J.D.
Boston College Law School

B.A.
Boston College

Joe M. Sasanuma is a corporate counsel at Amazon Web Services, where he heads the Japanese Public Sector Legal team. Prior to AWS, he was in private practice in the New York and Tokyo offices of Sherman & Sterling, where he focused on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions. He began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Peter E. Doyne in the Chancery Division of New Jersey Superior Court. He graduated summa cum laude from Boston College with majors in political science and mathematics, and magna cum laude from Boston College Law School with a focus on constitution, tax and education law. He is qualified as an attorney in the states of New Jersey and New York, as well as a foreign qualified attorney with the Tokyo Bar Association, where he frequently lectures on the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. litigation system. He is fluent in Japanese.