Glen S. Fukushima

Glen S. Fukushima focuses on the nexus between technology, national security, trade, and U.S.-Asia relations and is writing a book on the ties between Silicon Valley and Japan. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. In October 2021, President Joseph R. Biden nominated him to be Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022.

From 1990 to 2012, Fukushima was based in Asia as a senior executive at one European and four American corporations:  AT&T, Arthur D. Little, Cadence Design Systems, NCR, and Airbus. He was elected once as Vice President and twice as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Waseda University, and Sophia University and as an advisor or board member at the International Christian University, Keio University, Rikkyo University, Tsukuba University, and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo.

From 1985 to 1990, Fukushima served as Director for Japanese Affairs (1985-1988) and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1988-1990) at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in the Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. He has been a member of the Council of Foreign Relations since 1993.

He was educated in the United States at Deep Springs College, Stanford University, and Harvard University (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Business School, and Law School) and in Japan at Keio University and the University of Tokyo, where he was a Fulbright Fellow and Japan Foundation Fellow.