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Tadashi Yamamoto is president of JCIE, which he founded in 1970. He concurrently serves as the director of the Trilateral Commission’s Pacific Asia Group, the UK-Japan 21st Century Group, the German-Japan Forum, and the Korea-Japan Forum. Mr. Yamamoto also is director of the Friends of the Global Fund, Japan, a private support group that strives to further the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Japan and throughout Asia.
An informal advisor to numerous prime ministers and senior government leaders, he has also served as Japanese executive director of the Japan-US Economic Relations Group (1979–81), the US-Japan Advisory Commission (1983–84), and the Korea-Japan 21st Century Committee (1988–91. In addition, he was the executive director and a member of the Prime Minister’s Commission on Japan’s Goals in the 21st Century (1999-2000).
Mr. Yamamoto studied at Sophia University, completed his undergraduate education in the United States at St. Norbert College, and received his MBA from Marquette University. He has been decorated by the governments of Australia, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
