Executive Committee
President
Dr. Ryutaro TAO
(Kyoto University)
Vice President
Dr. Katsuhiro SHIRATAKE
(Nagoya University)
Vice President
Dr. Tadahisa HIGASHIDE
(NARO)
Vice President
Dr. Akiko ITO
(NARO)
Secretary General
Dr. Chitose HONSHO
(University of Miyazaki)
Treasurer/Sponsorship
Dr. Takeshi TAKASAKI-
YASUDA
(Kobe University)
Committee Chairs
Scientific Program
Dr. Ryohei NAKANO
(Kyoto University)
Excursion
Dr. Munetaka HOSOKAWA
(Kindai University)
Public Relations
Dr. Shungo OTAGAKI
(Meijo University)
Publication
Dr. Masayoshi SHIGYO
(Yamaguchi University)
Diversity Promotion
Dr. Sumiko SUGAYA
(University of Tsukuba)
Venue / Social Event
Dr. Takaaki NISHIJIMA
(Kyoto Prefectural University)
Young Minds Promotion
Dr. Yukio OZAKI
(Kyushu University)
Opening Event
Dr. Akihiro ITAI
(Kyoto Prefectural
University)
Advisory Board
Dr. Yoshinori KANAYAMA
(Tohoku University)
Dr. Saneyuki KAWABATA
(The University of Tokyo)
Dr. Hasegawa is an executive researcher at the Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan. After graduating from Kyoto University, he worked as an assistant professor at Kyushu Tokai University and an associate professor at Hokkaido University before joining NARO in 2016.
Pierre-Marie Aubert is the head of the Agriculture & Food Policy Initiative at Iddri (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales). With a background in landscape ecology and political sociology, his work focuses on food system scenario development. He combines for that a biophysical approach to food security functioning with a deep undertsanding of their socio-economic dimensions to identify policy levers and business solutions towards greater sustainability.
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has been the Managing Director of the Centre International de Développement Pharmaceutique (CIDP) Research and Innovation as well as Professor of Organic Chemistry with an endowed chair at the University of Mauritius. Since 2001, she has served successively as Dean of the Faculty of Science and Pro Vice Chancellor (2004- 2010). She has also worked at the Mauritius Research Council as Manager for Research (1995-1997).
Rachel Bezner Kerr, is a Professor in Global Development at Cornell University (New York, USA). She does participatory research in Africa on agroecology, gender, climate change adaptation, food and nutrition security. She has published over 70 scientific articles, in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. She is a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 5 (the ‘food chapter’) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change upcoming report on climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation. In 2019 she was co-author of a report on agroecology for the United Nations Committee for World Food Security. Her long-term participatory research is in collaboration with a farmer-led organization in Malawi, the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities organization.