Hideaki Koda is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2011-12.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he had been working at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for 15 years.  Following the national policy called e-Japan Strategy, he had been engaged in designing, developing and deploying information systems for the Japanese Government and the Supreme Court of Japan, as well as coordinating with clients, engineers and vendors as a project manager.  He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electric Engineering from Waseda University.