The 28th International Conference
for Women in Business

SPEAKERS

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Seiko Noda

Chairperson, Research Commission on Info-Communications Strategy, LDP
Member of the House of Representatives

PROFILE

Upon graduation from the Department of Comparative Culture, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Seiko Noda joined the Imperial Hotel, where she became the first female salesperson in the International Sales department. She was officially adopted in 1984 by her grandfather, Uichi Noda, a Japanese politician who served as Secretary of the Economic Planning Agency and the Minister of Construction, and carried on the Noda family name. Ms. Noda moved to Gifu Prefecture and was elected to the Gifu Prefectural Assembly in 1987. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 and has now won 10 consecutive elections. Ms. Noda has served in numerous roles, including Minister of s asPosts and Telecommunications, Minister of State for Special Missions, Chairperson of the General Council of the LDP, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Minister in charge of Women’s Empowerment, Chairperson of the Committee on Budget in the House of Representatives, and Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Minister of State for Special Missions (Regional Revitalization, Measures for Declining Birthrate, Gender Equality), Minister in Charge of Women's Empowerment, Minister in Charge of Policies Related to Children, and Minister in Charge of Measures for Loneliness and Isolation. She currently serves as Chairperson, Research Commission on Info-Communications Strategy, LDP(2022).In January 2011, she gave birth for the first time at the age of 50 to a baby boy, after receiving a donor egg from the United States.