Speakers & Panelists – Mr Sanshiro Fukao

Mr. Sanshiro Fukao
Board Member, Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative MOBI
Senior Fellow at ITOCHU Research Institute

Mr. Sanshiro was born in Tokyo in 1981. He read BSc Environmental Policy with Economics and graduated from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2003. He had worked for Nomura, HSBC and global hedge funds as a senior equity analyst of multiple sectors in Asia and was awarded No.2 Stock Picker in Japan Automobile Sector at Thomson Reuters StarMine Analyst Awards in 2008. He had been a senior research analyst of automobiles at a Japanese bank since 2014 and joined the think-tank arm of ITOCHU in August 2019. He is also a Board Member at MOBI, the world’s largest mobility consortium specialising on blockchain, speaks at international conferences and lectures on smart mobility and blockchain for corporate management and policy makers worldwide. He wrote “Mobility 2.0”(2018), “Mobility Economics”(2020) and “Mobility ZERO”(2021) published by Nikkei Publishing Inc.in Japan and delivers comments for Nikkei and Financial Times etc.