“Creating a sustainable world by the power of data science” with Yuki Kishi - Roundtable: Sustainability with Ross Rowbury #27

The Japan Times Cube Inc.

02/01/2023 11:45 am

For our special speaker, Mr. Rowbury will welcome Yuki Kishi, Chief Financial Officer at Sustainable Lab, the only non-financial big data group in Japan, specializing in SDGs/ESGs from an interdisciplinary approach combining data science, sustainability, and financial engineering.


Date and time: Friday, January 13, 2023
10:30 to 11:30 JST: Talk session
Participants:This event is a recording and not a livestream. A notification will be sent to participants when the recording is posted online.
Registration fee: Free

The contents of Roundtable by The Japan Times will be published as an archive at a later date and will be introduced in the main paper of The Japan Times and the website of Sustainable Japan by The Japan Times. Roundtable is held in cooperation with Nomura Holdings.

Yuki Kishi
Mr. Kishi is the Chief Financial Officer at Sustainable Lab, the only non-financial big data group in Japan, specializing in SDGs/ESGs from an interdisciplinary approach combining data science, sustainability, and financial engineering. He has a responsibility for finance, business development and international expansion. Prior to his career at Sustainable Lab, he worked as the Director of Fintech and Brand&Retail at Plug and Play Japan for 3.5 years and Deutsche Bank Group in Japan for 8 years. He holds an MBA from University of Cambridge and a BS from University of London, Queen Mary college. He also serves as Managing Director at Fintech Association of Japan.

Ross Rowbury
Ross Rowbury is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Group Corporate Communications at Nomura Holdings. He has observed Japan while living and working here for four decades. Commencing his career in finance in Tokyo during the early 1980s, he later moved into public relations and communications, holding senior positions at Gavin Anderson & Co. (now Kreab) and PRAP Japan. He headed the Edelman business in Japan for 10 years until July 2020. Prior to joining Nomura in October, he was a freelance consultant to a number of firms on their Japan business strategy. He is also a visiting professor of Asian marketing at Doshisha University in Kyoto and is on the Board of TELL, a suicide prevention and mental health NPO.