Navigating Japan’s Demographic and Technological Challenges

Featuring: Yumiko Murakami, General Partner, MPower Partners Fund L.P.

Moderator: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University

Talking Points:
– Japan is a shrinking country with a demographic crisis
– Japan is leading the global trend of demographic tsunamis
– A technology (AI/digitization) tsunami is also hitting Japan and the world
– How a double tsunami (demography/technology) can create economic opportunities for Japan
– Key success factors include (1) innovation, (2) reskilling, and (3) labor mobility, and all three factors need DEI elements to be successfully promoted
– The role of startups in Japan

Ms. Murakami is going to share her life story as well as MPower Partners’s journey as an ESG-focused VC fund in Japan.

Speaker:
Yumiko Murakami is the former head of the OECD Tokyo Centre. Prior to the OECD, she worked for 20 years in the global financial industry, mostly as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in New York, London and Tokyo. She is a leading authority on a wide range of economic policy issues such as corporate governance, tax guidelines, diversity, education, trade and innovation. She has been on several Government advisory panels, including Prime Minister Kishida’s panel on “The New Form of Capitalism.” Yumiko has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA from Stanford University and a BA from Sophia University.
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