Roger Nozaki

Roger Nozaki brings decades of experience designing, implementing, advising, and teaching strategies for social impact and innovation across corporate, government, nonprofit, philanthropy/family office, and academic sectors. Those strategies have leveraged a range of resources and partnerships, with focuses from local community to regional, national, and global levels.

Roger was selected as a member of the 2025 Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD), sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S.-Japan Council (USJC), has co-led efforts to share learning on social entrepreneurship with universities in Japan and Hong Kong, and worked for the Hitachi Foundation earlier in his career.

Roger chaired the board of Innovations in Civic Participation and has served on many boards and committees, including the Independent Sector board, the Council on Foundations Corporate Committee, and the United Religions Initiative senior advisory council. He holds degrees from Princeton and Brown Universities.