Delegation Profile:
Kenjiro Monji
Mr. Kenjiro Monji was born in Kitakyushu\, Fukuoka in 1952. After gr aduating from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University\, he entered the Minis try of Foreign Affairs in 1975. In his career at home\, he has served mainl y in the areas of treaties\, national security and cultural exchange in suc h posts as Deputy Director-General of the Treaties Bureau（2003）\, Director- General for International Affairs at the Ministry of Defense （2004） and Dir ector-General for Public Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2008 ). He has worked overseas at nine postings in seven countries. He served a t embassies in France\, Australia\, Belgium and the United Kingdom as well as at the mission to the European Union. Then\, he had assumed four Ambassa dorial posts in Iraq (2007)\, in Qatar (2010)\, at UNESCO (2013) and in Can ada (2015) before finishing his diplomatic carrier in late 2017.
Amba ssador Monji continues to promote soft power diplomacy in such areas as pop culture and Japanese sake. He is one of 78 Sake Samurais in the world so f ar nominated by the Japan Sake Brewers Association’s Junior Council. He no w serves FUJITSU Limited as a Senior Advisor.
K eita Kakehashi
Mr. Kakehashi is Corporate Officer\, HR Director for Asia excluding Japan\, and HR Director for key global HR projects at N SG\, one of the world’s largest glass manufacturers. After joining NSG in 1 985\, he worked in various management positions including an eight-year sec ondment to the firm’s US office\, initially based in Lexington\, KY and nex t in NYC\, NY. He was also closely involved in the management integration p rocess\, particularly in the area of HR\, after NSG acquired the UK-listed glass company Pilkington in 2006. He is currently chair of NSG’s Group Incl usion & Diversity Steering Committee.
Miho Kurosaki
Ms. Kurosaki is Head of Japan and Korea R esearch for Bloomberg NEF (BNEF)\, the energy and transport research divisi on of Bloomberg. She leads analysis and research on topics including the im pacts of energy market liberalization. She has also served as a committee m ember on the Climate Change Advisory Panel for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to BNEF\, she developed Bloomberg’s Environmental\, Social a nd Governance (ESG) analytics platform as senior ESG analyst. Ms. Kurosaki holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and a BA in Economics from Keio University.
J onathan Berkshire Miller
Mr. Miller is currently a Senior Fello w with the Japan Institute of International Affairs and also Deputy Directo r and Senior Fellow at the Ottawa-based MacDonald Laurier Institute. He als o holds the concurrent roles of Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada\, Senior Fellow with the Asian Forum Japan and Senior Fellow with the East-West Institute. Mr. Miller previously served in the Ca nadian government—both with the Foreign Ministry and in the area of securit y—for nearly a decade. He is also a regular contributor of articles\, inter views and presentations on East Asian security matters.
Saki Matsunaka
Ms. Matsunaka is curre ntly in her second year at the Fukui University School of Medical Sciences\ , where she is studying with the aim of becoming a practitioner in the fiel d of Obstetrics. Interested in medicine since her high school days\, as a p articipant in Fukui Medical High School—an extracurricular initiative at Fu kui University that aims to develop gifted students into global scientists\ , the doctors and researchers of tomorrow—she had the opportunity to study at the University of Kansas. Furthermore\, after picking up silverware in a Fukui Prefecture-wide English debating competition for high-schoolers\, sh e also attended a study program in Wisconsin.
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