Experts
Takaaki Umada
Visiting Senior Fellow
PEP Director
Profile
UMADA Takaaki is Director of FoundX, The University of Tokyo, Japan, where he has engaged himself in supporting startups and educating on entrepreneurship since 2019. Prior to that, he worked for Microsoft Japan and Hongo Tech Garage at The University of Tokyo. He graduated from University of Toronto.
[Concurrent Position]
Director, FoundX, The University of Tokyo
Expertise
Policy Entrepreneur's Platform (PEP)
Publications
Paradoxical Startup Thinking (in Japanese, Chuukoushinsho La Clef, 2017)
Environment Design for Successful Entrepreneurs (in Japanese, Nikkei BP, 2019)
Equipping the Future (in Japanese, Eiji Press, 2021)