Kaori Shiraishi is a labor and employment policy specialist, writer, and speaker focused on rethinking the future of work. She built an international career as a policy advisor at the OECD in Paris and earned her MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Her perspective was profoundly shaped by personal experience, navigating childcare, eldercare, and her own medical treatment simultaneously in her 30s and 40s. A mother of three and host of a Voicy channel with over 15,000 listeners, she combines policy insight with lived experience to challenge conventional views on care—reframing it as a foundation for more resilient organizations and societies.