Romain Caillaud is a risk and reputation management consultant with close to two decades of experience providing public affairs and strategic intelligence services to corporations, law firms and nonprofits in Japan and Southeast Asia, with particular expertise in the technology, energy and manufacturing sectors. Currently located in Japan, Romain was based prior in Singapore and in Myanmar, and is originally from France.  

Romain established in January 2021 in Tokyo, public affairs and strategic intelligence consultancy, SIPA Partners GK. He is also the co-founder and operations lead of Catalyst Economics Pte Ltd, an organization established in 2024 that works for nonprofits to provide insights about Myanmar’s political economy and help stakeholders apply them to strategies that drive sustainable development.

Romain is also a 2023 Eisenhower Global Fellow, a member of the Japan Committee of the Temple University Law School Compliance Advisory Board, and an associate fellow in the Myanmar Studies Program at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute).  

Romain was earlier a senior director with a NASDAQ-listed multidisciplinary advisory firm, in its Tokyo and Singapore offices, where he led strategic communications and corporate intelligence teams across Asia. Notable mandates he oversaw in this capacity include advising a global technology firm on the development and implementation of its public policy and government relations strategy for Japan including intelligence gathering, issues analysis and stakeholder outreach; and advising a major Japanese manufacturing conglomerate on the management of a compliance, reputation and ethical crisis it faced having received allegations of modern slavery in its Southeast Asian supply chain. Romain also worked prior as a director with two Southeast Asia-focused government affairs consultancies, in Myanmar and in Singapore.  

Romain holds a Master in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, and a Bachelor of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies and Burmese Language from the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations. He also studied at Waseda University in Japan, Yangon University of Foreign Languages in Myanmar, and the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Romain trained as a coach with the Co-Active Training Institute. He is fluent in French and English, and conversant in Japanese and Burmese.