Ray Nishimoto is a member of the Board of Sumitomo Chemical and is responsible for the Health & Crop Sciences Sector, which contains the company’s AgroSolutions and Environmental Health businesses. Sumitomo Chemical is one of Japan’s leading chemical companies. Mr. Nishimoto joined Sumitomo Chemical in 1980 and has 25 years of extensive management experience and expertise in health and crop sciences. From 1998 to 2003, he served as Executive Vice President at Valent USA Corporation one of Sumitomo Chemical’s affiliates in the AgroSolutions business, based in Walnut Creek, California. He became an Executive Officer in 2009, Managing Executive Officer in 2011 and a member of the Board of Sumitomo Chemical in 2013. On April 1, 2019, he was appointed Executive Vice President.

Since 2013, Mr. Nishimota has served as a member of the Advisory Board for Friends of the Global Fund, Japan. Since 2016, he has held a position on the Boards of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria as well as Malaria No More Japan. In 2017, he assumed the position of President of Japan Crop Protection Association and Guest Professor at Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.  In 2018, he was appointed Board Co-Chair of Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe Initiative at Harvard University as well as a board member of CropLife International. He holds a B.A. in economics with honors from Osaka University and lives in Tokyo with his family. He earned a bachelor’s of Economics (Honors) at Osaka University in Japan.

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