Board of Trustees, Officers and Advisors
Honorary Patron
H.E. Koji Tomita, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America
Honorary Chairman
The Honorable Bill Hagerty, US Senate
The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta, Mineta & Associates, LLC
The Honorable John V. Roos, Geodesic Capital
Chairman Emeritus
William T. Breer
Ambassador Rust M. Deming, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Matthew P. Goodman, CSIS
Officers
Ambassador James P. Zumwalt (Chairman)
Kenichiro Mizoguchi, Hitachi, Ltd. (Vice Chair)
Emma Chanlett-Avery, Congressional Research Service (Vice Chair)
Shinsuke Takahashi, NEC Corporation of America (Secretary)
Yoichi Mineo, Marubeni America Corporation (At Large)
Peter Bass, Quberu, Inc. (Treasurer)
Ryan Shaffer, JASWDC President (Ex Officio)
Trustees
Robin Berrington, Department of State (ret)
Wendy Cutler, Asia Society Policy Institute
Shihoko Goto, Wilson Center
Lt. Gen. Wallace Gregson, Avascent Global Advisors
Keiko Honda, SIPA
Christopher Johnstone, United States Department of Defense
Takaaki Kakudoh, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A)
Marie Kissel, Abbott Labs
Ambassador Mark Lippert, YouTube
Dr. Sherry Martin, United States Department of State
Tatsuo Okazaki, Toyota Motor North America
Tami Overby, McLarty Associates
Louisa Rubinfien, University of Maryland
Sufumi So, Hong Kong University
Mireya Solis, Brookings Institution
Hiroyuki “Bob” Takai, European Energy Exchange
Saburou Takeuchi, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Ambassador Kurt Tong, The Asia Group
Rick Weir, Northrup Grumman Corporation
Randy Yoshimura, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
Advisors
Minister Masashi Mizobuchi, Embassy of Japan
Katherine E. Monahan, U.S. Department of State
Legal Advisor
David Levine, Groom Law Group
Counselors
Lyle Blanchard, Greenstein DeLorme & Luchs, P.C.
Dr. Kent E. Calder, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Abigail Friedman, The Asia Foundation
Glen S. Fukushima, Center for American Progress
Maki Hishikawa, Aflac
Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard, McLarty Associates
Tetsuo Iguchi, Toshiba America, Inc.
Ambassador John R. Malott
Eileen Pennington, The Asia Foundation
Yoshie Ogawa
Pamela Passman, Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade
Andrew M. Saidel, Dynamic Strategies Asia LLC
Dr. Sheila A. Smith, Council on Foreign Relations