Time: April 5th, 2023, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Tokyo time (UTC+9)
Venue: Okura Salon at The Okura Tokyo
6 F, 2-10-4 Toranomon Minato-ku Tokyo Japan
Agenda
9:00
Introduction, Nobue Mita, Representative of Boston Global Forum in Japan
Opening Remarks, Kotaro Suzuki, Consul General of Japan in Boston
Honoring and Memorializing Prime Minister Abe as a Global Enlightenment Leader, Governor Michael Dukakis
A Song Honoring and Memorializing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Renowned Singer Bui Thi Thuy
Make the Economy of Japan Great in the Age of Global Enlightenment, Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum, Co-founder of the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security
Moderator: Ichiro Fujisaki, Former Japanese Ambassador to the USA, The president of Nakasone Peace Institute
Key Speakers:
Adam Posen, President of the Peterson Institute for international Economics
Cameron Kerry, Former US Acting Secretary of Commerce
Yoshimasa Hayashi, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of Digital Affairs
Panel “Make the Economy of Japan Great in the Age of Global Enlightenment”
Part 1: Building Japan as a pillar of AI and digital economy alliance between Japan, US, India, Europe
Moderator: Jesper Koll, Senior Advisor, WisdomTree Investments Inc.; Founding Member and Head of Policy Committee, Asia Society Japan Center
Panelists of panel 1:
Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of Boston Global Forum
Alex Pentland, MIT Professor, Board Member of Michael Dukakis Institute, Distinguished Contributor to the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Thomas Patterson, Harvard Professor
Dr. David Silbersweig, Harvard Professor
Nazli Choucri, MIT Professor
Adam Posen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Etsuro Honda, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland, former Special Advisor to the Abe Cabinet for “Abenomics”, former Staff Member of the MOF, Japan
Masazumi Wakatabe, Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan (3/20~) Waseda professor
Tatsuo Hatta, Executive Board Chair, Asian Growth Research Institute; Former president of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; “Mr. Abenomics”
Koichi Hamada, Yale professor, Special Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Shiro Armstrong, Professor of Australian National University
Waichi Sekiguchi, President of MM Research Institute, Former Editorial Writer of Nikkei
Newspaper
John Henry Clippinger, Co-Director of the Law Lab at Harvard University
Thomas Kehler, Technology pioneer in AI (Chief Scientist, CrowdSmart, CEO, IntelliCorp) and eCommerce (CEO Connect)
Shyamal Sharma, Brandeis Scholar
Part 2: How to build economic security and protect against China’s economic threat
Speakers:
Etsuro Honda, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland, former Special Advisor to the Abe Cabinet for “Abenomics”, former Staff Member of the MOF, Japan,“Mr. Abenomics”
Masazumi Wakatabe, Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan (3/20~) Waseda professor
Tatsuo Hatta, Executive Board Chair, Asian Growth Research Institute; Former president of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Sanjay Anandatam, iSPIRT Foundation, India
Panel 2: How to build economic security and protect against China’s economic threat
Moderator: Ichiro Fujisaki, Former Japanese Ambassador to the USA, The president of Nakasone Peace Institute
Panelists of panel 2:
Yasuhide Nakayama, Former State Minister, Ministry of Defense and Foreign Affairs
John Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Tsuneo Watanabe, Fellow of Sasakawa Peace Foundation/CSIS
Etsuro Honda, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland, former Special Advisor to the Abe Cabinet for “Abenomics”, former Staff Member of the MOF, Japan
Masazumi Wakatabe, Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan (3/20~) Waseda professor
Tatsuo Hatta, Executive Board Chair, Asian Growth Research Institute; Former president of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; “Mr. Abenomics”
Kazuto Suzuki, Professor of Tokyo University
Shiro Armstrong, Professor of Australian National University
Jesper Koll, Senior Advisor, WisdomTree Investments Inc.; Founding Member and Head of Policy Committee, Asia Society Japan Center
Noburu Okabe, Sankei editorial writer, Former London Bureau Chief
Peter landers, Wall Street Journal Tokyo Bureau Chief
Akiko Yoshida, Former Director General, MLIT, a member of America Japan Society
Yuji Ukai, President, FFRI Inc.
Hiroshi Ito, the former captain of the Ministry of Defense, the first cyber unit of the Self-Defense Forces
Toshio Nawa, a Cybersecurity Expert.
11:30
Q&A by Audience to Speakers & Panelists
11:55
Concluding Remarks, Nguyen Anh Tuan
Thank you, Nobue Mita
