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Countering Headwinds with Creativity

In addition to the global turmoil caused by COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has created an unprecedented level of uncertainty in the global economy.

Rising resource prices, supply chain fragmentation and climate change issues are just a few of the growing challenges that companies must overcome.

What strategies should companies develop and implement in order to compete and grow amid these difficult and unpredictable conditions?

Prominent business leaders active on the front lines of their respective industries will share their thoughts and engage in heated discussions.

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WHAT’S NEW
  • 2023.08.17

    The website for NIKKEI FORUM 25th Nikkei Global Management Dialogue is now open.

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  • 2023.01.01

    The 25th Nikkei Global Management Forum (NGMF2023) is scheduled to be held on November 7 (Tue) -8 (Wed), 2023.

  • 2022.11.09

    The 24th Nikkei Global Management Forum ended with a success on November 9(Wed), 2022. We deeply thank all of your participation.
    The outline of the forum and overview of the lectures are posted on The Nikkei (paper and digital edition), Nikkei Asia (an English news site).
    Video Archives will open on November 24th (JST, Tentative).
    For viewing URL and how to watch, please check an email sent from the secretariat at a later date.
    Next year's 25th Nikkei Global Management Forum (NGMF2023) is scheduled to be held on November 7 (Tue) -8 (Wed), 2023.

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7 Take-aways

How will digital technology transcend time and space?

The search for a solution to achieving carbon neutrality and beyond.

Invest to survive, Invest to grow.

Differences make our careers diverse and our society more colorful.

A look at the advantages of localization.

How to turn a mighty crisis into a winning opportunity.

Management philosophy has no borders.

SPEAKERS

*As of October 13, 2022
*Honorifics and titles omitted, in no particular order.
*Please be advised that speakers and programs may be subject to change.

online attendance

Yoshiharu Hoshino

CEO
Hoshino Resorts

Joanne C. Crevoiserat

CEO
Tapestry

Kenichiro Yoshida

Chairman, President and CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer
Sony Group Corporation

Shigenobu Nagamori

Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO
Nidec Corporation

Amin H. Nasser

President and CEO
Saudi Aramco

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder
Blackstone Group

Christian Mumenthaler

CEO
Swiss Re Group

Koshiro Kudo

President
Asahi Kasei Corp.

John Riady

CEO
Lippo Karawaci

Jaroslaw Kutylowski

CEO
DeepL

Annika Falkengren

Managing Partner
Lombard Odier Group

John Murphy

President and CFO
The Coca-Cola Company

Janice Lee

CEO, Viu and Managing Director, PCCW Media Group

John McCalla-Leacy

Head of Global ESG
KPMG International

Tan Hooi Ling

Co-Founder
Grab

Peter Bakker

President and CEO
WBCSD

Akio Yamaguchi

General Manager and President
IBM Japan

Sota Watanabe

CEO
STAKE TECHNOLOGIES

Masahiro Morimoto

CEO
FRONTEO

Ken Jimbo

Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Keio University

Takashi Nawa

Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School
Professor, Kyoto University of Advanced Science

Kazuo Mori

Journalist
Former Special Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Jean-François Manzoni

President
IMD

Kazuo Ichijo

Professor (Innovation, Leadership)
IMD

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Professor
Harvard Business School

About

Held every year in the fall, the Nikkei Global Management Forum is the most prestigious event organized by Nikkei Inc. Famous executives from around the world gather for two days to discuss critical issues while offering their own insight.

Since the first forum held in 1999, Nikkei Global Management Forum was attended by Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of General Electric; Fujio Mitarai, President and CEO of Canon; Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google; and Jack Ma, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and many other global business leaders.

The last event (2021) was the first time since the coronavirus disaster that paid attendees were invited to the venue. Overseas lecturers, including Colin Angle, chairman of iRobot Corp., and Shantanu Narayan, Chairman of Adobe, participated online, while domestic lecturers, including Kentaro Oyama, chairman of Iris Group, and Tomoko Namba, chairman of DeNA, took the stage.

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Date
November 8 (Tue)‐9 (Wed), 2022
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IMPERIAL HOTEL, TOKYO (TEIKOKU HOTEL) Access
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Program

November 8 (Tue)

09:00 - 09:05

Opening

09:05 - 09:35

 1-1

Embarking on new business challenges through creativity

Kenichiro Yoshida

Chairman, President and CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Sony Group Corporation

Moderator Atsushi Nakayama

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

09:45 - 10:15

 1-2

Web3 - pioneer of a new model of capitalism

Sota Watanabe

CEO, STAKE TECHNOLOGIES

Moderator Keita Sekiguchi

Fintech Editor, Nikkei Inc.

10:25 - 10:55

 1-3

Entrepreneurial spirit fostered in Indonesia, a land of business opportunities

John Riady

CEO, Lippo Karawaci

Moderator Koya Jibiki

Jakarta Bureau Chief, Nikkei Inc.

11:05 - 11:35

 1-4

Unlocking resilient growth in post-pandemic Southeast Asia

Tan Hooi Ling

Co-Founder, Grab

Moderator Akito Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Asia Chief business news correspondent, Nikkei Inc. (Based in Singapore)

11:35 - 13:20

Break

13:20 - 13:50

 1-5

Transforming Japanese businesses with AI powered translation

Jaroslaw Kutylowski

CEO, DeepL

Moderator Keiichi Murayama

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

14:00 - 14:30

 1-6

Bridge of Values: Inheriting Corporate Culture and Selecting Successors

Shigenobu Nagamori

Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nidec Corporation

Moderator Kunio Saijo

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

14:40 - 15:10

 1-7

How to be a company where people can develop and brighten their lives

Akio Yamaguchi

General Manager and President, IBM Japan

Moderator Kaori Takahashi

Manager, News Department, Nikkei CNBC Japan Inc.
Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

15:10 - 15:30

Break

15:30 - 16:00

 1-8

Tourism to be developed through "small mass" marketing

Yoshiharu Hoshino

CEO, Hoshino Resorts

Moderator Sawako Oiwa

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

16:00 - 16:20

 1-S

【Special Session】What are the advantages of a family business?※Only available with Visitor Pass

Yoshiharu Hoshino

CEO, Hoshino Resorts

Moderator Sawako Oiwa

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

16:30 - 17:00

 1-9

Heritage of Transformation: Centennial Company Taking Challenges for Sustainability

Koshiro Kudo

President, Asahi Kasei Corp.

Moderator Kunio Saijo

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

17:10 - 17:40

 1-10

Holding our nerve – a test for ESG leadership amid economic uncertainty

John McCalla-Leacy

Head of Global ESG, KPMG International

Moderator Kiyoshi Ando

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

November 9 (Wed)

09:00 - 09:30

 2-1

Growth Strategy in VUCA world

John Murphy

President and CFO, The Coca-Cola Company

Moderator Kaori Takahashi

Manager, News Department, Nikkei CNBC Japan Inc.
Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

09:40 - 10:10

 2-2

Work-life integration advanced through the COVID-19 pandemic

Joanne C. Crevoiserat

CEO, Tapestry

Moderator Waka Matsumoto

Editor-in-chief of NIKKEI STYLE Men's Fashion, Nikkei Inc.

10:20 - 10:50

 2-S

【Special Session】The Essence of "Inamorism" living today※Only available with Visitor Pass

Takashi Nawa

Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School
Professor, Kyoto University of Advanced Science

Kazuo Mori

Journalist
Former Special Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Moderator Yo Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

11:00 - 11:30

 2-3

How to learn from adversity

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone Group

Moderator Makoto Kajiwara

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

11:40 - 12:10

 2-4

Asia for Asia: A successful blueprint for the region in the Over-the-Top Media Industry

Janice Lee

CEO, Viu and Managing Director, PCCW Media Group

Moderator Akito Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Asia Chief business news correspondent, Nikkei Inc. (Based in Singapore)

12:10 - 13:30

Break

13:30 - 14:20

 2-5

It is an unstable political situation such as the US-China confrontation, China's zero corona policy, the Ukraine crisis, and preparations for Taiwan's emergency. This often causes existing supply chains to malfunction. The Economic Security Promotion Law was enacted in May. Under the slogan of strengthening the supply chain, the government is asking companies to strengthen their response. However, many companies are still at a standstill at the investigation stage.
In this panel session, we will introduce the latest trends in economic security and explain the "earning power of corporations." We will also explain the new trend of supply chain visualization using AI, intellectual property lawsuits between Japanese and Chinese companies, and global trends in high-tech standardization competition.

Masahiro Morimoto

CEO, FRONTEO

Ken Jimbo

Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

Moderator Makoto Kajiwara

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

14:30 - 15:00

 2-6

How to overcome the energy crisis

Amin H. Nasser

President and CEO, Saudi Aramco

Moderator Hirofumi Matsuo

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

15:00 - 15:30

Break

15:30 - 16:00

 2-7

The Transformation Imperative

Peter Bakker

President and CEO, WBCSD

Moderator Jean-François Manzoni

President, IMD

16:10 - 16:40

 2-8

Reinsurance challenges in an unpredictable era

Christian Mumenthaler

CEO, Swiss Re Group

Moderator Jean-François Manzoni

President, IMD

Kazuo Ichijo

Professor (Innovation, Leadership), IMD

16:50 - 17:20

 2-9

Rethinking in Times of Uncertainty

Annika Falkengren

Managing Partner, Lombard Odier Group

Moderator Jean-François Manzoni

President, IMD

17:30 - 18:00

 2-10

Summary Session

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Professor, Harvard Business School

Jean-François Manzoni

President, IMD

Moderators

Atsushi Nakayama

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

Keita Sekiguchi

Fintech Editor, Nikkei Inc.

Koya Jibiki

Jakarta Bureau Chief, Nikkei Inc.

Akito Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Asia Chief business news correspondent, Nikkei Inc. (Based in Singapore)

Keiichi Murayama

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

Kunio Saijo

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Kaori Takahashi

Manager, News Department, Nikkei CNBC Japan Inc.
Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Sawako Oiwa

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Kiyoshi Ando

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Waka Matsumoto

Nikkei Inc.

Editor-in-chief of NIKKEI STYLE Men’s Fashion

Yo Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Makoto Kajiwara

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

Hirofumi Matsuo

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

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DETAILS

Jaroslaw Kutylowski

CEO
DeepL

Jaroslaw Kutylowski is the CEO and founder of DeepL SE, headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

Born in Poland, he has an international background, spending a large part of his life in Germany. A developer by heart, he has a PhD in Computer Science and has worked primarily in tech throughout Germany. His penchant for languages and new technologies led him to the world of AI translation. Fluent in Polish, German, and English, he has led the DeepL team in developing the world's most accurate machine translator.

DeepL has experienced unprecedented growth under his leadership, and is now being used by thousands of corporations worldwide in a variety of sectors.

Joanne C. Crevoiserat

CEO
Tapestry

Joanne Crevoiserat is Chief Executive Officer of Tapestry, Inc., a New York-based house of modern luxury lifestyle brands including Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman. She leads the Executive Committee and Tapestry’s overall strategic direction, including the Company’s Acceleration Program, to drive sales and profit growth by transforming the organization to a consumer-centric, digital, data-driven, leaner and more responsive organization. Ms. Crevoiserat joined Tapestry in 2019 as Chief Financial Officer, overseeing the financial management of the company. She also serves on the Board of Directors.

Ms. Crevoiserat joined Tapestry from Abercrombie & Fitch Co., where she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from February 2017 to June 2019. She joined Abercrombie & Fitch in May 2014 and held a variety of executive roles during her tenure with the company. Prior to joining Abercrombie & Fitch, she served in a number of senior management and finance roles at Kohl's Inc., Wal-Mart Stores and May Department Stores.

She graduated from the University of Connecticut where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.

Ms. Crevoiserat was a board member for At Home Group Inc., the home décor superstore, until that company’s sale in July 2021. She joined the Board of the Partnership for New York City in May 2022.

John Riady

CEO
Lippo Karawaci

Dr. John Riady is an Indonesian businessman, investor and lawyer. Prior to taking over as Lippo Karawaci CEO, John led the group's digital investments in Southeast Asia's technology sector and founded OVO, which today is one of Indonesia's five unicorns and is the leading digital payments company and counts Grab and Tokopedia among its shareholders. John is also Managing Partner of Venturra Capital, and since 2014 has made over 50 investments, many of which has grown to become the region's largest tech companies, including Grab, RuangGuru, Carro, Sociolla, Prenetics and others.

John is also Executive Director of the Lippo Group, one of Asia's leading investment companies controlled by the Riady family, and holds a number of senior executive roles within the Lippo group of companies.

John holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Georgetown University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University Law School.

He is also a member of the NY State Bar Association, serves on the Wharton Business school Asia Executive Board, and was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2018.

Shigenobu Nagamori

Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO
Nidec Corporation

Born in Kyoto in August, 1944

Graduates from Polytechnic University in Tokyo, Japan (major in Electrical Engineering) in March, 1967.

July 1973
Establishes Nidec Corporation at his home with three employees at age 28, and becomes Chairman of the Board and President.
October 2014
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Nidec Corporation
December 2014
Establishes the Nagamori Foundation (a public interest incorporated foundation to recognize and support the efforts of outstanding motor researchers around the world) and becomes President.
March 2018
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nagamori Gakuen Educational Foundation, the organization that operates Kyoto University of Advanced Science
June 2018
Chairman of the Board and CEO of Nidec Corporation

Major awards:

March 2006
Selected by Barron's as one of "the world's 30 most respected CEOs". Mr. Nagamori was one of the 10 non-U.S. awardees and the only Japanese entry in the list. Barron's described Mr.Nagamori as "one of Japan's most shareholder-oriented CEOs heading Nidec, a firm that makes brushless motors powering hard disk drives and many other products built on drive technology".
November 2014
Selected as the "best president" by other companies' presidents in the Nikkei Business magazine's questionnaire for the representatives of companies listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The result of the questionnaire, held by the magazine for the first time to measure the true scale of managers' capabilities, showed that an increasing number of managers were operating business in accordance with the "Nagamori-style". The magazine compared Mr. Nagamori to a "walking business textbook".
May 2015
Nidec Corporation receives the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for its invention of ultra-thin, high-speed hard disk drive motors (Patent No. 3828452) in the 2015 National Commendation for Invention hosted by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, and Mr. Nagamori receives the Invention Implementation Achievement Award which is given to the representatives of companies recognized for their inventions.

Selection of major literary works:

  • "Mechatronics no tame no DC Servo Motor – The DC Servo Motor for Mechatronics" (Sogo-Denshi Publishing 1982)
  • "Permanent Magnet and Brushless DC Motors" (Oxford University Press 1984)
  • "Gijutsu Venture Shacho ga kaita taiatari zaimu senryaku – Head-on Financial Approach: Case of a Technological Startup Company's President" (Jatec Publishing 1986)
  • "Kiseki no jinzai ikuseihou -How to turn an average employee into a first-rate corporate warrior" (PHP Institute 1989)
  • "Hito wo ugokasu hito ni nare -How to motivate people to work harder and be successful" (Mikasa Shobo 1998)
  • "Shin-brushless DC motor – Brushess DC Motor" [New Edition] (Sogo-Denshi Publishing 2000)
  • "Brushless Motors-Advanced Theory and Modern Applications" (Sogo-Denshi Publishing 2003)
  • "Jonetsu, netsui, shunen no keiei- Passion-, enthusiasm-, and tenacity-basedbusiness management" (PHP Institute 2005)
  • "Kiseki no jinzai ikuseihou - How to turn an average employee into a first-rate corporate warrior" [New Edition] (PHP Institute 2008)
  • "Nashitogeru chikara" (Sunmark Publishing 2021)
  • "Nagamori ryu Keiei to okane no gensoku" (Nikkei Business Publications 2022)
  • "Jinsei wo hiraku"(PHP Institute 2022)

John McCalla-Leacy

Head of Global ESG
KPMG International

John McCalla-Leacy is KPMG’s Global and UK Head of Environment, Social & Governance (ESG). He is responsible for leading the delivery of ESG solutions, products and services to KPMG’s clients.

He has held a number of senior UK, ASPAC Region and Global leaderships positions in KPMG over the last 21 years including:

Former elected KPMG UK Board Member – oversees the stewardship, accountability and leadership of the KPMG UK Firm providing clear sighted counsel on the strategic direction of KPMG and alignment to its Vision, Values, and Purpose. During 2021 KPMG UK launched Our Impact Plan, for the first time, bringing all its ESG commitments together in one place, on an external website - making this transparent to all. This includes measuring KPMGs impact on the environment, how KPMG is driving prosperity for its people, communities and clients, and setting best-practise governance.

Member of the KPMG UK People Committee – provides oversight of the KPMG firmwide people strategy including monitoring culture, performance management and considering policies designed to enable the recruitment, wellbeing, motivation, and retention of all colleagues. In 2021, the People Committee oversaw, approved, and the firm published, KPMG UK’s Black heritage pay gap for the first time in its 150-year history. This significant achievement was in addition to publishing KPMG UK’s sexual orientation, disability and social economic background pay gap reports and setting targets for social mobility for the first time, and on a voluntary basis.

Board Member: KPMG Foundation – working to improve the lives of the most vulnerable children and young people in the UK, including those in care or on the edge of care.

John has led, co-led and supported a number of ESG client initiatives and webinars including on topics such as, Just Transition, ESG Governance and Leadership Accountably, ESG Technology and Innovation.

In addition to John’s leadership roles within the firm, his is a strong external advocate for ESG and a leading supporter for the ‘S’ in driving inclusion, diversity and social equality outside of the firm. Current initiatives include:

Princess Trust – sponsors and supports a number of initiatives with the Princess Trust, including a volunteering programme which is focused on tackling regional inequality in the UK, the ‘Terra Carta’ (which is part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative) development of green skills – the knowledge, abilities and values needed to create a sustainable society

Disability Confident Business Leaders Group (BLG) – KPMG senior BLG representative, which works with government and senior business leaders to develop and implement policies focused on increasing the number of disabled people in work.

International Business and Diplomatic Exchange (IBDE) – Vice Chair of Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group

John is very experienced in leading rapid, complex change. He is a former senior leader within KPMG’s Global Centre of Excellence Mergers & Acquisitions team. To-date, he has led both the overall and technology aspects of some of the largest multi-billion-dollar client mergers, acquisitions, and divestments that KPMG has ever supported across multiple sectors and geographies. Now John’s sole focus is on inspiring and driving rapid ESG related change for KPMG and its clients.

Kenichiro Yoshida

Chairman, President and CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer
Sony Group Corporation

Kenichiro Yoshida began his career with Sony Corporation (now Sony Group Corporation) in 1983, first in investor relations before transferring to Sony Corporation of America in 1990. After returning to Japan in the Investor Relations Division of Sony Corporation, he then joined the Finance Division before being appointed General Manager, CEO Strategy Office, Sony Corporation in 1998.

He transferred to Sony Communication Network Corporation (currently Sony Network Communications Inc.) in 2000, and in 2005 was appointed the company's President and Representative Director. He oversaw its flotation on the Mothers market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in December 2005, and then its launch on the TSE First Section in January 2008.

He rejoined Sony Corporation in December 2013 as EVP, Chief Strategy Officer and Deputy CFO, Corporate Executive Officer, before being appointed EVP, CFO and Representative Corporate Executive Officer of Sony Corporation in April 2014. In 2018 he was appointed President and CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, and then Chairman, President and CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer in 2020.

Having defined Sony's Purpose to "Fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology," he has continued to engage in management with a long-term view, centered around Kando (emotion) and people. He currently leads the Sony Group's approximately 110,000 employees around the world across six diverse business segments, as it also embarks on new challenges in fields such as mobility and the metaverse.

John Murphy

President and CFO
The Coca-Cola Company

John Murphy is President and Chief Financial Officer of The Coca-Cola Company. He oversees Global Ventures; Platform Services; online-to-offline (O2O) digital transformation; Customer and Commercial Leadership; and Finance and Strategy. Murphy is also responsible for representing the company with multiple stakeholders, including investors, lenders and rating agencies.

Murphy was named CFO in 2019 and president in 2022. From 2016 to 2018, he served as president of the company’s Asia Pacific group. He was responsible for operations in the group’s five business units. He was also responsible for the company’s Bottling Investments Group, primarily focused on key markets in Southeast and Southwest Asia.

Murphy served as president of the South Latin business unit from 2013 to 2016, where he was responsible for operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Prior to that, he was president of the Latin Center business unit from 2008 to 2012, where he was responsible for operations in 31 countries in Central America, the Caribbean and the Andean Region.

Murphy began his career with Coca-Cola in 1988 and went on to hold a variety of general management, finance and strategic planning roles around the world, including vice president of business systems in Coca-Cola North America in 2000, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Coca-Cola Japan in 2000, deputy president of Coca-Cola Japan in 2004 and vice president of strategic planning for Coca-Cola from 2005 to 2008.

Before joining Coca-Cola, Murphy worked for four years as an auditor for Price Waterhouse in Dublin, Ireland.

Murphy is a member of the boards of Coca-Cola FEMSA, The Coca-Cola Foundation and Engage. He is on the board of trustees of the Woodruff Arts Center and co-chairs, with his wife Talia, the University of Georgia’s Parents Leadership Council.

Murphy earned a bachelor's degree in business studies from Trinity College in Dublin and a diploma in professional accounting from University College in Dublin. He qualified as a chartered accountant of the Irish Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder
Blackstone Group

Stephen A. Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone Group, one of the world’s leading investment firms with $941 billion Assets Under Management (as of June 30, 2022). Mr. Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of Blackstone’s development since its founding in 1985. The firm has established leading investing businesses across asset classes, including private equity, where it is a global leader in traditional buyout, growth equity, special situations and secondary investing; real estate, where it is currently the largest owner of property in the world; hedge fund solutions, where it is the world’s largest discretionary hedge fund investor; and credit, where it is a global leader and major provider of credit for small, middle-market and other companies. Blackstone has also recently launched major new businesses dedicated to infrastructure and life sciences investing, as well as delivering the firm’s investment management expertise and products to insurance companies.

Mr. Schwarzman holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Janice Lee

CEO, Viu and Managing Director, PCCW Media Group

Janice Lee is Managing Director of PCCW Media Group, in charge of the company’s media and entertainment businesses. As CEO of Viu, she spearheaded the launch and internationalization of the pan-regional OTT streaming video service, which now operates in 16 markets across Southeast Asia, the Middle East & South Africa. Ms. Lee also oversees the Media Group’s digital streaming music service MOOV, as well as Viu TV, a domestic free TV service in Hong Kong.

Ms. Lee joined PCCW in January 2003 and was appointed Executive Vice President of TV & New Media in 2006. She was appointed Managing Director of PCCW Media Group in 2010. Ms. Lee has over 25 years of experience in the media and digital entertainment industry. Prior to joining PCCW, Ms. Lee held various positions in global media and entertainment companies, including STAR TV and Warner Brothers.

Yoshiharu Hoshino

CEO
Hoshino Resorts

Yoshiharu Hoshino was born in 1960, in Karuizawa, Nagano, the fourth generation in a family ryokan (Japanese Inn) business. After graduating from Cornell University with a master's degree on hotel management, he became the CEO of Hoshino Resorts in 1991.

Under his leadership, the company has grown to operating 60 properties in and outside of Japan with a total of five brands, HOSHINOYA, KAI (a brand of upscale boutique hot spring ryokan), RISONARE (a premier active family resort brand), OMO (a warm and casual hotel for city-tourism) and BEB (a carefree hotel brand for millennials). In 2013, Yoshiharu Hoshino established Hoshino Resorts REIT, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the first REIT in Japan to specialize in the tourism industry.

Koshiro Kudo

President
Asahi Kasei Corp.

Koshiro Kudo graduated from the Faculty of Law at Keio University and entered Asahi Kasei in 1982. He advanced the globalization and portfolio transformation of the company's fibers and textiles business, and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2021 while serving as Executive Officer for Corporate Strategy, Accounting & Finance, and Investor Relations. Kudo became President & Representative Director of Asahi Kasei in April 2022, just prior to the announcement of a new medium-term management plan for fiscal 2024 focused on the theme "Be a Trailblazer."

Kudo's favorite phrase, which he learned from his mentor in college, is "tradition is what we create, not what we preserve." Although Asahi Kasei recently celebrated the centennial of its founding, and its three-sector configuration affords stable operation, he feels a sense of urgency. Kudo is determined to reanimate the Asahi Kasei Spirit of continually transforming and taking challenges as he presses ahead with strategic investments for future growth, portfolio transformation, and reinforcement of human resources.

Kudo played baseball in junior high, and handball in high school and college, including as team captain. After joining Asahi Kasei, Kudo coached a youth baseball team to win a local tournament. He was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan.

Akio Yamaguchi

General Manager and President
IBM Japan

Akio Yamaguchi joined IBM Japan in 1987 as a system engineer. After participating in multiple system development and maintenance projects for financial institutions, he led the Y2K program office for IBM Asia Pacific and subsequently worked on strategy planning for IBM Japan as the Management & Planning Officer. He has also joined Marketing, led the Software Technical Sales team, and worked in the United States for the IBM Corporation as the Executive Assistant to a senior technical sales executive in 2005.

After returning to Japan in 2007, Akio took on various leadership roles in Global Business Services, an organization that drives clients’ transformation through IT services such as consulting, system development & maintenance, and business process outsourcing. During this time, he gained extensive experience in large-scale, complex system development and integration including next-generation financial systems, and in 2017, was appointed Managing Partner (Torishimariyaku Senmu Shikko Yakuin) of Global Business Services.

In May 2019, Akio was appointed General Manager of IBM Japan and has been driving digital transformation with clients using innovative technologies such as AI, Cloud, and Quantum Computing. He has also been involved in global strategy planning as a member of IBM’s Executive Committee since 2017.

Outside of IBM, Akio was appointed Representative Director of Accessibility Consortium of Enterprises, a general incorporated association that aims to establish a new hiring model for persons with disabilities. Also appointed as the Chairperson for the Corporate Management Committee organized by the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (DOYUKAI) in 2021, Vice Chairman of DOYUKAI in 2022 and Senior Specially Appointed Professor at Tokyo University of Science in the Management of Technology program in 2022.

Akio was born in Wakayama Prefecture.

Sota Watanabe

CEO
STAKE TECHNOLOGIES

Sota Watanabe is CEO of STAKE TECHNOLOGIES and a founder of Astar Network. Astar is one of the leading layer1 blockchains in the Polkadot Network ecosystem and is backed by reputable companies and venture capitals like Binance, Coinbase, Polychain, and Dr.Gavin Wood.

In addition, he is a director of the Japan Blockchain Association and a founder of Next Web Capital. Recently, he has selected Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.

Ken Jimbo

Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Keio University

Dr. Ken Jimbo is a Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University and a Managing Director, International House of Japan. He is concurrently an adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS). He served as Special Advisor to the Minister of Defense Taro KONO, Japan Ministry of Defense (2020) and Senior Advisor, The National Security Secretariat (2018-20).

His main research fields are in International Security, Japan-US Security Relations, Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy, Multilateral Security in Asia-Pacific, and Regionalism in East Asia. He has been a policy advisor for various Japanese governmental commissions and research groups, including the National Security Secretariat, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His policy writings have appeared in NBR, The RAND Corporation, Stimson Center, Pacific Forum CSIS, Japan Times, Nikkei, Yomiuri, Asahi and Sankei Shimbun.

His recent books and articles include "Gradational Change of Balance of Power in the Indo-Pacific: Addressing Alliance Coordination in the Gray-Zone, Conventional and Nuclear Domains" NCAFP Edited Volume (April 2021); "Anchoring Diversified Security Cooperation in the ADMM-Plus: A Japanese Perspective" Asia Policy, No.22 (July 2016); "Japan-US-Australia Cooperation on Capacity Building in Southeast Asia," Yuki Tatsumi ed., US-Japan-Australia Security Relations: Prospects and Challenges (Stimson Center, 2015); "US Rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific: A Japanese Perspective," in William Tow and Douglas Stuart eds., The New US Strategy towards Asia: Adapting to the American Pivot (London: Routledge, 2015); Ken JIMBO ed., Regional Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific, Tokyo Foundation (2010) (in Japanese: Ajia Taiheiyo no Chiiki Anzen Hosho Ahkitekucha).

Peter Bakker

President and CEO
WBCSD

For a decade (since 2012), Peter has led WBCSD based in Geneva, Switzerland. WBCSD is the premier global, CEO-led community of over 200 of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature positive, and more equitable future.

Peter is a distinguished business leader who, until June 2011, served as CFO and then CEO of TNT NV, the global transport and logistics company. He has been recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award (2009) and the Sustainability Leadership Award (2010). Peter serves as a member of several corporate sustainability advisory boards.

He received the royal order Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2018 in recognition of his long-lasting commitment to engaging business in tackling global sustainability issues.

Annika Falkengren

Managing Partner
Lombard Odier Group

Annika Falkengren is Managing Partner of the Lombard Odier Group since August 2017.

As part of her overall responsibilities as one of seven Managing Partners, Mrs.Falkengren oversees a number of Group functions as well as being Chairman of the legal entities supporting the Lombard Odier activity in Asia.

Specifically, Mrs.Falkengren oversees the Group Risk Management, Logistics and Marketing and Communication Units and is co-Chair of the Group’s CSR Committee. In addition, Mrs.Falkengren is responsible for the OneRoof Project, a critical strategic initiative which will deliver a new single-site headquarters for the Lombard Odier Group in Geneva.

Annika Falkengren is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and a member of the Foundation Board of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD).

She was formerly President and CEO of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), one of the major financial groups in Scandinavia, where she built her career from 1987 to 2017. She held several positions of responsibility, including Head of Global Trading & Capital Markets, Head of Merchant Banking and Deputy Group Chief Executive, before being appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in 2005.

Mrs.Falkengren was a member of the Board of Directors and then Chairman of the Swedish Bankers' Association from 2010 to 2017. She has also been a member of the Boards of Directors of several large international companies.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Stockholm.

Mrs.Falkengren resides in Geneva, Switzerland with her family.

Jean-François Manzoni

President
IMD

Jean-François Manzoni is the President of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), where he also serves as the Nestlé Chaired Professor (Leadership, Organizational Development).

Under his presidency from 2017, IMD redefined its purpose, invested in technology-mediated pedagogies, enhanced research on areas such as digital transformation and sustainability, and strengthened governance and organizational unity. Despite the pandemic, IMD has further enhanced its position as a world’s leader in executive education and an enabler of corporate transformation.

Manzoni’s research, teaching and advisory activities are focused on leadership, the development of high-performance organizations and corporate governance.

At the organisational level, he studies the content of change, the management of the change process and the role of leaders therein. His work in this area has appeared in several books, articles and over 30 cases.

At the individual level, he studies how leaders can create a caring, high-performance work environment. This stream of research has led to several articles and the award-winning book entitled The Set-Up to Fail Syndrome: How good managers cause great people to fail.

On the corporate governance side, Manzoni focuses on interpersonal dynamics within the Boardroom and between management and the Board.

A Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors, he has served on multiple boards, and currently serves on the Board of Keppel Corp., an international diversified group listed on the Singapore stock exchange.

A citizen of Canada and France, Manzoni received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School.

Kazuo Ichijo

Professor (Innovation, Leadership)
IMD

Kazuo Ichijo is a Professor of Innovation and Leadership at IMD. His research interests focus on innovation through the process of organizational knowledge creation. His areas of expertise are the development of knowledge-based competence of a firm, the management of innovation, and corporate transformation.

Ichijo has published a number of papers in these research areas. His book, "Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation", won the Best Business Book of the Year award 2000 from the Association of American Publisher's Professional and Scientific Publishing division. He has published a number of academic papers, business journal articles, and books worldwide. "Business Despite Borders: Capitalism in the Age of Populist Anti-Globalization" (Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño and Kazuo Ichijo (editors), Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) is one of his recent publications.

Ichijo has been involved in many corporate transformation activities initiated by leading companies as a consultant and as an outside board member.

From 2003 to 2009, Ichijo worked as the first Japanese Professor at IMD. After working as Dean of the School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University Business School for 8 years, in April 2022, Ichijo returned to IMD as a full-time member of IMD’s Faculty, to extend IMD’s international reach, growing its ties with Japan’s business community, and helping drive the development of its future leaders.

He is the holder of a BA (social sciences) and MS (social sciences) from Hitotsubashi University and a Ph.D. (business administration) from the University of Michigan.

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Professor
Harvard Business School

Professor Takeuchi received his B.A. from International Christian University in Tokyo and M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

He was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School from 1976 to 1983, where he taught courses in marketing and retailing in the MBA program. He joined Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo as an Associate Professor in 1983 and became Professor in 1987. In 1998, he became the Founding Dean at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS). In 2010, he returned to Harvard Business School as a Professor of Management Practice in the Strategy Unit. In 2019, he became Chair, Board of Trustees at his alma mater International Christian University. He currently teaches a field course in the second-year MBA curriculum at HBS (Japan Immersive Field Course: Fusion of Digital and Analog) and is the Faculty Chair for two customized programs in Executive Education.

Professor Takeuchi’s current research interests are focused on (a) the knowledge creation process within organizations, (b) knowledge-based strategy, (c) practical wisdom as the basis of continuous innovation, and (d) agile innovation methods.

He is the author of "The Best Practice Revolution" (Diamond-sha, 1994, in Japanese) and the co-author of the following books: (1) "Corporate Self-Innovation: Managing Chaos and Creation" (H. Takeuchi et al., Chuo Koron-sha, 1986, in Japanese); (2) "Managing Heterogeneity: The Path to Global Management" (H. Takeuchi and Yoko Ishikura, Diamond-sha, 1994, in Japanese); (3) "The Knowledge-Creating Company" (Ikujiro Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, Oxford University Press, 1995), which won the 1995 "Best New Book of the Year" Award for the Business and Management category by the Association of American Publishers; (4) "Can Japan Compete?" (M. Porter, H. Takeuchi, and M. Sakakibara, 2000, London: McMillan in English, and Diamond-sha in Japanese), (5) "Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management" (I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, John Wiley & Sons, 2004), (6) "Extreme Toyota" (E. Osono and N. Shimizu and H. Takeuchi, John Wiley & Sons, 2008), (7) "The Wise Company" (I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, Oxford University Press, 2019), and others.

His business experience includes marketing research and account service work with McCann-Erikson in Tokyo and San Francisco, and management consulting work with McKinsey & Company in Tokyo. He is an advisor/trustee to a number of organizations and an external board member of several Japanese companies.

Amin H. Nasser

President and CEO
Saudi Aramco

Amin H. Nasser is the president and chief executive officer of Saudi Aramco, the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals enterprise, and the largest provider of crude oil to global markets. He is also a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

In a career spanning four decades, he has served in a number of leadership positions, and is actively engaged in the advancement of people through education and training, and advancing the company’s innovation and technology strategy.

Nasser is leading Saudi Aramco’s efforts to produce cleaner energy and products through investments in technologies such as next-generation fuel-engine interfaces, oil-to-chemicals processes, renewable applications and entrepreneurial start-ups focused on energy solutions.

He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; the Board of Trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology; the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council (IBC); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential CEO Advisory Board; and the JP Morgan International Council.

Christian Mumenthaler

CEO
Swiss Re Group

Christian Mumenthaler started his career in 1997 as associate at Boston Consulting Group. He joined Swiss Re in 1999 and was responsible for key company projects. In 2002, he established and headed the Group Retro and Syndication unit. Christian Mumenthaler served as Group Chief Risk Officer between 2005 and 2007 and was Head of Life & Health between 2007 and 2010. In January 2011, he was appointed Chief Marketing Officer Reinsurance and a member of the Group Executive Committee and became Chief Executive Officer.

Reinsurance that October. In July 2016, Christian Mumenthaler was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer. He holds PhD in Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.

External appointments: Chairman of the Geneva Association, Co-Chair of WEF Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, Board member of economiesuisse and of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Pan-European Insurance Forum; the IMD Foundation Board; the Global Reinsurance Forum; the Steering Committee of the Insurance Development Forum; Insurance Europe’s Reinsurance Advisory Board; and the Board of Trustees of the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies.

Tan Hooi Ling

Co-Founder
Grab

Tan Hooi Ling is the Co-Founder of Grab. Based in Singapore, she oversees critical pillars of Grab’s operations, including corporate strategy, technology (product, design, engineering, data science and analytics), customer experience and people operations. Prior to joining Grab full-time in 2015, Hooi Ling led high priority strategic and operational projects at Salesforce, working at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. There, she specialized in Corporate Strategy, Corporate Operations, Pricing Intelligence & Monetization. Before joining Salesforce, Hooi Ling was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising global corporations in Southeast Asia, North America, Latin America and Australia on corporate strategy and operations. Hooi Ling is a member of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Board of Trustees, and sits on the board of Wise (formerly TransferWise).

Hooi Ling has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from the University of Bath, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Masahiro Morimoto

CEO
FRONTEO

Born in Osaka in 1966. After graduating from the National Defense Academy, he worked on a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. After he retired, he worked for Applied Materials Japan Co., Ltd., and established UBIC (currently FRONTEO) in 2003. To assist companies in international litigation, KIBIT, a proprietary AI engine specializing in natural language processing was developed and commercialized. FRONTEO is listed on TSE Mothers (currently TSE Growth) in 2007 and on NASDAQ in 2013 (delisted in 2020). Centered on FRONTEO’s AI engines including "Concept Encoder" and "Looca Cross", he is leading the company to provide business solutions in various fields such as legal tech, finance, intellectual property, human resources, life sciences, and economic security.

Takashi Nawa

Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School
Professor, Kyoto University of Advanced Science

Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, and Harvard Business School. After working for Mitsubishi Corporation, spent about 20 years at McKinsey & Company. He has served as an outside director of Denso, Fast Retailing, Ajinomoto, SOMPO Holdings, and other companies. Chairperson of the Consumer Affairs Agency's Consumer-oriented Management Excellence Award Selection Committee. He has also served as a senior advisor to Accenture, Interbrand, and others.

He is the author of numerous books, including "Inamori and Nagamori," "Purpose Management," "CSV Management Strategy," and "Schumpeter."

Kazuo Mori

Journalist
Former Special Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Born on March 1, 1950. Graduated from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University on March 1972.

April 1972
Joined Nikkei Inc., Tokyo Editorial Bureau, Industry Department 3, Reporter
March 1980
Seconded to Nikkei McGraw-Hill (now Nikkei BP) as a Nikkei Business Editorial Reporter
March 1988
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Nikkei Business
March 1990
Senior Staff Writer, Industry Department, Tokyo Editorial Bureau, Nikkei Inc.
March 1995
Editorial Writer, Tokyo Editorial Bureau
August 1999
Visiting Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies and Japan Institute of Economic Management, Columbia University (until August 2000)
April 2003
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Management, Waseda University (until March 2010)
September 2003
Deputy Editorial Writer and Senior Staff Writer of the Industry Section
March 2007
Special Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer
March 2010
Special Senior Staff Writer
March 2013
Retired from Nikkei Inc.
Current Position:
Member of the Advisory Council for Comprehensive Evaluation, Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training
Auditor, RENGO Research Institute for Comprehensive Life Development
Trustee, Center for the Stabilization of Long-Term Care Workers
Editorial Advisor of Japan Finance Corporation's public relations magazine
Member, Japan Press Club

Currently writing media: Interview series "Talking about 'My Management'" for the internet news site "News Socra". "Leader's Bookshelf" reading column of the Nikkei, and other publications.

Books: "Masaru Ibuka: Free and Energetic, Fun and Entertaining - My Personal History" (Part 2, Nikkei BP), "Kunio Nakamura: The Man Who Broke the Konosuke Myth" (Nikkei Inc.), "Management in Japan" (Nikkei Inc.), "No Need for Charisma in Management" (Nikkei Premier Series), etc.

Waka Matsumoto

Nikkei Inc.
Editor-in-chief of NIKKEI STYLE Men’s Fashion

Her focus is fashion, trends, and consumer spending.

Waka Matsumoto is Editor-in-chief of NIKKEI STYLE Men’s Fashion.

Before taking the role in 2019, she was a staff writer, senior staff writer, and editor in　the Marketing News Department, Lifestyle news Department, and Business News Department.

She engaged in launching the women's section and editing NIKKEI The STYLE.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree from Waseda University and joined Nikkei. She also studied Fashion business in Paris from 2002 to 2003.

Kunio Saijo

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Graduated from Liberal Arts Faculty of the University of Tokyo and joined Nikkei in 1987.

Main coverage is automobile, transportation and energy industry.

New York correspondent from September 1997 to August 2001.

Joined Editorial Committee of Nikkei in March 2012.

Atsushi Nakayama

Commentator
Nikkei Inc.

Atsushi Nakayama is an expert in industrial and managerial trends in the automotive, transport, and electronics industries. He worked as a senior staff writer and as an editorial writer before starting his current position in February of 2017. He has performed lectures on topics such as “GE and Toshiba” and “The Future of Mobility”. He was stationed in New York during the 9/11 terror attacks and provided reporting on them.

Koya Jibiki

Jakarta Bureau Chief
Nikkei Inc.

Koya Jibiki specializes in politics, diplomacy and economics of Japan and Southeast Asia.

He joined Nikkei Inc. in 2003. After working in the Nagoya Main office, he spent 15 years covering Nagatacho and Kasumigaseki in Political News Department and Economics Departments, and became Jakarta Bureau Chief in April 2020. Based on his experience covering the PM’s office of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has a keen interest in Japan as seen from Southeast Asia and in raising policy issues to improve Japan's status in the region.

Sawako Oiwa

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

After graduating from university, Sawako Oiwa joined Nikkei Inc. in 1996. She was first assigned to the Marketing News Department and reported on specialty stores, restaurants, convenience stores, and consumer products companies for a long time. When Oiwa was a desk editor of Nikkei MJ, she widened her coverage range to Net business, service industry among other areas. When a new service is launched or a new store opens up, her motto is to actually try it out. In addition, she gained coverage experience of the autonomy of citizens and communities through reporting local governments for a long time. Oiwa became a Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer in April last year. She’s expanding her activities to lectures and speeches, besides writing articles.

Kiyoshi Ando

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Kiyoshi Ando is currently a Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer for Nikkei.

He is a member of NIKKEI Carbon Zero Project, organized in conjunction with leading Japanese companies.

Areas of interest are environmental issues including climate change, natural disasters and de-carbonization as well as innovation in life sciences and biomedical technologies.

Joined Nikkei in 1987, covered science & technology news and business news, before becoming Washington DC correspondent (1998-2002) where he has seen devastating terrorist attack of 2001, and Paris Bureau Chief (2003-07).

He earned a master's degree in environmental sciences after having majored in physics at Tsukuba University. Accredited and registered meteorologist of Japan.

Keiichi Murayama

Commentator
Nikkei Inc.

Keiichi Murayama formerly served as the U.S. Silicon Valley bureau chief of Nikkei Inc., and was a senior staff writer and an editorial writer of Nikkei. After earning his undergraduate degree at Tohoku University in 1992, he joined the Business News Department of Nikkei in Tokyo as a staff writer. He covered technology, medical, automotive, and financial news. After he joined the Program on US-Japan Relations of Harvard University, he went on to oversee the U.S. Silicon Valley Bureau for a few years.

He's authored "Rise and Fall of the IT Empire - Steve Jobs Revolution" and "STARTUP - Real of Entrepreneurs".

Hirofumi Matsuo

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Hirofumi Matsuo is Editorial Writer and Senior Staff Writer, covering the energy crisis, infrastructure exports, the Middle East and Africa.

He joined Nikkei Inc. in 1989. Specific areas covered include energy, plants and large-scale machinery, trading companies, METI and MOFA. He was previously stationed in Tehran, Cairo and Dubai, where he covered political situation of the Middle East and the strategies of oil countries. He has been in his current position since 2011. His most recent book is titled "The End of Oil: The Great Energy shift" and "The roads to carbon neutrality".

Matsuo was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1964.

Makoto Kajiwara

Commentator
Nikkei Inc.

Makoto Kajiwara is a commentator for Nikkei. His focus is global capital markets and corporate news.

In 2007 Kajiwara became the Nikkei’s youngest editorial writer. From 2009 to 2011 he was on special assignment in New York to cover the post-crash American economy. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Hong Kong based columnist covering economic news across Asia. He returned to Tokyo in 2017.

From 2002 to 2006 he was the Nikkei’s chief New York correspondent, where he was responsible for covering capital markets and corporate news.

Previous to that, he served as a staff writer in the Capital Market and Corporate News Department in Tokyo from 1997 to 2002 and as a correspondent in the newspaper’s Seoul bureau from 1994 to 1997.

Kajiwara graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Japan’s Waseda University in 1988 and joined Nikkei in the same year. He also studied Korean at Yonsei University in South Korea from 1992 to 1993.

Akito Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Asia Chief business news correspondent
Nikkei Inc. (Based in Singapore)

Akito Tanaka is a senior staff writer for Nikkei and Nikkei Asia's Chief business news correspondent, covering the technology sector from Singapore. Tanaka has twenty years of reporting experience and has also been covering global companies in both Japan and the United States. Tanaka graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with BA in political science. He spent his childhood years in Lisbon, Portugal, attending the American International School.

Yo Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Yo Tanaka is a senior staff writer of the Economic Commentary Department, Nikkei Inc. He graduated from Keio University in 1985 and joined Nikkei Inc. In 1990, he became a staff writer for the Marketing News Department.

Tanaka reported on department stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, and foodservice companies for a long time. From 2002, he worked as a senior staff writer in the Marketing News Department (2002), Nikkei Business (2006), consumption industrial Department (2009) and Business News Department (2009). He has held the current position since 2015.

He was also the commentator for "Nikkei plus 10" on BS JAPAN and an anchor on "Evening Express" on Nikkei CNBC. He is an adjunct instructor at Tokyo Institute of Technology as well.

Tanaka is the author of "SEVEN-ELEVEN Endless Innovation" and "Survival of Department Stores", the co-author of "New Pricing Revolution", "Fall of the Daiei Castle", and "A Very Easy-to-understand Guide to the Japanese Economy", and the co-translator of "My Life with Marketing" by Philip Kotler, among other publications.

Keita Sekiguchi

Fintech Editor
Nikkei Inc.

Keita Sekiguchi has been covering Fintech, virtual and digital currencies, and Capital Markets. He started his career as a writer at the dawn of the 21st century, working in Capital News, Economic News, and Political News Departments. He has reported on finance and markets from Kabuto-cho, Kasumigaseki and Nagatacho. Since 2020, he has been the Fintech Editor. Co-author of "Virtual Currency Bubble".

Kaori Takahashi

Manager, News Department, Nikkei CNBC Japan Inc.
Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Kaori Takahashi is Manager of News Department at Nikkei CNBC Japan Inc. She is also Senior Staff Writer at Nikkei Inc. Before taking the role in 2020, she was deputy editor of International News for two years. She spent five years from 2013 as Nikkei's first female Sydney Bureau Chief, covering politics, global resources and international trade issues across the Pacific and East Asia.

Entering Nikkei in 1994, Takahashi has reported for the City News, International News, Lifestyle, and Business News sections. Her period as Sydney Bureau Chief brought two editor's prizes for breaking news: one for groundbreaking concessions that secured Japan’s first broad trade agreement with a major agricultural exporter, and the other for Toyota's withdrawal from production in Australia. She commentated on Asia issues for Australian media.

Kaori graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Between 1990 and 1991 she studied at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University.