Speakers, Resource Persons & Co-organisers Booklet #ASEFClassNet15 15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference Page 1 Guests-of-Honour, Resource Persons & Co-organisers Booklet GUESTS-OF-HONOUR Ms OYAMA Mami Ms OYAMA Mami is the Director-General for International Affairs at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Director-General, Science and Technology (MEXT). She is currently placing International special emphasis on promoting Education for Sustainable Affairs Development (ESD) and activities of the UNESCO Ministry of Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet). Since joining Education, the former Science and Technology Agency (currently under the jurisdiction of MEXT) in 1987, she has built her Culture, Sports, career for the most part in Science and Technology fields Science and through not only her work at MEXT but also many other Technology organisations, such as the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (MEXT) (JAEA) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). She also has extensive global experience, including her appointments at the International Affairs Division in MEXT and at the United Nations University (UNU-IAS). She earned a Master of Philosophy in International Relations, and a Diploma in International Law at the University of Cambridge. Ambassador Ambassador SHIOJIRI is a former diplomat who served in SHIOJIRI Kojiro several Asian and European countries including the Republic of Indonesia where he was the Ambassador. His ASEF Governor for latest deputation was in Brussels, as the Ambassador of Japan the Mission of Japan to the European Union. He also served Ministry of Foreign as the Deputy Vice-Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Affairs (MOFA) and was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America. Earlier in his career, Ambassador SHIOJIRI was the Deputy Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director of the Management and Coordination Division at MOFA, and Minister at the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Korea. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. After having joined MOFA in 1973, he pursued his studies in France for a couple of years. He speaks Japanese, English and French. Prof TERUMICHI Prof Yoshiaki TERUMICHI is the 16th president of Sophia Yoshiaki University, inaugurated in April 2017. He graduated from Keio University in 1985 and earned his M.D. and Dr. Eng. President from Keio University in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He Sophia University became a Professor at Sophia University in 2004. His areas of expertise are dynamics control, intelligent mechanics and mechanical systems. He has served various positions at Sophia University, including Director of the Center for Student Affairs, Director of the Admissions Office, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Executive Director for Global Academic Affairs and Director of the Human Resources Center for International Cooperation. #ASEFClassNet15 15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference Page 2 Guests-of-Honour, Resource Persons & Co-organisers Booklet SPEAKERS & PANELLISTS MODERATOR WORKSHOP FACILITATORS Ms Kristel RILLO Ms Kristel RILLO is responsible for the portfolio of digital skills and related matters in Estonia. She is coordinating Estonia the policy design of IT skills development on all education levels - starting from digital competence as the ability to Director of Digital successfully cope in the information society until Education technological literacy as the ability to create technology. In Ministry of close cooperation with universities, companies, schools Education and and other experts Ms RILLO is actively involved in Research of introducing digital means into contemporary teaching Estonia methods and innovative approaches in learning. Mr Magnus Mr Magnus WESTERLUND is the Principal of Gymnasiet WESTERLUND Lärkan Upper Secondary School in Helsinki, Finland. He holds a Master’s degree in History from Åbo Akademi Finland University and continued his research as a predoctoral student at the Academy of Finland during the years 2001- Principal 2004. He worked as a History Teacher until 2005, when he Gymnasiet Lärkan, was appointed Principal of Helsinge Upper Secondary Finland School in Vantaa, Finland. He has been Principal of Gymnasiet Lärkan since 2011. He has several years of board experience with the Association of Principals in Southern Finland. He also participated in several school development projects on both national and municipal levels. International cooperation has always been close to his heart, and during his career as a principal, he has initiated several joint projects with parties in China, Brazil, and many countries in Europe. Together with his school team, he hosted the 14th ASEF ClassNet Conference in Finland in 2018. Prof Colin de la Prof Colin de la HIGUERA is Professor at Nantes University HIGUERA in France. He has been involved in a number of research themes, including algorithmics, formal language theory, Co-Trustee of the and pattern recognition. His chief interest lies in Knowledge for All grammatical inference, a field in which he has been the Foundation author of more than 50 reviewed research papers and a UNESCO Chair for monograph, “Grammatical Inference: Learning Automata Technologies for and Grammars”, published in 2010. More recently he has the Training of co-authored the book “Grammatical Inference for Teachers by Open Computational Linguistics”. He has also served the Educational community as chairman of conferences, expert, reviewer, Resources at editor. He has co-organised workshops and given tutorials University of at ICML, IJCAI, ACL, Etc. Prof HIGUERA has been Chairman Nantes, France of the International Community in Grammatical Inference (2002-2007), the Founding President of the French Informatics Society (SIF) and is currently a Trustee of the Knowledge for All Foundation and is working towards the usage of technology for an open dissemination of knowledge and education. In 2017, based on the project Class’Code he contributed to launch in France, UNESCO has created a Chair in Technologies for the Training of Teachers by Open Educational Resources at University of Nantes, which he is now holding. In 2019, an Academic Chair on Open Education and Artificial Intelligence was created by Nantes University to support his work. #ASEFClassNet15 15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference Page 3 Guests-of-Honour, Resource Persons & Co-organisers Booklet Mr Gordon ALLAN Mr Gordon ALLAN is the Programme Chair of New Directions in Yokohama, and an English Language Programme Chair Assessment Specialist for the British Council's East Asia of New Directions Assessment Solutions Team (EAAST). He has been working Yokohama 2019 for the British Council in Japan since 2003, including 8 and English years team teaching in junior high schools in Tokyo. Before Language joining EAAST, Gordon spent five years working on the Assessment Leaders of English Education Project (LEEP) in Japan, Specialist developing and delivering training for Japanese teachers of British Council English, primarily at junior-high and high school levels, on Japan behalf of the Ministry of Education (MEXT). After completing an MA in Language Testing with Lancaster University in 2017, he produced the British Council’s "How Language Assessment Works" (HLAW) workshops, aimed at helping teachers to understand more about the principles and practice of assessment. He is interested in the impact of testing on teaching and learning, and the role that assessment literacy plays in mediating impact. Ms Yoko ITO Ms Yoko ITO is currently a Project Coordinator at the Development Education Association and Resource Center Project (DEAR). Born in the US, she returned as an exchange Coordinator student to University of North Carolina when she was a Development university student at Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan in Education 2006. She earned her Master’s degree in Education from Association and the University of Bristol in the UK in 2013. She taught at a Resource Center middle high school in Yokohama from 2008 to 2012 and (DEAR) started her career at DEAR in 2016. Yoko ITO is in charge of holding workshops and organising projects to practice Development Education. Prof Taro Prof Taro KOMATSU is Professor in the Department of KOMATSU Education in the Faculty of Human Sciences and the Director of the Center for Global Education and Discovery Japan at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on education policy and administration in developing nations Department of and post-conflict societies, the role of education in Education affecting social cohesion and peace, and programme Sophia University, evaluation. He previously worked as an education Japan specialist for the UNESCO Paris and Sarajevo offices, the UN Mission in Kosovo, and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Taro KOMATSU holds an M.Sc. in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Ph.D. in Education Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. #ASEFClassNet15 15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference Page 4 Guests-of-Honour, Resource Persons & Co-organisers Booklet Ms Sayaka Ms Sayaka MATSUKURA is an English teacher who works MATSUKURA in a Junior High School. She is also a student at Sophia University and currently doing a Master’s degree on Teacher Education. She works as a workshop facilitator for teachers Ageo Oishi Junior in Japan. She worked as a Chief Researcher and