Biographie

Dr. Satohiro Akimoto is Chairman of the Board and President of Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA and Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. 

Before joining the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in 2019, he held roles at Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi International Corporation, Hughes Electronics, DirecTV Japan, Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, Japan Society, Keidanren USA, and Mt. Fuji Dialogue. He has extensive background in the areas of business, research, intellectual dialogue, and student exchanges between Japan and the United States. He is a contributing writer for the Japan Times, associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the UK, a contributing commentator for the Okazaki Institute in Japan, and a Japan Advisory Committee member of the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria.

Dr. Akimoto has a PhD in Sociology, an MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a BA in Law from Keio University. He has a certificate in Russian studies from Leningrad State University (currently St. Petersburg State University) and has studied at London University in the UK and Georgetown University.