Committees

Organizing Committee

Chair Mitsuo Ochi (President, Hiroshima University)
Vice-Chair Makiko Takahashi (Vice-Chair, RMAN-J / Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
Manabu Abe (Executive Vice President (Research and Academia-Government-Community Collaboration) / Professor, Hiroshima University)
Members Koji Ikeda (Chairperson, Hiroshima Convention & Visitors Bureau)
Motoko Kotani (Executive Vice President for Research, Tohoku University)
Kazumi Matsui (Mayor, The City of Hiroshima)
John Westensee (Former President, SRA International / Convener, INORMS Working Group / Deputy University Director, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Shin-ichi Yamamoto (Executive Chair, Research University Consortium, Japan)

Program Committee

Chair Masato Miyake (Director of International Collaboration, Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Members Kate Harris (Senior Research Administrator, The University of Tokyo)
Norifumi Miyokawa (Senior Research Administrator, Hiroshima University)
Toshie Murakami (Senior Research Administrator, The University of Tokyo)
Tadashi Sugihara (Research Administrator, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Planning Committee

Chair Norifumi Miyokawa (Senior Research Administrator, Hiroshima University)
Financial Manabu Kosako (Leader of the URA Division, Department of Research and Academia-Government-Community Collaboration, Hiroshima University)* [until March 2021]
Yoshihiro Kiyoto (Leader of the URA Division, Department of Research and Academia-Government-Community Collaboration, Hiroshima University)*
Publicity Jason Sanderson (Research Administrator, Kumamoto University)*
Hanami Sakai (Assistant Research Administrator, Kumamoto University) [until March 2021]
Takuya Iwasaki (Research Manager, Osaka University) [until March 2020]
David Kornhauser (Director, Global Communications, Kyoto University) [until March 2020]
Emma Buchet (Science Communication Fellow, Hiroshima University) [until January 2020]
Rachel Webber (Science Communication Fellow, Hiroshima University) [until April 2020]
Promotion Taro Sonobe (Research Administrator, Kyoto University)*
Yasuhiro Isobe (Research Administrator, Hiroshima University) [until December 2019]
Hideyuki Kato (Research Administrator, Tsukuba University) [until March 2021]
Chen Chen (Research Administrator, Tsukuba University)
Shogo Kurihara (Research Administrator, Tsukuba University)
Hongxiang Wang (Research Administrator, Nagasaki University)
Sponsor Relations Go Totsukawa (Research Administrator, Tokyo Metropolitan University)*
Harunobu Amagase (Senior Research Administrator, Hiroshima University) [until March 2021]
Kimiko Ishida (Research Administrator, Doshisha University)
Local Hiroko Araki (Research Administrator, Hiroshima University)*
Adina Staicov (Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University)
Roehl Sybing (Assistant Professor, Doshisha University)
Wakana Tao (Senior Staff of the Planning Group, Department of Research and Academia-Government-Community Collaboration, Hiroshima University)

*Team Leaders

Technical Advisors

Elliott Kulakowski (Former President and CEO, SRA International / Adjunct Professor, University of Utah and City University of New York)
John Westensee (Former President, SRA International / Deputy University Director, Aarhus University)

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