Paul Adams is a senior international public relations consultant with a career spanning more than 35 years counseling clients in Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America on public affairs, corporate and marketing communications issues. He is a leading expert on public relations in Japan. For the past six years, he has worked closely with Upstream Asia as Senior Adviser, dividing his time between Australia, Japan and China. His client involvement has included UGS, the United States Department of Agriculture, EDS, Skype, U3 and the Japanese electronics industry association.
Paul has lived and worked in Japan since 1970. For over eight years, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Tokyo-based Dentsu Burson-Marsteller working with companies such as J.P. Morgan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Bayer, Exxon, Northern Telecom, German Wine Board, Unilever, Dow Corning and The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum.
Paul began his career as a journalist in Brisbane, Australia, before joining Hill and Knowlton public relations, first in Brisbane and then moving to the firm's Tokyo office where he helped establish the first international public relations firm in Japan.
He later joined Burson-Marsteller in London and then transferred to Tokyo to help found the firm's first office there as a joint venture with a subsidiary of the Fuji Bank. After five years in Tokyo, he relocated to Burson-Marsteller's São Paulo office as General Manager. In 1985, he moved to Melbourne and later assumed regional responsibilities for B-M's seven offices in Australia and New Zealand as Chief Executive Officer. Paul moved back to Tokyo in early 1989 to establish Dentsu Burson-Marsteller.
In 1999, he co-founded his own consulting firm of Kingsbury-Adams, which in 2000 became a shareholder and board director of Upstream Asia as well as Upstream Australia.
A long-time scholar of Japan, Paul has a degree in the Japanese language from Queensland University and completed two years study of Japanese at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
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