present The CEO Series: with Mr. Yoshiyuki Kasai Chairman, Central Japan Railway Company and Co-Chair US-Japan-India Trilateral Track 2 Strategic Dialogue
EVENT DETAILS
DATE		Tuesday, March 11, 2014
TIME		11:00 AM  - 12:00 PM (Registration: 10:30 am)
LOCATION		WWF Auditorium, 172-B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi - 110003
SPEAKERS		Yoshiyuki Kasai, Chairman, Central Japan Railway Company and Co-Chair US-Japan- India Trilateral Track 2 Strategic Dialogue
MODERATOR		Tarun Das, Co-Chair US-Japan-India Trilateral Track 2 Strategic Dialogue
ABOUT THE EVENT Ananta Aspen Centre in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), invites you to the next session on “The CEO Series” with Mr. Yoshiyuki Kasai, Chairman, Central Japan Railway Company and Co-Chair, US-Japan-India Trilateral Track 2 Strategic Dialogue. Please join us for an interaction with an extraordinary thought leader on Asia and the World, Mr. Yoshiyuki Kasai, who will be in conversation with Mr. Tarun Das.
SPEAKER Yoshiyuki Kasai is the Chairman and Representative Director of Central Japan Railway Company (JRC), which operates the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train system linking Japan’s principal metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. JRC is also the developer of the maximum speed 581 km/h Superconducting Maglev (SCMAGLEV) System. Mr. Kasai joined Japan National Railway (JNR) in 1963 and played a major role in JNR’s reform. After the break-up and privatization of JNR, he was appointed President of JRC in 1995, and then Chairman in 2004. He succeeded in dramatically improving the Tokaido Shinkansen transport service by opening the new Shinagawa Station and achieving the speed-up of all Shinkansen trains to 270 km/h in 2003. JRC has now launched a project to develop the Chuo Shinkansen as the bypass of Tokaido Shinkansen, by the SCMAGLEV technology. Among his public services, Mr. Kasai is the Chairman of the “Committee on National Space Policy”, Extraordinary Commissioner of the “Fiscal System Council”, and member of the “Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security”. Mr. Kasai published four books including “Japanese National Railways, its Break-up and Privatization (2003)”. He earned his B.L. from the University of Tokyo in 1962 and his M.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969.   MODERATOR Mr. Tarun Das was the Director General of CII and, later, Chief Mentor. He is a member of various Government of India Committees. He is on the Board of Trustees of various not- for- profit Institutions in India and overseas. He is the Founding Trustee, Aspen Institute India and is engaged in Track 2 Dialogues with USA, Japan, China, Turkey, Israel and Singapore.
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