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Michael Kobori

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Michael Kobori is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Starbucks, overseeing global sustainability, social impact, and ESG initiatives. He serves as an independent Director at Bunge Ltd., and on the Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign Assistance, The Asia Foundation’s President’s Leadership Council, and is Executive Producer of Utopia Theatre Project. Formerly, he was Vice-President at Levi Strauss & Co., and taught corporate sustainability at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Sep 23 2025

North America’s CSO Award 2025 Winners

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Corporate Governance · Corporate Sustainability

illuminem is excited to announce the winners of the North American CSO Award winners

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