Joint Lunch with JCCI: ‘Shifting economic power – a view from Tokyo’, Mr David Cairns

David Cairns has just completed a four year appointment as Head of Investment at the British Embassy and his talk will be of great interest to members of both nationalities.

 

David has been Director of UK Trade & Investment in Japan since 2006 and studied Japanese art and language at Oxford University.  David  entered the Foreign Office in 1993, after an early career in banking (Nomura and Barclays, Tokyo). He has held appointments in Tokyo (‘95-‘98), Geneva (‘02-‘06) and London and has been The Director of Trade and Investment in Tokyo since 2006. As such he is responsible for the promotion of Japanese investment into the UK and for British business interest in Japan. He heads a team of 60.

 

Drinks will be served from 12.30pm to 1.00pm in the library (known as the Smoking Room), which is on the first floor; the lunch will be at tables of 10 in The Lloyd George Room.

 

£50 per head

 

To reserve your place, please contact the Japan Society office on tel: 020 7828 6330 or email: events@japansociety.org.uk