Ms. Minako Iue is the founder, Chair and CEO of Sailors for the Sea Japan, an NGO for ocean sustainability. She established the Blue Seafood Guide, Japan's first science-based seafood rating program and has studied rating programs and fisheries certificates and their implications in Japan. She is a board member of G1 Global and founded the G1 Oceans Research "Think Tank". As an official columnist for Forbes Japan, she writes her column "Ocean Conservation to Achieve Sustainable Society". She also writes for her series "Minako Iue's SAVE THE OCEAN" on "25ans", a leading fashion magazine. She received a special prize at the Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Summit with governor Koike of Tokyo in 2021. She graduated from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 2011 with a Master's degree in Advanced Fibro-Science. She is a senior researcher at Keio University and a PhD candidate at Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies.