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, CSIS

Officers

Ambassador James P. Zumwalt (Chairman)
Randy Yoshimura, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (Vice Chair)
Maki Hishikawa, Aflac International (Vice Chair)
Shihoko Goto, Wilson Center (Secretary)
Peter Bass, Kingswood Holding LLC (Treasurer)
Ryan Shaffer, JASWDC President (Ex Officio)

Trustees

Laurence Bates (ret)
Michael Beeman, Stanford University
Robin Berrington, Department of State (ret)
Brent Bombach, NEC Corporation
Baden Firth, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Christopher Johnstone, CSIS
Takaaki Kakudoh, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A)
Marie Kissel, Abbott Labs
Sherry Martin, Department of State
Jamie Morgan
Tatsuo Okazaki, Toyota Motor North America
Tami Overby, Asia Pathfinders LLC
Andrew M. Saidel, Dynamic Strategies Asia 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, Northrup Grumman Corporation

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.
Dr. Kent E. Calder, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
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, University of Maryland
Sheila A. Smith, Council on Foreign Relations
Shinsuke Takahashi, NEC Corporation of America
Hiroyuki “Bob” Takai, European Energy Exchange