Hideko Katsumata
Hideko Katsumata
Hideko Katsumata joined JCIE in 1969. She currently manages the organization’s overall operations and is heavily involved in numerous programmatic areas. Ms. Katsumata has been involved in citizen movements to strengthen the nonprofit sector in Japan and served as a member of the Council for the Reform of the Public Interest Corporations that was created to advise the Prime Minister’s Office. She has served as external director on the board of the Chubu Electric Power Company, a member of the Board of Governors of the Japan Broadcast Corporation (NHK), vice chair of the NHK Advisory Council on International Broadcasting, a member of the Review Committee of Asahi Shimbun, and a member of the board of the Japan NPO Center and of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium. She currently serves as a board member of the Sacred Heart School Corporation and a member of the board of counselors of the Public Resource Foundation. She is a Screening Committee member of the ORACLE Volunteer Activities Fund. She has authored numerous articles on civil society, including “Japanese Philanthropy: Its Origins and Impact on US-Japan Relations” in Philanthropy & Reconciliation: Rebuilding Postwar US-Japan Relations.
