Who We Are
Name |
Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) (和) グローバルファンド日本委員会 (FGFJ) |
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Founded | March 2004 |
URL | http://fgfj.jcie.or.jp |
Operated by | Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) |
Address |
Japan Meisan Tameike Bldg. 7F, 1-1-12 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 Japan USA 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 731, New York, NY 10115 |
The activities of the Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ), are guided by a Board of Advisors consisting of leaders from all sectors of society in Japan, and it hosts a multiparty Diet Task Force. These bodies are chaired by two members of Japan’s House of Representatives: Ichiro Aisawa from the Liberal Democratic Party and Motohisa Furukawa from the Democratic Party for the People.
FGFJ is a special initiative operated by the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE). Founded in 1970, JCIE is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening Japan's role in international networks of policy dialogue and cooperation. JCIE undertakes a wide range of programs of policy research, international dialogue, and exchange related to the themes of globalization, governance, and civil society. It has been promoting policy studies and dialogues focused on human security issues since the late 1990s, when it launched a five-year groundbreaking dialogue program, the Intellectual Dialogue on Building Asia's Tomorrow, which helped develop the concept of human security. JCIE has been involved with HIV/AIDS initiatives in Japan since 1997, and in 2007, it launched a major project on global health and human security.
- FGFJ Brochure (Japanese Ver.) Download PDF - 2MB
- FGFJ Brochure (English Ver.) Download PDF - 2MB
Board of Advisors
- Chair Emeritus
- Yoshiro Mori
- Former Prime Minister
- Co-Chair
- Ichiro Aisawa
- Member of the House of Representatives (LDP)
- Co-Chair
- Motohisa Furukawa
- Member of the House of Representatives (Democratic Party for the People)
- Director
- Akio Okawara
- President and CEO, Japan Center for International Exchange
- Katsumi Hirano
- Executive Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
- Mitsuko Horiuchi
- President, Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women; Professor, Bunkyo Gakuin University; former Assistant Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Masaki Inaba
- Director for Global Health, Africa Japan Forum; Board Delegation Member, Developed Country NGO, The Global Fund (2004-2009)
- Masaaki Iuchi
- Senior Assistant Minister for Global Health, Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare
- Aikichi Iwamoto
- Director, Department of Research Promotion, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
- Shigeyuki Kano
- Director, Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM); Member, Technical Review Panel for Malaria, The Global Fund
- Seiya Kato
- Director, Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association
- Nobuko Kayashima
- Senior Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); Senior Research Advisor, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development
- Kiyoshi Kurokawa
- Chairman, Health and Global Policy Institute; Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
- Nobuaki Mito
- Managing Executive Officer & Representative Director, President of Health & Crop Sciences Sector, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Nobuyuki Morishima
- Executive Deputy President and Representative Director, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
- Toshihiro Motobayashi
- Executive Director, Department of International Affairs, Japanese Trade Union Confederation (JTUC-RENGO)
- Kosuke Okada
- Director, International Programs, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association
- Shigeru Omi
- President, Japan Community Healthcare Organization; Regional Director Emeritus, World Health Organization for the Western Pacific
- Takako Ohyabu
- Chief Global Corporate Affairs Officer, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
- Takahiro Shinyo
- Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University; Dean, Integrated Center for UN and Foreign Affairs Studies; Chairman of the Board, Malaria No More Japan (MNMJ)
- Hiroshi Suzuki
- Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Akira Takakura
- President, Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions
- Masayoshi Tarui
- Vice President, Japan AIDS & Society Association; Professor Emeritus, Keio University
- Koji Tsuruoka
- Former Ambassador, Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom
Secretariat
- Assistant Director
- Satoko Itoh
- Managing Director and Chief Program Officer, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)