Glen S. Fukushima
Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Former President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
Former Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Japan and China. S. Fukushima is a Senior Fellow at the Center for
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American Progress, a public policy think tankheadquartered in Washington, D.C., where he focuseson U.S.-East Asia relations. On October 14, 2021,
President Joseph R. Biden nominated him to serve as
Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection
Corporation (SIPC), and the United States Senate
confirmed him for this position on April 6, 2022.
From 1990 to 2012, Mr. Fukushima was a seniorbusiness executive based in Asia representing several
major multinational corporations: Vice President,AT&T Japan; President, Arthur D. Little Japan;
President & CEO, Cadence Design Systems Japan;
President & CEO, NCR Japan; and President & CEO,Airbus Japan. He was elected to serve for two terms asPresident of the American Chamber of Commerce inJapan, then the largest American Chamber ofCommerce outside the United States.
Before his business career, he served in Washington,D.C. as Director for Japanese Affairs (1985-1988) andDeputy Assistant United States Trade Representative forJapan and China (1988-1990) at the Office of the UnitedStates Trade Representative (USTR), Executive Officeof the President. In 1993, he declined an offer to be theAssistant Secretary of Commerce for International
Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
He began his career as an attorney at the law firm ofPaul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.

Mr. Fukushima has served on numerous corporateboards of directors, advisory boards, and government
advisory councils in the United States, Europe, andJapan. He has served on the board of the Japan
Association of Corporate Executives, America-JapanSociety, National Association of Japan-AmericaSocieties, Japan Society of Boston, Japan Society ofNorthern California, Japan-America Society ofWashington, D.C., International House of Japan,Japanese American National Museum, U.S.-Japan
Council, International Student Conferences, Global
Council of the Asia Society, and President’s LeadershipCouncil of the Asia Foundation.

Mr. Fukushima has been a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations since 1993. Until June 2001, he servedfor eight years in the White House-appointed positionsof Vice Chairman of the Japan-United States Friendship
Commission and Vice Chairman of the U.S. panel ofCULCON (Joint Committee on United States-Japan
Cultural and Educational Interchange). He has been amember of the Director’s Circle of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and of the Nexus Group of theAsian Art Museum of San Francisco, and co-founder of
the Tokyo Committee of Human Rights Watch. He hasserved on the board of the Washington Bach Consortand the PostClassical Ensemble. In 2016, he wasappointed Commissioner of the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Portrait Gallery, and in 2018, he was invited tojoin the board of the Mori Art Museum.
His publications include Nichi-Bei Keizai Masatsu noSeijigaku [The Politics of U.S.-Japan EconomicFriction], winner of the 9th Masayoshi Ohira MemorialPrize in 1993. He received the Excellence 2000 Award
from the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber ofCommerce in 1999, the Alumni Hall of Fame Award
from Stanford University in 2002, and the Person of theYear Award from the National Japanese American
Historical Society in 2008. He has been a Visiting
Professor at Kyoto University and University Professor
at Waseda University Keio University awarded him thestatus of Honorary Alumnus in 2012, and LEAP
(Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics) conferred onhim its Leadership Award in 2014. He is listed in Who’s
Who in America.
A native of California, Mr. Fukushima was educated at
Deep Springs College, Stanford University, Harvard
University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School. At
Harvard, he was awarded a National Science Foundation
Fellowship. He was a Stanford/Keio Exchange Scholar
at Keio University and a Fulbright Fellow and a JapanFoundation Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University ofTokyo. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., San
Francisco, and Tokyo, and often speaks at conferences
especially in Asia and Europe.