Yasuhide Nakayama was first elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 2003, and since then has been reelected to the Diet on five occasions as a representative for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Executive Board
Elisabeth Moreno
Elisabeth Moreno is a French-Cape Verdean, born in Cape Verde in 1970 and moved to France in 1976. She has successively been an entrepreneur, senior executive, consular judge, minister, and businesswoman. Holding a Master’s degree in Business Law in France and a dual...
Beatriz Merino
Beatriz Merino was the first female Prime Minister of Peru. She held office between June 23, 2003 and December 12, 2003. Before serving as Prime Minister, she graduated from Harvard with a Master’s degree in law and had a successful career at Procter & Gamble. After her time at Procter & Gamble, she was elected as Senator from 1990-1992 and Congresswoman from 1995- 2000. During that time she served as President of the Environmental Committee and the Women’s Rights Committee.
Žaneta Ozoliņa
Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia and the Director at the Centre for International Politics, Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlantic Organization
Mats Karlsson
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia University, Karlsson was the Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and previously...
Vibhav Kant Upadhyay
Vibhav Kant Upadhyay is a development leader known for his statesmanship, macro-vision and pragmatism. A prolific out-of-the-box thinker, Vibhav strongly believes that the current development model needs a foundational change and has dedicated his life towards...
Senior Ambassador Vu Quang Minh
Born in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, after joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam (MOFA) in 1990, Vice Minister, Ambassador Vu Quang Minh had worked in several Departments of the Ministry, including Departments for the Soviet Union (now part of the Department for...
Marcel R. Zutter
MARCEL R. ZUTTER, born in 1961 in Basel/ Switzerland, has more than 30 years of international experience in financial services and technology. He is the Founder and Chairman of Parsumo Capital in Zurich, a quant asset management company leveraging investor behavior...