ARCHIVED The Future of Corporate Alliances between Japan and Europe, with Jean Barthélemy and Philippe Riès
Date
Wednesday 30 November 2022
Time
12.00 - 1.00pm (GMT)
9.00 - 10.00pm (JST)
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Four years since the arrest in Tokyo of Carlos Ghosn, then chairman of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Motors, Bill Emmott is joined by Jean Barthélemy and Philippe Riès to consider the repercussions of this extraordinary event and particularly how attitudes to cross border corporate alliances have evolved since this shock to the Renault-Nissan alliance.
Bill, together with Philippe Riès, a journalist who has followed the Renault-Nissan story for over twenty years, and Jean Barthélemy who has more than two decades’ experience helping European companies deal with their Japanese counterparts, will start by considering the specifics of this case and of the companies' subsequent attempt to realign the partnership and will then discuss more broadly current attitudes among European and Japanese companies towards such alliances against the backdrop both of trends in corporate governance in Japan and the changing global economic and geopolitical situation.
Jean Barthélemy is Founder & President, Jean Barthélemy Consultancy KK. A long-term Tokyo resident, Jean is a first-hand observer and analyst of evolutions in Japan’s corporate world and society. After five years with the French Embassy as counsellor in charge of Japanese inward investment, he established in 2002 his Tokyo-based consulting firm to guide and support European SMEs and startups, with feasibility studies, market access, growth strategy, restructuring and negotiating with Japanese partners.
Philippe Riès is a journalist and, with Carlos Ghosn, author of Broken Alliances: Inside the Rise and Fall of a Global Automotive Empire (Tanooki Press, 2021) and Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival (Crown Pub 2004). He has served twice in the Toyko Bureau of Agence France Presse (1985-1989 and 1998-2003). He also spent time as head of the economics department of AFP in Paris (1990-1996), senior correspondent in Hong Kong (1997-1998) and director of the Brussels bureau (2003-2007), before joining the French digital publication Mediapart at its founding in 2008. Other notable publications include, Cette crise qui vient d'Asie ( Editions Grasset, 1998) translated as The Asian Storm: The Economic Crisis Examined (Tuttle, 2000) and L'Europe malade de la démocratie (Editions Grasset, 2008).
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