Ms Miki Hirasawa-Ashton
Head of Middle East
Globescan
Miki Hirasawa Ashton is a senior executive with over 20 years of international experience in corporate affairs, sustainability, marketing and communications across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and Africa.
She currently leads GlobeScan in the Middle East and serves on the Advisory Board of International Women Board Directors (IWBD). She is also recognised in the PRWeek Middle East Power Book.
Previously, Miki led Global ESG and Sustainability Engagement at 3M, following five years on the company’s Middle East and Africa regional leadership committee. She also served as Co-Chair of the Sustainability Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Dubai, where she remains an active member.
Miki is a Research Fellow at ReTech, affiliated with École des Ponts ParisTech, where her work focuses on ESG and Industry 5.0. She holds advanced qualifications from Oxford, HEC Paris, and ESSEC, and has completed executive programmes at Cambridge and Oxford.
She is bilingual in English and French and fluent in Japanese.
