Shuhei Okubo is a policy designer at the Japanese Government. He is passionate about contributing to public sector innovation by transforming organisations into adaptable, flexible, and forward-thinking entities. He adopts human-centred and systemic thinking approaches to designing strategies with stakeholders and reaching shared visions.

He received an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Waseda University in Japan, equipped with solid quantitative methodology in social science. He worked as a deputy director at Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications before pursuing MA Service Design at Royal College of Art.