Consulting HumanCentric Ltd.
Hidehiko OKUBO
Representative Director
Education
LL.M., Florida Coastal School of Law
Bachelor of Laws, The University of Tokyo (Political Science)
Bachelor of Laws, The University of Tokyo (Public Laws)
– Studies include International Organization Law (The Charter of the United Nations, Law on the formation of UN Specialized Agencies including the International Labour Organization, cases of international law including ones of the International Court of Justice) under the late Professor Hisashi Uchida.
Skills
USCPA (Admitted in the state of Washington)
RBA Associate Auditor IRCA 6030841
About
Hidehiko joined KPMG Azsa Sustainability Ltd. in December 2014. Before joining KPMG, he worked for Fujitsu Limited, a global electronic company, at its headquarters in Japan and its subsidiaries in Australia (5 years) and in the USA (3 years).
At KPMG, he was in charge of providing assistance and other related advisory to suppliers of members of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) formerly called Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) – who wish to comply with the RBA requirements, such as answering to the questionnaire and preparation for the third-party audit. Also, he provided companies in such industries as electronic, chemical, extractives, retail, wholesale, transportation, and automotive with advisory services to build a scheme to monitor and manage CSR risks/adverse human rights impacts in their supply chain using advanced CSR standards such as the RBA Validated Assessment Process and the Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA) developed by the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex). In addition, he led companies’ projects in multiple industries to establish the global corporate human rights policy, the human rights due diligence scheme, and the grievance mechanisms based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. At Fujitsu, he led such projects as designing and implementing a scheme for CSR performance survey of its Japanese domestic and foreign group companies, analysis and feedback of the survey results, and adopting EICC standards as its base for CSR and deliberating joining EICC.
In August, he established Consulting HumanCentric Ltd., which provides businesses with advisory in sustainability.