Graham Holman
Director
Head of Corporate Coordination & Planning Group
Sumitomo Corporation Europe Ltd.
Graham Holman
Graham Holman qualified as a UK lawyer (solicitor) in 1991 and in the same year moved to Osaka to work in the Yamagami Law Office. In 1993, he was also seconded to the Legal Department of Nissho Iwai Corporation. Returning to the UK in 1998, Graham joined Sumitomo Corporation Europe Ltd. (‘SCEU’), initially in the Legal Department and is now a Director of the company and head of the Corporate Coordination and Planning Group, which covers the corporate planning, business intelligence and IT functions. He is also a director of Sumitomo Corporation’s regional companies in Spain and Belgium and a number of SCEU’s subsidiaries. He attended COP26 in Glasgow as part of the Keidanren (Japanese Business Federation) delegation.
His voluntary roles include acting as a trustee of the Japan Society, Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), leading the Brexit Task Force for the UK for the Japan Business Council in Europe and as a founding committee member of the British-Japanese Lawyers’ Association.