Maiko Ariizumi, Managing Director

Maiko is a Certified Public Accountant registered in Japan with broad experience in accounting, tax and finance managements and she holds an MBA degree from the University of Bath in the UK. She started her career at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) in Japan then became a consultant to participate in the US GAAP conversion project where Japanese financial institutions prepare the financial statements in compliance with US accounting standards.

She came to the UK in 2009 to undertake her MBA.The final dissertation is about “voluntary disclosure of environmental accounting. After graduation, she worked at several companies in London then she joined a subsidiary wholly owned by Mitsubishi Corporation, established for its investment activities in European transmission business, as Group Financial Controller. Her role as the section head was to manage all accounting and tax aspects of the Company’s operations and lead finance team including the joint ventures in the UK and subsidiaries in Germany. She actively worked with the asset management team of the Company for the correct accounting/tax application for the offshore transmission projects including financial analysis of the projects, operational models, and technical matters such as derivatives. She also engaged in the due diligence/ preliminary assessments for project finance in a bid process to support the commercial team from accounting and tax aspects.

She has worked in Japan and UK and proven her ability as strong team builder and facilitator in multinational companies. She demonstrated her skills in not only financial reporting but also strategic financial planning and financial analysis to optimise profitability and cashflow of the company.

She joins London Research International Ltd to support Japanese companies who would like to expand /develop its overseas markets. In addition to helping Japanese companies to spread their potential overseas, regardless of national distinctions, she would like to contribute to the realisation of a better world and society.

She was selected one of 55 business women who play important role in the world on a feature of Forbes Japan issued in Sep 2016, and one of 100 women who are active in various field in the same magazine issued in Aug 2018.

She enjoys playing golf (she was a captain of her university golf club) and playing musical instruments including piano and ukulele.

Yuki Yoshida PhD, Director

Yuki earned her PhD in Physics at Colorado School of Mines, USA. Herthesis work on transparent conducting oxide was completed at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA. She moved to California to work for Intel Corporation’s HQ as a senior process engineer. After having moved back to Japan, she started to work for UK Trade& Investment, British Consulate General in Osaka, as a senior investment officer in charge of investment by Japanese ICT and energy companies into the UK. In 2014, she moved to London and has been working for Embassy of Japan as Infrastructure Advisor, being in charge of writing a newsletter called UK Business Update to introduce investment opportunities in the UK for Japanese companies.

She has received UK Government UKTI Chief Executive Silver Award of the Year in 2013 for her key role in leading a project to help Rolls-Royce’s long campaign to win the engine business of a major Japanese airline for the first time in history.

Shizuka Alcoe PhD, Research Director

Shizuka graduated from the University of Essex with a PhD in Government where she compared British and Japanese climate change policy. Her publications include the PhD thesis and various research papers on British environmental policy and environmental taxation for the university and voluntary sector.

At LRI, she has worked on a number of research projects concerning the European energy market and environmental issues and also market research. She writes and edits LRI Energy & Carbon Newsletter and the report of the same title. She aims to be a researcher/consultant who can conduct penetrating analysis of the latest trends in the broad, cross-sectoral themes of energy and the environment. Her motto is ‘Genius is the man of average ability who makes an effort.’

Teruhiko(Terry) Tsumura, Principal Founder and Chairman

Terry, previously, worked for a Tokyo-based engineering consultancy, Pacific Consultants International (PCI),as a senior manager and project economist. He was involved mainly in the feasibility studies of energy/infrastructure projects such as power stations and gas pipelines in many countries in all the regions of the world. He represented the Japanese government at international conferences sponsored by the World Bank, the OECD and other international organisations. At LRI, besides managing the company, he continues to be involved in projects of both public and private sectors. He always hopes to serve as a leverage or foothold for his clients’ overseas business expansion.

He has many publications. He is a senior member of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industries as well as a member of Japan Society and the Institute of Directors.

Privately, he campaigns for the abolition of nuclear weapons through writing, with the belief that the fact that the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still justified is one of the main reasons why we have not achieved the total ban of nuclear weapons (My Hiroshima, www.tsumura.co.uk).

LynJac kson, Co-founder, Director and Company Secretary

Lyn has a background in international relations and politics. She worked for the UN in New York for 10 years and supervised elections for independence in Namibia. Following seven years in Japan at the UN University in Tokyo, she undertook research in Ukraine for the UNHCR.

Before joining LRI, she was a founding Director and Company Secretary for Tsumura & Associates, where she conducted research for Japanese research institutes. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with an MSc (Econ.) in international relations, and from Sophia University in Tokyo with a BA in international politics and comparative culture.