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Vice-Presidents' Room:
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Professor Masato Takeichi, PhD.
Vice-President for Organizational Management, Science Council of Japan
Masato Takeichi became Vice-President of the Science Council of Japan at the start of October 2011. He has been a Professor of National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, Japan since April 2011.
He was a Professor of the University of Tokyo from January.
During these years, he established the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in April 2001, and moved from the School of Engineering to join IST. He was in charge of the Dean of IST from 2004 to 2007. Before joining to University of Tokyo in 1987, He worked at University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo for 10 years. He has been a Council Member of the Science Council of Japan since 2003.
He has been working on Software Science and Mathematical Informatics throughout his research career. His recent research papers are related to Functional Programming, Calculational Transformation, and Bidirectional Programming. And he is currently engaged in evaluation of higher education and research on academic degrees.
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Professor Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI PhD.
Vice-President for Contacts with Government and Society, Science Council of Japan
Professor Yoshiaki Kobayashi is Vice-President of Science Council of Japan, in charge of Contacts with Government and Society. Specialized in Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, and conferred a doctorate in Law by Keio University in 1982, Yoshiaki Kobayashi had been a Professor of Faculty of Law and Political Science, at Keio University since April 1991 and currently a Guest Professor of Political Science at Keio University.
Professor Kobayashi has serving as President of Japan Public Choice Association, and is Ex-President of Japan Political Science Association and Ex-President of Japan Electoral Studies Association.
His publication includes Malfunctioning Democracy in Japan: Quantitative Analysis in a Civil Society, Lexington books, 2012 and other 28 books, 300 papers in English, Spanish, French and Japanese.
Professor Yoshiaki Kobayashi has joined the deliberations of Science Council of Japan since 1994 as a Member or an expert in political science and then been a Council Member of SCJ since 2005. The Committee on “Japan Perspective”- Proposals from the Science Community 2010 was an example of the major committees he had participated in. Since October 2011, as Vice-President of SCJ, in charge of contacts with government and society, he has been taking the leadership over SCJ’s Committee for Science and Society (deliberates on the issues to be communicated to society) and playing significant roles for supporting Professor Takashi Onishi, President of SCJ in SCJ’s activities relating to Committee on Supporting Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, relevant other committees and many of the subcommittees thereof.
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Dr. Fumiko Kasuga
Vice-President in charge of international affairs, Science Council of Japan
Dr. Fumiko Kasuga is Vice-President for international activities of Science Council of Japan (SCJ). With a Ph.D. degree in agricultural science from The University of Tokyo in 1988, she started her career as a researcher expertized in food safety at National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and currently is the director at National Institute of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan.
Specialized in food safety as a doctor of veterinary medicine, particularly focusing on microbiological risk assessment of foodborne hazards and foodborne disease epidemiology, Dr. Kasuga has been dedicating herself to various aspects where “Science for Society” could bring the fruits of science to our society through science-based decisions by government, industry and consumers in the most beneficial way. Her zealous activities cover not only scientific researches, but also the international involvements through organizations such as FAO, WHO, ICMSF (The International Commission on Microbiological Specification for Food) and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency).
Through these activities, she has been contributing to developing harmonized framework of food safety management in the world, considering both food safety and fair trade of foods and caring most vulnerable populations with insufficient nutrition and at risk of foodborne diseases.
As a matter of course, she has been served as a key member of a series of activities of SCJ relating to the Issues of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident.
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