Asami Takahashi

Japan

2023 Global Leadership Initiative

Asami Takahashi

Asami is an MBA Candidate at the Saïd Business School and an attaché at the Embassy of Japan in the UK. Previously, she worked in EPAs and investment treaties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo. Asami graduated from the Department of Human Sciences at Osaka University with Presidential Award for Extracurricular Activities and Human Sciences Award as the top graduate. She pursued her first master’s degree in Public Policy at The University of Tokyo, and later an MSc in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University as Schwarzman Scholar and Masa Son Fellow. From 2016 to 2020, she worked as the representative director of a United Nations NGOs that works to enhance collaboration of internationally minded students and to contribute to female empowerment.