Shunichi Miyanaga
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
President & Chief Executive Officer
Shunichi Miyanaga is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), one of the world’s largest manufacturing and engineering companies, with businesses ranging from commercial aviation and transportation to gas turbines and power plants, and from industrial machinery and infrastructure to integrated defense and space systems. Mr. Miyanaga began his career with MHI in 1972. Over 40 years with the company, he has held numerous management roles and has spent his career promoting global marketing, engineering, and manufacturing efficiencies and customer-focused service strategies. Between 2000 and 2006, Mr. Miyanaga served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, where he led the successful integration of two organizations and helped to fully realize the synergies and advantages of the joint venture. Mr. Miyanaga has been a member of the MHI Board of Directors since 2008, and in 2011, he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Head of the Presidential Administration Office. During this time, he led various management reforms and also spearheaded a business integration initiative that resulted in the formation of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems. Mr. Miyanaga was named President and Chief Executive Officer of MHI on 1 April 2013. He has been serving as a nonexecutive board member of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation since June 2014. Since 2 June 2015, he has also assumed Vice Chairmanship of the Japan Business Federation (“Keidanren”). He holds a degree from the Faculty of Law of University of Tokyo and an MBA from the University of Chicago (now the Booth School of Business).