Director for External Relations, JSIE

Mayumi is a director for external relations at Japan Institute for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JSIE.)  She joined JSIE as one of the starting members in 2015. Until July 2024, she worked for the Japanese subsidiary of a U.S. IT company, where she was mainly involved in organizational management such as finance and human resource and client relations. Prior to that, she worked as a program officer at a policy think tank and educational institutions in both Japan and the U.S., supporting researchers and planning and managing programs, especially policy dialogue and international exchange programs, as well as public relations. She is a graduate of the University of Leeds, UK.