Glen S. Fukushima | |
---|---|
Born | California, U.S. | September 9, 1949
Nationality | American |
Education | Deep Springs College Stanford University (BA) Keio University Harvard University (MA, JD) University of Tokyo (Fulbright) |
Occupation(s) | Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation |
Spouse | Sakie T. Fukushima |
Glen Shigeru Fukushima (born 1949) is an American academic, businessman, and philanthropist. He is currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. and, in April 2022, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as vice chairman of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation following his appointment by President Joe Biden. [1]
Fukushima was widely suggested as a potential U.S. Ambassador to Japan in 2020 due to his extensive experience in U.S.-Japan relations. [2] [3]
In 2022, Fukushima made the largest single private donation in history to the Fulbright Program in Japan establishing the Fulbright-Glen S. Fukushima Fund to expand study and research opportunities for Japanese and Americans. [4] In 2023, he donated $3 million to Deep Springs College.
Fukushima is a native of California and a Sansei. [5] He was raised as an Army brat in California and Japan living on U.S. military bases including Camp Sendai, Washington Heights, and Camp Zama. [6] [7] He attended elementary school in the northern California city of Monterey and in San Francisco. He attended Zama American High School in Japan and Gardena High School in Southern California. [8] [9]
Fukushima's undergraduate education started at Deep Springs College and he completed a degree in economics at Stanford University. [10] He completed an exchange year at Keio University in Tokyo during the 1971–1972 school year. [11] He is fluent in English and Japanese. [12]
After college, Fukushima worked in Tokyo from 1972 to 1974 working for The Asahi Shimbun and the Law Firm of Hamada and Yanagida. He also studied diplomatic history at the University of Tokyo while living in Japan. [5]
Fukushima returned to the United States in 1974 and studied at Harvard University from 1974 to 1982. While at Harvard, he earned a MA in Regional Studies—East Asia and completed all coursework necessary for a PhD in Sociology except his dissertation on comparative U.S.-Japan antitrust law and policy. [13] He also attended the MBA program at the Harvard Business School was awarded a JD degree from Harvard Law School.
While at Harvard, Fukushima worked as a teaching assistant to prominent sociologist David Riesman and influential Japanologists Ezra Vogel, and Edwin Reischauer. [13] He was a contemporary of Francis Fukuyama. [7]
Among Fukushima's academic distinctions at Harvard was a National Science Foundation fellowship. [6] Upon completing his studies at Harvard, he conducted research at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Fellow and Japan Foundation Fellow. [6]
Fukushima began his career as an attorney at the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (now Paul Hastings) in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1985. [5]
Fukushima served as Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Japan and China from 1988 to 1990. [14] [15] Prior to that, he served as Director for Japanese Affairs (1985–1988) at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). During his time at USTR, Fukushima gained a reputation as one of the most effective American trade negotiators with Japan and was instrumental in opening up markets for a variety of American industries. [10] [16]
He was largely responsible for the success in opening Japanese markets to US products and services during that period. Based on his experience at USTR, he wrote a memo (Repairing the U.S.-Japan Relationship, January 4, 1994) that ended up on the desk of U.S. President Bill Clinton. [16] Clinton added favorable annotations and circulated it widely to his cabinet and senior trade and economic officials during negotiations taking place under the US-Japan Framework Talks. [17]
After leaving the USTR in 1990, Fukushima was a senior business executive based in Asia until 2012. [18] He entered the corporate world at AT&T. In 1990, he was assigned to work in Tokyo as Vice President of AT&T Japan, where he headed public policy and business development. [10]
In January 1993, he was offered the position of U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy, but declined to continue his private-sector career. [19] The person who later assumed the position, Charles Meissner, died with Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and others in the 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash. [20]
He served as president and CEO of Arthur D. Little Japan from 1998 to 2000, President & CEO of Cadence Design Systems Japan from 2000 to 2004, and co-president of NCR Japan from 2004 to 2005. [21] [22] In 2005, he became President & CEO of Airbus Japan, a position he held until 2010 when he became chairman and director, serving until 2012. [23]
While working in the private sector in Japan, Fukushima served on a number of notable corporate boards. In 2001, he became the first American to serve on the board of directors of Mizuho Financial Group, then the largest banking group in Japan. [12] Prior to Mizuho, he represented Cadence Design Systems on the board of directors of Innotech Corporation which it owned an interest in. [12] He also served on the boards or advisory boards of such of companies such as the Industrial Bank of Japan, Daiwa Securities Group, Nissho Iwai, and Fidelity International. [24] [25]
Fukushima served as vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan from 1993 to 1997 before being elected to serve as its president for two consecutive terms. [26] [27] At the conclusion of his term, The Japan Times noted his contributions raising the role and visibility of the Chamber in the Japanese business, government, and political world, including being the first president of the ACCJ in its 50-year history to be invited to address the Japan National Press Club. [28] [29]
Since September 2012, Fukushima has been based in Washington, DC as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a public policy think tank. [5] His work has focused on U.S. foreign economic policy, international political economy, and U.S.-Asia relations, especially Northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea). [30]
In October 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Fukushima to the board of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). [31] Upon receiving Senate confirmation in April 2022, Fukushima was appointed by the President to serve as vice chairman of the board. [32] The SIPC was established by Congress in 1970 to assist investors in the case of the failure of a brokerage firm. It is led by a board comprising seven members, five appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and two named by the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve, each serving a term of three years. [33]
Fukushima is a significant donor to a number of non-profit organizations and has served on a number of nonprofit boards and government advisory councils in the United States, Japan, and Europe.
He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1993. [21] [34] He is also a member of the Tokyo Club and Tokyo Rotary Club. [23]
During the Clinton Administration, the White House appointed him vice chair of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the U.S. panel of Joint Committee on U.S.-Japan Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON). [2] [23]
Prior to the Clinton Administration, he was invited by president elect Bill Clinton to speak at the Little Rock Economic Summit on “Challenges and Opportunities for the United States in the Asia-Pacific Region." [35] [36]
Fukushima was a member of Hillary Clinton's Asia Policy Working Group during the 2016 presidential campaign. [37] He is a cofounder of the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans for the 21st Century (CAPA21), a political action committee, [38] [39] [40] [41] and has served on the national committee of Latino Victory. [42]
Fukushima has served on the board of numerous nonprofits in the United States and in Japan. These include the Japan Association of Corporate Executives and the America-Japan Society. [43] He has been a member of the Global Council of the Asia Society, President's Leadership Council of the Asia Foundation, the board of trustees of the Japanese American National Museum, the board of directors of the U.S.-Japan Council, the board of advisors of the Japan Policy Research Institute, and the board of directors of the Japan Society of Boston, the Japan Society of Northern California, the Japan Society of Washington, D.C., and the National Association of Japan-America Societies. [19] [40] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
Fukushima has had a lifelong interest in education and has served on advisory boards at Stanford University (Asia-Pacific Research Center), Occidental College, and the University of California at San Diego. [50] More recently, he has served on several advisory boards at Harvard University: Asia Center, Law School, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Program on Regional Studies–East Asia. [25] In Japan, he has served as an advisor, board member, or on the faculty of Keio University, Waseda University, Rikkyo University, Tsukuba University, International Christian University, Kyoto University, and the University of Tokyo. [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57]
In 2023, he donated $3 million to endow the “Glen S. and Sakie T. Fukushima Fund at Deep Springs College which aims to bring world-class faculty to the college. [58] The donation was described as a "game changer for the academic pillar at Deep Springs" by Jefferson Cowie. [59]
Fukushima is also a patron of the arts. He is a major contributor to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. [60] [61] [62]
In 2022, Fukushima donated $1 million to the U.S.-Japan Fulbright exchange program, the largest donation ever made by an individual. [6] The donation was announced at the U.S. Embassy Tokyo with President Joe Biden and Ambassador Rahm Emanuel present and established the Fulbright-Glen S. Fukushima Fund to expand study and research opportunities for Japanese and Americans. [4] [6] [63]
The Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. It was founded in July 1973, principally by American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, an internationalist who sought to address the challenges posed by the growing economic and political interdependence between the U.S. and its allies in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. The leadership of the organization has since focused on returning to "our roots as a group of countries sharing common values and a commitment to the rule of law, open economies and societies, and democratic principles".
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is an agency of the United States federal government responsible for developing and promoting American trade policy. Part of the Executive Office of the President, it is headed by the U.S. Trade Representative, a Cabinet-level position that serves as the U.S. president's primary advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on trade matters. USTR has more than two hundred employees, with offices in Geneva, Switzerland, and Brussels, Belgium.
James William Fulbright was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2023, Fulbright is the longest-serving chairman in the history of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his strong multilateralist positions on international issues, opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War, and the creation of the international fellowship program bearing his name, the Fulbright Program.
The Boao Forum for Asia, initiated by 25 Asian countries and Australia, is a nonprofit that hosts high-level forums for leaders from government, business and academia in Asia and other continents to share their vision on the most pressing issues in this region and the world at large. Though its fixed address is in Bo'ao, Hainan province, China, its Secretariat is based in Beijing. The forum, sometimes known as the “Asian Davos”, takes its name from the town of Boao, located in China's southern Hainan province, which has been the permanent venue for its annual conference since 2002.
Carla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and former government official. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977 and as the 10th United States Trade Representative under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. Hills was the first woman to hold each of those posts, the third woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet, and the first appointed to both cabinet and cabinet-rank positions. Hills is the earliest-serving living former U.S. Cabinet member.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), was a proposed trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim economies: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States. In the United States, the proposal was signed on 4 February 2016 but not ratified as a result of significant domestic political opposition. After taking office, the newly elected President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from TPP in January 2017, therefore ensuring the TPP could not be ratified as required and did not enter into force. The remaining countries negotiated a new trade agreement called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which incorporated most of the provisions of the TPP and which entered into force on 30 December 2018.
Josette Sheeran is an American non-profit executive and diplomat who served in the United States Department of State. Sheeran serves as the seventh president and CEO of Asia Society since June 10, 2013. Sheeran was also the United Nations's Special Envoy for Haiti.
Merit E. Janow is a professor in the practice of international trade and dean at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs from 2013 to 2021.
Victor D. Cha is an American political scientist currently serving as president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
The China–Japan–South Korea trilateral summit is an annual summit meeting attended by the People's Republic of China, Japan and South Korea, three major countries in East Asia and the world's second, fourth and 12th largest economies. The first summit was held during December 2008 in Fukuoka, Japan. The talks are focused on maintaining strong trilateral relations, the regional economy and disaster relief.
The Japanese Festival of Houston, located in Houston, Texas is considered one of the largest Japanese festivals in the United States. Hosted originally by the Japan America Society of Houston, the festival is now handled by the Japan Festival of Houston Inc. under the Japan-America Society of Houston advisement.
Sükhbaataryn Batbold is a prominent Mongolian political figure and leader, who was Prime Minister of Mongolia from 2009 to 2012, as well as Chairman of the Mongolian People's Party. He was previously Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of his predecessor, Sanjaagiin Bayar.
David Lee Carden is an American lawyer, diplomat, mediator and author who is a former United States Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He was nominated by President Barack Obama in November 2010 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March, 2011. He resigned his post in December 2013. Carden was a partner at Jones Day, an international law firm, where he was, at various times, the Partner in Charge of the firm's Asian offices and practices, the head of its International Securities practice, and the head of Litigation in its New York office.
Kent E. Calder was the interim dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), serves as the director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and is also the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of East Asian Studies at SAIS. Calder previously served as the vice dean for faculty affairs and international research cooperation at SAIS.
Harald Bernard Malmgren is a scholar, ambassador, and international negotiator who has been senior aide to US Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford, and to US Senators Abraham A. Ribicoff and Russell B. Long, United States Senate Committee on Finance. He has acted as an advisor to many foreign leaders and CEOs of financial institutions and corporate businesses and has been a frequent author of articles and papers on global economic, political, and security affairs.
Robert Emmet Lighthizer is an American attorney and government official who was the United States Trade Representative in the Donald Trump administration from 2017 to 2021.
Sarah Bianchi is an American political advisor and former investment analyst who served as deputy United States trade representative for Asia, Africa, Investment, Services, Textiles, and Industrial Competitiveness. Prior to her confirmation as deputy USTR, she was a senior managing director at Evercore ISI, a global investment banking advisory firm.
Radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan began being discharged into the Pacific Ocean on 11 March 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster triggered by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Three of the plant's reactors experienced meltdowns, leaving behind melted fuel debris. Water was introduced to prevent the meltdowns from progressing further. When cooling water, groundwater, and rain came into contact with the melted fuel debris, they became contaminated with radioactive nuclides, such as iodine-131, caesium-134, Caesium-137, and strontium-90.
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is an economic initiative launched by U.S. President Joe Biden on May 23, 2022. The framework launched with fourteen participating founding member nations in the Indo-Pacific region with an open invitation for other countries to join.
Wendy Cutler is an American diplomat currently serving as Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute and managing director of its Washington D.C. office. She also serves on the board of advisors for Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.