Emeritus Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd. Advisor and Executive Vice President Emeritus, Engineering Academy of Japan.
Hideaki Koizumi
Emeritus Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd. Advisor and Executive Vice President Emeritus, Engineering Academy of Japan.
In 1971, Koizumi graduated from the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo, and in the same year, he joined the Department of Optical Instruments at Naka Works of Hitachi, Ltd. In 1976, Koizumi submitted his thesis to the Faculty of Science and received his doctorate in science from the University of Tokyo. He discovered and developed many new principles in fields such as the environment and medicine, and applied them in society. In 2000, Koizumi was appointed General Manager at the Advanced Research Laboratory. He became Corporate Chief Scientist in 2003, a Fellow in 2004, and has been working in his current role since 2017. Koizumi is a Fellow and a member of the RCAST Board, the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) of the University of Tokyo, a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Professor Emeritus at Southeast University. He has also worked as Director at the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), and as board member at various research institutes and foundations in the USA, Europe, Australia, and other countries. Recently, he published “Albert Einstein’s Inverse Omega: Considering Education from the Perspective of Evolution of the Brain (Evolutionary Pedagogy)” (winner of Papyrus Award, Bungeishunju Ltd.).
カリフォルニア大学バークレー校にて経営学博士号（Ph. D）を取得。2002年紫綬褒章，2010年瑞宝中綬章受章。著作に，『組織と市場』（千倉書房，1974年／第17回日経・経済図書文化賞受賞），『企業進化論』（日本経済新聞社，1985年），『アメリカ海兵隊』（中公新書，1995年），『知的機動力の本質』（中央公論新社，2017年）が，また主要な共著に，『失敗の本質』（ダイヤモンド社，1984年），The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, Oxford University Press, 1995.（邦訳『知識創造企業』東洋経済新報社，1996年），『知識創造の方法論』（東洋経済新報社，2003年），『流れを経営する』（東洋経済新報社，2010年），『国家経営の本質』（日本経済新聞出版社，2014年），『史上最大の決断』（ダイヤモンド社，2014年），『全員経営』（東洋経済新報社，2015年），『直観の経営』（KADOKAWA，2019年）など多数。
Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University and Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Ikujiro Nonaka
Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University and Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University.
Gained a PhD. in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Awarded a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 2002 and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2010.
His publications include “Soshiki To Shijoh” (Organization and Market), Chikura Publishing Company, 1974, awarded the 17th Nikkei Award in Economics and Business.
Major co-authored works include “The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation” Oxford University Press, 1995; “Zen-in Keiei” (Involving Everyone in Management), Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., 2015; and “Chokkan No Keiei” (Intuitive Management), Kadokawa Corporation, 2019.
In November 2017, he was the fifth person ever (and the first academic) to be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Visiting Professor, Institute of Gerontology and Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Hiroko Akiyama
Visiting Professor, Institute of Gerontology and Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Dr. Akiyama specializes in gerontology. She received a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, and has served as a Fellow at the US National Institute on Aging, a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, and a Professor (of social psychology) at the University of Tokyo, a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Gerontology and Institute for Future Initiatives, and Vice President of the Science Council of Japan. She took up her current position in May 2020 and is engaged in research into new social structures and ways of living in an era of 100-year lives.
After first working at The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan studying investment banking in the IT sector, he joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry from Sony Corporation as one of the ministry’s first round of mid-career hires. He remained at the ministry until 2010, with roles that included serving as the Director for Information Economy, Information Policy Unit, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau; as Director of the Information Service Industry Division, in the Minister’s Secretariat (with responsibility for boosting demand); and as Director for the New Industry & Job Creation Policy, Economic & Industrial Policy Bureau. He then joined Sharp Corporation where he was engaged in work on new cloud-based services, serving as head of the newly created Cloud Computing Technology Development Group and as deputy head of the Research & Development Group. He left Sharp in 2012. After serving as a board member of Hitachi Consulting Co., Ltd., he took up his current position in 2014.
紺野 登
多摩大学大学院 教授
紺野 登
多摩大学大学院 教授
エコシスラボ代表，一般社団法人Future Center Alliance Japan（FCAJ）代表理事，一般社団法人Japan Innovation Network（JIN）Chairperson。慶應義塾大学大学院システムデザイン・マネジメント研究科（SDM）特別招聘教授。「知識生態学」の観点から，知識創造やイノベーション，デザイン思考，「目的工学」などの研究・実践にかかわっている。著書に『ビジネスのためのデザイン思考』，『知識創造経営のプリンシプル』，『構想力の方法論』，『イノベーション全書』などがある。
Noboru Konno
Professor, Tama University Graduate School
Noboru Konno
Professor, Tama University Graduate School
Director of Ecosyx Laboratory, Director of Future Center Alliance Japan (FCAJ), Chairperson of Japan Innovation Network (JIN), and Guest Professor at the Graduate School of System Design and Management (SDM) at Keio University. He is engaged in theoretical and applied studies of knowledge creation, innovation, design thinking, and “purpose engineering” based on the study of knowledge ecologies. His publications in Japanese include “Innovate by Design-base Management,” “Principles of Knowledge Creation Management,” “Methodology of Creativity,” and “Whole Innovation Catalogue.”
Joined Hitachi Sales Corporation in 1988. Joined Hitachi Ltd.’s New Financial Systems, Services & Products Division in 1997. Appointed a senior researcher at Hitachi Research Institute in 2002. Facilitated collaboration between industry and academia and undertook research into the future of the information society (the “Ambient information society”) as a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University (from 2004 to 2005, concurrent with his role at Hitachi). Following subsequent appointments including a transfer to Hitachi’s Information & Telecommunication Systems Company in 2012, he took up his current position in 2020. Major publications include “Electronic Money: Its Impact on Retail Banking and Electronic Commerce” (F.I.A. Publishing Co., 1997). He is a Certified Member Analyst of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan and a Certified International Investment Analyst.
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University in 1986 and obtained a PhD from the Graduate School of Medicine at the same university in 1992. After working in an assistant professor, also at the Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, she took up a research role at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1995. She discovered the potential for using stem cells in retinal therapy. In 2006, she moved to the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN). She embarked upon clinical research into the transplantation of sheets of retinal pigment epithelial cells derived from the patient’s own iPS cells to treat exudative age-related macular degeneration, with the first such transplantation taking place in September 2014. A transplantation of a suspension of retinal pigment epithelial cells derived from donor iPS cells was undertaken in March 2017. She took up her current position in August 2019.
迫田 雷蔵
株式会社日立アカデミー
取締役社長
迫田 雷蔵
株式会社日立アカデミー
取締役社長
1983年日立製作所入社。電力，デジタルメディア，情報部門の人事業務を担当後，2000年から本社にて処遇制度改革を推進。2005年米国駐在，Hitachi Data SystemsでHR部門Vice President（～2009年）。2012年本社グローバルタレントマネジメント部長，2014年中国・アジア人財本部長，2016年人事勤労本部長，2017年日立総合経営研修所取締役社長。2019年4月に日立アカデミーが設立され，初代社長に就任。
Raizo Sakoda
President, Hitachi Academy Co., Ltd.
Raizo Sakoda
President, Hitachi Academy Co., Ltd.
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1983. Following work in human resources (HR) for the electric power, digital media, and information technology businesses, he became involved in compensation reforms at Hitachi Ltd.’s corporate headquarters from 2000. He worked in the USA from 2005 to 2009, serving as Vice President of HR at Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. He was appointed General Manager of Global Talent Management Department at corporate headquarters in 2012, head of HR for China and Asia in 2014, General Manager of the Human Capital Division in 2016, and President of the Hitachi Institute of Management Development in 2017. He became the inaugural President of Hitachi Academy when it was established in April, 2019.
Born in Tokyo in 1959. Graduated from Kyoto University. After undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, USA and serving as an assistant professor at Kyoto University, he took up a position as a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biological Science at the College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University in 2004 and as professor in the School of Cultural and Creative Studies in 2011. He is also a guest investigator at Rockefeller University, USA. He has a doctorate in agricultural science.
He is a winner of the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities and has published widely on the question of “what is life?” based on the idea of dynamic equilibrium, including his bestselling book Between Organic Matters and Inorganic Matters (Kodansha Ltd.) that sold more than 850,000 copies and Dynamic Equilibrium (Kirakusha, Inc.) Other books include No Borders in the World (Kodansha Ltd.), Keep Changing to Prevent Changing (Bungeishunju Ltd.), Quiet Revolution in Life Science (Shueisha International Inc.). Other publications include a collection of his interviews published as Dynamic Equilibrium Dialogue (Kirakusha, Inc.).
Born in Hokkaido in 1939. Joined Hitachi, Ltd. after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1962. Following roles that included Division Manager of Thermal Power Engineering Division, Power Group and General Manager of Hitachi Works, he became an Executive Vice President in 1999. He went on to be appointed Representative Executive Officer of Hitachi Software Engineering in 2003 and Chairman of the Board of Hitachi Maxell in 2007, becoming Representative Executive Officer, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. in 2009, a year after the company had reported its highest ever final deficit, and he presided over the subsequent recovery. After serving as Executive Chairman of Hitachi, Ltd. when the company achieved its highest ever final profit in FY2010, he became Chairman of the Board in 2011. He stepped down from his chairman role in 2014 and served as an advisor until 2016. Other roles have included Vice Chairman of the Japan Business Federation, President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and outside directorships at Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Calbee, Inc., and Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd. He was also an outside director and Chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. from 2017 to 2020.
His main publications are “The Last Man” (Kadokawa Corp.) and “Reforming a 100-year-old Company: Hitachi and I” (Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.).
Director, Future of Humanity Research Center, Institute of Innovative Research and Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Asa Ito
Director, Future of Humanity Research Center, Institute of Innovative Research and Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology
In 2010, Asa Ito left the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology after earning credits in Aesthetics, the Division of General Culture. In the same year, she earned a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Tokyo. After completing a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, she was appointed as an Associate Professor at the Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2013. She has been in her current position since April 2016. Her books in Japanese include “The Body Theory of Unsighted Athletes” (Ushio Publishing Co., Ltd., 2016), “The Stuttering Body” (Igaku-Shoin Ltd., 2018), and “Ethics of Hands” (Kodansha Ltd., 2020).
Professor, Center for Liberal Arts, Institute of Technologists and Co-director, Drucker Workshop
Yasushi Isaka
Professor, Center for Liberal Arts, Institute of Technologists and Co-director, Drucker Workshop
Yasushi Isaka was born in Kazo City, Saitama Prefecture, in 1972. He graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, and left the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo after earning credits in Socio-information and Communication. He received a doctorate in Commerce. Currently, he is a professor at the Center for Liberal Arts, Institute of Technologists. He is also co-director of the Drucker Workshop and a researcher at the Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Foundation. Isaka is the author of many publications, including “Peter Ferdinand Drucker—Management Concepts: Inception and Beyond” in Japanese (Bunshindo Publishing Corporation, awarded the Incentive Award by the Society for the History of Management Theories).
Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
Takahiro Nakajima
Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
Appointed Associate Professor of Culture and Representation, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo in 2000. Took up his current position in 2014. He specializes in Chinese and comparative philosophy. Major publications include Humanities: Tetsugaku (Humanities: Philosophy), Iwanami Shoten, 2009, Kyōsei no Praxis (Praxis of Co-existence), University of Tokyo Press, 2011, winner of the Watsuji Tetsuro Culture Prize, and Shisō to shite no Gengo (Language Qua Thought), Iwanami Shoten, 2017.
Yoshiki Ishikawa
Public Health Researcher
Yoshiki Ishikawa
Public Health Researcher
Motivation: “I want to help people learn, grow, and achieve an optimal state of well-being.”
Yoshiki earned a bachelor’s degree in Health Science from the University of Tokyo, a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health, and a PhD in Medicine from Jichi Medical School. As a public health researcher, entrepreneur, and science journalist, Yoshiki is working at the intersection of science, business, and government as a catalyst with the aim of advancing the well-being of society.
Kazuo Yano
Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd.
Kazuo Yano
Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd.
He pioneered the field of room-temperature nanodevices by being the first in the world to demonstrate a single-electron memory working at room temperature in 1993, and has been at the forefront internationally of the collection and use of big data since 2004. He has more than 350 patent applications and his publications have been cited more than 2500 times. Doctor of Engineering and IEEE Fellow. His book “Data no Miezaru Te” (the invisible hand of data) published in 2014 was selected as one of the top 10 business books of that year (bookvinegar).
Takashi Maeno
Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd.
Takashi Maeno
Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd.
Professor, Graduate School of System Design and Management and Director of the Wellbeing Research Center, Keio University
Graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering from the School of Engineering in 1984 and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering in 1986. Joined Canon Inc. in 1986. Obtained a doctorate in engineering in 1993 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He took up a full-time lectureship at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University in 1995 where he went on to become an associate professor and professor before being appointed professor at the Graduate School of System Design and Management (SDM) in 2008. His most recent publication is “Kandō no Mechanisms” (mechanisms of emotion).
Haruo Takeda
Corporate Chief Engineer, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
Haruo Takeda
Corporate Chief Engineer, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
Graduated from Department of Mathematical Engineering at the University of Tokyo and started to work for Hitachi in 1980 at the Systems Development Laboratory. Appointed the head of Research Strategy Center in 2005, the head of Advanced Research Center in 2008, the head of Technology Strategy Office in 2012, and his current position in 2014. He got his doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo.
Hitoshi Shirai
President, Hitachi Research Institute (as of the time of writing)
Hitoshi Shirai
President, Hitachi Research Institute (as of the time of writing)
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1979. Following roles that included working for the Production Management Department at Sawa Works (Automotive Components Division) and as a Senior Researcher at Hitachi Research Institute, he was appointed to manage the Electronic Government Project Development Center at Hitachi’s Government & Public Corporation Information Systems Division in 1999, Department Manager of Business Development Department at the Urban Planning and Development Systems Group in 2003, Deputy General Manager of Hitachi Research Institute in 2005, Deputy Managing Director of Hitachi Asia Ltd. in 2009, a director of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc. (concurrent position) in 2010, Director and General Manager of Hitachi Research Institute in 2011, and to the position of president in 2013.
He is the author of “Denshi Seifu” (Digital Government: How IT will Reform Government), Toyo Keizai Inc.
