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Hisako Kaneko
General Manager, HR Competence Center
Chief Diversity Officer
AXA Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
Ms. Kaneko studied at Georgetown University in 1983-1984, and graduated from Keio University in 1985. She was recruited by a foreign bank to trade currencies. In 1989, she gave up her career to focus on caring her baby with disabilities and then moved to New York in 1990-1991 to join her husband on a company assignment. In 1994, Ms. Kaneko started to study translation and became a freelance interpreter in 1997. She also got involved in NPO to put people with disabilities on an equal footing with those without disabilities. She entered AXA Life Insurance as an in-house interpreter in 2004, was appointed to a manager in AXAfs newly established Diversity Promotion Office in 2009, and to her current role in June of this year. She brings the unique perspective of her many roles as a housewife, mother of two, NPO staffer, self-employed, temp staffer, contract employee, and regular employee.
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