Shokei MATSUMOTO is Managing Director of Japan Fellowship of Buddhists and a Buddhist Monk in Komyoji Temple, Jodo-Shinshu Hongwanji-ha. Born in 1979 in Japan, he graduated with B.A. degree in Literature from the University of Tokyo. Right after graduation, he started to serve as head of Komyoji Young Buddhist Association and initiated new projects such as Temple Café Project. In 2008, the association was awarded "Shoriki Matsutaro Prize" from a foundation for education. He is also the founder of Virtual Temple "HIGANJI" which is one of the most popular website for Buddhists in Japan. He completed MBA from Indian School of Business as an Ambassadorial Scholar of Rotary Foundation in 2011. After MBA, he started a project of “Mirai no Jushoku-Juku” or temple management school for Buddhist priests and monks. He has published more than 5 books in Japanese and some of them were translated into several other languages. He currently lives in Kyoto, Japan. In 2013, he was nominated as a member of Young Global Leaders 2013 from World Economic Forum in Davos. Awarded a certificate of completion for the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century Program, 03/2017, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education.