A career across business, investment & international development.

• Managing AJ-PRIME, a regional initiative bringing together 14 Asian countries to strengthen cooperation on responsible labour migration and migrant worker protection.
• Lead regional programme planning, implementation, and coordination across countries of origin and destination, working with governments, employers' and workers' organizations, and development partners.
• Facilitate policy dialogue and practical cooperation on fair recruitment, migrant worker protection, and responsible labour migration.
• Manage partnerships with Japanese government institutions and JICA, supporting programme development and regional collaboration.

• Worked on employment-intensive investment, circular economy, sustainable development, and international partnerships, with a particular focus on connecting Japanese expertise with development cooperation.
• Contributed to resource mobilization for circular economy initiatives in South Africa and Zambia, including USD 1.5 million in Japanese government funding for the South Africa project.
• Developed cooperation opportunities involving Japanese technologies and companies, including organizing a study visit for South African government and TVET representatives.
• Conducted research on circular economy, e-waste, and appropriate technologies, presenting findings at international forums, including a COP side event, the Central Asian E-Waste Forum, and an ILO regional seminar at the African Union headquarters.

• Worked with C-suite executives across a global portfolio of 65 companies in 30 countries to strengthen corporate governance, internal controls, and responsible business practices.
• Developed a global management-support framework to address business and operational risks, including human rights, modern slavery, occupational safety and health, and labour law compliance.

• Engaged institutional investors, international organizations, and other external stakeholders on ESG performance, sustainability strategy, and responsible business practices.
• Contributed to company-wide initiatives on human rights due diligence and responsible supply chain management, providing recommendations to senior management on ESG priorities and stakeholder expectations.
• Strengthened the ESG positioning of green and digital businesses and developed a new programme of large-scale online investor events.

Including a secondment to Summit Cosmetics Corporation

• Led international business development in healthcare and green trade, identifying promising technologies and products and connecting Japanese companies with overseas markets.
• Engaged senior executives at more than 100 Japanese companies and developed strategic partnerships with approximately 20 firms to support international expansion and new market entry.
• Led a green trade initiative involving companies across eight countries, developing international procurement and sales strategies that generated USD 1 million in sales across 15 markets within one year.
• Contributed to the acquisition of a European cosmetics ingredients distributor, conducting investment due diligence and supporting the expansion of the company's international business portfolio.

Seconded to Presperse Corporation

• Led business development, marketing, and sales initiatives in the US personal care market, building supplier partnerships with Japanese companies and introducing new product lines.
• Developed and executed commercial strategies for more than 10 Japanese partner companies, contributing to USD 10 million in sales and a 10% increase in company profit.
• Led cross-functional collaboration across marketing, sales, R&D, supply chain, regulatory affairs, and IT to translate market opportunities into new products and business growth.

Seconded to Summit Pharmaceuticals International Corporation

• Managed cross-border trade in healthcare products for the Chinese market, working with Japanese suppliers and Chinese business partners.
• Supported the international expansion of environmentally sustainable healthcare materials, conducting market research and developing commercial opportunities with manufacturers across Asia.

• Developed and maintained supplier relationships between Japanese companies and Chinese manufacturers in the lithium-ion battery materials value chain, supporting product development and cross-border market expansion.
• Led the company's response to an anti-dumping investigation concerning electrolytic manganese dioxide, coordinating with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Finance on trade-related regulatory matters.