Harvard Club of Japan

Members and friends of the Harvard Club of Japn are kindly invited by the HBS Club of Japan to the Impact Award Ceremony on May 27^th, 2021 from 18:00 (JST), with Ms. Kanae Doi and Mr. Nobu Okada having speech sessions and Q&A between audiences.

Please join us in recognizing their marvelous achievements!

Date: May 27^th, 2021 (Thursday) 18:00 - 19:30

Venue: Zoom

Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlceqsrzMqGtMvEmKUtXKGCvIjcLKGsB9b

Fee: Free of charge

The Harvard Business School Club of Japan (HBSCOJ) proudly announces two winners for its Impact Award of the Year for 2020 as follow:

Reason for the award: Established the Human Rights Watch in Japan getting broad acceptance and support from business leaders, and has been active in promoting human rights more than 10 years to realize many social changes by influencing governments, judiciary system and companies to have rectified various laws and regulations.

. Nobu Okada, Founder & CEO Astroscale

Reason for the Award: Astroscale is the world’s first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space by removing space debris which have become a serious problem as a cause of spacecraft collisions.

We would like to invite you to the Impact Award Ceremony on May 27^th, 2021 from 18:00 (JST), inviting Ms. Kanae Doi and Mr. Nobu Okada having speech sessions with Q&A between audiences.

Please join us in recognizing their marvelous achievements!

Date: May 27^th, 2021 (Thursday) 18:00 - 19:30

Venue: Zoom

Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlceqsrzMqGtMvEmKUtXKGCvIjcLKGsB9b

Fee: Free of charge

Language: Japanese (No English translation will be provided)

Profiles of the receipients: 

Kanae Doi works to encourage the Japanese Government to prioritize human rights in its foreign and domestic policies and practices. She also works on media outreach and the development of Human Rights Watch’s profile in Japan.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2006, she worked as a practicing attorney, based in Tokyo. Her practice included refugee law, immigration law, constitutional law, and criminal defense. She frequently gave media interviews and published on these issues in the Japanese press from the perspective of international human rights law.

In 2011 Doi was chosen as a member of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.

She received her law degree from the University of Tokyo and her master’s degree in the International Studies from the New York University School of Law. She speaks English and Japanese.

Nobu Okada founded Astroscale in 2013 due to a strong desire to address the growing threat of space debris. He used his personal funds as seed money and hired a team in Singapore in 2013 and opened an R&D office in Japan in 2015, a UK office in 2017, a US office in 2019, and an Israeli office in 2020, whilst raising US $191M capital. The team calls themselves, “Space Sweepers” and their mission is to secure safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations.

Nobu is the International Astronautical Federation’s Vice President for Space Economy and Sponsorship, co-chair of The Future of Space Technologies Council, World Economic Forum, member of the Space Generation Advisory Council Advisory Board, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He also served as a member of the Subcommittee on Space Civil Use, and Space Industry at the Cabinet Office for the Government of Japan. Nobu was awarded Grand Prix during the UNESCO Netexplo Innovation Forum 2020, Forbes JAPAN “Start-up of The Year 2019” and Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2017. Prior to founding Astroscale, Nobu was an IT entrepreneur. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the University of Tokyo in 1995 and an MBA from the Krannert School of Business, Purdue University in 2001. When he was a teenager, Nobu attended a camp at NASA where he met Japan’s first astronaut, Mamoru Mohri. He received the handwritten message, “Space is waiting for your challenge.” and has been inspired to work on space ever since. There are 2 case studies published by Harvard Business School related to Astroscale.