Andrew M. Saidel

President & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Saidel has worked with senior U.S. and Japanese corporate executives and policy makers on business, policy, and investment issues for two decades. He is President and CEO of Dynamic Strategies Asia (DSA), a consultancy he co-founded in 1996.

Mr. Saidel has spoken widely at venues including the World Affairs Council, the U.S. National Intelligence Council, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Japanese Cabinet Office, the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, and the University of Tokyo. Earlier in his career, from 1990 to 1993, Mr. Saidel served as a policy aide to 21 members of Japan’s parliament in Tokyo. In 1993 he worked for the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia, until joining the U.S. Government as an East Asia Analyst in January 1994.

He served as Director and Member of the Board of RaQualia Pharma Inc., a life sciences venture based in Nagoya, Japan, from July 2008 through March 2010. He is a member of the Administrative Advisory Council at RIKEN: the Institute for Physical and Chemical Sciences in Tokyo and serves on the International Collaboration Advisory Council at the University of Tokyo. Mr. Saidel is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida. From 2003 to 2004, he served on the Board of Directors at the Washington Japanese Language School, the oldest Japanese government-sponsored language school in the United States. Mr. Saidel speaks, reads, and writes Japanese. He lived in Japan for five years. He earned a B.A. from Colgate University, a Certificate with Honors from Kansai University of Foreign Studies in Osaka, Japan, and an M.A. from Stanford University.