Board of Trustees, Officers and Advisors

Honorary Patrons

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

The Honorable George Glass, US Ambassador to Japan

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
Ambassador James P. Zumwalt, ret.

Officers

James Schoff, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (Chairman)
Gaku Nakamura, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (Vice Chair)
Maki Hishikawa, Aflac International (Vice Chair)
Yuki Sako, K&L Gates (Treasurer)
Shihoko Goto, Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) (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
Brent Bombach, NEC Corporation
Dr. Kent E. Calder, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Baden Firth, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Yasuko Fumuro, Sumitomo Corporation of the Americas
Marie Kissel
Sherry Martin, Department of State
Jamie Morgan, Gray Book Consulting
Tatsuo Okazaki, Toyota Motor North America
Tami Overby, Asia Pathfinders LLC
Kenta Saito, Mitsui & Co. U.S.A. Inc
Keiichi Shimada, Hitachi
Sufumi So, Hong Kong University
Hiroko Tada, ITOCHU International
Kenneth Weinstein, Hudson Institute

Advisors

Masatsugu Odaira, Minister of Public Affairs at the Embassy of Japan in the US

Dan Cintron, U.S. Department of State

Legal Advisor

David Levine, Groom Law Group

Counselors

Peter Bass, Kingswood Holding LLC
Robin Berrington, Department of State (ret.)
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.
Tom Oku
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
Ambassador Kurt Tong, The Asia Group
Rick Weir, IMSAR