Noriko Takemoto is director of Eco Management & Services, Catalog House Direct Marketing, Japan.

Noriko Takemoto was born in Tokyo and educated at the Toyo Eiwa Girls School in Roppongi, followed by a degree in educational psychology at Waseda University; where she was also captain of women's basketball. She later gained a Diploma in European Studies from St. Catherine's College, Oxford.

She joined Catalog House in the same year of its foundation in 1976, when it had 10 employees and sales of one billion yen: the company now employees 400 and has annual sales of over 35 billion yen. From 1982-96 she co-founded a company specializing in information technology education, before being appointed a board member of the Japan Direct Marketing Association as a representative of the President-founder of Catalog House. In 1998 she re-joined Catalog House as a board member and Director of information systems, and moved to her current post in 2000 when managing the company's ISO system.

She is now principally concerned with the company's ethical policy in connection with product quality. She is a judge of the Japan Environmental Management Award for good management practice, and the Japan Eco-Products Award. She is also a board member of the Japan Communications Network for Sustainability; a multi-stakeholder organization of NGOs, NPOs, business and industry.

She is married to Dr. Michael Miller, a neurophysiologist and artist, and they live in Tokyo.