BS2-12
Day2
13:45-15:00
  • JP
Breakouts

Why Regenerative Agriculture Matters

Speaker

Yuichiro Ando
Senior Manager
Suntory Holdings Limited
Kyoko Sasaki
Senior Public Affairs & Sustainability Manager
General Secretary
Danone Japan

After completing my Master’s in Environmental Studies, I started working in the corporate sustainability space. My 20 years of experience includes working for start-ups and large multinational companies in Japan, particularly in stakeholder communication using sustainability reports and employee engagement based on corporate purpose. In 2020, I enrolled at Monash University in Australia, where I obtained a Ph.D. in 2023 for my research on corporate purpose and sustainability. I joined Danone Japan in 2024 as a senior public affairs and sustainability manager.

Yoko Maki
Director
Sustainability & ESG Dept.
McDonald's Company (Japan), Ltd.
Adjunct Professor
Hitotsubashi University

Graduated from Hitotsubashi University, Faculty of Commerce. Studied at HEC Paris. Obtained MBA from Dauphine, Sorbonne, University of Paris.
After working for NRI, IGPI, A.T. Kearney, Pernod Ricard, and MHD Moët Hennessy Diageo, she has been in her current position since January 2023.

She has introduced social, environmental, and diversity perspectives into management and marketing, and launched, and expanded sustainability mechanisms.
In her current position, she leads strategy development, planning, execution, and communication related to sustainability & ESG, which consists of the four pillars of Food, Planet, Community, and People, and works with team members to implement the sustainability&ESG strategies, governance, and disclosure.

Since 2022, she has been teaching a weekly lecture in English on CSR, CSV and Sustainability to exchange students at Hitotsubashi University, her alma mater.
She enjoys wine (sommelier & WSET Level 3) and art.

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