Ken SHIBUSAWA

Ken Shibusawa founded Shibusawa and Company, Inc., a strategic advisory firm for alternative investments, ESG/SDGs alignment and human resource development in 2001. He also founded Commons Asset Management, a mutual fund dedicated to deliver long term investment opportunities to the Japanese household in 2008. In 2021, he joined Brunswick Group as Senior Advisor. In 2023, he founded &Capital, Inc, an impact fund management company for Africa. 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 Trustee and Chairperson of the Japan-Middle East/Africa Relations Committee of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), and is a member of numerous government committees, including the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance and the Health Promotion Committee. He is engaged in various impact investment related activities in Japan, including Chair of GSG Impact Japan, Vice Chair of Impact Consortium, and Co-Chair of Triple I (Impact Investment Initiative) for Global Health. He also serves as a member of Asia Advisory Board of Chiratae Ventures, a leading venture capital fund in India investing in tech startups. In addition, he is an Advisor to the Office of the President at the University of Tokyo, and Chairperson of the NHK International Broadcasting Program Council.

He is a published author and writes frequently in magazines, journals, and internet media.

He was educated in the United States from second grade elementary through college. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.