Kumi Fujisawa

Kumi Fujisawa

president & co-founder at Think Tnak SophiaBank

TED Attendee
Tokyo, Japan
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About Kumi

I am a…

Change agent, Connector, Idea generator, Journalist, Social entrepreneur

Bio

Kumi Fujisawa founded Japan’s first investment trust evaluation company in 1996 after working for several investment fund management companies. She sold the company to Standard & Poor’s in 1999 and joined Think Tank SophiaBank to incubate new social systems by fostering social entrepreneurs in 2000, has worked as a co-founder since 2003. She was assigned as one of the Young Global Leaders in 2007 and the member of the Global Agenda Council in 2008 by World Economic Forum. She is currently a committee member at several government ministries, a board member at some foundations such as Japan Securities Dealers Association and Japan Professional Football League etc. and an external board member at some public-listed companies such as Toyota Tsusho Corporation etc.. She is active in lecturing socially conscious investment strategies and management thorough publications, lectures, television and radio program “Kumi Fujisawa’s Shacho(Executive) Talk”. She has interviewed over 1000 leaders of corporations and ventures. She published more than 20 books on the topics of investment management and social entrepreneurial actions.

I'm passionate about

I want to encourage that grassroots people can shape the better future together by gathering their small action.

Areas of expertise

Asset Management, author, Climate change policy design/influencing, Finance and Investments, Flamenco, Small Business Management, Social enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Sport Business

The TED story

I was on the stage of TEDxTokyo in 2013. I talked about 'Hungry Sprit' . http://youtu.be/OwnsgosQ_qg

Things you might not know

connecting people among various field in Japan, managing team that every member can grow, dancing flamenco...