Adjunct Associate Professor
Graduate School of Leadership and Innovation, Shizenkan University
Iron Pillar Initiative in Global Learning
Minami Tsubouchi is an entrepreneur in the field of leadership development. Believing that great leaders can rise out of adversity, she founded BEYOND Tomorrow, a non-profit foundation that supports young adults with socioeconomic disadvantages to overcome hardship as budding leaders.
Previously, Minami worked at McKinsey & Company, the World Economic Forum, a humanitarian assistance organization in Afghanistan, and the Bahrain Economic Development Board. She holds a Master’s in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA from Keio University. Most recently, she was a Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow at Yale University.
She was awarded Nikkei Woman of the Year 2013 by Nikkei Woman Magazine and was selected as one of the AERA Leaders for 2020 by AERA Magazine, Asahi Shimbun.