Faculty

• Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School ICS 2023-2026
• Adjunct Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
• Innovation Fellow, Global Leadership Institute, the University of California San Diego

Chairman, Amar Terrace Pte Ltd.
Mr. Tamura has launched Amar Terrace Pte Ltd, a start-up company in Singapore that uses AI to score companies' disaster preparedness.

Mr. Tamura was elected to the House of Councillors in 2002 and served until 2010. He served as Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet Office (Economy and Finance policies, Fiscal policy, Re-engagement, and Decentralization) in the first Shinzo Abe administration and as Chairman of the Committee on Land, Transport, Infrastructure, and Tourism in the Upper House of Japan’s Diet.

Graduated from Waseda University and obtained MBA from Keio University Graduate School of Business, LLM from Duke University Law School, and MA in International and Development Economics from Yale University Graduate School. He holds an AMP from Oxford University and an EMP from the University of Tokyo.

He was a fellow at Yale University in 2010, a research associate at Harvard University in 2011, and a researcher at the time at the RAND Corporation. In 2012, he became the first Japanese politician to be the leading character of a Harvard Business School case (case study). He was the Asia Fellow at Milken Institute.

Mr. Tamura occasionally acts as a commentator for CNBC and CNA.
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He is also an angel investor in global start-ups and VCs, investing in Silicon Valley, Israel, Africa, Southeast Asia, and India. Mr. Tamura is an individual investor in the deep tech sector. His investments include AI companies such as Open AI, Anthropic, and X.AI, as well as nuclear energy production tech companies like Aalo Atomics, which supply energy to AI. Leveraging his geopolitical expertise, he has also expanded his investments into defence tech companies such as Scale AI, Shield AI, and Saildrone.

He is the author of the bestselling book series which has sold over 1,000,000 copies. and many other books. His books are translated and published in China, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.