Sarah is passionate about creating bridges between cultures and individuals. Prior to her graduate work in international relations and Japanese, she spent more than a decade teaching and volunteering overseas, including eight years teaching English and American studies at a small women’s college in Japan and two+ years with NGOs in Bangladesh, Russia, Mongolia, and…
Yuka Hayashi covers financial regulation at the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau. Until 2015, she was a correspondent and deputy bureau chief at the paper’s Tokyo office, writing about economy, foreign policy, and culture. Before joining the paper in 2004, she was a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, a sister publication, based in New York…
Akiko Murai is a leadership and career coach with Organizational Development and Global Talent Management background. She has extensive and diverse professional experience ranging from the field work in Brazil with a United Nations agency to marketing financial products and services to high net worth individuals at a commercial bank. Akiko also has worked for…
JSIE Council Tomoko Suzuki is Senior Portfolio Officer in the Economics and Industry Research unit at International Finance Corporation (IFC), providing combined analytics on global economics, markets, sector, geopolitical and development trends for IFC investment departments and their clients to inform investment and portfolio decisions. Prior to joining the Research unit, she was working at…
JSIE Council CEO SDG Impact Japan Mari Kogiso is the CEO of SDG Impact Japan, which she founded in 2021 to promote social finance in Japan. Prior to SDG Impact Japan, she was the director of diversity and inclusion at the Fast Retailing. In this role, she also managed human rights committee and served as an advisor…
Ms. Fumuro is a strategic communications management professional with over 20 years of experience, having engaged in public relations, public affairs and advertising in Washington D.C. and Tokyo. She is currently Director of Global Communications at SATO Global Solutions, a newly established American subsidiary of SATO Holdings, a Japanese leader in automatic ID solutions. Prior…