Akio Mimura

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{{Nihongo|Akio Mimura|三村明夫|Mimura Akio|born 2 November 1940}} AC is a prominent Japanese businessman notable for his positions at the head of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation, and as Chairman of the Japan-Australia Business Cooperation Committee, for which the Australian government awarded him their highest civilian award for a foreigner, Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia.{{cite web|title=Honorary appointment and award within the General Division of the Order of Australia |publisher=Governor-General of Australia |work=Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, Special issue No. S152 |date=28 September 2012 |access-date=20 March 2014 |url=http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/S152%20September%202012.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307001324/https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/S152%20September%202012.pdf |archive-date=7 March 2014 }}{{cite web |title= Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) |date= 28 September 2012 |work= It's an Honour |publisher= Australian Government |quote= For eminent service to strengthening and advancing the Australia-Japan bilateral trade and economic relationship |url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1147693 |access-date= 20 March 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190129181455/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1147693 |archive-date= 29 January 2019 |url-status= live }}

Mimura is 19th Chairman of [https://www.jcci.or.jp/english/ Japan Chamber of Commerce of Industry(JCCI)] since 2013, which is the largest small and medium business association with 1,250,000 corporate members{{Cite web|url=https://www.jcci.or.jp/english/about.html|title=About JCCI - 日本商工会議所|website=www.jcci.or.jp|access-date=2018-11-02}} in Japan.

Biography

Akio Mimura was born 2 November 1940 in Gunma Prefecture and was educated at the University of Tokyo (B.A. 1963) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A. 1972). In April 1963 he joined Fuji Iron & Steel Co Ltd which became part of Nippon Steel in 1970, which in turn became part of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in 2012. He rose through various senior management positions in the 1980s, becoming a board member in 1993 and Managing Director in 1997.{{cite web |title= Akio Mimura |work= Speaker Profile |publisher= 13th Nikkei Global Management Forum |date= 24–25 October 2001 |location= Imperial Hotel, Tokyo |access-date= 21 March 2014 |url= http://www.ngmf.com/ngmf2011/speakers/06.html }}

Board and committee positions

Sources:

{{cite web |url= http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8575690&ticker=5401:JP |archive-url= https://archive.today/20140321113545/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8575690&ticker=5401:JP |url-status= dead |archive-date= 21 March 2014 |title= Akio Mimura, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal |work=Executive Profile |publisher= Bloomberg BusinessWeek |date= 20 March 2014 |access-date= 21 March 2014}}

{{cite web |title= Chamber of Commerce appoints Nippon Steel's Mimura as next head |author= Jiji Kyodo |date= 15 March 2013 |publisher=The Japan Times |url= http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/15/business/chamber-of-commerce-appoints-nippon-steels-mimura-as-next-head }}

{{cite web |title= New JCCI chair seeks to learn why 'Abenomics' not helping small firms |author= Masaaki Kameda |date= 21 November 2013 |publisher=The Japan Times |url= http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/business/new-jcci-chair-seeks-to-learn-why-abenomics-not-helping-small-firms }}

class="wikitable sortable" ! Period	Position	Organisation
{{dts\|November 2013}} - current	Chairman	Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
{{dts\|November 2013}} - current	Chairman	Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry
{{dts\|October 2012}} - current	Advisor Honorary Chairman	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
{{dts\|April 2008}} - October 2012	Chairman	Nippon Steel Corporation
{{dts\|April 2003}} - April 2008	President	Nippon Steel Corporation
{{dts\|April 2000}} - April 2003	Executive Vice President	Nippon Steel Corporation
{{dts\|April 1997}} - April 2000	Managing Director	Nippon Steel Corporation
{{dts\|June 1993}} - October 2012	Director	Nippon Steel Corporation
? - current	Vice Chairman and Director	Nippon Keidanren
? - ?	Vice Chairman	World Steel Association
? - current	Director	Nisshin Seifun Group Inc
? - current	Outside Director	Development Bank of Japan Inc
? - current	Committee Member	Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
{{dts\|June 2010}} - current	Outside Director	Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.
? - current	Member, Advisory Board	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc
? - current	Member, Advisory Board	Development Bank of Japan
? - current	Member, International Advisory Board	Rolls-Royce Holdings plc.

Honours and awards

September 2012: Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia
October 2012: Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Australian National University{{cite web |title= Citation for Honorary Degree |author= Prof Ian Young |date= 10 October 2012 |publisher= Australian National University |url= http://about.anu.edu.au/__documents/committees/honorary_degrees/mimuracitation.pdf }}

References

External links

{{cite encyclopedia |title= Biography: Akio Mimura 1940— |encyclopedia= Encyclopedia of Business, 2nd ed. |publisher= Reference for Business |url= http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/M-R/Mimura-Akio-1940.html |author= Sandra M. Larkin |access-date= 21 March 2014}}

Category:Honorary companions of the Order of Australia

Category:Living people

Category:Japanese businesspeople

Category:1940 births

Category:Harvard Business School alumni

Category:University of Tokyo alumni