Gary Bremermann, MPIA '91, as representative director of PowerUp Solutions K.K., coaches bilingual professionals on recruiting, marketing and advertising in Tokyo.

Michael Buesa, BA/MIA '13, relocated from Oakland, Calif., to San Francisco, where he now is a pricing analyst at Credo Mobile. Prior to this position, Buesa served as a projects analyst at Opinion Dynamics Corp. and worked briefly with a startup.

Andrew Curry, MPIA '06 and senior analyst and project manager with the U.S. Government Accountability Office in Seattle, and Melissa Nitsch, MPIA '06 and program analyst for the Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle, welcomed their son Emmett in December 2015.

Chihiro Fujimoto, MAS-IA '11, is a financial officer in the capital markets division of the Word Bank in Washington, D.C.

Molly Gavin, MPIA '03, is vice president of government affairs and sustainability at Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego.

Natasha Hanshaw, MPIA '10, was named chief commercial officer at Strategyzer in Zurich and became engaged in January 2016.

Mark Higgins, MPIA '04, has had a busy start to 2016, acting as chief operating officer at Strategen Consulting in Lafayette, Calif., and launching a clean-tech venture capital fund.

Takashi Kobanawa, MPIA '95, after working 20 years as an investment banker, now is managing director of Polaris Capital Group, a private equity firm in Tokyo.

Renate (Muenich) Kwon, MPIA '07, as part of her role as program manager of the Southeast Asia Research Group and communications coordinator for the Asian Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works closely with Asia-focused scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and North and Southeast Asia.

Justin Lee, MPIA '14, is the director of community engagement at Los Angeles Conservation Corps.

Nancy Li, MPIA '12, works on electric grid reliability and continues honing her interest in renewable energy in the Pacific Northwest as a senior management systems analyst at Seattle City Light.

Kahori Matsui, MPIA '99, is the vice president of strategy and business development at SoftBank U.S. in San Francisco.

Keisuke Nakatsuka, MPIA '10, is a senior business analyst of digital ventures at Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo.

Jeff Rector, MPIA '97, is a partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Diego, serving as a renewable energy project finance attorney at the firm.

Heather (Berkman) Rock, MPIA '06, relocates to the Bay Area in May 2016 to work on climate policy for Chevron, where she also has worked at as an analyst in Houston.

Betsy (Wiedenmayer) Rogers, MPIA '99, assistant program manager for Japan Market Expansion Competition, is happily raising her four children in Tokyo, with the youngest two in a local Japanese school.

Elena Salazar, MPIA '13, an integrated marketing manager at Union + Webster, is giving back to San Francisco as a junior board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area.

Lys Severtson, MPIA '06, is finding fulfillment working as an entrepreneur, building a couple of business concepts in San Diego.

Jonathan Shalfi, MPIA '14, returned to his alma mater to pursue a Ph.D. in political science at UC San Diego.

Yuko Takagi, MPIA '06, is deputy director for the Ministry of Finance Japan in Tokyo.

Kenichi Takase, MPIA '01, is a senior manager at TEPCO Fuel & Power Inc. in Tokyo.

Hidekatsu Take, MPIA '02, is an executive officer, joint head of the Americas at Mizuho Bank Ltd. in New York.

Blake Tye, MPIA '10, is a senior manager for technology advocacy at Intel Corp. in San Diego. She previously worked for Qualcomm Inc.

Yimin Wang, MPIA '00, as CEO of Sense Consulting in Shanghai, represents Lumina Learning, a U.K.-based innovative psychometric developer.