JUSFC Staff Biographies
PAIGE COTTINGHAM-STREATER
Executive Director
Japan-US Friendship Commission
Ms. Cottingham-Streater directs the work of the Japan-US Friendship Commission,
a small federal agency that provides grants for research,
training and exchange with Japan.
Prior to joining the Commission, Ms. Cottingham-Streater
served as
Deputy Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation where she worked for
sixteen years. In addition to providing strategic leadership for the
Mansfield Foundation, she directed the Mike
Mansfield Fellowship Program, a Congressionally-established
professional exchange for mid-level federal government employees.
Before joining
the Mansfield Foundation, Ms. Cottingham-Streater was Director for the
US-Japan Project at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in
Washington, DC. In this capacity, she supervised visiting scholars,
conducted research on US-Japan issues, managed the project's budget and
published the project's newsletter. Previously, she served as Counsel and
Legislative Assistant in the office of Congressman Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), where
she monitored legislative initiatives involving education, civil rights law
enforcement, labor, and financial and social policy. She was also a
participant in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET), a staff attorney
at the U.S. Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and a
law clerk at U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Marshals Service.
Ms.
Cottingham-Streater is the recipient of Japan's Foreign Minister's Commendation in
recognition of her longstanding work to strengthen US-Japan relations. The
award, made on March 31, 2004, commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Treaty
of Peace and Amity between Japan and the United States.
Ms.
Cottingham-Streater received her Juris Doctor from the National Law Center at
George Washington University and is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association.
She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College in Government
and Asian Studies. Ms. Cottingham-Streater has written articles for
publications of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and she has
spoken on U.S.-Japan relations at numerous conferences in the United States and
Japan.
July, 2011
MARGARET MIHORI
Ms. Mihori is the Assistant Executive Director of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, a federal agency that provides grants for intellectual, cultural, artistic and educational exchange and research with Japan. She has been with the Agency since 1992.
From September, 1990 until September, 1992, Ms. Mihori was the Tokyo Representative of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center in Japan, a graduate research institute in East Asian affairs engaging policymakers, business executives, scholars and journalists in dialogue regarding issues central to U.S.-Japan relations. There she was responsible for promoting and maintaining fundraising activities as well as coordinating the Center's various research activities.
From March, 1989 through August, 1990, Ms. Mihori was Program Director of Piper Pacific International, a consulting firm facilitating defense-related technology cooperation between U.S. and Japanese firms.
Ms. Mihori received a Master of Arts degree in Japan Studies and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese Literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has worked at various Japanese media organizations including the Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun and the Iwate-Nippo Newspaper in Morioka, Japan where she was a Reischauer intern conducting research on the Japanese educational system and various economic, political and social issues.
July, 2011
PAMELA FIELDS
In 1991 Pamela Fields joined the staff of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency, where she serves as the Assistant Executive Director for CULCON. The US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) is a binational advisory panel that has its origins in meetings held in Washington in 1961 between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Ikeda. Since its first meeting in Tokyo in January, 1962, CULCON has served to focus official and public attention in both the United States and Japan on the vital cultural and educational underpinnings of the US-Japan relationship.
Ms. Fields was Vice President of a small international consulting firm in Washington, DC from 1989 to 1991. From 1986 to 1989 she established and directed an international service unit for a major Japanese department store in Tokyo. Ms. Fields also worked as a broadcaster for NHK in Japan for five years.
Ms. Fields received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in 1981 and a Masters in International Business, with a focus on Japan, in 1994.
In addition to her time spent in Japan, Ms. Fields has lived in and speaks the languages of France, Italy and Israel. She lives with her husband and two children in Takoma Park, Maryland.
July, 2011
Mr. Thierry Porté
Thierry Porté was the President and CEO of Shinsei Bank, Limited from June
2004 through November 2008. He joined Shinsei Bank in November 2003 as
Vice Chairman and became Vice Chairman and Director in June 2004. Prior to
joining Shinsei Bank in November 2003, he was a Managing Director of Morgan
Stanley and served as President, Representative Director and Branch Manager of
Morgan Stanley Japan. Over the course of a 22 year career at Morgan
Stanley, Mr. Porté held various positions in capital markets, corporate finance
and management in New York, London and Tokyo.
In 2002-2003, Mr. Porté served as a member of the Invest Japan Forum, a private sector committee which
provided recommendations to Prime Minister Koizumi for the promotion of foreign
direct investment in Japan. He served as Vice President and Governor of the
American Chamber of Commerce in Japan from 2000 through 2003. He is a member of
the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the American
School in Japan. Mr. Porté currently serves as President of the Harvard Club of
Japan. He is currently a member of the Harvard Business School Visiting
Committee and participates on a number of Harvard boards and advisory
committees.
Mr. Porté received a BA (
magna
cum laude) in Economics from Harvard College in 1978 and is a Baker Scholar
graduate of the Harvard Business School, class of 1982.
