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JUSFC Staff Biographies

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MARGARET MIHORI

Ms. Mihori is the Assistant Executive Director of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, a federal agency that provides grants for intellectual, cultural, artistic and educational exchange and research with Japan. She has been with the Agency since 1992.

From September, 1990 until September, 1992, Ms. Mihori was the Tokyo Representative of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center in Japan, a graduate research institute in East Asian affairs engaging policymakers, business executives, scholars and journalists in dialogue regarding issues central to U.S.-Japan relations. There she was responsible for promoting and maintaining fundraising activities as well as coordinating the Center's various research activities.

From March, 1989 through August, 1990, Ms. Mihori was Program Director of Piper Pacific International, a consulting firm facilitating defense-related technology cooperation between U.S. and Japanese firms.

Ms. Mihori received a Master of Arts degree in Japan Studies and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese Literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has worked at various Japanese media organizations including the Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun and the Iwate-Nippo Newspaper in Morioka, Japan where she was a Reischauer intern conducting research on the Japanese educational system and various economic, political and social issues.

Ms. Mihori lives in Great Falls, Virginia with her husband and two daughters.

November, 2009

PAMELA FIELDS

In 1991 Pamela Fields joined the staff of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency, where she serves as the Assistant Executive Director for CULCON. The US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) is a binational advisory panel that has its origins in meetings held in Washington in 1961 between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Ikeda. Since its first meeting in Tokyo in January, 1962, CULCON has served to focus official and public attention in both the United States and Japan on the vital cultural and educational underpinnings of the US-Japan relationship.

Ms. Fields was Vice President of a small international consulting firm in Washington, DC from 1989 to 1991. From 1986 to 1989 she established and directed an international service unit for a major Japanese department store in Tokyo. Ms. Fields also worked as a broadcaster for NHK in Japan for five years.

Ms. Fields received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in 1981 and a Masters in International Business, with a focus on Japan, in 1994.

In addition to her time spent in Japan, Ms. Fields has lived in and speaks the languages of France, Italy and Israel. She lives with her husband and two children in Takoma Park, Maryland.

November, 2009

Mr. Thierry Porté

Thierry Porté was the President and CEO of Shinsei Bank, Limited from June 2004 through November 2008.  He joined Shinsei Bank in November 2003 as Vice Chairman and became Vice Chairman and Director in June 2004.  Prior to joining Shinsei Bank in November 2003, he was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and served as President, Representative Director and Branch Manager of Morgan Stanley Japan.  Over the course of a 22 year career at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Porté held various positions in capital markets, corporate finance and management in New York, London and Tokyo.

In 2002-2003, Mr. Porté served as a member of the Invest Japan Forum, a private sector committee which provided recommendations to Prime Minister Koizumi for the promotion of foreign direct investment in Japan.  He served as Vice President and Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan from 2000 through 2003.  He is a member of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the American School in Japan.  Mr. Porté currently serves as President of the Harvard Club of Japan.  He is currently a member of the Harvard Business School Visiting Committee and participates on a number of Harvard boards and advisory committees.

Mr. Porté received a BA (magna cum laude) in Economics from Harvard College in 1978 and is a Baker Scholar graduate of the Harvard Business School, class of 1982.