IARU World Alumni Forum
March 1, 2015, 10:30 - 18:00
Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Fukutake Learning Theater, University of Tokyo (view map)
Cost: 5,000 Yen per person
Register online here.
Join us for a one-day World Alumni Forum titled Economics, Culture, and Innovation: Lessons from Japan hosted by the University of Tokyo. This event will bring together experts from a wide range of fields and alumni from leading universities from around the world to consider the major issues we currently face in the global economy. Speakers and panelists include:
- Acclaimed architect Kengo Kuma,
- Robert Feldman, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Japan Securities,
- Gen Isayama, CEO & Co-Founder of Wil, LLC,
- Seichi Kondo, President of A.T. Kearny Japan and government adviser,
- and leaders of Australian National University, UC Berkeley, Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Oxford, and University of Tokyo.
A networking reception with Presidents of the IARU* member institutions will be helpd following the forum.
Optional Discover Unknown Japan Tour will be offered on February 28th.
More information on the forum and speakers is available here.
*The International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) includes ten of the world’s leading research-intensive universities that comprises The Australian National University, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, Peking University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, The University of Tokyo, and Yale University.