Japan: an outrider for the world’s economic future
Japan is poised for dramatic economic growth. In 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to boost its GDP to 600 trillion yen ($5.4 trillion) by the time Tokyo hosted the Olympics in 2020...
Makiko held a number of leadership positions in marketing and sales at Intel Corporation in Japan and Asia Pacific region. After serving as president and representative director of Intel Japan for five years, she assumed her current post in April 2018. Makiko has also been serving on the committee for the promotion of regulatory reform by the Japanese government from 2016. A graduate of Waseda University, she holds a master’s degree in sociology from Arkansas State University in the United States.