Akio Okawara
Akio Okawara
Akio Okawara is president and CEO of JCIE since April 2014. He also serves as Japanese director of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group, a member of the Japanese-German Forum and the Korea-Japan Forum, and director of the Global Health and Human Security Program Executive Committee and of the Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ). He is concurrently a panel member of the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) and a member of the Foundation Council of the Japanese-German Center Berlin. Prior to joining JCIE, he was executive director of the Sumitomo Shoji Research Institute, where he oversaw research and analysis on domestic and international political and economic trends and on the promotion of the use of new technology in cooperation with universities and other research institutions. Mr. Okawara graduated from Keio University with a BA in law and also studied at Williams College in Massachusetts.
