Event Detail

Please join us for a special event with Ambassador Robert "Skipp" M.

Orr, U.S. Executive Director, Asian Development Bank.



A close friend of the ACCJ and one of our most popular speakers, Skipp

is known by many fellow ACCJ members to have superb insights and

personal observations on Japan, the U.S., the Asia-Pacific region, and

Japan's evolving position in the bilateral and multilateral

relationships that have shaped the region. In September of last year, he

was confirmed by the Senate as United States Executive Director with

rank of Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).



From 2007-2010, he was Chairman of the Board of the Panasonic Foundation

and concurrently Vice Chair of the National Association of Japan-America

Societies, a member of the Board of Trustees of J.F. Obirin University

and a member of the Board of the East-West Center Foundation.



President of Boeing Japan from 2002-2007, Skipp also held prior

high-level positions with Motorola in Japan and Brussels. From 1985 to

1993, he was a professor of Political Science at Temple University in

Japan with two years off to run the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies

and the Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation at the Stanford

Japan Center in Kyoto. His book, "The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid

Power" published by Columbia University Press, won the 1991 Ohira Prize

for best book on the Asia Pacific.



NOTE: This meeting is OFF THE RECORD