Yukako Kinoshita is Corporate Responsibility and EU Policy Research Manager at Hitachi Cooperate Office, Europe in Brussels. Since 2003, she has been monitoring European CSR policy development. Since 2008, she is leading the internal European CSR project covering Hitachi group companies.

Yukako is also a chair of CSR Committee at the Japanese Business Council in Europe (JBCE: http://www.jbce.org/index.html) since 2008.  The JBCE was founded in 1999 as the representative organisation for Japanese companies operating in the European Union.