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Jean-Luc Allavena
Chairman of the Board, Institut Aspen France
Jean-Luc Allavena holds a Master’s degree from HEC Paris,France’s leading business school. He began his career atBanque Paribas before joining Lyonnaise des Eaux - nowEngie. In 1992, he became the CFO of Techpack International(Pechiney). He became the COO in 1996, and the Chairman
and CEO of Pechiney World Luxury Cosmetics Division in1999. In 2000, he joined Lagardère Media as the Group COO.
A native of Monaco, where his family has been established for 150 years, JeanLuc Allavena was called to serve as the first Chief of Staff of H.S.H Prince Albert
II of Monaco in 2005-2006. He joined Apollo Global Management as a partner
in London in 2007, and established the Apollo franchise in France throughseveral major deals such as Monier, Constellium, Latécoère, and Verallia. He is
also the Founding Chairman of Atlantys Investors, his independent structure ofprivate equity investing alongside Apollo as well as other funds and privateinvestors. Throughout his career, Jean-Luc Allavena has been significantly
involved in the non-profit sector. He served as the Chairman of the HEC Alumni
Association from 2001 to 2003 and then as the Chairman of the HEC
Foundation from 2003 to 2005. From 2010 to 2015, he was the Chairman of theBoard of the French-American Foundation France. In recognition of hisachievements, he was appointed the Honorary Chairman of HEC Alumni
Association, of the HEC Foundation, and of the French-American Foundation
France. In 2013, Jean-Luc Allavena was awarded the title of Chevalier de la
Légion d’Honneur.

Kazumasa Kusaka
Chairman and CEO, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Kazumasa Kusaka has been Chairman and CEO of the Japan
Economic Foundation (JEF) since April 1, 2013 and is also a
Professor at University of Tokyo Graduate School of PublicPolicy. He previously served for 36 years in Japan’s Ministry ofInternational Trade and Industry (MITI), rising to become
vice-minister for international affairs in the reorganized
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2004.
During his long career in public service, he was seconded to the International
Energy Agency (IEA)/OECD and was Japan’s senior official for Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC). He played a central role in Asia’s economic
integration, promoting FTAs in the region as well as serving as a senior official
negotiating the Doha development agenda of the WTO. He was head of Japan’s
Energy Agency and held director-general positions in technology andenvironmental policy in addition to trade and investment-related areas within
METI. He was also instrumental in finalizing the Kyoto Protocol, and developing
Japan’s energy and environment policies. Among many other posts he has held
are Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Global Warming, senior vicepresident of Mitsubishi Electric, executive adviser to Dentsu Inc., and presidentof the Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East.

Philippe Maniére
Executive Committee, Institut Aspen France
Philippe Maniére founded Footprint > consultants, a mid-size
firm active in strategic corporate communicatins, in 2009. Hewas previously managing director of the Institut Montaigne,
an independent thin tank, for five years. Conducting researchon exclusion and social mobility, state reform programs andcompetitive economic strategy, the Institut Montaigne tripled
its resources during these years and became one of the mostwidely recognized and intellectually influential French think tanks. Prior to thisposition, Philippe worked as a journalist and editorialist from 1984 to 2004.

Among others, he was a columnist for the newsmagazine Le Point and held adaily chronicle on Europe 1, one of the leading French radio stations. He also
hosted talk-show on BMF (another radio) and was managing editor of La Lettrede l’Expansion for three years and one of the edirors-in-chief of Le Point forseven years. He sites on the board of Aspen Frence and the French-AmericanFoundation. He also was a board member of Humanity in Action (France) from2007 to 2012. Philippe sat on several government commissions over the yearsand he was made a Knight in the Order of Legion of Honour in 2009. Philippe isan ESSEC graduate and also holds a Masters in Corporate Low from Paris IIUniversity.

Takatoshi ItoProfessor, Columbia University, USASenior Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
Professor, School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University (since 2015) and Senior Professor,
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (since 2016),
has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan
since finishing his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard Universityin 1979. He taught at the University of Minnesota (19791988), Hitotsubashi University (1988-2002), and theUniversity of Tokyo (2004-2014). He held visiting professor positions atHarvard University, Stanford University, Columbia Business School, andUniversity of Malaya. He has distinguished academic and research appointments
such as President of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; Fellow of the
Econometric Society, since 1992; Research Associate at the National Bureau ofEconomic Research since 1985. Ito served as Senior Advisor in the Research
Department at the International Monetary Fund, 1994-97 and as Deputy Vice
Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan, 19992001, and a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Economic and FiscalPolicy, 2006-08. He is an author of many books including The Japanese
Economy and more than 70 refereed journal papers. He frequently contributes
op-ed columns to the Financial Times. He was awarded by the Government ofJapan the National Medal with Purple Ribbon in June 2011 for his excellent
academic achievement.

Jean Lemierre
Chairman of the Board BNP Paribas
Mr. Lemierre is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiquesde Paris and the École Nationale d’Administration; he also hasa low degree. Mr. Lemierre held various positions at theFrench tax authority, including as Head of the fiscal legislation
department and Director-General of Taxes. He was thenappointed as Cabinet Director at the French Ministry ofEconomy and Finance before becoming Director of the French
Treasury in October 1995. Between 2000 and 2008, he was President of theEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He became anadvisor to the Chairman of BNP Paribas in 2008 and has been Chairman of BNPParibas since December 1, 2014. During his career, Mr. Lemierre has also beena member of the European Monetary Committee (1995-1998), Chairman of theEuropean Union Economic and Financial Committee (1999-2000) andChairman of the Paris Club (1999-2000). He then became a member of theInternatinal Advisory Council of China Investment Corporation (CIC) and theInternational Advisory Council of China Development Bank (CDB). He iscurrently Chairman of the Centre d’Études Prospectives et d’ Informations
Internationales (CEPII), and a member of the Institute of International Finance(IIF).

Naoyuki Haraoka
Executive Managing Director, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Naoyuki Haraoka has been Executive Managing Director of
the Japan Economic Foundation (JEF) since 2007. After
graduating the University of Tokyo in 1978 (Bachelor ofEconomics), he joined MITI (Ministry of International Tradeand Industry) of Japanese government. Having been posted in
the industrial policy section and the international trade policy
section for a few years, he was enrolled in a two year MPA(Master of Public Administration) programme at Woodraw Wilson School ofPrinceton University in the US on a Japanese government sponsorship. Afterhaving acquired MPA at Princeton, he rejoined MITI in 1984 as an economist.
Since then he had been posted as Deputy Director and Director of a number ofMITI divisions including Research Division of International Trade Policy
Bureau. He was also posted in Paris twice, firstly, Principal Economist of Trade
Bureau of OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development)from 1988 to 92 and secondly Counselor to Japanese Delegation of OECD from1996 to 99. After coming back to MITI from his second stay in Paris, at theoccasion of the government structural reform in 2001 when MITI was remodeled
as METI (Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry) he joined the efforts tofound METI research institute, Research Institute of Economy Trade andIndustry as its Director of Administration. He became Chief Executive Directorof JETRO San Francisco in 2003 and stayed in San Francisco until 2006. He was
Director-General of METI Training Institute from 2006 until July 2007 when heleft METI permanently.

Sota Kato
Executive Director and Research Director, Tokyo Foundation for Policy ResearchProfessor, International University of Japan
Sota Kato is an executive director and research director at theTokyo Foundation for Policy Research. After earning a law
degree (LLM) from the University of Tokyo in 1991, hejoined the Japanese Ministry of International Trade andIndustry, becoming assistant director in the aircraft anddefence industries division, deputy director in theinternational economic division and senior research fellow atthe Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. He has been a professor
at the International University of Japan since 2006. He received the Nikkei Prizefor Economics Books in 2001, the Jiro Osaragi Rondan Prize (Asahi Shimbun) in2002 and the Best Paper Award at the Society for the Advancement of SocioEconomics in 2012. He received an MBA (with honours) from Harvard Business
School and a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

Anne Lauvergeon
Former President, Areva
President, ALP SA
Anne Lauvergeon, born on August 2, 1959, is Chief Engineerfrom École des Mines, a former student of the École NormaleSupérieure and also has degree in Physics. She started hercareer in 1983 in the steel industry at Usinor. In 1984, she wastasked with chemical safety-related issues in Eurepe for theCommissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA), the French nuclear
energy authority. From 1985 to 1988, she was in charge ofsubsoil administration in Île-de-France. In 1988, she was appointed Deputy
Department Head at the Conseil Général des Mines. In 1990, Ms. Lauvergeon
was appointed Special Assistant for International Economy and Trade to thePresident of France, and in 1991 she was named Deputy Chief of Staff andRepresentative to the President of France for the organization of internationalsummits (G7/G8). In1995, she joined Lazard Frères as Managing Partner. InMarch 1997, Anne Lauvergeon joined the Alcatel group as Deputy CEO ofAlcatel Télécom. She joined the Executive Committee of the Alcatel group in
1998. She supervised the group’s international activities and was in charge of theGroup Shareholdings in Defence, Energy, Transportation and Nuclear Power
sectors (Thomson, CSF, Alstom, Framatome). From June 1999 to July 2011, Ms.
Lauvergeon was appointed Chairwoman and Chief Executive Director ofCOGEMA (now Areva NC). She founded Areva in June 2001. She wasChairwoman of the Board of the Areva group from July 2001 to June 2011. Since
2011, Anne Lauvergeon has been the Chair of ALP SA, a consultancy services
firm. In 2013, Anne Lauvergeon was appointed Chairwoman to the Innovation
Commission 2030. In 2014, she became Chairwoman to the Board of Directorsof Sigfox, and in 2015 she was appointed Chairwoman of the Board of Directorsof BoostHEAT.

Maurice Gourdault-Montagne
Secretary General, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne is a graduate of the Paris
Institut d’Etudes Politiques and the INALCO (France Schoolof Oriental Studies). He also holds a master degree in Law anda DEUG (two-year undergraduate degree) in German. Hejoined the French Foreign Ministry in 1978 and served
different diplomatic posts in India and Germany before joining
the headquarters of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, as
Spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Deputy Principal Private Secretary
to Foreign Affairs Minister Alain Juppé and later as Principal Private Secretaryof the Prime Minister Alain Juppé. He served as French Ambassador to Japan in1998 and became Senior Diplomatic Counsellor to President of the French
Republic Jacques Chirac and French Sherpa to the G8. As representative of thePresident of the French Republic, he was in charge of the Franco-Indian andFranco-Chinese strategic dialogue from 2002 to 2007. He was then appointed asFrench Ambassador to the United Kingdom in December 2007, French
Ambassador in Berlin in February 2011 and French Ambassador to China inAugust 2014. At its meeting of 22 June 2017, the French Council of Ministers
appointed Maurice Gourdault-Montagne as Secretary-General of the Ministry ofEurope and Foreign Affairs, starting the 1st of August 2017.

Hideo Suzuki
Managing Executive Officer, Nippon Steel Corporation
Hideo Suzuki has been Managing Executive Officer of theNippon Steel Corporation since 1 April 2016. He joined
Nippon Steel in November 2015. He was Director-General ofTrade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade andIndustry (METI) and Cabinet Councilor from 2013 to 2015.
Prior to this, he was Director-General of Industrial Scienceand Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, DirectorGeneral of Acquisition Reform of the Ministry of Defense, Director-General ofthe Department of Multilateral Trade System, Deputy Director-General forEconomic & Industrial Policy, and had experiences in areas like corporate tax,industrial finance, competition policy, and aircraft and defense industry after hejoined METI in 1981. He was seconded to the Department of Trade andIndustry of the United Kingdom and to Ibaraki Prefectural Government asDirector-General of the Department of Commerce and Labor. He graduatedfrom the University of Kyoto, Faculty of Law in 1981, Yale University, Graduate
School (International Development Economics) in 1988, and the University ofWashington, School of Law in 1989. He was born in Kyoto Japan. He wasvisiting professor of Faculty of Economy of Saitama National University. He is
an author of “Tax Reform for Revitalizing Japan” and “China vs Japan-USA TPPAlliance”.

Masahiko Yamamoto
Acting General Manager, Global Strategy and Regional ManagementDepartment, Mitsubishi Corporation
Masahiko Yamamoto is Acting General manager in the Global
Strategy and Regional Management Department of theMitsubishi Corporation. He holds a degree in Economics fromTokyo University. He started his business career in 1988 in thePlanning and Research Department at Mitsubishi. InNovember 2001 he moved to the Mitsubishi Corporation
European Headquarters in the United Kingdom. In March2008 he was appointed to the Cabinet Office of the Japanese government
covering Regulatory Reform Promotion. In April 2010 became Deputy General
Manager of the External Relation Team in the Planning and Research
Department at Mitsubishi. He became Deputy General Manager for Europe,
Africa, Middle East and CIS in the Regional Strategy and Business Development
Department in April 2011. In May 2014 he was appointed CEO of
TechnoAssociates, Inc. In April 2017 he became General Manager of theRegional Strategy and Coordination Department at Mitsubishi InternationalGmbH before assuming his current position in April 2019.