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Female, 45 years old
Bio:

Joichi Ito is the Director of the MIT Media Lab. He is also is General Manager of Neoteny Labs, an startup fund and the Chairman of Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org;), co-founder and board member of Digital Garage JSD:4819 (http://www.garage.co.jp/;), and on the boards of CCC TYO:4756 (http://www.ccc.co.jp/eng/) and Tucows AMEX:TCX (http://www.tucows.com/). He is a Sr. Visiting Researcher of Keio Research Institute and the Internet & Society Lab ( http://www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/en/lab/society.html ) at Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan and an adjunct professor at the Keio Graduate School of Media Design. He is an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is on board of non-profit organizations including The Mozilla Foundation, WITNESS and Global Voices. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Twitter, Six Apart, Wikia, Flickr, Dopplr, Last.fm, Rupture, Kongregate, Kickstarter and other Internet companies. He is an adviser to Twitter, Zynga and DeNA. He maintains a weblog (http://joi.ito.com/) where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community. He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, We Know (http://weknow.to/). He is a PADI Divemaster, an Emergency First Responder instructor and a Divers Alert Network instructor. Ito was listed by Time Magazine as a member of the "Cyber-Elite" in 1997. Ito was listed as one of the 50 "Stars of Asia" by BusinessWeek and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in 2000. He was selected by the World Economic Forum in 2001 as one of the "Global Leaders for Tomorrow", chosen by Newsweek as a member of the "Leaders of The Pack" in 2005, and listed by Vanity Fair as a member of "The Next Establishment" in 2007. Ito was also named by Businessweek as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008. Specialties venture investing, Japan entry, Japanese policy, speaking, blogging, media art, Internet advertising, Japanese business. VERY busy lately so don't take it personally if I can't accept a request.

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