Women in the Workplace - Kumi Sato

Kumi Sato has been a pioneer in her field of strategic communications. As President of the COSMO Public R e l a t i o n s Corporation, a position she has held for the last 20 years, she has presided over a company that has helped numerous foreign companies enter the notoriously difficult Japanese market.

In 2002, COSMO was named the “Consultancy of the Year” by PR Week Asia, while Ms Sato herself, since 1998, has been honored many times, including being named one of the “Stars of Asia—50 Leaders at the Forefront of Change” by BusinessWeek, and one of the “Hundred Global Leaders for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum at Davos. She has sat on numerous boards and committees in the US and Japan, including her more recent appointment as Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ).

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