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Mr. TAKEMOTO Naokazu has been nominated as Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy since September 2019. Mr. TAKEMOTO also serves as Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy, and Minister of State for Space Policy, the Intellectual Property Strategy, and “Cool Japan” Strategy.

He was born in Osaka Prefecture and graduated from Kyoto University. He started his career at the Ministry of Construction in 1964 and left the ministry as Deputy Director-General. He was first elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 1996 and has been reelected eight times. He served as a Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2001, a Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from 2003 to 2004 and a State Minister of finance from 2005 to 2006.

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Michinari Hamaguchi earned his PhD in medicine from Nagoya University. He was appointed Research Associate at the Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1980, and since then, he had been working at Nagoya University, except for the time he pursued his research at the Rockefeller University in the U.S. from 1985-1988. He served as the President of Nagoya University from Apr. 2009 – Mar. 2015 before becoming the President of JST in Oct. 2015. He currently serves as Chairperson of the Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan.

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Dec. 1974 Joined Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Corp.
Jun. 2003 Executive Officer of MCC(Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.)
Apr. 2005 Managing Executive Officer of MCC
Jun. 2006 Director of the Board of MCHC(Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation)
Feb. 2007 Director of the Board, Managing Executive Officer of MCC
Apr. 2007 Director of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MCHC, Director of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MCC
Apr. 2009 Director of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of The KAITEKI Institute, Inc. (TKI)
Apr. 2012 Director of the Board, Chairperson of MCC (until Mar. 2017)
Feb. 2015 Director of the Board, Chairperson of TKI (current)
Apr. 2015 Director of the Board, Chairperson of MCHC (current)
July 2015 Chairman of the Board, Council for Advancing Structural Reform (current)
Sep. 2015 Member of the Board (Outside Director), Toshiba Corporation (current)
Mar. 2018 Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation(current)
Oct. 2019 Chair of the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform (current)

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Carlos Moedas graduated in Civil Engineering from the Higher Technical Institute (IST) in 1993 and completed the final year of studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris (France). He worked in engineering for the Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux group in France until 1998. He obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA) in 2000, after which he returned to Europe at investment bank Goldman Sachs in London (UK). He returned to Portugal in 2004 as Managing Director of Aguirre Newman and member of the Executive Board of Aguirre Newman in Spain. In 2008, he founded his own investment company, Crimson Investment management.

In 2011, Carlos Moedas was elected for the National Parliament and was appointed by the government as Secretary of State to the Prime Minister of Portugal in charge of the Portuguese Adjustment Programme.

Carlos Moedas was European Commissioner responsible for Research, Science and Innovation 2014 - 2019.

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Mariya Gabriel is serving her second mandate as a European Commissioner. Having served with responsibility for Digital Economy and Society (2017-2019). Her current portfolio will guide all EU policies relating to the Horizon Europe programme, innovations and research, the Erasmus programme, education, culture and sport. She has twice been elected to the European Parliament, in 2009 and 2014. She is one of the 50 most influential women in Europe in the field of cybersecurity. Mariya Gabriel has been honoured with numerous awards. Among them is the award “Women of Influence 2018” in the category “Talent in Politics”, the most prestigious Italian prize “Golden Apple” for highest achievements for women, the Beaumarchais Medal for her contribution in the protection of the interests of European artists. Mariya Gabriel has always focussed on the cause of women‘s rights.

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Dr. Chris Fall serves as Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the nation's largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. He oversees the Office's two principal thrusts: direct support of scientific research, and development, construction, and operation of unique, open-access scientific user facilities that are made available to external researchers. The Office of Science also is responsible for stewardship of 10 of the Department's 17 national laboratories.

Before joining the Office of Science, Fall served as a Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Energy and as Acting Director of DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Fall came to DOE from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), where he served for more than seven years in a variety of roles including Acting Chief Scientist and Lead for the Research Directorate, Deputy Director of Research, Director of the International Liaison Office, and the ONR Innovation Fellow. While on loan from ONR, Fall served for three years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Assistant Director for Defense Programs and then as Acting Lead for the National Security and International Affairs Division. Before government service, Fall was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California at Davis Institute for Theoretical Dynamics and the New York University Center for Neural Science.

Fall earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia. He also holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

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Masayoshi Son is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG), a strategic holding company that invests in breakthrough technology to improve people's quality of life around the world. Founded in 1981 initially as a PC software distribution business, SBG and its portfolio of companies have expanded to cover a range of technologies, including advanced telecommunications, internet services, AI, smart robotics, IoT and clean energy.

Mr. Son has overseen investments in some of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies. In 2017, SoftBank announced the first major close of the SoftBank Vision Fund, and with over $97 billion to help extraordinary entrepreneurs transform industries and shape new ones.

Alongside his responsibilities at SBG, Mr. Son is Chairman of SoftBank Corp., Director of Z Holdings Corporation, Director of Alibaba Group Holding Limited and Director of Sprint Corporation. He also serves as Chairman and Director of the world’s leading semiconductor IP company, Arm Limited, which SoftBank acquired in 2016.

Following the Great East Japan earthquake, Mr. Son founded the Renewable Energy Council, the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Initiatives Foundation and the Renewable Energy Institute. In 2016, he set up the Masason Foundation to provide an environment that enables youth with high aspirations and exceptional talents to develop their skills.

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Shiraishi Takashi majored in international relations at the University of Tokyo (1972) and obtained Ph.D. in History from Cornell University in 1986. He 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 Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office (2009-2012), President, GRIPS (2011-2017), President,
Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018) and currently serves as Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto (since 2018).
He was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2007 and designated to the Order of Cultural Merit in 2016. In 2017, he received the Medal of Bintang Jasa Utama from the Republic of Indonesia for hiscontribution to Indonesia in economic and educational fields.
He has published many books, including three award-winning works: An Age in Motion (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), and Umi no Teikoku (Empires of the Seas, Tokyo: Chuokoron, 2000; Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award).

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Dr. Astro Teller currently oversees X, Alphabet's moonshot factory for building magical, audaciously impactful ideas that through science and technology can be brought to reality. Before joining Google / Alphabet, Astro was the co-founding CEO of Cerebellum Capital, Inc, an investment management firm whose investments are continuously designed, executed, and improved by a software system based on techniques from statistical machine learning. Before his tenure as a business executive, Dr. Teller taught at Stanford University and was an engineer and researcher for Phoenix Laser Technologies, Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems, and The Carnegie Group Incorporated. Dr. Teller holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Stanford University, Masters of Science in symbolic and heuristic computation, also from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a recipient of the Hertz fellowship.

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Career:
Apr. 1977 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Central Research laboratory（Advanced Technology R&D Center）Research and Development: optelectronics. 1985～1986, Visiting researcher, California Institute of Technology. 1998, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. 2003, General Manager, Advanced Technology R&D Center. 2011, Executive Vice President. 2018, The Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) in the Cabinet Office. 2018, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) (to present).
Fellow of IEEE, OSA, JSAP, IEICE, SICE and LSJ. Honorary member of SICE. Board member of EAJ.
Professor (visiting or Part-time) :
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka Univ. ,Kobe Univ., Hokkaido Univ., Univ. of Tokyo and Keio Univ. etc.
Honors and Distinctions : the Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award from the Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association (1991), Okochi Memorial Technology Prize (2000), Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation Award (2001), and the New Technology Development Foundation Ichimura Prize (1996). etc.

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Anousheh Ansari is a CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Ansari, along with her family, sponsored the organization’s first competition, the Ansari XPRIZE, a $10 million competition that ignited a new era for commercial spaceflight.  Since then, she has served on XPRIZE’s Board of Directors.
Prior to being named CEO of XPRIZE, Ansari served as the CEO of Prodea Systems, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) technology firm she co-founded in 2006, and continues to serve as the executive chairwoman. She captured headlines around the world when she embarked upon an 11-day space expedition, accomplishing her childhood dream of becoming the first female private space explorer, first astronaut of Iranian descent, first Muslim woman in space, and fourth private explorer to visit space.
Ansari serves on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Council and has received numerous honors, including the WEF Young Global Leader, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and STEM Leadership Hall of Fame, among others. She is a UNESCO Good Will Ambassador and serves on the board of Jabil and Peace First, as well as several other not-for-profit organizations focused on STEM education and youth empowerment.
Ansari also co-founded The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, announced at the Tri Hita Karana (THK) Forum on Sustainable Development in Bali, Indonesia, with a goal of investing $1 billion in women-founded companies by 2020.
She published her memoir, My Dream of Stars, to share her life story as inspiration for young women around the world.
Ansari holds a BS in electronics and computer engineering from George Mason University, an MS in electrical engineering from George Washington University; and honorary doctorates from George Mason University, Utah Valley University, and International Space University.

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Deep tech authority, innovation executive, advisor, and international keynote speaker, Maurice's work focuses on disruptive innovation, applied AI, advanced robotics, augmented and virtual realities, and the future of work, cities, mobility, and climate. He has helped companies like NIKE, Tesla, Disney, Google, Autodesk, Telefonica Alpha, and Airbus to understand what’s coming in the future, why it matters for them, and how to prepare for, and thrive, in our rapidly changing landscape.
Maurice’s keynote talks engage audiences around the world with provocative and illuminating insights on how technology is changing the ways we live, work, and conduct business. More than 10 million people have watched his popular TED Talks.
An explorer of geographies and cultures, Maurice has sailed around the globe once and been half-way around twice. In 2009 he was awarded the Medal for Exceptional Bravery at Sea by the United Nations, the New Zealand Bravery Medal and a U.S. Coast Guard Citation for Bravery for risking his own life to save three shipwrecked sailors.
Maurice splits his time between Silicon Valley and Barcelona, Spain.

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Adam D'Angelo is the founder and CEO of Quora, the Q&A platform that empowers people to share and grow the world's knowledge. Since 2009, Quora has grown to serve more than 300 million monthly unique visitors from around the world.

He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure and started the company's growth team.

Prior to serving as CTO, he led the Facebook Platform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed and the first generation of the company's advertising targeting and delivery systems. Adam holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

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Dr. Ueyama was appointed to the role of full-time executive member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) at the Cabinet Office in 2016. Prior to joining the CSTI, Dr. Ueyama served as the Vice President for the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, as a professor at Faculty of Policy Management, and for two years as Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Sophia University in Japan. For almost 20 years, he has been a visiting professor at various universities such as Tohoku University – School of Engineering (Japan) and Stanford University – History Department (USA). Born and raised in Osaka, Dr. Ueyama started his academic life by joining the Graduate School of Economics at Osaka University. Thanks to a Fulbright Grant, he started to pursue the second degree in the field of the History of Science and Technology at Stanford University and received his doctorate in 1999.

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Michinari Hamaguchi earned his PhD in medicine from Nagoya University. He was appointed Research Associate at the Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1980, and since then, he had been working at Nagoya University, except for the time he pursued his research at the Rockefeller University in the U.S. from 1985-1988. He served as the President of Nagoya University from Apr. 2009 – Mar. 2015 before becoming the President of JST in Oct. 2015. He currently serves as Chairperson of the Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan.

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Dr. Chris Fall serves as Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the nation's largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. He oversees the Office's two principal thrusts: direct support of scientific research, and development, construction, and operation of unique, open-access scientific user facilities that are made available to external researchers. The Office of Science also is responsible for stewardship of 10 of the Department's 17 national laboratories.

Before joining the Office of Science, Fall served as a Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Energy and as Acting Director of DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Fall came to DOE from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), where he served for more than seven years in a variety of roles including Acting Chief Scientist and Lead for the Research Directorate, Deputy Director of Research, Director of the International Liaison Office, and the ONR Innovation Fellow. While on loan from ONR, Fall served for three years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Assistant Director for Defense Programs and then as Acting Lead for the National Security and International Affairs Division. Before government service, Fall was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California at Davis Institute for Theoretical Dynamics and the New York University Center for Neural Science.

Fall earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia. He also holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

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Wolfgang Burtscher has been Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation since 2009 and has meanwhile been responsible for a wide range of policy development and implementation issues pertaining to both the EU research and innovation framework programmes and broader EU research and innovation policy.
From 2000 to 2009, Mr Burtscher was Director in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture.
Before joining the European Commission in 2000, Mr Burtscher was representative of the Länder at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the EU.
From 1992 to 1996, Mr Burtscher was Director of European Affairs in the Vorarlberg administration. Previously, from 1990 to 1992, he was a legal advisor at the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Geneva, at the time of negotiations on the European Economic Area (EEA). From 1983 to 1990, he was a lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Innsbruck.
Mr Burtscher holds a doctorate in law and also has a qualification from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Nice.

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Anousheh Ansari is a CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Ansari, along with her family, sponsored the organization’s first competition, the Ansari XPRIZE, a $10 million competition that ignited a new era for commercial spaceflight.  Since then, she has served on XPRIZE’s Board of Directors.
Prior to being named CEO of XPRIZE, Ansari served as the CEO of Prodea Systems, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) technology firm she co-founded in 2006, and continues to serve as the executive chairwoman. She captured headlines around the world when she embarked upon an 11-day space expedition, accomplishing her childhood dream of becoming the first female private space explorer, first astronaut of Iranian descent, first Muslim woman in space, and fourth private explorer to visit space.
Ansari serves on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Council and has received numerous honors, including the WEF Young Global Leader, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and STEM Leadership Hall of Fame, among others. She is a UNESCO Good Will Ambassador and serves on the board of Jabil and Peace First, as well as several other not-for-profit organizations focused on STEM education and youth empowerment.
Ansari also co-founded The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, announced at the Tri Hita Karana (THK) Forum on Sustainable Development in Bali, Indonesia, with a goal of investing $1 billion in women-founded companies by 2020.
She published her memoir, My Dream of Stars, to share her life story as inspiration for young women around the world.
Ansari holds a BS in electronics and computer engineering from George Mason University, an MS in electrical engineering from George Washington University; and honorary doctorates from George Mason University, Utah Valley University, and International Space University.

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Deep tech authority, innovation executive, advisor, and international keynote speaker, Maurice's work focuses on disruptive innovation, applied AI, advanced robotics, augmented and virtual realities, and the future of work, cities, mobility, and climate. He has helped companies like NIKE, Tesla, Disney, Google, Autodesk, Telefonica Alpha, and Airbus to understand what’s coming in the future, why it matters for them, and how to prepare for, and thrive, in our rapidly changing landscape.
Maurice’s keynote talks engage audiences around the world with provocative and illuminating insights on how technology is changing the ways we live, work, and conduct business. More than 10 million people have watched his popular TED Talks.
An explorer of geographies and cultures, Maurice has sailed around the globe once and been half-way around twice. In 2009 he was awarded the Medal for Exceptional Bravery at Sea by the United Nations, the New Zealand Bravery Medal and a U.S. Coast Guard Citation for Bravery for risking his own life to save three shipwrecked sailors.
Maurice splits his time between Silicon Valley and Barcelona, Spain.

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Adam D'Angelo is the founder and CEO of Quora, the Q&A platform that empowers people to share and grow the world's knowledge. Since 2009, Quora has grown to serve more than 300 million monthly unique visitors from around the world.

He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure and started the company's growth team.

Prior to serving as CTO, he led the Facebook Platform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed and the first generation of the company's advertising targeting and delivery systems. Adam holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

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Mr. Akaishi Koichi is currently in charge of overall innovation policy of Japanese government, as a Vice Minister for Innovation Policy in Cabinet Secretariat. Prior to appointing the Vice Minister for Innovation Policy, Mr. Akaishi served on various positions in the Government of Japan, such as economic revitalization, environment and energy policy, digitalization, innovation and international trade.

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Pascal Lamy served for two consecutive terms as General Director of the World Trade Organization (2005-2013).  He was Chief of Staff for the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors (1985-1994). He then joined the Credit Lyonnais as CEO until 1999, before returning to Brussels as European Trade Commissioner until 2004. He is committed in various organisations on issues related to globalisation, global governance, international trade, international economics, regional integration, European and French issues.

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Jake Taylor joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in December 2017 to help lead the U.S. effort to advance American leadership in quantum information science. While at OSTP, he has overseen the passage of the National Quantum Initiative Act, signed into law on December 21, 2018; helped create the U.S. national strategy for quantum information science published in September, 2018; launched two National Science and Technology Council subcommittees to coordinate quantum-related research and development across the United States; and formed the National Quantum Coordination Office under OSTP’s leadership.

While not on detail to OSTP, Taylor is a NIST Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (http://quics.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland, and a Joint Quantum Institute (http://jqi.umd.edu) Fellow. His research group investigates the fundamental limits of quantum devices for computation and communication. He received an AB in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics at Harvard in 2000 and then spent a year as a Luce Scholar at the University of Tokyo. Taylor returned to Harvard for his PhD in the group of Mikhail Lukin in 2006, exploring approaches to quantum computing and fault tolerance using spins in quantum dots. He went on to a Pappalardo Fellowship at MIT, working in both the Condensed Matter Theory group and the Center for Theoretical Physics, and during that time co-invented diamond-based magnetometry. In 2009 Taylor joined the Joint Quantum Institute and NIST, and in 2014 started the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and recipient of the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the AAAS, the Samuel J. Heyman Service to American “Call to Service” medal, the Silver Medal of the Commerce Department, the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, and the IUPAP C15 Young Scientist prize. He can be found on twitter @quantum_jake

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KITANO is President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Senior Vice President of Sony Corporation, President of The Systems Biology Institute, and Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. He is also a Founding President of the RoboCup Federation, President of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2009-2011), and Member of the AI & Robotics Council (2016-2018), and Quantum Computing Council (2019-2020) of The World Economic Forum.

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KITANO is President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Senior Vice President of Sony Corporation, President of The Systems Biology Institute, and Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. He is also a Founding President of the RoboCup Federation, President of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2009-2011), and Member of the AI & Robotics Council (2016-2018), and Quantum Computing Council (2019-2020) of The World Economic Forum.

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Wolfgang Burtscher has been Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation since 2009 and has meanwhile been responsible for a wide range of policy development and implementation issues pertaining to both the EU research and innovation framework programmes and broader EU research and innovation policy.
From 2000 to 2009, Mr Burtscher was Director in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture.
Before joining the European Commission in 2000, Mr Burtscher was representative of the Länder at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the EU.
From 1992 to 1996, Mr Burtscher was Director of European Affairs in the Vorarlberg administration. Previously, from 1990 to 1992, he was a legal advisor at the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Geneva, at the time of negotiations on the European Economic Area (EEA). From 1983 to 1990, he was a lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Innsbruck.
Mr Burtscher holds a doctorate in law and also has a qualification from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Nice.

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Jake Taylor joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in December 2017 to help lead the U.S. effort to advance American leadership in quantum information science. While at OSTP, he has overseen the passage of the National Quantum Initiative Act, signed into law on December 21, 2018; helped create the U.S. national strategy for quantum information science published in September, 2018; launched two National Science and Technology Council subcommittees to coordinate quantum-related research and development across the United States; and formed the National Quantum Coordination Office under OSTP’s leadership.

While not on detail to OSTP, Taylor is a NIST Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (http://quics.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland, and a Joint Quantum Institute (http://jqi.umd.edu) Fellow. His research group investigates the fundamental limits of quantum devices for computation and communication. He received an AB in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics at Harvard in 2000 and then spent a year as a Luce Scholar at the University of Tokyo. Taylor returned to Harvard for his PhD in the group of Mikhail Lukin in 2006, exploring approaches to quantum computing and fault tolerance using spins in quantum dots. He went on to a Pappalardo Fellowship at MIT, working in both the Condensed Matter Theory group and the Center for Theoretical Physics, and during that time co-invented diamond-based magnetometry. In 2009 Taylor joined the Joint Quantum Institute and NIST, and in 2014 started the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and recipient of the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the AAAS, the Samuel J. Heyman Service to American “Call to Service” medal, the Silver Medal of the Commerce Department, the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, and the IUPAP C15 Young Scientist prize. He can be found on twitter @quantum_jake

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Danny presently holds the position of Executive Director BMRC in A*STAR. His team in BMRC is responsible for incepting and coordinating efforts and programmes in drug development, precision medicine, medical technology and biomanufacturing. Danny is presently also the Programme Director for the Singapore Biodesign programme, where his team trains fellows for medtech start-ups. Danny was the founding and Acting CEO of the Experimental Biotherapeutics Centre. In this role, Danny and his team were responsible for setting up a brand new centre for biotherapeutics development. Danny’s experience is in drug development, and he previously worked at Eli Lilly and Company for 15 years, where he headed up the Lilly-NUS Centre for Clinical Pharmacology (LNUS). As the Managing Director and Principal Investigator, Danny had responsibility and oversight for all clinical Phase 1 studies conducted and operations in the unit. Studies conducted included first-in-human studies, biomarker development work, human physiology investigations and pivotal registration PK studies, in neuroscience, diabetes, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular therapeutic areas. Danny has deep experience in diabetes therapeutics programmes, including insulins development. He established a high quality diabetes research capability at LNUS, which has enabled LNUS to perform niche studies in the support of Lilly portfolio, including several pivotal registration studies for the FDA.

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David Locke, Prize Lead for the ANA Avatar XPRIZE, brings nearly two decades of Operations and Management experience with a focus on organizing complex global projects and events. Over the course of his ten plus year tenure at XPRIZE, David has orchestrated numerous incentivized prize competitions which leverage emerging exponential technologies and a crowd-source platform to drive technological breakthroughs and positive social impact.

Prior to joining XPRIZE, David was part of a small team at Sony Pictures Television responsible for overseeing the production of all television movie and mini-series worldwide for the studio. David has also coordinated a number of award-winning network and cable TV programs, feature films as well as music videos and commercials.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Television Production with a Minor in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University and earned his Project Management Certification from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). David is passionate about exploration and making the impossible possible.

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Dr. Kenji Yamaji, Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo, is Senior Vice President / Director-General of the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) since April 1, 2010. He served as President of the Japan Institute of Energy and as President of the Japan Society of Energy and Resources. Dr. Yamaji’s immediate past position was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems at the University of Tokyo. He obtained B.S., M.S., and Dr. of Engineering degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1972, 1974, 1977 respectively. During the earlier part of his career, Dr. Yamaji had been extensively involved in the analysis of energy technology assessment, mainly at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) in Japan. He has published more than 80 books as well as many research papers on energy systems, and he is also serving in many advisory bodies on energy and environmental policy for the Japanese government. Dr. Yamaji contributed to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a lead author for the 3rd and 4th Assessment Reports of WG3.

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After studying Physics and earning Masters’ Degree in Environmental Sciences at Tsukuba University, entered NIKKEI in 1987. Worked as a staff writer for Science & Technology News Department, then joined Business News Department to cover electronics industries as well as pharmaceutical and biotech business. Became Washington DC correspondent (1998-2002) and Paris Bureau Chief (2003-2007), before coming back to Tokyo to become Deputy Editor for Science & Technology News Dept. Senior Staff Writer since 2012, also assuming the role as Editorial Writer since 2016. Recent areas of interest are issues related to research and innovation, especially life sciences, health big data and space sciences, and also environmental & energy issues including global climate change and natural disasters. Certified and accredited meteorologist.

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Dr. Ueyama was appointed to the role of full-time executive member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) at the Cabinet Office in 2016. Prior to joining the CSTI, Dr. Ueyama served as the Vice President for the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, as a professor at Faculty of Policy Management, and for two years as Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Sophia University in Japan. For almost 20 years, he has been a visiting professor at various universities such as Tohoku University – School of Engineering (Japan) and Stanford University – History Department (USA). Born and raised in Osaka, Dr. Ueyama started his academic life by joining the Graduate School of Economics at Osaka University. Thanks to a Fulbright Grant, he started to pursue the second degree in the field of the History of Science and Technology at Stanford University and received his doctorate in 1999.

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KITANO is President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Senior Vice President of Sony Corporation, President of The Systems Biology Institute, and Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. He is also a Founding President of the RoboCup Federation, President of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2009-2011), and Member of the AI & Robotics Council (2016-2018), and Quantum Computing Council (2019-2020) of The World Economic Forum.

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