Outside Director,Independent Director Asako Osaki

Biography

• June 1997

  Bureau for Development Policy and Bureau for Programme Funding, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• January 2005

  Independent Specialist on International Cooperation and Gender (present)

• April 2009

  Visiting Professor, School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University (present)

• June 2011

  Director, Gender Action Platform (present)

• October 2012

  Director, Plan International Japan (retired in 2020)

• April 2015

  Advisor, World Assembly for Women (WAW!), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (present)

• April 2016

  Member, Evaluation Committee for Japan's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (present)

• July 2018

  Coordinator Consultant for “WE EMPOWER through responsible business conduct in G7 countries,” UN Women (funded by EU, implemented in collaboration with ILO) (retired in 2020)

• April 2019

  Gender Advisor, Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture (present)

• April 2021

  Member, Experts' Meeting on the Implementation and Monitoring of the National Action Plan for Gender Equality, Gender Equality Bureau, Cabinet Office (present)

• September 2021

  Gender Advisor, Think Impacts (present)

• January 2022

  Japan Committee Member and Japan Representative Expert, ISO/PC 337 “Guidelines for the promotion and implementation of gender equality” (present)

• June 2023

  Director (Outside Director), BIPROGY Inc. (present)