David Warren became Ambassador to Japan in July 2008. He graduated from Oxford University, joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975, and also served here in 1977-1981 and in 1993-1998, as well as in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sir Andrew Cahn, KCMG has been Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment since 2006. He worked at the European Commission, for the UK in the European Union, and the European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office before joining British Airways in 2000.

Ian de Stains, OBE served as BCCJ Executive Director from 1987 to 2010. After joining the BBC in 1969 he was seconded to NHK in Tokyo in 1976. Mr De Stains was appointed OBE in 1993 for commercial and community service.

David Cairns has been Director of UK Trade & Investment in Japan since 2006 and studied Japanese art and language at Oxford University. After working for Nomura in London he joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Dr. Gabriel Symonds trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (University of London) and opened the Tokyo British Clinic in 1992.

Justin McCurry is Tokyo correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer.

Julian Ryall is Tokyo correspondent for The Daily Telegraph.

Catherine Shaw writes on lifestyle and culture for a number of publications in the UK and Asia.

Geoff Botting has been a newspaper and wire service editor and reporter in Japan since 1986 and currently works in print and radio.

Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert is a Tokyo-based photographer for international media, NGOs and corporate clients.

Alison Airey is director of Public Affairs, Japan at Kreab & Gavin Anderson.

Lincoln Torrey is sales & marketing consultant, Consumer & Healthcare at Robert Walters Japan K.K.

Manzur Ul Alam is sales & marketing manager, Professional Healthcare at Robert Walters Japan K.K.

Emma Parker is assistant manager of Education Promotion and Partnerships at the British Council Japan.

Jane Best, MBE is President & CEO of Refugees International Japan and was appointed MBE in 2001 for her voluntary work.

David Williams has been Head of School at The British School in Tokyo since August 2009.

Robyn Nadler is an Of Counsel in Morrison & Foerster LLP’s Tokyo office and is a registered foreign attorney in Japan.

Seiji Shiraishi is Chief Economist, Japan at HSBC.

Pierre Gaulis is Business Development Manager at GPlusMedia KK.

Gordon Hatton is Executive Officer with Bovis Lend Lease Japan and is a 1st Class Licenced Architect.

Micah Gampel is a Kyoto-based photographer specialising in conferences and festivals for magazines. Cell: 080-1445-9078 micah (at) m3.dion.ne.jp www.micahgampel.com

Daniel Harlow is head of the Global Web & Code Development Division at Method IT.

Simon Wood is media and communication director at the British Embassy in Tokyo

Renée Renjel is the founder and principal training consultant at Focus Intercultural Group.

Carolyn Gaskins is a partner and senior manager at Oak Associates, K.K., an HR consulting firm.

Olga Vlietstra has been general manager for Servcorp Japan since 2004 and leads 20 serviced offices in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka.

Steve Burson is president of H&R Group, which specialises in real estate, relocation and furniture/car leasing services to the foreign community in Japan.

Stuart Witchell is Japan representative of International Risk Ltd. He advises on business risk solutions and offers investigations, intelligence, brand protection, and crisis containment services.

James Dodds is a tax partner with KPMG Japan.

Philip Gibb became BCCJ President in April 2010 and is a financial services veteran of some 37 years. He has spent the last six years with Magellan Financial Planning, advising clients on all aspects of their personal financial planning needs.

Anthony Preston is deputy head of Media & Communication at the British Embassy, Tokyo.

Nicholas Walters is a director of Tohmatsu Tax Co.’s Financial Services and International Transactions Group, providing Japanese tax advice on capital markets and real estate.

Anne Good, president of Eureka!, is a career, life and executive coach who helps clients get from where they are to where they want to be by unleashing the power within.

Alana Bonzi heads Remy Bonzi Group Consulting, writes and lectures on CSR, and coordinates the Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Project.

Bruce Darrington is managing partner in Japan for Mazars, a global audit accounting and tax advisory partnership that operates in 56 countries.

Richard King is managing director at Michael Page Japan, which recruits bilingual professionals, and graduated from Manchester and Brunel universities.

Juno Kawakami is PR and marketing manager at the British Council Japan.

James M. Hatch is IB programme coordinator, Academic Affairs at Tamagawa Academy in Machida.

Lanis Yarzab is associate director in Commerce & Industry at Robert Walters Japan K.K.

Jesse Kercheval is senior consultant in IT Commerce at Robert Walters Japan K.K.

Gavin Blair is a contributing editor for the Economist Intelligence Unit in Tokyo.

Roland Buerk became the BBC Tokyo correspondent in January 2009 after having covered South Asia for five years.

Dr David Bryer CMG is chairman of Home-Start International and previously was director of Oxfam and a board member of WWF and Save the Children. He was appointed CMG in 1996.

Paul Hunter is the economic counsellor at the British Embassy Tokyo and has been head of the Economic and Trade Policy Section since 2008. He was previously at the UK’s Financial Services Authority and Office for National Statistics.

Paul Atkinson is BCCJ vice-president and managing director of the Insurance Group at Cornes & Co. Ltd., where he is responsible for commercial insurance.

Nicholas Anstee was appointed the 682nd Rt Hon Lord Mayor of the City of London in November 2009. He visited Japan in May with representatives of UK financial firms to speak with members of the government, Nippon Keidanren and private firms.

Sir James Dyson CBE is an industrial designer and entrepreneur best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner and more recently the bladeless fan. He is founder and chair of Dyson Ltd. and was knighted for services to business in 2006.

Jason James is director of the British Council Japan and cultural counsellor at the British Embassy Tokyo. He is also chair of the European Union National Institutes for Culture, Japan Cluster.

Robert Gilhooly is a Tokyo-based photojournalist whose work has featured in The Guardian, The Times, Newsweek, as well as in documentaries and books.
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Tim Bennett is general manager for Japan and Korea at First Advantage Japan K.K.

Sue Kinoshita became director of trade and investment at the British Embassy Tokyo in August 2010. Sue has spent 12 years since 1985 at the Embassy and the British Consulate-General in Osaka covering trade promotion and policy, media and communications.

James Weeks is a Member of the BCCJ Executive Committee, is a Senior Advisor at Kreab Gavin Anderson. He has more than 20 years’ experience as a strategic communications consultant advising high-profile clients.

Yuuichiro Nakajima is managing partner at Crimson Phoenix K.K. and a member of the BCCJ Executive Committee.

Melanie Barlow has been a diplomat with UK Trade & Investment at the British Embassy Tokyo since 2005. She previously worked in the private sector, including for two years in Japan.

Maria Miyazaki came to Japan aged 22, later working for an eikaiwa firm and setting up an international school. Maria joined the British Embassy Tokyo in 2007 as a vice consul.

Yvonne Hayes has been headmistress at the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo since 2008, where she has also served as a science teacher and dean and principal of the high school.

Steve Crane is founder and CEO of Business Link Japan.

Charles E. McJilton is CEO and executive director of Second Harvest Japan, which distributes food to soup kitchens, orphanages, the elderly, emergency shelters, single mothers, the homeless, migrant workers, and others.

Lori Henderson became BCCJ executive director on 1 February. She previously worked for a media firm producing global management video lectures for Japan’s first fully online university. Lori has a Master’s degree from the University of St. Andrews.

Vince Cable is secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, and member of parliament for Twickenham.

Andrew Mitchell is secretary of state for International Development, a Conservative Party politician, and member of parliament for Sutton Coldfield.

Miwako Tsuru is deputy officer, Creative, Consumer & Service at UKTI in the British Embassy Tokyo.

Katie Butler is director of English Language Services Japan at the British Council.

Kate Thomson is a sculptor who exhibits widely and works on public, corporate, and private commissions globally from her studios
in Japan and the UK.

Qu Hongbin is co-head of Asian Economics Research and chief economist for Greater China at HSBC Group.

Mark Schreiber is a passionate collector of mystery and true crime books set in Asia. He has lived in Japan since 1965.

David de Garis is a senior markets economist with the National Australia Bank Limited and previously worked for the Australian government.

Robert Ryker, music director of the Tokyo Sinfonia, has performed in more than 50 cities around the world. He is an Officer of the Knights Templar of Jerusalem and has founded three orchestras in India, Canada and Japan.

Kaori Arai is UKTI’s senior commercial officer for life sciences at the British Embassy, Tokyo, supporting and advising UK firms interested in doing business with Japan.

Philippe Fauchet is representative director and president of GlaxoSmithKline K.K., vice-chairman of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, and an advisor to the French Foreign Trade Commission.

Simon Batters is vice president of Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Japan & Korea and is leader of Environmental Business in Asia.

Matthew Broadway is director at Dyson KK.

Antony Tran is a Tokyo-based photographer who specializes in events, commercial, portraits and street photography.
www.antonytranphoto.com
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090-3545-7461

Christine Wright is managing director at Hays Japan.

Graham Davis is a member of the BCCJ Executive Committee, chairman of the BCCJ Events Committee, and managing director for Japan and China at The Economist Group.

Yasuhiro Shimasaka is deputy commercial officer for UK Trade & Investment at the British Embassy Tokyo specialising in energy, pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, ICT, automotive and general machinery.

Mayumi Makiyama is media manager at Custom Media, publishers of BCCJ ACUMEN.

Nicholas E. Benes is founder and representative director of The Board Director Training Institute of Japan. He has served on several government advisory committees and is a governor and FDI Committee chair at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

Andy White is senior consultant for Talent Management at Canning Professional and has 25 years’ global management and leadership experience.

Howard Rosen CBE is president of the Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe and was appointed CBE for services to British business in Switzerland in 2003.

Simon Lavender was vice-consul at the British Embassy Tokyo until early 2011, mostly helping Britons arrested or involved in child abduction and access cases. He returned here in March for three months to help following the earthquake and tsunami.

Alison Beale is deputy director of the British Council Japan.

Richard Warley is CEO of Tokyo-based KVH Co., Ltd., a leading provider of information technology and communication services to financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and other industries.

Rick Cogley is CEO and founder of eSolia Inc., a bilingual and bicultural solutions provider specializing in IT management for foreign firms in Japan.

Steve Collins is CEO of K9 Natural Japan, the local arm of a New Zealand firm that, since 2006, has been making freeze-dried, award-winning, premium dog food and snacks without additives.

Michelle Mizutani is a counsel at Clifford Chance Law Office (Tokyo), specialising in dispute resolution and regularly assisting corporations to design compliance programmes.

Bill Sims is a managing director in the Global Risk and Investigations Practice of FTI Consulting. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for managing a wide range of global risk mitigation assignments.

Michael Thundercliffe is business development manager, English Language Services, at the British Council Japan. He is also a qualified teacher, syllabus designer and teacher trainer.

David Swan is managing director of Robert Walters Japan & Korea.

Hideya Komoriis managing director and head of Global Transaction Services, Japan at the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Philippa Symington, a managing director in the Global Risk and Investigations Practice of FTI Consulting in Hong Kong, manages global risk mitigation including business intelligence, macro risk assessments, and other risk consulting services.

Andrew Mankiewicz became BCCJ President in 2007 and is CEO of Tozai Group —M&A advisors on Japan, Korea, China and the UK. For 18 years, he has built businesses in sectors including financial services, IT, media, healthcare and retail.

Chris Nicholls is deputy head of secondary at the British School in Tokyo.

Christina Ahmadjian, PhD is dean of Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy.

Dr Greg Story is president of Dale Carnegie Japan.