In 2003, he won the Grand Prix at the 20th Onward Fashion Awards.
Jean = Scouted by Paul Gaultier, he moved to France in 2004 and became a direct assistant designer.
Jean = Paul Gaultier Appointed as the head designer of the diffusion line.
He returned to Japan in 2011 and started his own brand “ATSUSHI NAKASHIMA”.
In 2013, he became the director of the Jil Sander Navy bag line.
In 2015, he became the first Japan person to receive the award at DHL Exported, which supports overseas designers, and presented his first collection on the official schedule of the Milan Collection.

During his 15 years at McKinsey & Company, he was in charge of company-wide reform, new business development, and organizational transformation at bases in the United States, Thailand, and the Czech Republic in addition to Japan. Since 2022, he has been a director of Inclusion Japan K.K., and as a general partner of the second fund, which operates ESG areas with the environmental field as the core theme of investment, he has been working on a full range of activities, from project development to investment decision-making and post-investment support.

Graduated from the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology JCCL
Co., Ltd. Outside Director
of “Strategy of Japan Manufacturing Industry” (co-authored with Diamond Co., Ltd.)

Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. Graduated from the Department of Surveying, Wuhan University, China, Ph.D. in Engineering (University of Tokyo). He is the president of Geographic Information Systems and a board member of the Japan Society for Symbiosis with the Environment, and is the leader of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/Climate Change Adaptation Network in Northeast Asia. Engaged in co-creative research on data-driven urban and regional sustainability, climate change and disaster risk mitigation and adaptation. In addition, planning and research, data analysis, and promotion of industry-government-academia-private co-creation projects for decarbonized urban development and smart city projects through the nexus of food, energy, and water.

Joined Sumitomo Bank in 1992. After working in the Business Research Department, he established a new business department in 2010 that specializes in hot fields such as environmental business and smart cities. In 2019, we started activities for smart cities in the Kansai region, the World Expo, industry-academia collaboration support, and the formation of a startup ecosystem, and established the Kansai Growth Strategy Office. In March 2024, he will retire from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and at the same time establish Doriai Innovation LLC in Osaka. Mainly in the Kansai region, we have been engaged in activities such as creating innovation triggered by the World Expo and supporting social change through startups.

Graduated from the Faculty of Science, Osaka University. Since he was a student, he has been involved in venture businesses in the sustainability field such as the environment, agriculture, and welfare as a corporate planner and environmental engineer.
We have experienced buyouts (divestitures) of two companies in these areas.
He is the representative director of the Sustainability Data Standardization Organization and a lecturer at the ESG Study Group at Kyoto University.
He has written and lectured extensively on non-financial big data.

In 2023, he joined EY New Japan LLC. He is responsible for the circular economy at Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS). Engaged in support for the formulation of visions and policies, disclosure support, support for compliance with related laws, surveys, training, and ESG advisory related to resource recycling.
In his previous job at a comprehensive chemical manufacturer, he was involved in the planning, launching, and promotion of plastic recycling projects, a resource recycling digital platform project using blockchain, and microplastics research. He also contributed to the launch of several national projects related to resource recycling.

From 2020 to 2024, he was enrolled as a new graduate full-time employee at TBM Co., Ltd. After engaging in sales of LIMEX Bag, an alternative product to plastic bags, and the development and sales of new applications such as LIMEX non-woven fabrics, he was transferred to the Resource Recycling Business Division, where he was responsible for overseas purchasing and sales of recycled plastics, mainly in Southeast Asia. We visited plastic recyclers in Vietnam and Malaysia to deepen our understanding of the plastic waste problem and the current state of resource recycling. Based on these experiences, I decided to go on to graduate school abroad because I wanted to evaluate environmental considerations from a more multifaceted perspective and pursue ways to realize a resource-recycling society, not just numerical indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions and recycled material content. From October 2024, he will study at the Technical University of Brandenburg in Germany with a master’s degree in sustainable social change.

After graduating from university, he worked at Marubeni Corporation for more than 30 years in electric power and infrastructure projects. He has been stationed overseas for about 12 years. He has served as General Manager of the Operations Office, General Manager of the Business Division, Director of an electric power business joint venture with a foreign company, President of a joint venture with a foreign government, and others. After that, he was engaged in general management assistance at afterFIT, a Japanese renewable energy start-up, and became the representative of Envision Digital Japan, a Singapore energy IT company. He has been in his current position since October 2023.

He is currently promoting the Public-Private-University Partnership (PPUP) Okinawa Model Project at OIST.

Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Economics, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Henley Management College (now Henley Business School) in the UK

Graduated from the University of Tokyo. In the laboratory where I was enrolled, I was researching composite materials of inorganic and organic substances, including calcium carbonate. With the desire to convey the appeal of research accurately and in an easy-to-understand manner, he founded miseru, a design company specializing in science while still a student. He is engaged in creative direction to convey the appeal of technology at universities and companies. After graduating from graduate school in 2023, he joined Japan L’Oréal Co., Ltd. He has been mainly responsible for content creation and event planning for PR for consumers, and marketing strategy planning for dermatologists.

Graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and Harvard Business School. After working for Mitsubishi Corporation, he worked at McKinsey for about 20 years. He has served as an outside director of Denso (~2018), Fast Retailing (~2022), Ajinomoto (~2023), Sompo Holdings, etc., and as an outside auditor of the Asahi Shimbun (all of which are still today). Chairperson of the Consumer Affairs Agency’s Consumer-Oriented Management Award. He has also served as a senior advisor to Boston Consulting Group (~2016), Interplan, and Accenture (all still today). He is the author of many books, including “Purpose Management,” “CSV Management Strategy,” “Schumpeter,” “Textbook of Corporate Transformation,” “The Complete Management Transformation,” “All Techniques for Problem Solving and Value Creation Beyond Consulting,” “10X Thinking,” “Introduction to Purpose Management,” “Super Evolution Management,” and “Ethics Management” (forthcoming).

After joining Amita in 2007, he was engaged in supporting the introduction of systems that simultaneously reduce environmental management risks and costs, as well as consulting for companies. After that, while working as a leader in the corporate planning department and new business development, he was in charge of the secretariat of the Consortium (J-CEP) as a practical group of circular economy. In 2023, he served as the head of research and development for the third phase of the Cabinet Office’s Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), “Establishment of a separation and supply system for plastics collected in cooperation with local governments,” and was appointed as an executive officer of Amita Holdings Co., Ltd. in January 2024.

2006~: After joining the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, he was engaged in promoting productivity improvement in the service industry, promoting overseas economic cooperation, responding to financial crises, creating an industrial structure vision, supporting the establishment of the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, resource diplomacy, assignment to the Middle East (Dubai and Istanbul), Fourth Industrial Revolution policy, and EV battery reuse and recycling policy formulation.
2018~: Engaged in the management of the Ambatovy nickel business in Madagascar at Sumitomo Corporation. He is in charge of business operations management, investor relations and public relations, government relations, and project finance negotiations.
2021~: In his current position, he worked as a policy and business consultant, providing support for policy formulation, coordination, and project management in both the public and private sectors. He is in charge of a wide range of topics, including DX promotion, resources and energy, industrial policy, and trade policy.

He is currently a professor at the Graduate School of Hosei University, an emeritus professor at Hitotsubashi University, and president of Creative Response Social Innovation School. In terms of off-campus activities, he served as Director of the Sony Strategy Office and Director of the Center for Japan Studies at the University of Pretoria, and also served as the editorial director of Hitotsubashi Business Review. Currently, he is Chairman of the Japan Facility Management Association, Outside Director of Education and Exploration Co., Ltd., and Outside Director of Infronia Holdings Co., Ltd. He has served as an advisor to the NPO e-Education, an advisor to the NPO Crossfields, and a board member of the NPO Teachers Initiative, as well as an advisor and advisor to several venture companies. He received his B.A. in Sociology (1977), B.A. in Economics (1979), M.S. in Sociology (1981) from Hitotsubashi University, and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1990). His major is the historical study of management strategy and organization with innovation at its core.
He is the author of The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry 1880-1990: Continuity and Discontinuity (Macmillan), The Structure of Management Revolution (Iwanami Shinsho), Emergent Destruction: Innovation for the Future (Mishima), Management of Open Innovation (Yuhikaku), and Second Business Card: Work Styles That Change the Future” (Kodansha), “Innovators’ History of Japan: Creative Responses to Modern Japan” (Toyo Keizai Inc.), “Konosuke Matsushita: You Can Do It, You Can Do It” (Minerva Shobo), and many others. His latest book is “Siricon Valley Seeks Japan Companies: The World’s Envy of the Strongest Partnership” (Diamond). His hobbies are rock ‘n’ roll and golf.

Graduated from the Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science in 1989. Registered as a patent attorney in 1994.

He served as Vice President of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association from 2007~2011 and 2018~2020.
Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Open Innovation Promotion Office, Research Promotion Division, Fujita Health University, and a visiting senior researcher in the field of intellectual property law, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo.
He is the author of many books on intellectual property, including “Poor Mozart and Rich Puccini” and “The Compass of Strategic ‘Intellectual Property Management'”.

Relay “GOOD” with kelp. It is Caixa that is close to “Shishishi” (an acronym for the words of nature, citizens, and society) that protects today’s oceans, nurtures tomorrow’s oceans, and connects the present to the future. Rather than considering kelp as a mere food, we focused on its function as a seaweed that contributes to global warming countermeasures by absorbing about five times more CO2 than green carbon represented by forests. In cooperation with local fishery cooperatives, we will cultivate and utilize kelp that contributes to the conservation of the marine environment.

2006~, Engaged in work at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), such as bioindustry promotion, environmental policy, infrastructure export, earthquake disaster reconstruction, emerging country policy, recruitment, and support for small and medium-sized enterprises.
In 2018~, as the head of the financial business at freee Co., Ltd., he led the business development of financial products using cloud accounting and the business of alliances with financial institutions.
In 2022~, he established AWAKE Inc. and developed a business that connects startups and policies. We are developing a knowledge platform “PublicHub” that gathers about 100 people from Kasumigaseki.

Based in Venice, Italy, he is researching a circular economy other than edible food with the goal of establishing seaweed farming around the world.
Established a company to enrich the ocean through seaweed farming such as kelp and wakame seaweed, which are familiar to Japan culture, in response to the problem of seaweed beds around the world decreasing due to rising seawater temperatures caused by global warming. Top 10 startups at MIT x VENICE design X, won the Team Energy award at the CEO audition.
Seaweed farming, 98% of which is farmed in Asia, absorbs 5 to 50 times more carbon dioxide than trees, and microplastics can be removed from the ocean by adhering to the surface of the seaweed. In addition to food, it is attracting attention as a breakthrough in decarbonization because it can be mixed into clothing, plastics, fertilizers, biofuels, cattle feed, reduce methane gas, enrich the oceans, decarbonize and switch chemical substances to seaweed-derived raw materials.

Graduated from Keio University (SFC). After graduating, he worked at an advertising agency and was in charge of new businesses, and then moved to the NPO ETIC. He is in charge of reconstruction support in Tohoku, commercialization support for social entrepreneurs, and loans. In 2016, he moved to venture capital for regional revitalization and social business. Entrepreneurship and business support. Became independent in 2019. Currently, while supporting the funding of craft beer and creating a social activity base using an old folk house (SHINAGAWA1930) in Kita-Shinagawa, he has also been working for a designated utilization foundation for the utilization of dormant deposits since 2020. He is the father of two children.

Hobbies: Craft beer, travel, examples of social entrepreneurship, a place where people are loosely connected Regional

Revitalization Mita Association OGA Brewing Strategic Partner Representative Director of UNIAS Co., Ltd.

Graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1979 and joined Hitachi’s Energy Research Laboratory. He is engaged in research in the fields of robotics and AI. Subsequently, he served as Chief Engineer of the Environmental Division of the Head Office, General Manager of the R&D Group Chief Architect Office, Technical Advisor of the Group, and Chief Engineer of the International Standardization Promotion Office of the Intellectual Property Division, before retiring in April 2020. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Institute for Rule-Making Strategies, Tama University, and a representative director of the Consortium for the Promotion of Information Collaboration between Companies, the Institute for Sustainable Business, and the Well-being Standards Management Organization. He is the former International Chair of IEC TC111 (Environmental Standards), the Japan Representative of IEC ACEA (Environmental Advisory Committee), the former International Chair of ISO TC268/SC1 (Smart Community Infrastructure), the International Chair of ISO TC 323 (Circular Economy) WG2 and many other international standardization committees. Doctor of Engineering, Engineer (Information Engineering).

Publications: “Introduction to Rule-Driven Business Models” Daiichi Hoki Publishing, etc.

After graduating from Shimane University School of Medicine in 2006, he has been treating critically ill emergency patients for more than 10 years as an emergency and intensive care physician, especially patients with artificial respiration and ECMO.
In the process, I began to question the limits of medical care, especially doctors who can only practice according to the logic of hospitals and their training systems. When I looked at the ideas of startups and the activities of local residents, I realized that there are many hints for solutions to medical care and local issues, and I came to think that doctors need to go out into the community and interact with a diverse range of people, and acquire an entrepreneurial mindset and design thinking, rather than just being in hospitals.
Since 2019, he has been a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Shimane University School of Medicine, and since 2024, he has also served as a special assistant to the president, and is working to create an attractive university that connects not only the Faculty of Medicine but also the university and the community.

Field of Specialization

Inorganic Materials Chemistry, CCUS, Recycling of Calcium Compounds

academic background

1986 Graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Japan University, 1988 Graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering,
Japan University

work history

1988 Assistant
Assistant, Full-time Lecturer, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Japan University, 2010
Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering,
Japan University, 2023 Director, Institute of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Japan University

Social activities

President, The Institute of Inorganic Materials, Japan

Awards

Nagai Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Inorganic Materials, Academic
Prize of the Society for Inorganic Materials,
Encouragement Award
of the Society of Inorganic Phosphorus Chemistry, Special Achievement Award of the Gypsum Board Industry Association, Masumi
Koishi Award
of the Materials Technology Research Association Japan Branch Promotion Achievement Award of the Ceramics Society of Japan

Born in 1966. At the age of 26, he became the president of a major human resources service group company.
At the age of 39, he demonstrated his management skills to rapidly grow into a top company in the industry, and at the age of 40, he changed to a new lifestyle in search of a new home.
Currently, while continuing to manage companies in Japan and overseas, he is engaged in practical management in various business areas, such as activities as a social capitalist and capitalist, and the creation of innovation in the sports business field.
He is well-versed in “public-private partnerships,” in which the government and the private sector work together to solve social issues and create new businesses.
He has served as an executive advisor to the Osaka Prefecture Smart City Strategy and Public-Private Partnership Collaboration Desk, an advisor to the Osaka Prefecture and Municipal Public-Private Partnership Promotion Council, a policy advisor to Higashiosaka City and Hirakata City, and an advisor to the National Leaders’ Forum for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships, and has worked to promote policies from both public and private perspectives throughout Japan.
He is the chairman of the Japan Zero Carbon Smart City Foundation (JaZCaF), an economic organization for public-private partnership platforms. J.League Club FC Osaka Honorary President, Founder, etc.

He is also a senior professor at Kyushu University, director of the Center for Urban Studies, director of the Yunus & Shiiki Social Business Research Center

, a professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, a faculty fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, and a visiting researcher at the Policy Research Institute on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Received the 16th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award. He is a member of the 25th and 26th Science Council of Japan. As one of the world’s top researchers, he was selected as an author of a highly cited paper by Clarivate.

Representative of the UN IW Report, Councilor of the UN SDGs Report 2023, Member of the UN Roundtable on New Capital for Sustainability, Representative Author of IPCC, Representative Author of IPBES, Vice Chair of the OECD (Trade and Environment Working Group), Co-Chair of the World Society for Environmental Resource Economics, Temporary Member of the Industrial Structure Council of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Temporary Member of the Central Environment Council of the Ministry of the Environment, Science Council of Japan The Impact of Sustainable Investments on Industry” and has served as the representative.

At university, he majored in sports psychology and exercise physiology. After working in logistics consulting and the financial industry, he led the business development area at GMO Internet Group. After that, as a founding member of Four Startups Co., Ltd., he was involved in the operation of a growth industry support business to enhance the competitiveness of Japan together with Japan’s leading entrepreneurs and investors, and was listed about three and a half years after the establishment of the company.
Subsequently, he established the Public affairs Strategy Office with an eye on industry-academia-government-finance collaboration, and is promoting the construction of a startup ecosystem and policy proposals with central and local governments, universities, and large companies that contribute to the creation of growth industries.

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry “SHIFT(x)” Project Comprehensive Advisory AdvisorTokyo
Metropolitan Government Female Entrepreneur Support Project “APT Women” MentorOsaka
Bureau of Industry Startup Ecosystem Exective Advisor
J-startup KANSAI Recommendation Committee / Evaluation Committee Member

After working at the Sony Showroom in Ginza, he worked for many years as a consultant and trainer for human resource development and organizational development for domestic and overseas power brand companies, from compiling corporate genetic information. Currently, we are exploring the possibility of a regional circulating and ecological sphere that circulates the natural capital of the UNESCO-certified Izu Peninsula Global Geopark with urban capital at the regional ESD activity promotion base, and we are working to investigate and research the key to the circular economy from the education of the next generation and implement it in society. He is the author of “The Book of the Sage” and “The Project for Strengthening the Field Capabilities of Sales: Promoting Brand Education to Double Profits,” etc.

Born in Kameoka City in 1990 After graduating from the Faculty of Environment and Human Sciences at the University of Hyogo in 2013, he joined Hamada Co., Ltd., where he proposed industrial waste disposal and held seminars for companies. In 2018, he was transferred to the Corporate Planning Office, where he was responsible for creating medium-term plans and promoting ESG management. Since 2022, the company has established the Circular Economy Co-Creation Promotion Office, and is conducting demonstrations for the realization of a circular economy with many partners such as local governments and companies, taking advantage of the strengths that only an industrial waste treatment company can do. Wanting to provide a place where everyone, including businessmen, housewives, and children, can learn about garbage correctly, we launched the “Garbage School” and conducted lectures on garbage to a total of 4,000 people in two years. He also runs a community of more than 2,400 people in the Facebook group “Garbage School”.

Dispatched from the Ministry of the Environment from July 2023. At IGES, he is in charge of supporting the secretariat of the Japan Climate Change Leaders’ Partnership (JCLP). He joined the Environment Agency in 1992 and was in charge of resource recycling, Fukushima reconstruction, Minamata disease, climate change, taxation, human resources, general affairs, public relations, etc., as well as the Cabinet Secretariat and the Embassy of Japan in the United States. In the area of resource recycling, he was in charge of establishing the Circular Economy Partnership (J4CE) in 2021, contributing to the enactment of a new plastics law, and in 2017 he was in charge of the revision of the Waste Management Act and the Basel Act, as well as proposing measures to promote the industrial waste disposal industry, as well as engaged in disaster waste and waste problems in Fukushima. Graduated from the Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo.