2012 American Delegates

Laura Winthrop Abbot
Executive Director
TOMODACHI Initiative
2nd Year

David Abraham
Chief Executive Officer
ClearWater Initiative
1st Year

Charles Cain
Major
United States Air Force
1st Year

Joseph Daniels
President & CEO
National September 11 Memorial
1st Year

Jason Dean
Senior VP for Economic and Policy Development
Butler Snow Advisory Services
2nd Year

Jason Edgar
Legislative Director
U.S. Representative Dave Reichert
1st Year

Aaron Ford
Partner
Snell & Wilmer LLP
1st Year

Nicole Gibbs
Archivist, Ann Hamilton Studio;
Instructor, CCAD; Artist
1st Year  

Robert Kayihura
Director, Legal & Corporate Affairs
Microsoft Corporation
2nd Year

Brendan Kelly
Policy Advisor, Office of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, U.S. Treasury
2nd Year 

Ann Kim
Filmmaker, Designer
IDEO
2nd Year

Erik Leklem
Regional Policy Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense
1st Year

Mari Matsumoto
Senior Portfolio Manager
United Nations Development Programme
2nd Year

Benjamin Mazzotta
Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Inclusive Growth, Center for Emerging Market Enterprises, Fletcher School, Tufts University
1st Year

Glenn Perkins
Publisher
NEIGHBORISTA!
1st Year

Lori Otto Punke
Director, Government Affairs
Starbucks Coffee Company
1st Year

Dale Rielage
Commander
U.S. Navy
1st Year

Debra Saito
Senior Bank Examiner
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
1st Year

BT Slingsby
Director of Global Partner Solutions
Eisai Co., Ltd.
1st Year

Travis Sullivan
Vice President, International Strategy and Business Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
1st Year  

2012 Japanese Delegates

Masahiro Fukuhara
Representative Director
Institution for a Global Society Corp.
2nd Year

Keiko Ihara
Racing Driver
2nd Year

Ren Ito
Advisor to the Executive Director of Japan
The World Bank
1st Year

Osamu Kaneda
Founder and CEO
Yo-Ren Ltd.
1st Year

Kentaro Katayama
Deputy Director
Ministry of Finance
1st Year

Hajime Kitajima
Lieutenant Colonel
Japan Ground Self Defense Force
2nd Year

Kay Kitazawa
Staff Director, Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident, Rebuild Japan Initiative
1st Year

Takako Kubo
Assistant Manager, Americas & Europe
Overseas External Affairs Division
Toyota Motor Corporation
1st Year

Yumiko Kusakabe
Senior Finance Officer, Financial Policy
Inter-American Development Bank
2nd Year

Keisuke Matsumoto
Buddhist Priest
Komyoji Temple Tokyo
2nd Year

Satoru Mori
Professor, American Foreign Policy
Hosei University
1st Year

Mika Nabeshima
Manager, Overseas Liability Group
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Ins. Co.
2nd Year

Atsuko Nishigaki
Director of International Affairs for Security Export Control
Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry
2nd Year

Gohei Nishikawa
Pianist; Director
Greenwich Intl Conservatory of Music, JCH Foundation Inc.
1st Year

Keisuke Shirai
Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
1st Year

Shigeki Sugii
Scientist, Bioimaging Consortium
Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
2nd Year

Maki Tanaka
Manager, Industrial Research Team
Corproate Strategy & Research Dept.
Mitsubishi Toyota Corporation
2nd Year

Hiroaki Toya
General Manager
LIM Advisors
2nd Year

Masaru Tsuchiya
VP of Technology & Co-Founder
SiEnergy Systems, LLC
1st Year

Jiro Yoshino
Marketing Director
Dentsu
2nd Year