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HirokiSampei
Name

Hiroki Sampei

Job title
Founder & Principal
Country
Japan
Current employer
Astonering Advisor LLC
Biography

Founder & Principal, Astonering Advisor LLC
Co-Founder & member of the steering committee of the Forum of Investors Japan
Visiting Researcher of Hitotsubashi University CFO Education and Research Center

Astonering Advisor, established in 2021, is an independent management advisory firm primarily focusing on sustainable value creation and also plays a role to support institutional investors’ stewardship activities such as effective engagement with investee companies and proxy voting decisions.

Hiroki Sampei had long served at institutional investors such as Fidelity International and Nippon Life Insurance in their investment management and research. He has long experience in investing in equities globally since 1989 and led shareholder engagement since 2005.

Since 2007 he had led Fidelity International’s equity analyst teams as a Director of Research. He was appointed the Head of Engagement in 2017 and had been engaging with management of investee companies to promote change for better outcomes. Prior to joining Fidelity, he was an equity analyst/fund manager and then led investment teams in Nippon Life Insurance Co and its asset management arms, based in New York, London and Tokyo.

Hiroki has been an active member of regulatory councils and working groups in Japan advising on the capital market, corporate governance and ESG issues. These include the Financial System Council of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice, working groups of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Council of Experts Concerning the Follow-up of Market Restructuring (TSE), and etc.

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