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Yukako Uchinaga is a system engineer, board chair and founder of J-Win (Japan women’s Innovative Network) and founder and President & Representative Director of GRI (Globalization Research Institute Co.,Ltd).

Education
Yukako Uchinaga holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Tokyo (1971).

Career
Yukaka Uchinaga began her career in 1971 at IBM Japan, where she held several positions in development, marketing and management.

Yukako held management positions at IBM in development and marketing before being elected to the IBM board of directors in 1995.

In 1999, Yukako was named vice president of Yamato Software Development Laboratory and advanced to general manager of Yamato Laboratory in 2004. She assumed the position of technical advisor in April 2007.

A year later, Yukako became vice chair of Benesse Corporation and chair of the board, CEO, and vice president of Berlitz International, Inc. Benesse Corporation offers products and services in the four business fields of education, language study, living and lifestyles, and nursing care through a group of in-house companies.

In addition to her professional commitments, Yukako was involved in diversity-related activities throughout her career. As the first woman board member of IBM Japan, she found IBM Japan Women’s Council in 1998 and also took an active role in the IBM Asia Pacific Women’s Council.

She promoted diversity management in Japanese businesses and founded Japan’s Women’s Innovative Network in May 2007. Yukako also serves as a member of the council for gender equality, a cabinet office in the Government of Japan.

She has served as an advisor to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Prime Minister’s Council for Gender Equality.

Awards
In 1999 Yukako Uchinaga was the first Women in Technology Hall of Fame inductee from outside of the United States.

She was awarded the 2006 Upward Mobility Award from the Society of Women Engineers.

She was awarded the ‘Prime Minister’s Commendation for Efforts Toward the Formation of a Gender-Equal Society’ in June 2013.