For the fourth Macro Salon of 2024, Jesper Koll was joined by Tobias Harris, founder and principal of Japan Foresight, a Japan-focused political risk advisory firm. They discussed about Japanese and global politics, including the likely Lower House election in the US.

Tobias Harris is the founder and principal of Japan Foresight, a Japan-focused political risk advisory firm. He is an expert on Japanese politics, and worked in 2006-2007 on the staff of Keiichiro Asao, at that time a member of the upper house of the Japanese Diet and shadow foreign minister for the Democratic Party of Japan, for whom he conducted research on foreign policy and Japan’s relations with the United States. He is also the Fellow for Economy, Trade, and Business at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.

He has written about Japanese politics for publications including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs and regularly provides on-air analysis for CNBC, Bloomberg, and other networks. His biography The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan was published by Hurst in 2020 and is reviewed by Bill Emmott for The Japan Society Review.