US CULCON

Private Sector Members

Chair

Dr. Sheila A. Smith
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Panelists

Dr. Trevor Dawes
Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian
University of Delaware

Dr. Patricia Maclachlan
Professor of Government and Asian Studies and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies
University of Texas

Dr. Samuel Morse
Howard and Martha Mitchel Professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilizations
Amherst College

Dr. M. Diana Helweg Newton
Director of the Tower Scholars Program and Senior Fellow, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies
Southern Methodist University (SMU)

Dr. Leonard J. Schoppa, Jr.
Director, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
The University of Virginia

Mr. David Sneider
Partner
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Dr. William Tsutsui
President and CEO
Ottawa University

Ms. Shay Youngblood
Author

 

Public Sector Members

Michelle Asha Cooper
Acting Assistant Secretary of Education for Post-Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education

Matthew Lussenhop
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State

Honorary Member

Hon. Caroline Kennedy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

Japan CULCON

Japanese Panelists include:

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Chair

Ambassador Ryozo Kato
Former Ambassador to the United States

Vice Chair

Dr. Fumiaki Kubo
Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo;
President,  Japanese Association for American Studies

Members

Mr. Naoyuki Agawa
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Doshisha University

Mr. Hiroyuki Akita
Commentator, Nikkei Inc. Nikkei (“Japan Economic Journal”)

Ms. Hiroko Tsuka
Executive Director, Center for Global Partnership / Managing Director The Japan Foundation

Dr. Masako Egawa
Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University

Mr. Akio Okawara
President/CEO, Japan Center for International Exchange

Mr. Akio Mimura
Chairman, the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Senior Advisor/Honorary Chairman, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Dr. Hiroyuki Shimatani
Executive Director, Kyushu National Museum

Ex-Officio Panelists include:

Mr. Keiichi Ichikawa, Director-General, the North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

Ms. Mitsuko Shino Director-General for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ms. Yasushi Taguchi, Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.

Advisors

Mr. Yutaka Aso, President & CEO, Aso Corporation and Aso Cement Co., Ltd.

Mr. Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor and Former Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation;

Mr. Teiichi Sato, Former Ambassador to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)