Board of Trustees, Officers and Advisors

Honorary Patron

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

Honorary Chairs

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)
Randy Yoshimura, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (Vice Chair)
Maki Hishikawa, Aflac International (Vice Chair)
Peter Bass, Kingswood Holding LLC (Treasurer)
Shihoko Goto, Wilson Center (Secretary)
Andrew M. Saidel, Dynamic Strategies Asia LLC (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)
Christopher Johnstone, The Asia Group
Takaaki Kakudoh, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A)
Marie Kissel
Sherry Martin, Department of State
Jamie Morgan
Tatsuo Okazaki, Toyota Motor North America
Tami Overby, Asia Pathfinders LLC
Yuki Sako, K&L Gates
Keiichi Shimada, Hitachi
Sufumi So, Hong Kong University
Mireya Solis, Brookings Institution
Hiroko Tada, ITOCHU International
Ambassador Kurt Tong, The Asia Group
Kenneth Weinstein, Hudson Institute
Rick Weir, IMSAR

Advisors

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

Legal Advisor

David Levine, Groom Law Group

Counselors

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.
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
Shinsuke Takahashi, NEC Corporation of America
Hiroyuki “Bob” Takai, European Energy Exchange