The founder and CEO of Response Ability, Inc., a consultancy on corporate social responsibility (CSR) based in Tokyo, Executive Director of Japan Business Initiative for Biodiversity (JBIB), a group of committed corporations for biodiversity conservation. Born in 1965 in Japan, he received BSc from The University of Tokyo, MSc and PhD from Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo. After experience of working for National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) as a researcher and for FRIM (Forest Research Institute Malaysia) as a visiting researcher, he has been working as a consultant on environmental management and CSR since 2002. He has been involved in and led numbers of projects for Japanese corporations and ministries to develop sustainability policies and implement them in their daily business. With his strong expertise in biodiversity and supply chain management, he is now covering natural capital accounting and sustainable procurement for sustainable management.