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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President

Yoshiomi Tamai President and Founder of Ashinaga Foundation

Deputy President

Osamu Murata * 2 Acting President, Ashinaga / Former President, Kwansei Gakuin University / Member, Central Council for Education

Vice-Presidents

Fumihiro Aono * 2 Executive Vice President & CHRO
Satomi Amano * 2 Illustrator / Artist for Ashinaga Foundation

Directors

Yukichi Okazaki *2 *4 Managing Director, International Department
Toshihiko Kudo *4 Managing Director, Public Relations Department
Masayuki Kobayashi Dean, College of Education and Social Transformation・Project Professor, J.F. Oberlin University / Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Takahiro Shinyo Trustee of Kwansei Gakuin, Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University, Dean of Intenational Center for UN and Foreign Affairs Studies
Yohei Suda Attorney at Law (Japan & Washington, U.S.A)
Yukie Seki * 2 Secretary General, Ashinaga Foundation / Managing Director of General Affairs and Operations, Ashinaga Africa Initiative Department
Naoko Tsuyama Deputy President, Africa Japan Forum (AJF)
Yoshiaki Terumichi President, Sophia University
Chisa Mikami Head of Division for Prosperity, UNITAR Hiroshima Office
Keizo Yamaguchi Former President, Hokkaido University / Auditor, Kyoto Univeristy / Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University
Tomoya Yoshioka President, Japan Student Services Organization

Auditor

Katsuhiko Kotani * 1 Standing Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Construction Materials Co., Ltd. / Chairman, Board of Directors, International Environment and Economy Insitute
Kiyoshi Hidaka * 2 Lawyer
Akira Yoshikawa Managing Director of Japan Council of Social Welfare Facilities for the Blind / Advisor of Japan Guide Dog Association

Board of Trustees

Takayo Ishihara * 2 Nurse, Social Worker, Nursing Care Manager
Hiroaki Ogata Artist / Chairman, Ogata Family Koankai / Lecturer, Asahi Culture Center / Lecturer, Mitsukoshi Culture Salon
Yoshihiro Ogura * 1 Lawyer
Toshiro Ozawa Former Japanese Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa / Former Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Japan to Vienna
Richard H. Kaszynski MA, MD, PhD, General Director of Shinwakai Medical Corporation Medical Tower/ Co-Founder and Director of Stanford Solutions, Stanford School of Medicine
Tomoe Kato Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, Chikushi Jogakuen University
Naoshi Sugawara *2 Member of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
Akemi Soeda Emeritus Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Hideaki Domichi Director, Suzuki Motor Corporation / Former Japanese Ambassador to India / Former Senior Vice President of JICA / Former Director General, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau
Noriko Tominaga Délégué Generale, Comité d’échanges Franco-Japonais / Former director of Protocol, Delegation of the European Union to Japan
Miki Nagashima Board Member, Malaria No More Japan / Board Member, Japan Civil Network Society on SDGs / President, Nagashima Shoukai LLC.
Masatsugu Hori President-emeritus, Osaka Intenational Cancer Institute / Professor Emeritus, Osaka University

Honorary Advisor

Shinji Okajima Chairman of the Society for Encouraging Orphans in Traffic Accidents
Former Director of Koutsu Orphans Ikueikai
Former Chairman of the National Council for Encouragement of Traffic Orphans

Permanent Advisors

Masao Kaneki * 2 Medical Doctor, Adjunct Professor at Juntendo University,
Former Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Yoshio Sakurai Advocate of Ashinaga Student Street Fundraising
Keiko Higuchi* 3 President Emeritus, NPO The Womaen’s Association for Better Aging Society / Emeritus Professor, Tokyo Kasei University
Tsutomu Hotta* 1 * 3 Lawyer / Ex-Prosecutor
Kazuhiko Yoshida Former Secretary-General of Ashinaga Foundation

Regional Office Directors

Christine Naluboa and Diana Namakula Co- Directors of Ashinaga Uganda
Khady Thiam Director of Ashinaga Senegal
Jordan McFarlane Director of Ashinaga UK
Samantha Smith Director of Ashinaga France
Elisa Edmondson Director of Ashinaga USA
Andrew Castro Director of Ashinaga Brazil

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