The 25th International Conference for Women in Business

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Asako Aoyama

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Global Business Unit, NEC Corporation

Yuko Arimori

Board Chair of the Special Olympics Nippon
President of NPO, Hearts of Gold

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Katharine Braddick

Director General – Financial Services
HM Treasury

Melanie Brock

Non Executive Director, Sega Sammy Holdings Inc.
Global Ambassador, Advance
Board Member, Australia-Japan Research Centre Advisory Board
Chair Emeritus, Australia & New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan, Tokyo (ANZCCJ)

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Claire Chino

Managing Executive Officer, ITOCHU Corporation President & CEO, ITOCHU International Inc.

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Sayuri Daimon

Journalist, former executive operating officer and managing editor of The Japan Time

Kanae Doi

Japan Director
Human Rights Watch

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Makiko Eda

Chief Representative Officer, World Economic Forum

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Taide Guajardo Vite

Brand Vice President Europe
Procter & Gamble

Tracy Gopal

CFA, Principal of Third Arrow Strategies

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Tomoko Hayashi

Director-General
Gender Equality Bureau
Cabinet Office, Japan

Rie Hirakawa

Superintendent of Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education

Monika Hori

Head of Japan & Korea, Marketing Solutions
LinkedIn

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Akira Ikegami

Freelance Journalist

Aya Ito

Partner, Sustainability Promotion Dept., Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.
Outside director, Itoham Yonekyu Holdings Inc.
General Manager, VMS Promotion Department, Sophiamedi Corp.

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Sigrid Kaag

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands

Hiroko Kuniya

Journalist

Shinjiro Koizumi

Minister of the Environment, Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness

Taro Kono

Minister for Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform

Keiko Kojima

Essayist and visiting researcher
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies
University of Tokyo

Maoko Kotani

Caster

Akihiro Kobayashi

President and COO, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Yoshie Komuro

TBC

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Shie Lundberg

Director, Play & Android, Trust & Safety, Google Inc.

Sarah Liu

Founder & Managing Director
The Dream Collective

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Kathy Matsui

Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs Japan

Marina Mahathir

Writer, women’s rights and HIV/AIDS activist

Marin Minamiya

M Planning Ltd. CEO

Yasuko Miyajima

Cultural sports journalist and representative of Cultivator

Yumiko Murakami

Head of OECD Tokyo Centre

Takako Mori

Senior Managing Director of Nomura Holdings, Inc., Group Legal
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., Legal

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Saiko Nakagawa

Director, International Affairs Office
Financial Services Agency, Japan

Junko Nakagawa

President and Chief Executive Officer of Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd (NAM)

Seiji Nakata

President and CEO, Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

Phyllis Newhouse

Founder and CEO of Xtreme Solutions, Inc.
Founder of ShoulderUp

Soichi Noguchi

Astronaut

Seiko Noda

Liberal Democratic Party
Executive Acting Secretary-General
Member of the House of Representatives

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Asako Osaki

Director, Gender Action Platform
Director, Plan International Japan
National Coordinator, WE EMPOWER Japan (UN Women/ILO/EU programme)

Yuki Ota

President, Japan Fencing Federation

Kirsten O’Connor

Founder and Director of QUEST TOKYO KK

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Lisa Saito

Head of Marketing, Japan
Slack Japan K.K.

Kaori Sasaki

Founder & CEO, ewoman, Inc.
Founder & CEO, UNICUL International, Inc.
Founder & Chair, International Conference for Women in Business

Seiji Sasaki

Slack Japan
Country Manager

Yuka Shimada

HR & GA Director - Japan
Unilever Japan Holdings K.K.

Touko Shirakawa

Journalist about declining birthrates, Author
Specially Appointed Professor of Sagami Women’s University
Visiting professor of Center for General Education, Showa Women’s University
Visiting Researcher of Graduate School of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

Hidenobu Shirota

Senior Managing Director, Global Investment Banking Division
Daiwa Securities Co.Ltd.

Nahoko Shindo MD, PhD

Senior Advisor
WHO Health Emergencies Programme
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Sputniko!

Artist/
Tokyo University of the Arts Department of Design Associate Professor

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Minori Takao

NHK World News Anchor

Emi Takemura

Representative Director, FutureEdu
Representative Director, Learn by Creation
Co-founder, Peatix.com

Daisuke Tsuda

Journalist / Media Activist

Wendy Teleki

Head of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) Secretariat

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Masahiko Uotani

President & CEO (Representative Director)
Shiseido Co., Ltd.

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Yosuke Yagi

Representative Director, people first Ltd.
Director, Member of Board, ICMG Co., Ltd.
Chairman and Representative Director, IWNC Co., Ltd.

Meyumi Yamada

Director, istyle Inc.　(Co-Founder)
Director, ISPartners Inc.

speakers

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