What I am
- Specialist of Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) for the Information Society
- Market Strategist for innovators
- Relationship management and advocacy for Governments, Industries and NGOs
- Enabler of cross-cultural communications
Yoshiko Kurisaki is an independent research analyst with abundant international experience in Marketing Intelligence and Strategy and Policy Analysis at the crossroads between people, society and Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). She assumed progressively strategic posts at NTT (Japan), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and the Development (OECD, Paris) as an economist specialised in ICT policies, and SITA (Worldwide) as a senior manager of Government Relations, followed by Market Intelligence for innovation and market strategy.
She obtained Master’s degree in public policy at the University of Toronto (Canada), and Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Human Geography at the University of Tokyo (Japan).
She has finished Certificate of Advanced Studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at University of Geneva (Switzerland).
With her motto, “CSR for the Information Society“, helping people with good technology to find its home in the market place is Yoshiko’s passion. Ethics is her norm and a checking of theory against reality is the methodology built-in all her work to enable healthy judgements and recommendations.
Outside her profession, Yoshiko has been voluntarily engaged in social activities via various NGOs (Non-Government Organisations):
- Committee Member of CSR Alumni of University of Geneva
- Member of CSR Geneva
- Member of the Geneva branch of Business and Professional Women International (BPW, an international NGO)
- Representative of Europe for BHN Basic Human Needs Asociation (BHN), a Japanese NGO, that provide ICT expertise for humanitarian purposes
- Member of Internet Society (ISOC), Geneva Chapter
Major international organisations and industry associations she worked with
OECD (Paris), International Telecommunications Union (ITU, Geneva)、Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), European Telecommunications Platform (ETP, Brussels), European Commission (EC, Brussels)
Major speaking opportunities
- 2009, Panelist at the “Mobile Web for the Development” session, held at the 4th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Sharm El Sheikh
- 2003, Panelist at the “Asia-Pacific” Session at the 1st World Information Society Summit (WSIS), Geneva
Working languages: Japanese, English, French
日本語 | English
