Ambassadors

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Mexican States H.E. Ms. Melba PRÍA

  

  【Work History】

   

  1979-82

  Political and Consular Attaché, Embassy of Mexico in Tel Aviv

  1983-91

  Editor and Director of the Cultural Promotion Department, Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS)

  1991-92

  Advisor to the Foreign Minister

  1992-94

  Head of the Development and Communication Department (for public relations and corporate image, capacity building, and privatization), Mexicana de Aviación

  1994-98

  Special Delegate to the State of Chiapas, Secretariat of Public Education

  1998-2000

  Head of the Mexican National Institute for Indigenous Affairs

  2001-02

  Head of the State and Federal Liaison Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2002-03

  Director General for Mexican Diaspora, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2003-07

  Head of Strategy and Public Diplomacy

  2007-15

  Ambassador to Indonesia (also to East Timor)

  2015-19

  Ambassador to India (also to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Nepal)

  June 2019

  Ambassador of Mexico

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria H.E.Mrs. Marieta Petrova ARABADJIEVA de Descalzi

  

  【Work History】

   

  2001

  Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2001-04

  Attaché, Embassy of Bulgaria in Tokyo

  2004-06

  Third Secretary and Officer for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asia, Australia and Oceania Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2006-08

  Second Secretary and Head of Political Section, Embassy of Bulgaria in Tokyo

  2011-13

  First Secretary, Head of Political Section, and Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Bulgaria in Beijing

  December 2011-May 2012

  Chargé d'Affaires a.i., Embassy of Bulgaria in Beijing

  2014-16

  First Secretary and Head of the China Section, Asia, Australia and Oceania Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2016-August 2020

  Deputy Chief of Mission, Head of Political Section, and Counsellor, Embassy of Bulgaria in Tokyo

  September 2020-21

  Counsellor, Asia, Australia and Oceania Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  April 2021

  Ambassador

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia H.E. Mrs. Aleksandra KOVAČ

  

  【Work History】

   

  2002-03

  Trainee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2003-04

  Attaché, Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2004

  Attaché (for General Affairs), Embassy of Serbia in London

  2005

  Third Secretary, Directorate for Asia, Australia and Pacific, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2006-11

  Third Secretary (for Consular and Cultural Affairs), Embassy of Serbia in Tokyo

  2011-12

  Counsellor, State Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2012-13

  First Counsellor, Cabinet of Minister of Foreign Affairs

  2013-14

  Director of Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2014-18

  Minister-Counsellor, Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

  2018-21

  Secretary General of the Commission of the Republic of Serbia for Cooperation with UNESCO and Head of UNESCO Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  August 2021

  Ambassador

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ghana H.E. Mrs. Genevieve Edna APALOO

  

  [work history]

   

  1987-88

  French teacher at Pope John Middle School

  1992-93

  Research Assistant, Department of Health Education, Ministry of Health

  1995-96

  Researcher, National Commission for Civics Education

  1997

  Deputy Director, Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  1997-98

  Deputy Director, International Organizations and Conferences Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  1998-2000

  Deputy Director, Department of African Unity, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  2000

  Deputy Director, European Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration

  2000-04

  First Secretary, Counselor, Embassy of Japan in France

  2004-06

  Deputy Senior Director, Information and Public Relations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration

  2006-07

  Deputy Senior Director, Department of Protocols, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration

  2007-11

  Minister Counselor, Embassy of Japan in Togo

  2011-13

  Deputy Director, Department of Land and General Services, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration

  2013-16

  Minister Plenipotentiary of the High Commission to Nigeria

  2016-17

  Charge d'Affaires ad interim at the Embassy of Equatorial Guinea

  2017-19

  Director General, Asian and Oceania Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration

  2019-20

  Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the United States

  2020-22

  Charging Ambassador to the United States

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uganda H.E. Ms. KAAHWA Tophace

  

  【Work History】
  
  Parliament of Uganda May 2016 to May 2021 Woman Member of Parliament Hoima District
  Parliament of Uganda May 2011 to May 2016 Woman Member of Parliament Hoima District
  Buleera Core Primary Teachers College 21/8/2006 to 1/7/2010 Tutor/Acting Deputy Principle

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mali H.E. Mrs. Nina Oualet INTALLOU

  

   

  【Work History】

   

  1985-2000

  President and General Manager of the company of Sanitation and cleaning works (ETRANE) in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

  2004-2015

  First Deputy Mayor of Essouk

  1999-2004

  Municipal councilor at the Kidal City Hall

  1999-2012

  4th Vice-President of the High Council of Local Authorities of Mali

  2015-2016

  First Vice President of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission

  2016-2020

  Minister of Handicrafts and Tourism

  2022-

  Ambassador of Mali

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua H.E. Ms. Sandy Anabell DAVILA Sandoval

  【Work History】
  
  Sept. 2022 :Ambassador
  2022: Minister Counselor with consular functions and Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Nicaragua in Japan.
  2021: Minister Counselor and Chargé d’Affaires a.i. at the Embassy of Nicaragua to the Holy See. Rome, Italy.
  2016: Cooperation Specialist, Department of Cooperation for Europe, General Department of Europe.
  2010: Head of the Ceremonial Division, General Department of Ceremonial and Protocol of the State.
  2007: Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Finland H.E. Ms. Tanja JÄÄSKELÄINEN

  

  【Work History】
  
  Ambassador, September 2022
  Deputy Director General, Political Department, MFA 2018-2022
  Special Representative, Ambassador, Syria Crisis, Unit for Middle East and North
  Africa, MFA 2017-2018
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Finland to Tunisia and Libya, 2013-2017
  Minister, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Finland, London 2009-2013
  Senior Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2006-2009
  Deputy European Correspondent, Counsellor, Political Department,
  European Common Foreign and Security Policy Unit, MFA, 2003-2006
  Deputy Head of Mission, First Secretary, Embassy of Finland, Damascus, Syria
  2001-2003
  Second Secretary, Embassy of Finland, Budapest, Hungary 1996-2000
  Attaché, Legal Department, Unit for Public International Law, MFA, 1996
  Attaché, Department for External Economic Relations, Unit for Central and Eastern
  European Co-operation, MFA 1995
  Entered Finnish Foreign Service 1995

message of support

• Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Female Empowerment Manager Masako Mori

  

  [date of birth]

  August 22, 1964

  [Birthplace]

  Fukushima Prefecture

  [Member of the House of Councillors]

  Fukushima constituency elected 3 times

  [work history]

   

  1988

  Graduated from Faculty of Law, Tohoku University

  1995

  Attorney Enrollment

  1999

  Visiting Scholar, New York University Law School United Nations CSW (Committee on Women) Representative of Japan Federation of Bar Associations

  2005
  ~2006

  Financial Services Agency Planning and Coordination Bureau Deputy Director/Inspector

  2007

  Elected to the 21st House of Councilors election

  2012

  First entry into the cabinet. Minister in charge of women's vitality and child-rearing support

  2013

  Elected to the 23rd House of Councilors election

  2019

  Elected to the 25th House of Councilors election
  Minister of Justice
  

  2020

  Leader of the House of Councilors Special Committee for Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake

  2021

  Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (in charge of empowering women)

• The Federal Republic of Germany Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffey

  

  Franziska Giffey (née Süllke) was born in Frankfurt/Oder in 1978. She graduated from Werner-Seelenbinder-Gymnasium in Fürstenwalde/Spree in 1997, where she completed her Abitur (the German university entrance qualification). After finishing school, she started teacher training, with a focus on English and French, at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. From 1998 to 2001, she studied public administration at the Fachhochschule für Verwaltung und Rechtspflege Berlin (FHVR), a college for public and judicial administration. During her studies, she spent several months in 2000 working in the office of the Lewisham borough mayor (Dave Sullivan, Labour Party) in London.
  After earning her degree in public administration, Franziska Giffey worked in the office of the Treptow-Köpenick borough mayor in Berlin (Klaus Ulbricht, SPD) from 2001 to 2002. Following that, she served from 2002 to 2010 as the Berlin borough Neukölln’s commissioner for European affairs. In addition to her work as a commissioner for European affairs, she completed a master’s degree in European administrative management from 2003 to 2005 at the Fachhochschule für Verwaltung und Rechtspflege Berlin (FHVR). In 2003, she was also a staff member of Berlin’s EU liaison office in Brussels, and in 2005, she was on the staff of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Between 2004 and 2009, she taught courses on EU fundraising, EU state aid legislation, EU funding programs, and European project management at public administration academies in various German states (Berlin, Saxony, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), as well as at Berlin’s European School of Governance and the academy of the German Civil Service Federation (dbb).
  From 1 September 2010 to 15 April 2015, Franziska Giffey served as the borough councillor for education, schools, culture, and sports in the Berlin borough of Neukölln. On 15 April 2015, Neukölln’s borough assembly elected her mayor of Neukölln. As mayor, she was also head of the department for finance and economic affairs.
  Franziska Giffey joined the SPD in 2007 and was chair of the Neukölln SPD from 2014 to 2018. From December 2019 to December 2021, she was a member of the SPD executive committee on the federal level. Franziska Giffey has co-chaired the Berlin SPD with Raed Saleh since 27 November 2020.
  On 14 March 2018, Franziska Giffey was appointed and sworn in as Germany’s minister for family affairs; she resigned from this post on 19 May 2021. Her constituency in Rudow in the borough of Neukölln elected her directly to the House of Representatives.
  Franziska Giffey has been Governing Mayor of Berlin since 21 December 2021.

Overseas Female Executives（Keynote addresses）

• Zuckerberg Media Founder and CEO / Former Facebook Marketing Director Randi Zuckerberg

  

  Randi Zuckerberg’s unique background puts her at the forefront of both technology and the arts. As an early employee at Facebook and the creator of Facebook Live, she was on the front lines of shaping Web 2.0 technology. She is also an accomplished artist who has performed on Broadway, won three Tony awards for producing Broadway shows: Hadestown, Oklahoma! and The Inheritance and produced the first ever simulcast of a commercial Broadway show during the height of COVID.
  Now she is putting these two worlds together at the start of Web3. One of the most prominent voices for women in crypto and NFTs, Randi is passionate about the unparalleled opportunities for financial success that Web3 can provide for women.
  Sister of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook.

Female Executives （Breakout Session）

• President of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Women's Club /
  President of Miwa Shoji Co., Ltd. Yuko Ichise

  

  Yuko Ichise founded "Aji no Chuka Hagoromo" in Shibuya in 1969. After moving the main branch to Roppongi in 1976, she transferred it to Ginza in 1980, where the company remains to this day as "Ginza Hagoromo."
  For many long years, she has supported young managers seeking to enter the restaurant industry, and has been running Miwa Shoji Co., Ltd. and three other companies she owns. Her activities include running several kinds of businesses, leasing real estate, and offering consultancy services.
  She became a member of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Women's Club in 1997, then a director in 2000, a permanent director in 2004, an advisor in 2010, vice-president in 2013, a consultant in 2016, and president in 2019—a career spanning 22 years as one of its officers.
  With "The integrity and trust of dignified women: living in the here and now every day" as their slogan, she and the other members of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Women's Club are working toward regional economic development and raising the quality of women managers, as a key Chamber of Commerce and Industry organization.

• Representative of HI LLC
  Japanese representative at the Davos youth conference, One Young World Ibun Hirahara

  

  Starting in the second grade of elementary school, Ibun Hirahara lived away from her family as a study abroad student in China, Canada, Mexico, and Spain. She was prompted to return by the Great East Japan Earthquake. After graduating from university, she joined Johnson & Johnson, where she worked in digital marketing. She subsequently shifted to working as an organizational development consultant, and promoted public relations and brand consulting while playing a leading role in marketing as a CMO. She then established WORLD ROAD with the mission of "making the whole world a school," launching an educational business based on enabling people all over the world to learn from each other. In 2022, she established HI LLC in order to achieve her dream of "melting social boundaries." With the SDGs and education as her core drives, she pursues achieving sustainable social and business models that will enable each and every person to shine while remaining true to themselves, in terms of companies and individuals in Japan and overseas. She is the co-author of WE HAVE A DREAM - 201-ka Koku 202-nin no Yume x SDGs. She was chosen by Forbes JAPAN for its 2021 list of 100 faces of the year. She is a news presenter for The Asahi Shimbun's "Joho 7days," and a commentator for its "Sunday Morning."

• Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd. Vice President
  Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), General Manager of Marketing Headquarters, Design, DEI
  Promotion (Concurrently) Culture & Mind Promotion Office Manager Yukiko Yamaguchi

  

  As the head of the marketing and design departments of Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd., which is responsible for Panasonic's B2B solution business, while working on business reforms and cultural reforms while strengthening domestic and overseas marketing functions, she has also promoted the ratio of female managers as the officer in charge of promoting diversity. 30%, promotion of understanding of LGBTQ, and 100% of men taking childcare leave. Japan Advertisers Association Digital Media Committee Chairman. Director of Metaverse Japan

• Regional designer and Chief Executive Officer of ONE·GLOCAL Yumiko Kamada

  

  Yumiko Kamada joined East Japan Railway Company in 1989. After working on its "ekinaka" business and serving as the president of the subsidiary running its "ecute" business, she joined the head office's division in charge of boosting its regional business. There, she worked on expansion of sales channels for local products and processing of agricultural products. In 2015, she became a senior executive at Calbee. She is currently working on in-house manufacturing using regional rare materials and untapped resources at ONE·GLOCAL, while also simultaneously actively working as an advisor for local governments and companies.

• Amelias by Women’s Startup Lab Impact Foundation Japan / Representative Director
  Women’s Startup Lab / Founder CEO Ari Horie

  

  After graduating from California State University, he got a job at IBM. In 2013, founded the venture "Women's Startup Lab" specializing in supporting female entrepreneurs. In 2022, Amelias was established to provide entrepreneurship development programs for Japanese women and high school students. Working with local governments, we will work on social issues such as strengthening the environment where women can start businesses from anywhere.

Moderator

• Economic journalist
  President of Swing-by creation, Inc. and representative of Innovedia Yuko Uchida

  

  Sustainable Society and Women's Leadership
  
  After graduating from Tamagawa University College of Arts, Yuko Uchida joined Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd. There, she initially gained experience of equity-related work, then transferred to the public relations department. Selected to be a presenter for "Daiwa Satellite," she went on to appear in shows featuring market information and interviews with managers and analysts. After gaining experience as a corporate IR consultant, she joined Seiichi Takarabe's firm in 2000. This marked the beginning of her career as an economic journalist. After working as a reporter for the economic special feature team for TV Asahi's "Sunday Project," she became a reporter for BS Nippon Corporation's "Hyaku Ne n Kigyo ni Manabe," and the main presenter for Television KANAGAWA's "Kanagawa Business Up To Date." She is currently appearing in BS Eleven's "Takarabe news&talk" and FM Nack 5's "Economorning." She is particularly expert at on-site coverage and interviewing managers regardless of company size or industry, being equally at home with everything from listed corporations to SMEs and venture companies. She also works a great deal as a public speaker, lecturer, and event facilitator, and serves as an outside director for various companies. In October 2020, she launched the innovation platform "Innovedia."

• Managing editor of PRESIDENT WOMAN Akiko Kinoshita

  

  Promotion of women's active participation in local industries and regional revitalization
  
  Akiko Kinoshita joined PRESIDENT Inc. in 1996, after graduating from Waseda University's First School of Literature. She was assigned to the dancyu editorial department. She left the company in 2003 to pursue graduate studies in the field of Asia Pacific policies at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Graduating from UBC in May 2005, she returned to PRESIDENT Inc. that June, and was assigned to the PRESIDENT editorial department. In 2013, she became the department's deputy managing editor. She became the deputy managing editor of PRESIDENT WOMAN in 2017, and its managing editor in January 2018. She is involved in developing products for career women, and also in numerous diversity-related training programs and lectures. She has one child, and is fluent in Chinese and English.

• Editor-in-chief of Forbes JAPAN Web Yuka Tanimoto

  

  Future strategy for the next generation led by women
  
  After working as a finance and economics anchor for Bloomberg TV, etc., she obtained an MBA in the United States. She then became a presenter for Nikkei CNBC, and the company's first female commentator. To date, she has interviewed over 3,000 VIPs from all around the world, among them former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

• International journalist, bilingual MC, NHK World radio news desk Tomoko Omura

  

  Active participation of women will change the “Shape of this country”
  
  (Born in Kitakyushu in 1960)
  (Lived in Malaysia and Iran in her teens, and in Indonesia for three years in her 50s)
  1988 to 89: Presenter for NHK General TV's "NEWS TODAY."
  Has been working in international broadcasting as an English presenter since her 40s
  2008: Hokkaido Toyako Summit event Japanese-English MC
  Currently: NHK World English radio show Asian View desk
  English lecturer at NHK Culture Center (Hobbies: Singing, growing roses, driving)

• Director of the NPO Gender Action Platform Asako Osaki

  

  Promotion of SDGs and Empowerment of Women
  
  Asako Osaki graduated from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She then took a post at the United Nations, where she worked on promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. She is currently actively working in a wide range of international organizations, NPOs, companies, and other contexts as an expert on connecting Japan with the rest of the world. She is a member of the Cabinet Office Gender Equality Bureau's Ex pert Panel on Planning and Monitoring, a gender advisor for Toyooka City in Hyogo Prefecture, and a member of Mie Prefecture's DX board.