The Recent History of
Japanese Investment in the UK.
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Andrew Fraser CMG
Case Study: Inward Investment in the UK (1999)
Andrew Fraser has been the Senior Adviser to Mitsubishi Corporation (Europe and Middle East) since October 2000. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Financial Dynamics International. For the previous six years (July 1994 – September 2000) Andrew served as Chief Executive of Invest UK – the sole Government body marketing the whole of the UK to international investors – during which time the stock of UK inward investment more than doubled. Prior to joining Invest UK, Andrew enjoyed an extensive career in international advertising as Executive Vice President and Director of Business Development for Saatchi and Saatchi Worldwide, and latterly as CEO for Europe for Dentsu Company.
Louis Turner
Chief Executive of the Asia-Pacific Technology Network and owner of this "Recent History of Japanese Investment in the UK" site.
Louis has been monitoring developments in the Asian corporate and technological sectors since his first visit to Japan in 1970. In that year, he wrote Invisible Empires which was the first popular British book on the politics of multinational companies. Since then, he has written eleven books/monographs on various aspects of international business, including books on the history of the international oil industry, the rise of the Newly industrializing Countries, Middle Eastern Industrialization, Industrial Collaboration with Japan and the coming of Global Competition. During a long career at Chatham House (formerly the Royal Institute of International Affairs), he developed the concept of annual conferences with Japan (the UK-Japan High Technology Industry Forums - 1986-2005), which, with Department of Trade help, branched out into five annual Forums with Korea (2000-5) and three with China (2003-5). Building on his UK-Japanese work, he developed the Asia-Pacific Technology Network in 1993. Currently the Network involves some 2,500 people interested in some part of Asian technology or corporate strategy, and three very active discussion groups within LinkedIn. Currently, he is Associate Fellow, Chatham House and a Visiting Fellow, Centre for International Business University of Leeds.
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