About us

1. ABEST21 International Organization

2. ABEST21 International Executive Committee members

(Team: from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025)

President and CEO:

• Professor Emeritus Dr. Fumio ITOH
  Former Dean of Graduate School of International Management, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Vice Presidents:

• Former Dean Professor Robert Sullivan, Ph.D.
  Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego, USA
• Dean Prof. Dr. Oleg Vikhanskiy
  Lomonosov Moscow State University Business School, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
• Vice President Dean Prof. Dr. Ali Khatibi
  Graduate School of Management, Management and Science University, Malaysia
• Dean Teguh Dartanto, Ph.D.
  Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

Assistant to the ABEST21 President:

• Director and CEO Shigemi OKAYASU
  STC SHIPPING PTE LTD, Singapore

Auditors:

• Prof. Dr. Xu Hua
  MBA Program in International Business, Graduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Prof. Gagaring Pagalung, Ph.D.
  Facuty of Economics and Business, Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia
• Former Dean Prof. Nor’Azam Mastuki, Ph.D.
  Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Advisors:

• (Legal Relations)
  Lawyer Prof. Dr. Masayuki TANAMURA
  Graduate School of Law, Waseda University, Japan
• (Management)
  Former Dean Visiting Professor Dr. Hirotaka KAWANO
  Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Japan
• (Accreditation)
  Former President and CEO Dr. Zulkornain Yusop
  Putra Business School, Malaysia
• (Accounting)
  Former Dean Koichi SAITO
  Faculty of Business Administration, Nanzan University, Japan
• (Taxation Business)
  Licensed Tax Accountant Director Takanori SAISU
  SAISU Certified Tax Accountant Office, Japan

ABEST21 Office:

• Executive Manager Yuka NAKAGAWA, MBA
  ABEST21 International