About the Author

Hi, I’m Arata Hoshino, a strategic and venture designer based in the United Arab Emirates. Although raised in Japan, I spent my teens reading about Silicon Valley technology, longtermism, techno-libertarianism, and the ideas of Buckminster Fuller.

I did BEng Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Waseda University; MSc Media Design at Keio University, with research work in service design and venture design; CEMS MIM (MSc International Management) at HEC Paris and the National University of Singapore. After that, I worked in VC and strategy consulting in San Francisco and Singapore. From 2024 to 2026, I advised UAE ministries on economic strategy at a public policy and AI economics advisory firm originating from the Harvard and OECD communities.

You can reach me by email, LinkedIn or X. The scope of each project is in my portfolio (PDF), and where I stand is on vision paper (PDF).

Let us meet and talk.