Profiles of Speakers & Moderators

4th EU- Science Policy Forum

The Changing Map of Science: Nations and Industries in the Global Innovation System

5 October 2013 Grand Prince Hotel

Hans Dietmar SCHWEISGUT Ambassador of the European Union to Japan

March 16, 1951 Born in Zams, Tyrol, Austria Married, one child

Law studies in Austria and USA, Doctorate in Law (University of Innsbruck), Master of Comparative Law (S.M.U.)

1975 – 1977 Postgraduate studies at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien (Diplomatic Academy Vienna) 1977 Joins the Austrian diplomatic service 1979 –1983 Posted to the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York 1983/84 Head of the office of the State Secretary for Economic Coordination in the Austrian Federal Chancellery 1984 – 1986 Secretary and later head of the office to the Federal Minister for Public Economy and Transport of Austria 1986/87 Economic advisor to the Austrian Federal Minister of Finance 1987 – 1991 Minister at the Austrian Embassy in Tokyo 1991 – 1999 Director General for Economic Integration and Customs of the Federal Ministry of Finance, responsible for economic and monetary policy, international affairs, including the International Financial Institutions, European Integration, Customs and excise taxes 1999 – 2003 Ambassador of Austria to Japan 2003 - 2007 Ambassador of Austria to the People’s Republic of China 2007 - 2010 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Austria to the European Union in Brussels from Jan. 2011 Ambassador of the European Union to Japan

Koji OMI Founder and Chairman, STS Forum

Koji Omi was born in 1932, in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. After graduation from (Commerce), he joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1956. On assignment abroad with MITI, he served as Consul at the Japanese Consulate General in New York. Returning to Japan, he successively served as Director of the South Asia & Eastern Europe Division, Trade Policy Bureau; as Director of the Small Enterprise Policy Division, Small & Medium Enterprise Agency (S & MEA); as Director of the Administrative Division, the Science and Technology Agency; and as Director-General of the Guidance Department, S & MEA. In 1982, Koji Omi resigned from MITI to run in the House of Representatives (lower house) election. First elected in 1983, he is now serving his eighth term. As a member of the House of Representatives, he has occupied the posts of Parliamentary Vice-minister for Finance; Director- General of the Commerce & Industry Policy Bureau, LDP; Director-General of the Science & Technology Policy Bureau, LDP; Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance; Director-General of the Election Bureau, LDP; and Acting Secretary-General, LDP. Until August 2009 is served as Member of the House of Representatives, previously serving as Minister of Finance (Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2007), three times as Cabinet Member, Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, and for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs (2001-2002), and Minister of State for Economic Planning (1997-1998). Koji Omi is considered as a key political figure and one of the most influential in the field of science and technology in Japan, his achievements including the central role he played in enacting the Fundamental Law of Science and Technology in 1995. This law contributed greatly toward making Japan a science and technology-oriented nation. As Minister of State for Okinawa and for Science and Technology, he advocated and promoted the founding of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, an international and interdisciplinary graduate university. He also founded the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum with the aim of building a worldwide network among scientists, policymakers and business people. The STS forum has been successfully held annually in Kyoto, Japan since 2004, to discuss the “lights and shadows” of science and technology for the sake of humankind.

Takashi SHIRAISHI President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Professional Experience Shiraishi Takashi, born in 1950 in Ehime, has taught at the University of Tokyo (1979-1987), Cornell University (1987-98), Kyoto University (1996-2005), and National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo (2005-2009). He served as Standing Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office (2009-2010). He currently serves as President, GRIPS (since 2011), President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (since 2007), and Non-Standing Executive Member CSTP, Cabinet Office (since 2011). Education

Ph.D. (History), Cornell University

Additional Information

Awarded the Japanese Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon in 2007

Selected publications:

An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java 1912-1926 (Ithaca, Cornell University Press,1990, Ohira Masayoshi Asia Pacific Award)

Indonesia: Kokka to Seiji (Government and Politics in Indonesia, Tokyo: Libroport, 1990, Suntory Academic Award)

Umi no Teikoku (The Making of a region, Tokyo: Chuokoron, 2000, Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award)

Network Power: Japan and Asia (jointly edited with Peter J. Katzenstain, Ithaca, Cornell University Press,1997)

Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism (jointly edited with Peter J. Katzenstain, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2006).

Robin GRIMES

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Chief Scientific Advisor

Since 2008 I have been the Director of the Imperial Centre for Nuclear Engineering and in 2010 became the Director of the Imperial College Rolls Royce University Technology Centre in Nuclear Engineering. Recently I was appointed Principal Investigator of the Research Council’s UK Nuclear Fission Champion consortium Project. With the intention of encouraging collaboration within the existing academic nuclear research community and to foster links with other nuclear stakeholders both at home and abroad. I also act as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee during its consideration of nuclear research requirements out to 2050. I was the Principal Investigator of the Research Councils, 4-year, £6.5M multi-university initiative "Keeping the Nuclear Option Open", which ran from 2005 until 2010.

2011- Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee 2010– Director, Rolls Royce University Technology Centre for Nuclear Engineering. 2008– Director, Centre for Nuclear Engineering, Imperial College London. 2005 Principal Investigator, Keeping the Nuclear Option Open, Research Councils UK, Multi- University Research Collaboration. 2002– Prof. Materials Physics, Dept. Materials, Imperial College London. 2000–2001 Bernd T. Matthias Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA). Continuing as consultant and visiting scientist to present. 1998–2002 Reader in Atomistic Simulation in the Dept. of Materials, Imperial College London. 1996–2000 Associate Editor for Philosophical Magazine A. 1995–1998 Governors' Lecturer in Dept. of Materials, Imperial College London. 1990–1994 Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Continuing from Jan 1995 - July 2000 as Visiting Research Fellow. 1989–1990 Research Fellow at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on attachment to AERE Harwell Laboratory. 1989 Visiting Research Fellow at Michigan Technological University (USA). 1985–1989 Research Fellow at the University of Keele (UK), on attachment to the Theoretical Physics Division, AERE Harwell Laboratory

Tateo ARIMOTO Professor and Director, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Deputy Director General, Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Tateo Arimoto is currently a Professor on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and also Deputy Director-General at the Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS) in the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). He has played an active role in policy making in the area of science and technology in Japan. He previously served as Executive Research Fellow in the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet office. He also held the position of Director General of Science & Technology in the Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Education and Science. In his current roles, Mr. Arimoto is overseeing ambitious efforts to foster innovation to address social challenges in the globally connected world. He has published several books and numerous papers in quality journals and given many guest lectures. His books and papers include “Science and Technology Policy”(T. Arimoto, in ‘Have Japanese Firms Changed’, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and “Rebuilding Public Trust in Science for Policy Making”(T. Arimoto and Y. Sato, in ‘Science’, vol.337, pp1176-1177, 2012)

Michiel KOLMAN Senior Vice President at Elsevier

Areas of Expertise: Partnering with academia, research performance analysis, global research trends, management, astrophysics, publishing industry trends and partnerships Michiel Kolman is Senior Vice President at Elsevier and heads a global academic relations team dedicated to engaging in dialogue with key stakeholders in the academic community in Europe, Asia and North America: academies of science, research councils and university leaders. Since joining Elsevier in 1995, he has served in a range of core publishing positions, including Publishing Director, during which he launched one of the first on-line journals in the industry: New Astronomy. Michiel was Managing Director of the Elsevier office in Frankfurt, Germany, for four years during which the much coveted Beilstein Database was acquired by Elsevier. Prior to Elsevier he worked for Kluwer Academic Publishers (now part of Springer). He holds an undergraduate degree from Leiden University in the Netherlands and a PhD in astrophysics from Columbia University in New York where he studied with a Fulbright scholarship. As a twenty year veteran of the publishing industry with a personal commitment to scientists and health professionals in developing nations through Research4Life, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Publishers Association (IPA) in 2010.

Paul BOYLE Chief Executive ESRC / President of Science Europe

Professor Boyle took up the post of ESRC Chief Executive and RCUK International Champion in September 2010. In October 2011 he became President of Science Europe which is based in Brussels and is an association of 53 major European Research Funding Organisations (RFO) and Research Performing Organisations (RPO).

Before joining the ESRC Professor Boyle was Head of the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews. His research focused on population and health geography and he was Director of the ESRC-funded Longitudinal Studies Centre – Scotland, Co-Director of the ESRC- funded Centre for Population Change, and Co-Investigator on both the Wellcome Trust-funded Scottish Health Informatics Programme and the ESRC-funded Administrative Data Liaison Service.

Prior to moving to St Andrews in 1999 he was at the University of Leeds.

Michiharu NAKAMURA President, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Dr. Nakamura graduated from the University of Tokyo and joined Hitachi Central Research Laboratory in 1967, where he was engaged in compound semiconductors and optoelectronics research. He was a pioneer of semiconductor DFB laser development. In 2004, he was appointed Executive Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi Ltd., and then assumed a position of Board of Director till September 2011. He was responsible for corporate technology development and new business incubation. He was a visiting Researcher at California Institute of Technology in 1972-73. Since October 2011, he has been serving as President of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), where policy-driven R&D funding is a major mission. Also, the dissemination of scientific information, science education for young generation, and science communication are among current activities. He has been actively working on national science and technology strategy. He served for Industrial User Society for Neutron Application, Industrial R&D Committee of the Japan Business Federation, Council of Competitiveness Japan, Management Committee of Tsukuba Innovation Arena, and Nanotechnology Business Creation Initiative (NBCI). He is a member of the Council for Science and Technology of Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). He is entitled IEEE fellow, JSAP fellow, and IEICE fellow.

Maria Helena NAZARÉ President, European University Association

Maria Helena Nazaré trained as a physicist, graduating in 1972 from the University of Lisbon, and obtained her PhD from King’s College London in 1978. In 1986, she took up leadership of the research group in Spectroscopy of Semiconductors in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro. She was Head of Department between 1978 and 1980 and again between 1988 and 1990, Vice-President of the Scientific Council from 1990 to 1991 and Vice- Rector of the University of Aveiro, a position held until 1998.

She was Rector of the University of Aveiro from 2002 to 2010, Chair of the Portuguese Rectors’ Conference Committee for research and knowledge transfer, and a member of the Research Policy Working Group of the European University Association (EUA).

As a member of the expert pool of EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme since 2004, she has participated in the evaluation of universities in Spain, Turkey, Palestine, Slovenia and Kazakhstan. She was appointed Vice-President of EUA in 2009 and elected as President in April 2011.

She formally became President in March 2012. She has also participated in OECD-led evaluations in Catalonia and Lombardy and ENQA evaluations in Galicia and Finland. Currently she is a member of the Portuguese National Education Council and Chair of its Higher Education Commission, Member of the Administration Board of Portugal Telecom, President of the Advisory Board of Fundação Galp Energia and President of the Portuguese Physics Society.

Reiko KURODA Professor, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo Member of Science Council of Japan/ Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Reiko Kuroda’s research focuses on chirality (left and right handedness), covering a wide area including solid-state chemistry, crystallography, spectroscopy, molecular biology and developmental biology, and she has published over 300 research papers. After obtained her Ph.D. in chemistry from the graduate school of the University of Tokyo, she worked at King’s College London first as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a Research Fellow/Honorary Lecturer. She obtained a permanent position as Senior Staff Scientist at Institute of Cancer Research UK. She became an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo in 1986 and then a full professor in1992 as the first women full professor in natural sciences at The University of Tokyo. She served as an Executive Advisor to the President (2003 – 07) and a Member of the Administrative Council (2007 – 11) at The University of Tokyo. She moved to Tokyo University of Science in 2012. She was awarded Saruhashi Prize (1993), Nissan Science Prize (1994), Molecular Chirality Award (2003), Yamazaki-Tei-ichi Prize (2004), Prizes for Science and Technology, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2009), and L’Oreal- UNESCO Women in Science Award (2013). She is an Honorary Professor of University of Sichuan, China, and Honorary Doctorate of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. In addition to her science, she has worked intensely in the field of science and education policy and science communication. She has established a campus-wide graduate-school minor-degree course, Science Interpreter Training Program, at the University of Tokyo, and served as the director for seven years until she left the University at the age limit. She continues to teach the course as a visiting lecturer. She was a member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office, Japan (2001-07), the Central Council for Education, Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (2003 - 09), the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO (2007-12), Committee for Realizing Gender Equal Society, Cabinet Office (2007 - 13), and an executive advisory board to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2002-10). She serves as Management Council member of Tohoku University and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies. Internationally, she was a member of the International Advisory Committee for Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) (2002- 04), the vice chair of science council of HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) (2005-08) and the vice president of International Council for Science (ICSU) (2008-2011).

Yasuo NISHIGUCHI Senior Fellow, Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness, Doshisha University Special Fellow, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency Former President, Kyocera Corporation

2007- Senior Fellow, Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness, Doshisha University and Special Fellow, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency 2007- 2009 Ph.D. Technology and Innovative Management, Graduate School of Policy and Management, Doshisha University 2006 - 2007 Adviser, Kyocera Corporation 2005 - 2006 Chairman, Kyocera Corporation 1999 - 2005 President, Kyocera Corporation 1975 Joined Kyocera Corporation 1972 MA, Osaka Kyoiku University

Martha CRAWFORD-HEITZMANN Senior Executive Vice President for Research & Development and Innovation, AREVA

Martha Crawford-Heitzmann holds a doctorate degree in Environmental and Chemical Engineering from Harvard and an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs. She began her career in 1990 as Advisor to the General Manager of the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ Environmental Protection Authority. From 1991 to 1999, Martha Crawford-Heitzmann held various positions within the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank related to environmental infrastructure and technology. From 1999 to 2007, Martha Crawford-Heitzmann worked as Principal Administrator, Environmental Performance and Information Division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). From 2007 to 2011, she worked as Group Vice President, Research & Development for Air Liquide, a Fortune 500 company in the industrial gas sector.

Since March 2011, Martha Crawford-Heitzmann is Senior Executive Vice President for Research & Development and Innovation for AREVA. In addition to being a member of the Executive Operations Committee, she is a member of the Boards of AREVA Med, and of the AREVA Foundation.

Yuko MAEDA Fellow (Director), Global Innovation and Corporate Communications & Motorsports and Intellectual Property Division, Bridgestone Corporation

 Professor, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine  Project Director, Innovative Initiative Network Japan  Member, Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology  Bridgestone Corporation - Fellow(Director)  Global Innovation and Corporate Communications & Motorsports and Intellectual Property Division May, 2013 - Present  Innovation Initiative Network Japan, Project Director August, 2009 - Present  Tokyo Medical and Dental University Associate Professor, Director of Technology Licensing Organization April, 2003 - July, 2009  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Adjunct Assistant Professor, Executive Vice President June, 2001-present  BTR Power Systems Japan - Founding member. Technical manager & CFO July, 1998 - present  Bridgestone Corporation - Research & Development. Contributed to research and development of lithium rechargeable battery using conductive polymer April, 1984 - June, 1998

Education Current Official Posts

March, 2005 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science Technology - Ph.D., Applied Biological Systems and Technology Research Member, Council for Science and Technology March, 1984 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry Technology - B.S., Faculty of Engineering Member, Japan Industrial Standardization Research Committee Independent Administrative Legal Entity, Japan External Trade Organization Member, Regional Industry Tie-Up Other, many important posts

Richard J. PARKER Director of Research & Technology, Rolls-Royce Group

Richard (Ric) Parker was appointed Director of Research & Technology, Rolls-Royce Group in January 2001, and is based in Derby, United Kingdom. He is responsible for direction and co- ordination of Research & Technology programmes across all the Rolls-Royce businesses, worldwide. Ric joined Rolls-Royce in 1978, and has held various posts including Chief of Composites and Ceramics, Chief of Compressor Engineering, Managing Director - Compressor Systems and Director of Engineering & Technology, Civil Aerospace. Ric is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Ric is a member of the NDIC R&D Group, and a member of the European Transport Advisory Group. Ric gained a BSc in Physics at Imperial College, London in 1975 and an MBA with distinction at Loughborough University in 1992. He has an Honorary EngD from Pusan National University, Korea and Doctorates in Engineering (honoris causa) from Sheffield University and Heriot Watt. He is a visiting Professor in Aerospace and Transport Technology at Loughborough University and an Honorary Professor in Materials Engineering at Birmingham University, UK. Ric is married to Jenette, has two daughters, and lives in Littleover, Derby, UK

Geneviève FIORASO Minister of Higher Education and Research

Professional Career

 2001-2004: Marketing executive at France Telecom in Grenoble, in charge of emerging markets in the social and health sector.  1999-2001: Founding Director of the Regional Digital Agency implemented by the Rhône- Alpes cities network to ensure the dissemination of digital technology to SMEs in Rhône- Alpes.  1995-1999: Cabinet Director of Michel Destot, the deputy-mayor of Grenoble. Managing the economy, research, higher education, UHC and innovation dossiers.  1989-1995: Executive of a CEA start-up, Corys, in charge of European projects and research and development, to improve the security of nuclear and thermal power.  1987: Co-founder and administrator of Agiremploi, a youth integration association.  1975-1978: English and Economics teacher in the priority area Gréta of Amiens for dropouts.

Local and national public engagement

 Since 2001: Grenoble Deputy-Mayor Assistant for the economic, employment, university and research fields.  First vice-président of Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole  Since 2003: Sem Minatec Entreprises CEO, industrial valuation platform of the innovation Minatec, dedicated to micro and nanotechnologies.  Since June 2007: Deputy of the first district of Isère.  Member of the Commission for Economic Affairs.  Member of the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices.  Draftswoman for industry budgets, energy, sustainable development and technology research in 2009, 2010 and 2011

Mauro Dell’AMBROGIO State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Switzerland

Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, the holder of a Doctorate in Law from the University of Zurich, held a number of public offices in canton Ticino from 1979 to 1999 after passing his bar exam: Judge, Chief of the Cantonal Police, Secretary-General for Education and Culture, project manager for the creation of the University of Lugano (USI), and Secretary-General of the USI. After four years heading up a group of private clinics, he was made Director of the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) in 2003. He has been mayor of Giubiasco, a member of the Ticino cantonal parliament and chairman of the Ticino electricity works. From 2008 to 2012 he has been State Secretary for Education and Research. In January 2013 he took up the post of State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation.

Maria ORLOWSKA Secretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Republic of Poland

Professor Maria Elżbieta Orłowska was born in 1951 in Warsaw. She is an expert in the field of Information Technology with the main focus on the Relational Database Theory, Distributed Database Systems and Business Process Management, Modelling and Enactment. From 1988 through 2007 she was active at the University of Queensland, where since 1990 she held the position of Professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Technology and Electric Engineering. From 1995 through 2007 she headed the school's Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Division. She was also a Board Member of the Australian Research Council (ARC), and acted on the Expert Advisory Committee for ARC Mathematics, Information and Communication Sciences.

Professor Maria Elżbieta Orłowska is the author or co-author of nearly 300 research papers published in peer reviewed international journals. She undertook major conference roles like PC Chair or General Chair at over 50 international conferences in the field of Information Technology. She has so far supervised 32 doctoral theses in the field of Information Technology. In recognition of her scientific activity and contributions to applied research, she was awarded many prestigious distinctions e.g.: the Distinguished Research Fellow of DSTC Pty Ltd, the Queensland government IT&T Award for Transactional Workflows Systems. Since November 2007 Professor Orłowska is Honorary Professor of the University of Queensland (Australia).

Carmen VELA OLMO State Secretary for Research, Development and Innovation, Spain

Born in Sigüenza (Guadalajara). Spain. 1955. Married. Two children. Carmen Vela is the Spanish State Secretary for Research, Development and Innovation since January 2012. Before her election, she was CEO at INGENASA, a biotechnology company based in Madrid (Spain) and devoted to Animal Health. She is a biochemist with more than 30 years experience in Immunology, Virology and related fields. She is author of numerous publications and patents granted in EU and US. She was member, among others, of the Advisory Group of PEOPLE, the External Advisory Committee of EUREKA and President of the Spanish Society for Biotechnology.

Yuko HARAYAMA Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Japan

Education 1997 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland 1996 Ph.D. in Education, University of Geneva, Switzerland 1973 Bachelor in Mathematics, University of Besaçon, France

Professional Experience

2013- Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office, Japan 2010 - 2012 Deputy-Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD, France 2009 - 2010 Specially Appointed Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan 2008 - 2010 Member, Board of Education, Sendai-City, Japan 2007 - 2010 Member, Board of Directors, Companie de Saint-Gobain, France 2006 - 2007 Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office, Japan 2004 - 2005 Specially Appointed Professor, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE), Japan 2004 - 2005 Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Japan 2002 - 2013 Professor, Management of Science and Technology Department, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan 2001 - 2002 Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry (RIETI), Japan 1998 - 2001 Assistance Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Geneva, Switzerland 1996 - 1997 Visiting Scholar, Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, 1992 - 1997 Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Economy, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Research Fields

 Science and Technology Policy  Higher Education Studies  Innovation Policy

Malcolm HARBOUR CBE MEP Vice-Chairman of Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA), European Parliament Malcolm Harbour was elected to the European Parliament in June 1999, and re-elected in June 2004 and 2009. He is one of 3 Conservative members representing the West Midlands Region of the UK. He is Chairman of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and is a Member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group. He is Vice-Chairman of the Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA) and a Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Delegation to Japan. Malcolm Harbour takes a special interest in the EU single market, industry, science and technology policy. He is Chairman of the European Manufacturing Forum, and the Ceramics Industry Forum. He is a Governor of the European Internet Foundation. He has been the lead MEP (rapporteur) for major legislation on Telecoms, the Single Market and Motor Vehicle standards. From 2005 to 2009, he has served on the CARS 21 High Level Group, a Europe-wide initiative to boost the automotive industry. He was named as a top 50 European of 2006 for his key role in broking agreement on the Services Directive. In May 2006, he was named the UK’s most Small Business Friendly UK Parliamentarian by members of the Forum of Private Business. In September 2010, he was voted Internal Market MEP of the Year. In November 2012, in a ranking produced by Euractiv, he was named the 3rd most influential Briton in EU policy. Malcolm was appointed a CBE for services to the UK economy in the 2013 Honour's List. Before his election to the Parliament, Malcolm Harbour spent 32 years in the motor industry, as an engineer, a senior commercial executive, a consultant and a researcher. He began his motor industry career in the BMC Longbridge Plant as an Austin Engineering Apprentice in 1967. Malcolm Harbour was born in February 1947. He was educated at Bedford School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Engineering, and at the University of Aston where he gained a Diploma in Management Studies. He received an Honorary DSc from Aston in 2008.

Sotaro ITO Senior Deputy Director-General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Educational Background 1980 Information Division, School of Engineering, Yokohama National University 1982 Department of Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University

Professional Experiences

2013-now Deputy Director-General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau,

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) 2010-2013 Deputy Director-General, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy 2008 Director of General Affairs Department, National Institute of Radiological Sciences

2006 Director of Plant Variety Protection and Seed Division, Agricultural Production Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 2002 Director- General of Bangkok Office, International Relations Department , National Space Development Agency of Japan 2000 Director for office of Emergency Planning and Environmental Radioactivity, Nuclear Safety Division, Nuclear Safety Bureau, Science and Technology Agency

1995 First Secretary, People's Republic of China Embassy of Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1982-1994 Earning professional work experiences at the Science and Technology Agency, the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Barbara RHODE Head of the Science and Technology Section, Delegation of the European Union to Japan

Barbara Rhode holds a Ph. D. in Political Sciences (Kath. University Nijmegen, NL) and a University degree in Social Science (Hamburg University, DE). As Minister Counsellor Barbara Rhode heads the Section of Science and Technology at the EU Delegation in Tokyo, Japan. At EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, she was Head of Unit for: “Multilateral Co-operation Activities” in DG RTD and guided the EU policies on Ex-Soviet Union scientists of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their redirection to civilian tasks, in collaboration with the US, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In 2000 as Head of Unit on “Ethics in Science”, she negotiated rules to cope with ethical issues in international research projects, i.e. human embryonic stem cells, clinical trials, animals, data protection etc. Barbara Rhode represented the EC in UN and Council of Europe (CoE) bodies. Between 1995 and 2000 she was responsible for the EU Accession negotiations for RTD with Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and for relations with Switzerland and the countries of the Caucasus. She joined the EU in 1994. Still in Cold War she was seconded by the German Federal Ministry for Science and Technology to the ISSC - UNESCO 'Vienna Centre', an East-West Research Institute in Vienna, AT. She coordinated multi-national research projects on environmental policies and initiated the CoE 'Convention on Environmental Penal Law'. She started her career at the Max-Planck-Institute for International and Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, DE. Lecturer at various Universities, author, co-author and editor of a number of books, many articles, co- author of a documentary film for cinema, short-version for TV, contributions to broadcast emissions and print media.

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