Deputy Director-General for Economic and Social Policy,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Visiting Professor, Chuo Graduate School of Public Policy

Born on 11th January, 1963

Executive Board Member, The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

市村清は、日本公認会計士協会の常務理事で、公認会計士が行うマネジメント・コンサルティング・サービスの充実に資するため、経営に関する調査研究および資料の提供を行う経営研究調査会を担当している。また、IIRCではワーキンググループに参加しており、「統合報告」のフレームワークの作成に従事している。新日本有限責任監査法人のパートナーとして、30年以上の会計監査の経験を持つ。

Director, Singapore Exchange Limited

Jane Diplock AO is a director of the IIRC board. She is also a director of Singapore Exchange Limited, member of the Public Interest Oversight Board, member of the International Advisory Committee of CSRC, member of the International Advisory Board of SEBI, former Chairman of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions and of New Zealand Securities Commission, and a former member of IIRC.

Chief Executive of CIMA

Mr. Tilley is Chief Executive of CIMA. Prior to joining CIMA in 2001, Charles Tilley spent fourteen years at KPMG, where he became a partner in 1986, and subsequently he held senior positions as Group Finance Director of both of the investment banks Hambros PLC and Granville Baird.
As Chief Executive of CIMA, Charles leads the Senior Management Team. He is a regular commentator on a range of corporate governance issues, international standards, narrative reporting and strategic management issues concerning the profession and the Institute. Charles was a Board member of IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) for three years, and is currently chairing a project for IFAC regarding business reporting. He also has two non-executive directorships at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Ipswich Building Society.

Director
Business Reporting, Assurance & Advisory Services and XBRL
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Amy R. Pawlicki is Director – Business Reporting, Assurance & Advisory Services and XBRL for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Ms. Pawlicki staffs the AICPA Assurance Services Executive Committee, which is focused on developing guidance for assurance and related services to improve the quality, relevance and usefulness of information, and on providing thought leadership and recommendations which identify and prioritize emerging trends and market needs for assurance and related services. Ms. Pawlicki is also responsible for building awareness and understanding among the AICPA membership of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), a language for the electronic communication of business and financial information. Ms. Pawlicki also coordinates AICPA activities related to Integrated Reporting and Sustainability, including collaboration with other organizations around the world that are dedicated to improving the quality and transparency of business reporting.

Before joining the AICPA, Ms. Pawlicki was a Principal of New Business Development with the Timken Company, an international manufacturer of bearings and steel. Her responsibilities included the development and maintenance of a global strategic plan for her business segment, as well as the management of a portfolio of growth projects. She developed financial models and wrote business plans for various projects and affiliations, and acted as project manager for selected ventures.

Ms. Pawlicki graduated Magna Cum Laude from Middlebury College in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Politics & Economics and French. She has since earned a Master of International Management from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, and a Master of Business Administration from the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management.

Belle Investment Research of Japan Inc.
CEO, Chief Analyst

Systena Corporation
Director

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
Advisor

The Securities Analysts Association of Japan
Advisor

Tokyo University of Science,
Councilor

CSR Global Manager, Hitachi, Ltd.

Mr. Ushijima is responsible for managing global CSR strategy for the Hitachi Group. He develops and leads the implementation of CSR sustainability strategy at the corporate level by incorporating social and environmental issues clarified though stakeholder engagement and the process of materiality, and directs the application of the CSR strategy to the Hitachi Group globally. The focus is in working with top management to link strategic CSR with corporate business strategy to better inform decision makers in aligning the business to solve fundamental global issues. The key roles of CSR are to support business development that links between social issues and business solutions, to improve quality of management, moreover, comprehensive risk management and strategic communications. In addition to his corporate responsibility, being involved in Business Policy Forum Japan, a think-tank that was established to research issues around Japanese companies and is supported by the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, a steering committee member of Global Compact Japan Network, and Chair of Responsible Minerals Trade Working Group of JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association). Prior to Hitachi, he has marketing experience in a life insurance company and consulting for Human Resources Management and Marketing after graduation.

Leader of Aarata Institute, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS Aarata

Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, he worked for Bank of Japan from 1975 to 2003.　He was the First Deputy Director General in Bank Examination and Surveillance Department from 2001 to 2003, General Manager of Yokohama Branch from 1998 to 2000, Bank Supervisor at Market Risk Group in Bank Supervision Department in 1997, Head of Onsite Examination Division of Bank Supervision Department from 1994 to 1996 and Manager in Bank Supervision Department from 1988 to 1989.

He was a member of both of the interest-rate risk and the market risk subgroup in the Basel Bank Supervision Committee in 1988-89. He also attended bi-lateral meeting of bank supervisors between US/UK and Japan from 1994 to 1996. He graduated from Tokyo University (Faculty of Law) in 1975.

After joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, He has been leading Regulatory Advisory Services in Japan. He was a member of Global Regulatory Advisory Service, Global Risk & Compliance Service and Global Basel 2 team in PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He has been a leader of Aarata Institute since July 2007. He used to be a tentative lecturer of Finance Faculty of Waseda University, the International Business Faculty of Tsukuba University, and the Management of Technology Faculty of Shibaura Industrial University. He made two lectures at the Graduate School of Business Administration ii Keio University and Management Faculty of Kobe University. He is a Board Member of The Japanese Association of Value-Creating ERM.

Chief Executive Officer, IIRC

Paul Druckman is Chief Executive Officer of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Paul is well known and respected in business and in the accounting profession worldwide. Following an entrepreneurial career in the software industry, Paul operated as a non‐executive chairman and director for companies in a variety of sectors until taking over this post. Formerly a Director of the UK Financial Reporting Council; member of the City Takeover Panel; and President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). His high profile work on sustainability matters has included chairing The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Executive Board and the FEE Sustainability Group.

Chairman of Commons Asset Management, Inc.

Ken Shibusawa founded Shibusawa and Company, Inc. in 2001. He also has extensive market experience at top-tier US investment banks and a premier global hedge fund. He is also founding member and chairman of Commons Asset Management, a Japanese mutual fund company founded in 2008, dedicated to deliver long term investment opportunities to the Japanese household.

In addition, he serves as outside board director for public as well as private companies. His non-profit activities include: board of directors at the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation ("father" of Japanese capitalism), director of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), vice chairman and board of directors of the Health and Global Policy Institute Japan, among others.

He is also a published author and writes frequently in magazines, journals, and internet media. He was educated in the United States from second grade elementary through college (University of Texas, BS Chemical Engineering, 1983), and then returned again for graduate school (UCLA, MBA, 1987).

Audit Director in the National Office (Audit & Assurance Services)
Deloitte & Touche LLP, Wilton, CT

Beth A. Schneider is an Audit Director in Audit & Assurance Services in the National Office of Deloitte & Touche LLP. She is responsible for developing attest services in emerging areas, including sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, and conflict minerals reporting and XBRL. She also provides consultation support to the U.S. practice offices on matters concerning attest services and audit reporting. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of public accounting.

Beth currently serves as a Technical Director at the Secretariat of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and is assisting the IIRC Working Group with developing the International Integrated Reporting <IR> Framework.

Beth is a member of the AICPA Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC) and the following AICPA Task Forces: Sustainability Task Force (chair), XBRL Assurance Task Force, and Risk Advisory and Assurance Task Force.

She has also been a member of various other AICPA task forces and has participated in numerous industry and other AICPA projects, including issues relating to the following industries: airline, health care, insurance, investment companies, public sector and telecommunications. She works with various industry groups, regulators and clients in responding to their needs for attest services in new and emerging areas.

Outsider auditor/Omron Corp.

Partner, Environment and Sustainability, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

Background:
Kenji Sawami is a partner of Integrated Reporting Department, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC (EY SN) where he services a broad range of clients in areas relating to sustainability and greenhouse gas assurance, sustainability strategy and internal audit assistance. As a Certified Public Accountant, he had financial audits and IPO related experiences before 2001. From 2001 to 2003, Kenji had worked for the Ministry of the Environment Japan as an expert on loan, being in charge of policymaking which promotes sustainable management in private sector. He was involved in the policies of environmental reporting, environmental accounting and environmental financing, which included the revision of the environmental reporting guideline and establishment of Environmental Consideration Law.
Since 2005, after Kenji came back to EY SN, he has been working as a partner in charge of sustainability services. From 2011, he has doubled sustainability services and Integrated Reporting Department.

Qualification:
Partner, Integrated Reporting Department
Certified Public Accountant,
Sustainability Assurance Practitioner
Member of the committee of Sustainability assurance experts working group with Japanese Institute of certified Public Accountant, executive board of Greenhouse Gas Assurance Association of Japan (GAJ)

IASB, Director of XBRL Activities

Olivier Servais is Director of XBRL Activities at the IASB. The IASB is the independent standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation.The IFRS Foundation is an independent, not-for profit private sector organisation working in the public interest to develop a single set of high quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted financial reporting standards based upon clearly articulated principles.

Mr. Servais is responsible for coordinating the IASB’s XBRL-related activities in order to accelerate the implementation and adoption of IFRSs with XBRL around the world. Mr. Servais has extensive experience in co-ordinating international XBRL developments, having served as Secretary General and then European Director of XBRL International, and as a member of numerous XBRL committees and working groups.

Mr. Servais holds a Licentiate’s degree (Ingénieur commerical) in Business Administration and a post-university degree in SME Administration, both from ICHEC, Brussels. He is also the author of numerous publications on the subject of XBRL.

Corporate Vice President, Deputy Division Manager of Financial Technology Solution Division, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

Since 2009, he has been the head of Financial Technology & Market Research Division and Investment Information Systems Business Department. He covers not only research and planning side but business development side of IT for investment decision. He became a Corporate Vice President and Deputy Division Manager of Financial Technology Solution Division in 2011.

Grant Thornton Taiyo ASG LLC

Akiyo is a partner of Grant Thornton Japan international audit practice. He has working experience in the U.S. and U.K. and possesses an extensive knowledge of U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Akiyo specializes in auditing multinational companies operating in Japan. Industry experience includes manufacturing, property investment vehicle and wholesale of software. He is also involved in many due diligence and royalty audits which require understanding of cultural differences between Japan and foreign countries.

Associate Partner, KPMG AZSA LLC.

Yoshiko is an associate partner for KPMG AZSA LLC.

Yoshiko is responsible for coordination of KPMG’s activities and projects related to intangibles (intellectual property, intellectual assets, intellectual capital), and collaboration with various external professionals (ex. regulation setters, policy makers, institutional investors, analysts, academia, IR persons, management executives) in order to promote business reporting in knowledge economy, which are focused on companies’ value creation and competitive advantage.

Yoshiko also has much experience in Knowledge Management. She promoted knowledge management as a knowledge manager with other countries and areas relatives for a professional firm, and involved with various projects of providing consulting services for knowledge management implementation. Currently she has also taken roles and responsibilities as the deputy CKO for KPMG Japan.

Prior to joining KPMG, Yoshiko worked for Tokyo Electron Limited and Arthur Andersen Business Consulting.

Yoshiko graduated from Meiji University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and earned a Master of Arts in International Economics from the school of International Politics, Economics and Business, Aoyoma Gakuin University.

Yoshiko is a co-author of “Knowledge Management” (1999), “Knowledge Management – Best practices” (1999), and “Intellectual Property Management” (2003). She is a co-translator of “the Crickable Corporation”(1999), “Cracking the Value Code”(2000), “Managing in the New Economy”(2001), and “One Report “(2010).
She has also contributed many articles on business magazines and newspapers, and been invited often as a speaker from　international conferences, symposium, workshop and so on.

Membership:
Knowledge Management Society of Japan (KMSJ)
The Japan Academic Society of Investor Relations
Intellectual Property Association of Japan
Intellectual Assets based Management Consortium (IAMaC)
The New Club of Paris (NCP)
International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)

Prof. Emeritus of Kokugakuin Univ. / WICI Japan

Yasuhito HANADO left a professor at Graduate School of Commerce and of Asia-Pacific Studies,WasedaUniversityon reaching retiring age in 2012. However he still works for Waseda Intellectual Capital Research Society as a senior adviser. And he is a professor emeritus at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. He is in charge of the executive trustee of Knowledge Management Society of Japan and of a trustee of The Japan Academic Society of Investor Relations. In addition, he engages himself in a member of the planning and development committee at Japanese Investor Relations Institute. Presently, he works for SANRIO Co. Ltd. (1st section of TSE) as an outside board member, and both for Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. (1st section of TSE) and Opt Inc. (JASDAQ) as a member of management advisory committee. He joined WICI-The World’s Business Reporting Network as one of Promoting Parties inJapanin 2007. He graduated in accounting from Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University. He joins American Accounting Association, National Investor Relations Institute and Japan Accounting Association.

Chairman of WICI Europe

Stefano Zambon is Chair of Accounting and Business Economics at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Ph.D. and M.Sc. from London School of Economics, and B.Sc from University of Venice. Director of the “CFO Master Programme” at the University of Ferrara. Visiting scholar at London Business School; ESCP, HEC, and CNAM in Paris; the Universities of Reading, Melbourne, Boston, Metz, Canterbury (NZ), Waseda (Tokyo), Bolzano/Bozen, and the Stern School of Business (NYU). He is a vice-president (conferences) of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER). Member of the editorial boards of various international scientific journals. He has published several books and articles in international journals in the areas of management and reporting of intangibles, international financial reporting, and accounting history. He has been the coordinator of a study for the European Commission on the measurement of intangible assets, and an invited key-note speaker at OECD, United Nations, European Parliament, European Commission, and French, Chinese and Japanese Governments’ events on intangibles. He is a founding member of the global network “World Intellectual Capital Initiative” (WICI) as well as of the network “WICI Europe”.

Corporate Auditor
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.

Takatoshi Yamamoto is Corporate Auditor of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd (FHI) since July 2012. He was Managing Director and Advisor of Casio Computer Co. Ltd from 2009 to 2012. Before joining Casio Computer, he was Vice Chairman and Managing Director of UBS Securities Japan Ltd., moved from Morgan Stanley in July 2005. He had been mainly focusing on the technology sector in the Investment Banking Division since October 2003.

He was a security analyst at Nomura Research Institute from April 1975 and joined Morgan Stanley in April 1989. Until Sept 2003, he mainly covered the global electronics industries for 25 years since 1977. He was continuously rated in the top group of the securities analyst ranking both in Institutional Investors and Nikkei Finance Daily News.

He earned BA from Kobe University of Commerce (currently University of Hyogo) in 1975. He is a chartered member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan (SAAJ). He is also serving organizations including SAAJ as a director of Professional Ethics Committee and The Japan Academic Society of Investor Relations (JASIR) as a director.

Senior Director, CSR, Corporate Communications Dept.
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.

After serving in positions at Government Relations for Sony Corporation, the Economic Section of the US Embassy in Tokyo, and Bloomberg Television (Announcer), in 1999 Koichi Kaneda began promoting CSR activities at Sony Corporation (having rejoined the company), Daiwa Securities Group Inc., and then Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. He also worked as a part-time lecturer at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance from 2007 to 2008. In 2010, he served as a member of the Cabinet Office “New Public Commons” Roundtable. He is a member of the Japan NPO Research Association. Koichi Kaneda received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Keio University in 1987 and a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Reading in 1993.

Technical Director, JICPA

Technical Director, The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants
He had worked in KPMG AZSA until 2006 and been involved in financial audit, assurance on non-financial information including GHG emission and advisory on ESG strategy development of corporations. He is currently involved in several fields related to sustainability including development of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in Asian countries, policy development of public sectors especially on climate change and consultancy on corporate strategy and disclosure as a private consultant.
His role in JICPA is research work on sustainability and disclosure. He is also a member of several committees related to sustainability in Japanese Government.

CPA/Partner, IFRS Center of Excellence-Tokyo, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC

Kazuaki Furuuchi has been involved in providing audit services with global trading companies, manufacturing companies, as well as financial institutions since 1993 at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC. He currently serves as a technical support role to the firm with various IFRS practical issues.
He also serves as a member of several external organizations in the accounting professions, such as chairman of technical committee of IFRSs and a member of project team on IIRC in JICPA in the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA), a member of IFRS translation committee in Japan, and a member of technical committee of SPEs and consolidation in the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ).
He has several publications and articles regarding accounting and financial reporting, including IFRS.

Executive Director, Japan Machinery Center Brussels Office/Chairman, World Intellectual Capital Initiative(WICI)

Takayuki SUMITA, born in 1962, graduated from Tokyo University and joined MITI in 1985. He studied in Graduate School for Foreign Service, Georgetown University between 1991 and 1993. After coming back to Japan, he engaged in various tasks including environment policy, energy policy, specific industry policy for software and IT, comprehensive economic policy on corporate tax, corporate disclosure, intellectual assets based management or IPR and FTA/EPA negotiation. METI dispatched him to Brussels in 2009 with the function of deepening the connection and cooperation between EU and Japan. He also works as the chairman of World Intellectual Capital/Assets Initiative (WICI) since September 2009 and the board member of the New Club of Paris since 2005, as one of the world leaders in the area of intellectual capital/ assets and innovation.

Director of the Corporate Accounting, Disclosure and CSR Office, METI

Takuya Fukumoto has been Director of the Corporate Accounting, Disclosure and CSR Policy Office since July 2012. After having obtained a degree in Economics from Keio University, he joined the Japanese Government in 1996. He was involved in a variety of policy developments mainly in the field of trade and industrial policy. During his stay in the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2003, he received an MSc. Economics and an MSc. Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. After finishing postgraduate study in 2003, he was involved in negotiations of free trade agreements between Japan and South Asian countries as a representative of the Japanese Government. From March 2006, he served as Deputy Director of the Business Support Division in the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency of Japan. From 2008 to 2012, he was appointed Secretary General of the Japan Business Council in Europe (JBCE), a Brussels-based organisation representing Japanese companies operating in Europe, where he actively supported Japanese companies’ communications with European policy makers and contributed to the EU public policy making.

Director
Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division
Financial Service Agency of Japan

Director of Listing Department
Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

After graduating from the Faculty of Business Administration of Yokohama National University in 1986, Mr. Hiroyuki Matsuzaki joined the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the same year. He built his career mainly through assignments in the General Affairs and Planning Division of the Bond Department, the Strategic Planning Division of the Equities Department, the Office of General Administration, and others. After gaining experience in these departments and others, he became a section chief in the Corporate Strategy Department in November 2001 and group leader of the Market Surveillance & Compliance Department in June 2003. He served as section chief of the Listed Company Compliance Department in June 2008, and has assumed the position of Director of Listing Department since June 2009. At the department, he is dedicated to making comprehensive improvements to the listing system, such as enhancing the corporate governance of listed companies and reviewing the timely disclosure system.
Currently, Mr. Matsuzaki is a member of the Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standard Foundation, and also serves as a board member of ICJ, Inc.

CPA, Partner, Price waterhouseCoopers, Chairman Emeritus,XBRL Intarnational

Mike Willis has more than 29 years of accounting and auditing experience and is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mike has served in a number of roles within the XBRL community including Founding Chairman and the elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and the International Steering Committee. XBRL is an international information format standard designed to enhance business reporting supply chain processes benefiting preparers, distributors, aggregators and consumers of this information. XBRL International (http://www.xbrl.org) is currently composed of more than 640 leading software, accounting and finance companies from 30 countries around the world.

Mike has also played a founding role in the development of national and international consortia working to develop broad corporate reporting frameworks and related taxonomies. He worked along with other founders from Microsoft, the AICPA, and Grant Thornton to form the Enhanced Business Reporting Consortia ("EBRC") outlined here: http://www.ebr360.org/ Subsequently, Mike played an active role in EBRC collaboration with similar organizations around the world to form the World Intellectual Capital Initiative ("WICI"), the world’s business reporting network, a private/public sector collaboration aimed at improving capital allocation through better corporate reporting information. More information on WICI can be found here: http://www.worldici.com

He speaks frequently, publishes papers and blogs on the topic of business reporting. Mike has been interviewed for or published articles in a range of business periodicals on the topic of a more efficient and effective business reporting supply chain including the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Business Week, Wall Street & Technology, FEI Magazine, CFO Magazine, Journal of Accounting and CIO Magazine.