WORK HISTORY

1988 - present
Consultant: Japan Consultancy (own business) ‘Retained Consultant on Japanese Business’ to: Pinsents (lawyers) 1990 - 2004
KPMG (accountants) 1989 - 2001
Also, advise, train and brief senior staff in a variety of UK supplying and exporting companies. Run seminars and briefings for senior UK or Japanese staff of UK-based Japanese-owned companies. Write on Japanese business.

1992 - 2001
Deputy Director: The Japan Centre, The University of Birmingham. Established new centre, recruited academic and support staff. Built up financially successful and respected external business seminar programme. Secured EU funding for, and ran, 4-year business advice project ('97-'01); recruited and managed team, and met all targets.

1987 - 1990
Part-time Lecturer: Japanese Sociology, Aston University.

1987 - 1988
Researcher: Linguistics/Economics, University of Birmingham.

1982 - 1987
Lecturer: Linguistics, Literature and Education Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

EDUCATION

1980 - 1982
Postgraduate: Linguistics, Tokyo University, Japan Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) scholarship

1977 - 1980
Postgraduate: B.Phil., MA - Linguistics and Cultural Studies, The University of Birmingham