An Evening with Sarah Keohane Williamson, HBS ’89 - Chief Executive Officer, FCLTGlobal

Join the HBS Club of Japan for an exclusive evening with Sarah Keohane Williamson, CEO of FCLTGlobal and author of the upcoming book The CEO's Guide to the Investment Galaxy. In today's volatile capital markets landscape, CEOs face unprecedented challenges in understanding and engaging with their investor base.

Drawing on three decades of investing experience, Williamson will present key insights from her new book and explore FCLTGlobal's broader mission to encourage long-term behaviors across the investment value chain.

She will share proven strategies that help CEOs reclaim their narrative and reshape their investor mix for sustained growth—essential insights for current and aspiring CEOs, board members, entrepreneurs, and anyone seeking to understand how capital markets can be leveraged to build great companies in Japan and globally.

FCLTGlobal　CEOのSarah Keohane Williamson氏による講演会を開催します。同社では、会員の機関投資家と事業会社と共同で、資本市場に関する様々なリサーチに基づく提言を発表しています。本講演では、Williamson氏の30年以上に及ぶ投資経験に基づき、企業のCEOがどのようにして長期目線の投資家とエンゲージメントを持ち、企業の継続成長につなげるかについて、実例を含めてそのインサイトを共有します。近著のThe CEO's Guide to the Investment Galaxyにもその内容が詳しく書かれていますご一読をお勧めします。

Date:  Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Time:  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Format:  6:00 PM – Arrivals

 6:30 PM – Author Presentation and  Q&A 

 7:30 PM – Networking Reception

 8:00 PM – Event Ends

Venue:  MIX Marunouchi

Registration Fees:

¥2,000 -  Dues-paying HBSCOJ members
¥5,000 - All others except FCLT Global members
¥0 - FCLT Global members
Includes light fare and drinks

Registration Deadline:  November 5, 2025

Speaker Profile: Sarah Keohane Williamson, HBS ’89 – Chief Executive Officer, FCLTGlobal 

Sarah Keohane Williamson is the Chief Executive Officer of FCLTGlobal, a non-profit research organization whose mission is to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy.

Under her leadership, FCLTGlobal develops innovative, practical research and builds a global community of CEOs focused on solving long-term challenges across the investment value chain.

Williamson assumed her current role in 2016, after spending over 21 years at Wellington Management, most recently as a Partner and Director of Alternative Investments. Prior to joining Wellington Management, Williamson was at McKinsey & Company, worked at the US Department of State, and was a  mergers & acquisitions investment banker for Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Williamson also serves as a Director of Evercore (NYSE:EVR) and EXL Service (NASDAQ: EXLS), chair of the board of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and a member of the boards of MITIMCo and the Women’s Foundation of Boston. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Williamson earned her MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School and her BA in Economics, with honors, from Williams College. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations.  She is a US citizen and is married with three grown children.

Her new book, The CEO’s Guide to the Investment Galaxy: Navigating Markets to Build Great Companies, will be published on 23 September 2025.