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Sir Stephen Gomersall on UK-Japan business and globalization: Globalization and the art of tea
Hitachi – Japan’s most iconic corporation – under the leadership of Chairman & CEO, Hiroaki Nakanishi embarked on the “Smart Transformation Project” to globalize, to face a world where value creation has moved from manufacturing to innovation and solving customer’s problems, and to overcome long years of stagnation and low profits or losses, despite strong technology capabilities.
One of the most important brains behind Hitachi’s reinvention and globalization is Sir Stephen Gomersall.
Preventing fraud alone is not sufficient to ensure growth and long-term success; it is just the baseline!
Based on several years of direct experience as a non-Japanese Director of a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Japanese company, Gerhard Fasol will discuss the reforms to Japanese corporate governance made in recent years, and what, in his view, still needs to be done.
He will also discuss issues of diversity and its importance for the quality of management in Japanese corporations.
About the contributors
Gerhard Fasol
Gerhard Fasol founded the M&A and cross-border advisory firm Eurotechnology Japan in 1997, and has worked on a large number of M&A and cross-border projects in Tokyo over the last 20 years.
Japanese Corporate Governance – The Inside Story, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation HQ London, Tuesday 16 January 2018
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, Tuesday 16 January 2018, 6:00pm
Topic: Japanese Corporate Governance – The Inside Story
Speakers: Gerhard Fasol and Sir Stephen Gomersall
Program: Tuesday 16 January 2018, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Drinks reception from 7:00pm
Location: 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent’s Park), London NW1 4QP, Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Registration and further details
Japanese Corporate Governance – The Inside Story
While many Japanese corporations are greatly admired around the world, certain aspects of Japanese management style are believed to be holding back Japan’s economic growth.
His previousroles have includedDirector of InternationalSecurity at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ambassador and DeputyPermanentRepresentative of the UKMission to the UnitedNations and Head of SecurityPolicy Department, FCO. He now works as ChiefExecutive for Hitachi Global.
Sir Stephen is a keen singer and longstandingmember of a barbershopsextetwhich he co-founded.
Later Sir Stephen became responsible for all of Hitachi’s business in Europe as Chairman and Chief Executive of Hitachi Europe, and in addition Sir Stephen also served as Director on the Board of all Hitachi 2011-2014 overseeing all of Hitachi Group’s business as Board Director. All Rights Reserved.
Who is Stephen Gomersall?
Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Queens' College, Cambridge.
He was knighted by the British Government in 2000, and in 2015 received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan for services to UK-Japan economic relations.
More on the topic of corporate governance reforms in Japan
Copyright (c) 2017 by Eurotechnology Japan. After 14 yearsserving as a diplomat in Japan and as British ambassador, 1999–2004, he becameChiefExecutive of HitachiEurope Ltd.
at the age of 56. He served in Japan as Political Officer (1972-1977), Economic Counsellor (1986-1990), and Ambassador (1999-2004), and also in the United States as Political Officer in Washington and as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. He gained a PhD in Physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then became a Lecturer at Cambridge University, based at the Cavendish Laboratory, while also being a Research Fellow, Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College.
He is currently a Director of Hitachi Europe and Hitachi’s main UK subsidiaries investing in railway manufacturing and nuclear power development. He is now Adviser to the CEO, Hitachi Ltd.
Copyright (c) 2015 Eurotechnology Japan KK All Rights Reserved
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He has worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, on semiconductor and solid state physics research, as Manager of the Hitachi Research Laboratory in Cambridge, and as an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Tokyo University.Sir Stephen Gomersall
Sir Stephen Gomersall studied at Cambridge and Stanford University, and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1970.
With Sir Stephen’s leadership Hitachi achieved major business breakthroughs in Europe.
On March 5, 2015, Sir Stephen gave the “Princess Chichibu Memorial Lecture to the Japan British Society at Ueno Gakuen University in Tokyo with deep insights on Japan-British relations, on comparison of Britain’s and Japan’s position in the world, and on the challenges of globalization facing Japan and Japanese corporations – in particular Hitachi.
Sir Stephen is very clear that there is no alternative to globalization: “Globalisation poses tough challenges for Japanese companies, but is the only way forward”.
Read Sir Stephen’s lecture here:
Sir Stephen Gomersall: “Globalisation and the art of tea” (click the link above to read the full text of Sir Stephen’s Princess Chichibu Memorial Lecture)
Sir Stephen Gomersall
Stephen Gomersall was British Ambassador to Japan from 1999-2004, and Hitachi’s Chief Executive for Europe and subsequently Board Director from 2004-2014.
Since 2014 he has been a Board Director and Member of the Supervisory & Audit Committee of the Japanese cybersecurity group GMO Cloud KK, listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and since April 2017 he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Kyushu. From 2004 he became Chief Executive for Europe in Hitachi, and was the first non-Japanese to serve on the company’s main Board from 2011-2014.
He is fond of composinghumorousverse and songs, and paints art as a hobbycitingMondrian and his son SimonGomersallamongst his influences. After a long and successful career as diplomat in the British Foreign Service, culminating in the years as British Ambassador to Japan 1999-2004, Sir Stephen joined Hitachi in 2004 as the first foreigner responsible for proposing and implementing Hitachi’s overseas regional strategy.
The media focus mainly on extreme cases and fraud, but the responsibilities of Directors go far beyond these defensive, compliance-type duties.