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Donald Nordeng
President, Ecocert-QAI Japan Ltd.
Mr. Nordeng was born in Madison, Wisconsin U.S.A. in 1964. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point with a B.S. in Communication. He arrived in Japan in 1988 and has lived here continuously for 20 years.
While worked as an import manager at Taneyama ga Hara Co., Ltd., Mr. Nordeng pioneered the import of organic beef and traceability in beef in Japan. After leaving Taneyama ga Hara, he started the first office of a foreign organic certification company in Japan in 1996. He has appeared on NHK, CNBC, and CNN as an organic certification expert and a beef traceability expert and has edited and co-written two books on organic certification published by Science Forum. He makes frequent presentations on doing business in Japan and organic markets and regulations in Japan.
Mr. Nordeng also serves as the Vice Chairman, Food and Agriculture Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, a board member of the Organic Certifiers Council of Japan, the coordinator of The Tokyo Small Business Meet-up, director of Japanexperts, and as Training and Organizational Development Consultant at People Focus Consulting Asia Pacific.
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