Kathy Matsui is a General Partner of MPower Partners, Japan’s first ESG-focused global venture capital fund. She is also an external board director at Fast Retailing, at adjunct professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Management, and an advisory board member at the University of Tokyo. She was previously vice chair and chief Japan strategist at Goldman Sachs. She is the author of How to Nurture Female Employees, published in Japanese in 2020. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe credited Matsui with coining the term “womenomics” – which she first wrote about in 1999 – and incorporated her research into his economic reforms.
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Kathy Matsui on Japan’s Growing Workforce Diversity
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George Chen in The Straits Times on US-China Talks to Build an AI Safety Alert System
September 21, 2026
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George Chen in AP News on US-China Talks Over AI Incident Alert System
September 20, 2026
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David Boling in Reuters on Bessent’s Pressure Campaign Over Japan’s Fiscal Policy
September 17, 2026
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