Michael Kobori

Mr. Kobori is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Starbucks Coffee Company, a position he has held since 2020. Prior to joining Starbucks, he was with Levi Strauss & Co. where he served as Vice President, Sustainability from 2007 to 2020 and the Director, Global Code of Conduct from 2001 to 2006. Prior to that, he was with The Asia Foundation, where he supported human rights and economic development in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Vietnam. Mr. Kobori currently serves on the Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign Assistance and the President's Leadership Council of The Asia Foundation. Mr. Kobori has been a lecturer in corporate sustainability at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. He is the Executive Producer of Utopia Theatre Project, an artist-led social justice theater company. Mr. Kobori has served on a number of not-for-profit boards and advisory commissions, including the Cotton Board, Better Cotton Initiative, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, ILO Better Work, and Levi Strauss Foundation. He holds a Master of Public Policy and AB, Psychology, and Asian Studies degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.