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ARCHIVED Japan Macro Salon with Jesper and Bill

Monday 8 July 2024 / 12:00pm
Japan Macro Salon with Jesper and Bill

Date
Monday 8 July 2024
Time
12.00 - 1.00pm (BST)
8.00 - 9.00pm (JST)

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Booking Details
Free - On Zoom
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Join us for the latest in our regular quarterly webinar on business and current affairs, Japan Macro Salon with Jesper and Bill. In these our Chair Bill Emmott teams up with Jesper Koll, longtime Tokyo resident and one of the most keenly watched economists and investment strategists in that town, to discuss what's new in the Japanese economy, business, financial markets and more.

Each quarter, Jesper and Bill open with a conversation about the latest trends that have caught their attention, and then welcome a special guest to focus on a topic of the moment. All the while, they will be interacting with questions from the audience. These webinars are run in association with Asia Society Japan.

For the third Macro Salon of 2024, Jesper and Bill will be joined by Mitsunobu Koshiba, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Security, Science & Technology, Keizai Doyukai. They will discuss challenges and opportunities arising from Japan’s new economic security focus.

Jesper Koll has been researching and investing in Japan since becoming a resident in 1986. Over the past two decades, Jesper has been consistently recognized as one of the top Japan strategists/economists, having worked as Chief Strategist and Head of Research for U.S. investment banks J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch. He currently serves as Expert Director for the Monex Group and the Japan Catalyst Fund (Japan’s 1st retail investor based corporate engagement/activist fund). His analysis and insights have earned him a position on several Japanese government and corporate advisory committees, including Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s Advisory Board. Jesper serves as Board Director of OIST, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology and is a Founder and Board Director of the Asia Society Japan and heads their Policy Committee. He is one of the few non-Japanese members of the Keizai Doyukai, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives; and serves on the board of several Japan-based start-ups. He has written three books in Japanese and, in 2021, created the acclaimed video/pod-cast series Japan - Capitalism that works. Jesper is an economist, angel-investor, patron; and yes, a Japan Optimist. 

Mitsunobu Koshiba graduated from the Faculty of Engineering (Printing and Imaging Engineering) at Chiba University in 1978 and completed his graduate studies at the same university in 1980. After receiving a Rotary Foundation Scholarship to study at the Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the United States, he joined Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd. (now JSR Corporation) in 1981, where he was engaged in the development of semiconductor materials at the Tokyo Research Laboratory.

In 1990, he was transferred to Silicon Valley, U.S.A, where he worked to establish the semiconductor materials (photoresists) business in the U.S. market at JSR Micro Inc. After returning to Tokyo in 2002, he served as General Manager of the Electronic Materials Division and Director of Fine Chemicals Division before being appointed President and Representative Director in 2009. He served as Chairman Emeritus of JSR Corp. between June 2021 and June 2023.

While concurrently serving as an outside director of MOL and Rapidus, and Non-Executive Chairperson of Fortaegis (Holland), he co-founded C-dos LLC (a thinktank) and is serving as a member of several government councils on advanced technology such as semiconductors and quantum technology, national economic security, and innovation strategy by providing policy recommendations and publicizing his opinions. Moreover, he is supporting deep-tech startups in Japan and overseas such as Spiber, TBM, Quantinuum and Factorial.

Since 2019, he has run the Committee in Economic Security and Advanced Technology at the Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) as a chairperson.


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