Board of Trustees, Officers and Advisors

Honorary Patron

H.E. Shigeo Yamada, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America

Honorary Chairs

The Honorable Rahm Emanuel
The Honorable Bill Hagerty, US Senate
The Honorable John V. Roos, Geodesic Capital

Chair Emeriti

William T. Breer
Ambassador Rust M. Deming, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Matthew P. Goodman, CFR

Officers

Ambassador James P. Zumwalt (Chairman)
Gaku Nakamura, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (Vice Chair)
Maki Hishikawa, Aflac International (Vice Chair)
Yosuke “Yogi” Nagamori, MUFG Americas (Treasurer)
Shihoko Goto, Wilson Center (Secretary)
Andrew M. Saidel, Dynamic Strategies Asia LLC (At-Large)
Randy Yoshimura, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (At-Large)
Ryan Shaffer, JASWDC President (Ex Officio)

Trustees

Laurence Bates (ret)
Michael Beeman, Stanford University
Robin Berrington, Department of State (ret)
Brent Bombach, NEC Corporation
Dr. Kent E. Calder, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Baden Firth, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Takaaki Kakudoh, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A)
Marie Kissel
Sherry Martin, Department of State
Jamie Morgan, Gray Book Consulting
Gaku Nakamura, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.
Tatsuo Okazaki, Toyota Motor North America
Tami Overby, Asia Pathfinders LLC
Yuki Sako, K&L Gates
Keiichi Shimada, Hitachi
Sufumi So, Hong Kong University
Hiroko Tada, ITOCHU International
Ambassador Kurt Tong, The Asia Group
Kenneth Weinstein, Hudson Institute

Advisors

Minister Fumito Miyake, Embassy of Japan
Nicholas J.C. Snyder, U.S. Department of State

Legal Advisor

David Levine, Groom Law Group

Counselors

Peter Bass, Kingswood Holding LLC
Lyle M. Blanchard, Greenstein DeLorme & Luchs, P.C.
Emma Chanlett-Avery, Asia Society Policy Institute
Wendy Cutler, Asia Society Policy Institute
Abigail Friedman, The Asia Foundation
Glen S. Fukushima, Center for American Progress
Lt. Gen. Wallace Gregson, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA
Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard, McLarty Associates
Tetsuo Iguchi, Toshiba America, Inc.
Christopher Johnstone, The Asia Group
Ambassador John R. Malott
Yoichi Mineo, Marubeni Corp.
Pamela Passman, Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade
Eileen Pennington, The Asia Foundation
Louisa Rubinfien
Sheila A. Smith, Council on Foreign Relations
Mireya Solis, Brookings Institution
Shinsuke Takahashi, NEC Corporation of America
Hiroyuki “Bob” Takai, European Energy Exchange
Rick Weir, IMSAR