Christopher J. LaFleur

Christopher J. LaFleur founded LM Associates in 2011. He served previously as US Ambassador to Malaysia (2004-2007) and as Vice Chairman and Head of Government Relations and Corporate Responsibility at J.P. Morgan Japan (2008-2011).

Amb. LaFleur is Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. His previous ACCJ leadership positions included service as Chairman of the ACCJ's Financial Services Forum and as ACCJ President.

Amb. LaFleur is a senior director of McLarty Associates, the leading international strategic advisory in Washington DC. He also serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of Tsuneishi Holdings Corporation, Japan. 

Amb. LaFleur is an accomplished landscape photographer whose works have been exhibited in Japan and are published on line at LMA affiliate Kurochromes.com.

Amb. LaFleur serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He is also a board member of the Japan Center for International Exchange and a member of the Advisory Committee of the US-Japan Research Institute.  He is Senior Advisor to the Japan office of Ashoka, the pioneering US organization fostering global social entrepreneurship.

Prior to his service in Malaysia, Amb. LaFleur held a wide variety of senior U.S. Foreign Service positions managing diplomacy with Asia, including Director of the State Department's Office of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (1991-93), Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (1993-1997), Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo (1997-2001) and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2001-2003).  In 2003-2004, he headed the State Department team in talks charting the future of the US alliances with Japan and the Republic of Korea and served as the Cyrus Vance Fellow in Diplomatic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.