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Appointed as an advisor to Advantage Partners in August 2020. Provides management advice to portfolio companies.
After graduating from university, he joined the former Ministry of Transport. He then joined McKinsey & Company, where he became a partner in 1992. By 2000, he had led reforms at approximately 20 major companies and left the firm. Subsequently, he served as a research professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Georgetown University in the United States, a special research professor at the Graduate School of Policy and Media Studies at Keio University, a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Urban Design and Planning at Osaka City University, and a professor at the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University. He is currently a special professor at the Graduate School of Policy and Management at Keio University and an emeritus professor at Keio University. In addition to serving as a part-time director, auditor, and strategic advisor for various companies, he has held various public offices, including Special Advisor to the Osaka Prefectural Government, Policy Advisor to the Aichi Prefectural Government, Advisor and Special Advisor to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and Chair of the Policy Evaluation Council of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. He has also served as a reform advisor to Toru Hashimoto and Yuriko Koike. He has experience working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has served as an evaluation and reform committee member for United Nations agencies. He is a board member of the Business Model Society, as well as a former board member of the Public Policy Society and the Japanese Administrative Science Association. His major publications include “Management of Transformation,” “Administrative Management Reform,” “Reform Power That Transforms Organizations,” and “Osaka Restoration—How Hashimoto’s Reforms Are Changing Japan.” He graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Law. Completed Princeton University Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.