokyo during the early 1980s, he later moved into public relations and communications, holding senior positions at Gavin Anderson & Co. (now Kreab) and PRAP Japan. He headed the Edelman business in Japan for 10 years until July 2020. Prior to joining Nomura in October, he was a freelance consultant to a number of firms on their Japan business strategy. He serves on the Board of TELL, a suicide prevention and mental health NPO, and was a visiting professor of Asian marketing at Doshisha University in Kyoto for several years.

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