Donald Nordeng

Do you want to know what consumers want when they look for sustainble products? I can help you by leading your team through some real life examples and exercises to discover what consumers want.

Well known speaker on "Doing Business in Japan" have done multiple events for the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation. Regularly asked to give presentations on the International organic market at trade shows: Biofach Japan, the Diet and Beauty Show Japan, Foodex Japan, and the Heath Food Industry Show Japan. Have been on several panels about doing business in Japan: The International Women in Business Conference is one example.

Appeared on NHK, CNBC, and CNN as an organic certification expert and a beef traceability expert during the BSE crises in 2002.  Edited and co-wrote two books on organic certification published by Science Forum, and was sole author of a book on the Japan organic market published by the Japan Food Industry News in 2010. Make frequent presentations on doing business in Japan and organic markets and regulations in Japan. 

I serve as advisor to Second Harvest Japan, governor of the Organic Certifiers Council of Japan, and board member of the Kanagawa Science Park Renter Association. I have served as the Vice Chairman, Food and Agriculture Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan for five years,  founded the Tokyo Business Meet-up.

Campos, J.P., Maeda, J., Nordeng, D.(2008). Moderator. Working and Doing Business in Japan as non-Japanese. International Women in Business Conference. http://www.ewoman.co.jp/iwb/13/workshops/11/

Nordeng, D. (2010). Doing Business in Japan. Training course in Japan for EU industrial managers, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation 

http://www.eu-japan.eu/global/business-training/human-resources-training-programme.html

Nordeng, D. (2010). Doing Business in Japan.Vulcanus in Japan. A training programme for EU students. EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation. http://www.eu-japan.eu/global/vulcanus-in-japan.html

Nordeng, D. (2010). The Market for Organic Cosmetics in Japan. Diet and Beauty Fair Asia 2010. http://www.dietandbeauty.jp/ja/business/index.html

Nordeng, D. (2010). The Market for Organic Cosmetics in Japan. BioFach Japan 2010.

http://www.biofach-japan.com/en/review/

Nordeng, D. (2011). Doing Business in Japan. Training course in Japan for EU industrial managers, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation