{"id":14586,"date":"2022-03-31T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T03:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefitsummit.com\/?post_type=all_speakers&#038;p=14586"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:15:13","slug":"asahi-takano","status":"publish","type":"all_speakers","link":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/speakers\/asahi-takano\/","title":{"rendered":"Asahi Takano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Asahi Takano leads <a href=\"https:\/\/portasconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portas<\/a>\u2019 Asia Pacific business, based out of Singapore.\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asahi was born in Japan, raised in the UK, and has a passion for expanding the positive social impact of mass participation sport. He currently serves sports leaders across Asia, focusing on governments, federations, charities and public bodies at national and city level. He has deep expertise in policy, strategy, delivery planning, and data analytics.\u00a0Asahi has over 10 years\u2019 experience of international public policy and consulting experience including McKinsey &amp; Co., United Nations and the UK NHS. He is also a former advisor to Tony Blair and Director of Tony Blair Associates Government Advisory. He holds a\u00a0MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford and a Masters in International Relations from University of Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asahi is also a speaker at <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/world\/\">Beyond Activ World<\/a> in Singapore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partner &#038; Head, Asia Pacific<\/p>\n<h5>Portas<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35392,"template":"","speakers-type":[6,17,65,67],"class_list":["post-14586","all_speakers","type-all_speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speakers-type-2022-sg-speakers","speakers-type-2023-world-speakers-2","speakers-type-2025-world-speakers","speakers-type-2025-world-sports"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers\/14586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/all_speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speakers-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers-type?post=14586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}