JUSFC Staff Biographies
PAMELA FIELDS
In 1991 Pamela Fields joined the staff of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency, where she serves as the Assistant Executive Director for CULCON. The US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) is a binational advisory panel that has its origins in meetings held in Washington in 1961 between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Ikeda. Since its first meeting in Tokyo in January, 1962, CULCON has served to focus official and public attention in both the United States and Japan on the vital cultural and educational underpinnings of the US-Japan relationship.
Ms. Fields was Vice President of a small international consulting firm in Washington, DC from 1989 to 1991. From 1986 to 1989 she established and directed an international service unit for a major Japanese department store in Tokyo. Ms. Fields also worked as a broadcaster for NHK in Japan for five years.
Ms. Fields received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in 1981 and a Masters in International Business, with a focus on Japan, in 1994.
In addition to her time spent in Japan, Ms. Fields has lived in and speaks the languages of France, Italy and Israel. She lives with her husband and two children in Takoma Park, Maryland.
November, 1998
