Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Tomoo Machiba is a rare Japanese corporate responsibility, sustainability, and governance expert working across Japan and Europe. He is multi-skilled with a unique combination of career: ten years sustainability and corporate responsibility research and consultancy, and fifteen years journalism experience. Tomoo's competency is based on his involvement in a wide range of constituencies: from business through politics and media to NGOs and academia. His familiarity with different demands and perspectives has enabled him to provide business leaders with cutting-edge advice for right decision-making in a cross-cultural environment.

Tomoo worked as an associate for SustainAbility, a world's leading corporate responsibility consultancy based in London between 1997 and 2002, and has been a SustainAbility Faculty Member since.

He has been advising top managers of leading Asian multinational companies on their sustainability strategies, corporate governance, transparency and accountability, and stakeholder engagement. His past and current clients include companies such as Sony, Canon, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Omron. He has also worked with Keidanren, the Japan Business Association.

Global Initiatives

Between 2002 and 2004, Tomoo worked at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as a programme manager. His main responsibilities included the development of the GRI sustainability reporting framework and the stakeholder engagement process.

He also worked with other global initiatives such as ISO, the UN Global Compact, OECD, and ILO. Through those experiences, he has established an extensive network of European and Asian companies including over 100 GRI reporting companies.

Since 2005, he serves as a senior consultant to the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) while also working as an independent corporate responsibility consultant.