Chitose Arai

Chitose Arai is the President of the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union, a national federation of consumer co-operatives with 30 million individual members. She also serves as Vice President of the Japan Co-operative Alliance, the apex cooperative organization in Japan. Previously, she was the President of Co-op Mirai, the largest consumer co-op in the country. At the ICA level, she has been serving as a board member of ICA-AP since 2021 and as Chairperson of the ICA-AP Committee on Women since 2022.