Geo-economics and the Japanese private sector with Murakami Yumiko

Robert Ward and Yuka Koshino are joined by Murakami Yumiko, co-founder and general partner at MPower Partners, an ESG focused venture capital fund and former Head of the OECD Tokyo Centre. Prior to the OECD, she worked at Goldman Sachs in New York and London for approximately 20 years.

Drawing upon her vast wealth of experience, Yumiko shares with Robert and Yuka perspectives from the Japanese private sector on topics including:

•            Japanese private sector responses to decoupling from China

•            Japan’s leadership role in regional trade

•            The growing start-up scene

•            Demography challenges as opportunities

•            Importance of women in leadership positions

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Date of Recording: 29 September 2021

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