Ken Shibusawa

Ken Shibusawa founded in 2001, Shibusawa and Company, Inc., an advisory firm engaging multi-stakeholder dialogue among policy leaders, business executives, investment professionals and society at large. He also founded in 2008, Commons Asset Management, a mutual fund dedicated to deliver cross-generational long-term investments to the Japanese household. In 2023, he founded & Capital, an asset management company for impact investing into Africa. As of June 2025, he assumed the position of independent director at Kyushu Financial Group, Inc. as well as Seven Bank, Ltd. He is also senior advisor of the Brunswick Group and senior advisor to Bain & Co. Japan. From 1988 to 2001, he gained 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 from 1997 to 2001. In 2012-2013, he served as president of Japan Center for International Exchange, and in that capacity was the Japan director for dialogue forums such as The Trilateral Commission and Friends of the Global Fund. Currently, he is director of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), as well the co-chair of the organization’s Middle East-Africa Committee. In addition, he is advisor to the Office of the President, University of Tokyo, chair of NHK Committee for International Broadcasting Programs, co-chair of Triple I (Impact Investment Initiative) for Global Health, chair of GSG Impact Japan, as well as member of several government committees. He is a frequent public speaker on a wide range of topics, especially regarding the modern-day interpretation of the legacy of his great-great father, Eiichi Shibusawa, who is known as the father of Japanese capitalism. Born in Zushi, Japan in 1961, he was educated in the United States from second grade elementary through college (University of Texas, BS Chemical Engineering,1983), returned to Japan to work in international relations, and then returned to the US for graduate school (University of California Los Angeles, MBA, 1987).