Alicia Ogawa

Alicia Ogawa is the Project Director for Japanese Corporate Governance and Stewardship at Columbia Business School’s Center on Japanese Economy and Business, and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Since 2008, she has been a consultant to several of the largest U.S.-based activist hedge funds. Until 2006, she was managing director at Lehman Brothers, where she was responsible for managing the firm’s global equity research product. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Ogawa spent 15 years in Tokyo, where she was a top-rated bank analyst and director of research for Nikko Salomon Smith Barney. She is currently a director at Tokyo-based Misaki Capital Funds and a director at the LSE-listed Nippon Active Value Fund. In addition, she is a member of the board of directors of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, and serves on the board of Pure Earth, an NGO focusing on remediation of lead and mercury pollution. Ogawa is a member of the President’s Circle of the All Stars Project, a development program for inner city young people. She is a member of the International Corporate Governance Network, the European Corporate Governance Institute, and the Society for Corporate Governance. She graduated from Barnard College and earned a master’s degree in international affairs at SIPA.