text: French composer, Marimba player, Career Designing Professor \n\nIn parallel to his career as a professional musician (see awards and activities), Francois Du Bois has a long experience in the field of education, that he has started at the conservatory since he was 17. He has already published 3 books regarding the learning of the marimba, his specialty. \n\nHe arrived to Japan in 1998, and was invited by Keio University SFC campus, in the Faculty of Political Science. \n\nIn 2002, he creates a course of career management (for course details see here) at the International Center of Keio University, inviting Mr. Carlos Ghosn, President of Nissan, Mr. Daryl E. Green, President of Vodafone, Ms. Yukako Uchinaga, VP of IBM Japan and others, where the guests explain their personal career management to give hints to the young generations. \n\nFrançois currently offers a workshop of career designing at the Academy Hills, inside the highest tower in Tokyo, Roppongi Hills. This highly successful workshop is offered for the working generations. \n\nThe success of this workshop is probably due to the nature of the organizer, who is a musician and a professor at the same time, a very unique personality. \n\nBesides that, François has played in the Oscar winning movies, Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola as actor. \n\nAs a specialist of Asian music, he has been responsible of the series “Asia” inside the magazine Yomiuri Weekly (200,000 copies) for 2years, introducing varieties of music, musicians, instruments, or events, giving opinions through his original point of view. He keeps contributing to the magazine with news articles. \nHe is the member of the People of Society of Literature of France.