Introduction
Hiroko Furuichi, in New York, is an SDGs expert at the United Nations Univ. Institute for Advanced Sustainability. Enlightening the importance of education to keep basic human rights, and UN SDGs principles for 20 years. She worked also at JETRO as an expert for 17 years. Book Author of “Learning SDGs Pivot Strategies, correlations Global Corporation and Next Generation,” published in 2023. She has advocated and presented hypotheses on sustainability principles and the social impact of consumer behavior by the next generation, as well as the impact investment of corporate value.
Expert
In the 1990s, Hiroko worked for a foundation affiliated with Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and enlightened on UN's literacy projects for Asia, raising over 10 million yen in Japan in 1995, 2.5 million yen for school construction in Cambodia in the same year, and 1 million yen each for India, Laos, Vietnam, and China (Inner Mongolia) through UNESCO's UNAM money vouchers to support the local education, and selected as a Fundraising Officer at UNICEF in 2001. She now will keep speaking lectures as an SDGs educational expert.
Fields of expertise: Education, Environmental policy / climate change, Gender equality, Sustainable Development Goals