★Pre-registration deadline is extended★
★Both undergraduate and postgraduate students
are welcome★
“When I was 19”
Guest Speaker: Ms. Kathy Matsui
and Ms. Miwa Seki
On Friday July 22, 2022, the Go Global Gateway (GGG) program will deliver a special edition of “When I was 19”, a series of lectures for the program registrants.
The event is associated with an online summer program jointly hosted by the University of Tokyo and the Asian University for Women (AUW) in August 2022.
This time we will invite Ms. Kathy Matsui* and Ms. Miwa Seki** to give short talks on their career development with the following titles.
・Ms. Kathy Matsui:
"When I was 19: From a flower farm to Japan's financial industry"
・Ms. Miwa Seki:
"When I was 19: Every cloud has a silver lining if you make one"
They are both co-chairs of the Japan AUW Support Committee and founding members of the MPower Partners. They have had a lot of international experiences especially in the field of finance.
They will talk about what they thought and experienced when they were undergraduate students and how they climbed up their career ladders after graduation from universities.
We welcome undergraduate students who have signed up for the GGG program and postgraduate students enrolled in full-time curricula of UTokyo as well as students who will participate in Asian University for Women Online Summer Program!
Students from AUW*** will also virtually participate in the event via Zoom.
*Kathy Matsui is former Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs Japan and Chief Japan Equity Strategist. She was ranked No. 1 in Japan Strategy by Institutional Investor multiple times, and her ground-breaking “Womenomics” research spurred former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to promote gender diversity as part of the nationʼs growth strategy. She is also a highly-regarded corporate governance expert, having advised Japanese companies on global best practices during her 30-year research career.
She serves on the boards of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, US-Japan Council, and The Nature Conservancy Asia Pacific Council, and is an adjunct professor at Kyoto Universityʼs Graduate School of Management. She earned an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard University.
Her book, How to Nurture Female Employees, is based on lessons learned from managing research teams across Asia.
She is Japanese-American and also the mother of two children.
**Miwa Seki has 20 years of experience in the financial industry. After working in investment banking and equity capital markets for Morgan Stanley, she moved to Clay Finlay, a New York-based asset management company. As head of their Japan office, she managed their Japanese growth equity portfolio which invested concentrated positions in long-term growth stocks such as UNIQLO and Softbank.
She is a prolific translator, having translated over 50 business publications including books focused on the US startup and venture capital industry such as publications written by Peter Thiel and Ben Horowitz.
FACTFULNESS, published in 2019, became a million seller and the Best Business Book of the Year in Japan.
Miwa is also an associate professor of Kyorin University. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Keio University in Law and Literature.
She is also the mother of two children.
***Asian University for Women is situated in Chattogram, Bangladesh. The university was established in 2008 to educate first generation women, who are the first in their family to enroll at the university, and nurture their leadership. The university offers Liberal Arts curricula to women from 18 nations such as Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Syria.
【About the Event】
Date & Time: Friday, July 22, 2022 19:00-20:30 (JST)
Venue: Lecture Hall, 21KOMCEE West (B1F) on Komaba campus and
online live distribution on Zoom
Language: English
Capacity: 70 seats (Lecture Hall, 21KOMCEE West); 200 seats (Zoom)
*If the number of pre-event registration in each venue exceeds the
available seats, it will be on a first-come first-served basis.
Eligibility: Undergraduate students who have submitted their
Go Global Statement and have had it approved;
Postgraduate students enrolled in full-time curricula of
UTokyo
Pre-event registration: Please submit a registration form by 17:00 on Tuesday, July 18, 2022.
The registration form is embedded in this
web page.
★Participants who virtually participate in the event will receive information on a Zoom meeting room later. We will also send the information to students who missed seats at the Lecture Hall on Komaba campus due to the limited capacity.
【Timetable】
19:00-19:05 Introduction
19:05-19:25 Talk 1 (given by Ms. Miwa Seki)
19:25-19:50 Talk 2 (given by Ms. Kathy Matsui)
19:50-20:20 Q&A session
20:20-20:30 Closing remarks / message for students by
Masami Nakao, Senior Professor, the University of
Tokyo
We encourage undergraduate students to submit an activity report on this event on the category 4 “international activities” of the GGG program. For more details of activity categories within the GGG, please consult here.
【Pre-event Registration Form】