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Leadership

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  President: KOYASU Shigeo

小安重夫理事長

Appointed

    April 1, 2023

Main Career

  • 2015   Executive Director, RIKEN
  • 2014   Director, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), RIKEN
  • 2013   Acting Director, IMS, RIKEN
  • 1995   Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University of Medicine
  • 1990   Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
  • 1988   Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
  • 1981   Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science

 

Executive Director: TAKENAGA Hidenobu

    

Appointed

   April 1, 2026

Main Career

  • 2025   Deputy Executive Director,  National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST)
  • 2023   Director General, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, QST
  • 2022   Director General, Naka Fusion Institute, QST
  • 2019   Director, Department of Management and Planning, QST
  • 2018   Director, Research Planning and Promotion Office, Fusion Energy Research and Development Directorate, QST
  • 2016   Deputy Director, Research Planning and Promotion Office, Fusion Energy Research and Development Directorate, QST
  • 2012   Director, Research Planning and Promotion Office, Fusion Energy Research and Development Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
  • 1995   Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI)

 

Executive Director: TAKEDA Norimasa

TAKEDA Norimasa

 Appointed

   July 11, 2024

Main Career

  • 2023   Director for General Affairs, Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SSTIP), Cabinet Office
  • 2022   Director for Innovation Promotion Affairs, SSTIP, Cabinet Office
  • 2020   Director, Life Science Division, Research Promotion Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  • 2019   Director for Personnel Planning, Personnel Division, Minister’s Secretariat, MEXT
  • 2017   Counsellor for Program Promotion Affairs, SSTIP, Cabinet Office
  • 2016   Director, Office for Evaluation, Policy Division, Minister’s Secretariat, MEXT
  • 2015   Secretary to the Minister of MEXT
  • 2014   Director for Management and Coordination Division, Minister’s Secretariat, MEXT

Executive Director: NAKAYAMA Keiko

NAKAYAMA Keiko

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Appointed

   August 1, 2025

Main Career

  • 2024 - Present   Director-General, Research Infrastructure Management Organization, Institute of Science Tokyo
  • 2024   Director, Research Management Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  • 2018   Special Assistant to the President (Research), Tohoku University
  • 2017   Vice Dean (Research), Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
  • 2013   ​Vice Dean (Education), Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
  • 2012   Professor, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Japan​
  • 2001   Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Japan​
  • ​1997   Associate Professor, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Japan​
  • ​1995   Senior Scientist, Department of Biology, Nippon Roche Research Center, Japan​
  • 1991   ​Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Medicine, Washington University, USA

Auditor: SUNAMI Akihiko 

  SUNAMI Akihiko

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appointed

   July 1, 2025

Main Career

  • 2025 January, Minister, Embassy of Japan in Canada
  • 2023   Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Canada
  • 2021   Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Australia
  • 2019   Minister-Counsellor, Mission of Japan to the European Union
  • 2017   Deputy Director General, Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office, Cabinet Office
  • 2016   Senior Director, International Affairs Division, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
  • 2014   Director, Development Assistance Policy Coordination Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • 2012   Policy Coordinator, Office of Policy Planning and Coordination on Territory and Sovereignty, Cabinet Secretariat
  • 2011   Director, Specialized Agencies Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Auditor (part-time): KINDAICHI Kiyomi

  金田一喜代美監事

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appointed

   April 1, 2024

Main Career

  • 2023   (to the present) Counsel, Seventh Sense Group
  • 2022   (to the present) External Auditor, CS-C.Co.,Ltd.
  • 2022   (to the present) Global Tax Office Kiyomi Kindaichi
  • 2017   Tsuji Hongo Tax Corporation
  • 2015   External Director, Wintest Corp.
  • 2014   Lecturer, Department of Business Design, Showa Women’s University
  • 2013   Lecturer, Tax Education Classes for Elementary Schools, Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
  • 2008   External Auditor, Heian Corporation
  • 2001   External Auditor, Wintest Corp.
  • 1990   Kindaichi Accounting Firm
  • 1989   Registered Tax Accountant
  • 1987   Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited