KEN SHIBUSAWA

CEO, Shibusawa and Company, Inc.
Chairman, Commons Asset Management
CEO, &Capital
Senior Advisor, Brunswick Group

Ken Shibusawa founded in 2001, Shibusawa and Company, Inc., a strategic advisory firm for alternative investments, ESG/SDGs alignment and human resource development. He also founded in 2008, Commons Asset Management, a mutual fund dedicated to deliver long term investment opportunities to the Japanese household. In 2021, he joined Brunswick Group, strategic advisory firm for corporations facing critical issues and engaging with multi-stakeholders, as a senior advisor. He has extensive market experience at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs as well as Moore Capital, a global macro hedge fund, where he was the representative managing director of the Tokyo Office. He is also director of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), advisor to the Office of the President, University of Tokyo, visiting professor at Seikei University, steering group member of UNDP SDG Impact, and member of Council of New Capitalism, established by Prime Minister Kishida.

He is a published author and writes frequently for magazines, journals, and internet media. He also produces and hosts of an English podcast, Made With Japan https://madewithjapan.net/

He was educated in the United States from second grade elementary through college (University of Texas, BS Chemical Engineering, 1983), and then returned again for graduate school (University of California Los Angeles, MBA, 1987).