PROFILE

Ms. Kaori Sasaki is a well-known diversity expert, best-selling author, and sought-after commentator who appears regularly in the Japanese media.
Since 1996, Ms. Sasaki has produced and chaired the International Conference for Women in Business, the largest diversity conference in Japan. Through her work as a diversity expert to companies throughout Japan, she saw the need for a system to measure and reward companies for their diversity efforts. In 2018, she inaugurated the “Diversity Index”, which measures the diversity of an organization against its corporate performance and provides training.
Long known as an internet pioneer, Ms. Sasaki opened the first portal for women in Japan in 1996 and founded ewoman, Inc., a diversity consultancy that provides marketing, branding, product development, and training to major corporations, in 2000. She established UNICUL International, Inc., a communications consultancy that offers executive media training and translation and interpretation in seventy languages, in 1987.
Ms. Sasaki started out as a reporter, traveling to over 25 countries to report on human rights and other international topics for the highest-rated nightly news program, News Station, and anchored the CBS show “60 Minutes” in Tokyo). Now, she is a regular commentator on various television news programs and in print media.
Conscious of her civic duty, Ms. Sasaki has served on numerous high-level councils for the Ministries of Health, Labor and Welfare, of Education, of Economy, Trade and Industry, and of Information and Technology, including the Regulatory Reform Council of the Cabinet Office, and museum boards.
Ms. Sasaki has served on the boards of directors of major listed corporations for many years. She is current an outside director at Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, AGP, and Tokyo TV Holdings, among others.
Awards: Honorary Doctorate from Elmira College, NY, USA (2008), Entrepreneur Special Award from New Business Association (1988), Best Innovative Company of the Year, Stevie Award (2008), Best Mother Award (2009), BVLGARI’s Avrora Award (2021)