Advisory Council, Japan
Ken Ito, M.B.A., Director, Social Venture Partners Tokyo & The Center for Social Innovation at the Institute for Strategic Leadership. Ken Ito is one of the leading advocates in Japan for the development and growth of social enterprise. He is currently leading the Center for Social Innovation at the Institute for Strategic Leadership where he is training a new generation of Japanese businesspeople in the practice of social enterprise.
He is also the Director of Social Venture Partners Tokyo, a venture philanthropy organization, which is an affiliate organization of SVP Seattle. SVP provides funding and management support to high-potential non-profit and social business in their efforts to lead social change. He holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Hideyuki Inoue, M.A., Professor of Policy Management, Keio University Professor Inoue is one of the leading thinkers in the field of social enterprise in Japan. In 2009 he was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (YGL) which acknowledges between 200 and 300 outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. He is the supervising translator of David Bornstein’s book How to Change the World, and is also writing his own book on social entrepreneurship. He was an NPO fellow (2004-2005) of the Center for Global Partnership, the Japan Foundation and worked at Social Venture Partners International in Seattle as part of his fellowship. 
Rev. Toshihiro Takami, Director Emeritus
of Asian Rural
Institute (ARI), Nasushibara, Japan. Toshihiro Takami (高見敏弘) is the founder of ARI and one of the original leaders of the international nongovernmental organization (INGOs) movement in Japan. He designed ARI's curriculum around intensive, small-scale, organic farming, and animal husbandry, linking these activities to building a vibrant community. "Sharing food is sharing life," is one of Takami’s most well known phrases. ARI participants also share in decision making. The difficult process of achieving consensus among a group of strong-minded, quick-to-action people, Takami believes, helps ARI's rural leaders become more effective change-makers in poor communities.
Yoshitaka Takekuma, M.D., Ph.D., Director
Emeritus of Kikuchi
Youjouen Clinic, Shisui, Japan. Dr. Takekuma is a one of the pioneering social innovators in Japan--connecting wellness, public health, and agriculture with community education. For over 35 years, his Kikuchi Youjouen (located in Kumamoto prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu) has been a model for how to develop an integrated center of community health.
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