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Kenji Nagoshi
Managing Director / Anchor
Kenji was appointed Managing Director of United Brain Networks Ltd. in June 2010. Until 2006, he played a lead role in BBC World Service's Japanese language operations in London bringing up the quality and efficiency of their localised productions. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists. His business experience includes working for NEC Corporation in Tokyo. Kenji studied English at Osaka University of Foreign Studies. He holds an MA from Birkbeck College, University of London where his main area of interest was the history of science. |
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Nobuko Kashiwagi
Director / Chief Correspondent
Nobuko is the chief correspondent of UbrainTV and is the Director in charge of business relationships and communications. Nobuko is Japanese and grew up in South Africa and New Zealand. She graduated from Waseda University and worked as an intern for Mr. Yasutoshi Nishimura, current Senior Vice-Minister of Japan's Cabinet Office. From 2008 - 2010, she was involved in the UK-Japan Next Generation Energy Project. She is also a master of Japanese traditional dance - "nihonbuyo" - under the name 'Fukumi Bando'. |
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Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta
Special Advisor on International Politics and Peace
Former President of East Timor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Dr. Ramos-Horta is the former President of East Timor, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for contributing to the peaceful independence of his country. He is a co-founder of the Asian Peace and Reconciliation Council, the first non-state, non-governmental organisation involving (former) Heads of State in diplomatic efforts to diffuse conflict in Asia. He is now the UN envoy to Guinea-Bissau acting as the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).
He has honorary degrees from universities in Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and the US. His native languages are Tetum and Portuguese and he is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
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Mizue Tsukushi
Special Advisor on Socially Responsible Investment
President and CEO, Good Bankers Co., Japan
Mizue Tsukushi is the pioneer who implemented the first SRI product in Asia. After receiving the language certificate at the University of Paris, she worked for Technip and TOTAL CFP. She then moved to the financial industry and worked for UBS Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. in Tokyo as Deputy General Manager in charge of institutional clients. In 1998 she founded The Good bankers Co., Ltd, an independent investment advisory company specializing in SRI. She has been involved in public assignments for several ministries of the Japanese government, and was a member of the Japanese National Commission of UNESCO as well as the UNEP Financial Initiative Steering Committee. She received 1st prize in the "Women of the year 2000: Women Entrepreneurs Section" and was commended as a person of merit for Gender Equality by the Prime Minister of Japan.
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Martin Palmer
Special Commentator - Environmental Conservation and Religion
Secretary General, Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC)
Martin Palmer is a theologian, author, broadcaster and environmentalist. He is Secretary-General of ARC, a secular non-governmental organisation founded by HRH Prince Philip in 1995 to help faiths to develop environmental and conservation projects based on their own beliefs and practices. He works with a variety of international organisations such as the WWF, the UN and the World Bank. He advises UNESCO on World Heritage sites and helps the World Monuments Fund protect endangered sacred sites. Palmer frequently appears on radio and television, and is a regular contributor to the BBC. He is a Special Advisor to the UN on Climate Change, the Environment and The Faiths and heads a three-year programme with the UN on this. He is also director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture (ICOREC), which specializes in religious, educational, environmental and development issues.
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Philippe Desfosses
Special Commentator - Socially Responsible Investment
CEO, ERAFP
By a decree published on June 11 2008, Mr Philippe Desfosses has been appointed as the new CEO of ERAFP, the French Public Service Additional Pension Scheme. He is a graduate of Sciences Po in Paris and the French National School of Administration. He started his career at the French Treasury (Ministry of Economy and Finance) in 1985, successively as Deputy Head of the Enterprise Financing Desk, Deputy Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Desk, Financial Attache in New York (1989-1992) and Head of the Insurance Desk (1992-1995). From 1995 to 1997, he was Special advisor to Mr Jacques Barrot, the French Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, in charge of the Employment, Family, Retirement and Old Age portfolios. In 1998, he joined AXA Group as Senior Manager and became CEO of two subsidiaries: International Finance Futures and Compagnie Financiere de Paris. From 2006, Mr Desfosses was Director of Corporate Affairs & Business Development and member of the Executive Committee of Lilly France.
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Matt Christensen
Commentator - Socially Responsible Investment
Global Head of Responsible Investment, AXA Investment Managers
Matt joined AXA Investment Managers in 2011 as Global Head of Responsible Investment. Matt has been a leading voice in the field of responsible investment and was a member of the European Commission's Co-ordination Committee to explore the future of sustainability policy and legislation in the EU. He previously held the position of Founding Executive Director of Eurosif from 2002 until his appointment at AXA IM. Eurosif is the leading European Responsible Investment think tank, grouping some 85 financial service providers and representing assets totalling over €1 trillion. Prior to that, Matt advised European clients as a strategy consultant with Braxton Associates/Deloitte Consulting, before becoming business development director of the Motley Fool, a multimedia financial-services company. He holds MBA and MA degrees from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Takashi Hongo
Commentator - Green Finance
Senior Fellow, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute
Hongo is Director of the Board of the International Emissions Trading Association and Special Advisor to the Global Water Reuse and Recycle Association. He has extensive policy experience (climate change, water shortage, low carbon urban development and bio diversity). He specialized in international project finance (power, energy, transport and industrial projects) for the Japan Bank for International cooperation (JBIC), leading the Environment Guideline draft for JBIC's financing which became known as the most advanced and practical environment guideline for public finance. He also innovated various carbon-related financial instruments such as the "GREEN + J-MRV". Recently, he focused on harmonization of the decentralized Asian Carbon Market including the Bilateral Carbon Offset Mechanism and financing reforms for the low carbon economy using MRV such as Performance-Based Incentive Scheme. He has extensively collaborated with the IEA, IRENA, IPCC, UNEP and UNEP FI, OECD, ICAO, GLOBE International, ADB and APEC in addition to the Japanese government. |
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Ibrahim Maiga
Creative Editor
Ibrahim was born and grew up in London. He studied Management and French at Royal Holloway including a year at Paris IV Sorbonne. He then read MSc Development Studies at the London School of Economics. Ibrahim worked at Institutional Investor on investor-focused events in Dubai and Qatar. He also conducted market research for Japanese companies on European and North American trends in various industries. |
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Shah Zeb
Web Developer
Shah read BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science, at Forman Christian College. He then read MSc Intelligent Web Technologies at Queen Mary, University of London. He has a proven track record in web development and has worked on various web projects. |
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Mark Bradbury
Special Correspondent
Managing Director, Vertical Thinking Ltd
Mark has over 25 years development management, economic development, urban development and regeneration experience at a senior level in both the private and public sectors. Mark's former employers include London Thames Gateway Development Corporation and the Greater London Authority where he has delivered innovative development and regeneration projects. Mark is now the Founder and Managing Director of Low Carbon Regeneration, Development and Economic Development Consultancy, Vertical Thinking Ltd. |
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Ken Hickson
Singapore Correspondent
Chairman and CEO, Sustain Ability Showcase Asia
Journalist, author, lecturer and sustainability consultant, Ken Hickson is Chairman and CEO of the Singapore-based Sustain Ability Showcase Asia (SASA), plus he owns and operates ABC Carbon and H2PC Asia, a media services consultancy. He has been associated with World Wide Fund for Nature for many years and still serves as a Governor of WWF Australia. He is acknowledged as a leading climate change and sustainability commentator, author of the book "The ABC of Carbon", and editor of the fortnightly e-newsletter - abc carbon express. Starting out as a journalist in Wellington, New Zealand 52 years ago, he has worked in all media - television, radio, newspapers, magazines and online - and in public relations. |
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Dr. Laura Pereira
Reporter
Laura is a Post-doctoral Girorgio Ruffolo and Grundle public service research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research involves looking at innovation in the food system to adapt to impacts from climate change and her main country of focus is South Africa. She is of Portuguese origin, but was born and grew up in South Africa where she completed her BSc(Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand before moving to the UK to complete her MSc and DPhil degrees at the University of Oxford. |
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Bethan Jones
Reporter
Bethan is a reporter for Japanese state broadcaster NHK's global lifestyle show "El Mundo". Audiences in Japan may have seen her visiting the Royal Ascot or reporting from in front of Buckingham Palace in the run up to the Royal Wedding last April. Bethan also works as a Japanese-English interpreter and translator and has studied at the Universities of Oxford, Bath, and Kyoto, Japan. |
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