Name

Position

* Akito Arima

Chairman, Japan Science Foundation
Chancellor, Musashi Education Institution, Nezu Education Foundation
President, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture

Yasushi Akashi

Chairman, The International House of Japan
Former Under-Secretary-General, the United Nations

Neil Calder

Vice-President for Public Relations and Communications, OIST

Monte Cassim

Vice Chancellor, The Ritsumeikan Trust

John Dickison

Vice-President for Buildings and Facility Management, OIST

Yoshiharu Doi

Director, RIKEN Research Cluster for Innovation

Kenji Doya

Vice-Provost for Research, OIST

Frederick Gilman

Dean of the Mellon Collage of Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Ryo Hirasawa

Chief Director,  Institute for Future Engineering
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo

Member, Administrative Council, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Steven Hyman

Former Provost, Harvard University

The director of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

Tisato Kajiyama

Board Chairman and President, Fukuoka Women's University
Former president, Kyushu University

Koichi Kitazawa

Councilor to the president , Japan Science and Technology Agency

Makoto Kobayashi

Professor emeritus of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

Maki Kubo

Vice-President for Administrative Compliance, OIST

Ryo Matsumoto

Professor of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo

Ann Miura-Ko

Co-founding partner, Floodgate

Ken Peach

Director, Particle Therapy Cancer Therapy Institute, Oxford

Fumiyasu Shikiya

Mayor of Onna Village

Katsuhiko Shirai

President, The Open University of Japan

Former President, Waseda University

*Hiroko Sho

Director, Okinawa Science and Technology Promotion Center

Director, Okinawa International University

Shigemitsu Shokita

Board of Councilor of the Okinawa Science and Technology Promotion Center

Hirotaka Sugawara

Special Advisor to the President and Distinguished Professor, OIST

David Swinbanks

Publishing Director, Publishing Group, Nature
CEO, Nature Asia Pacific (located in Tokyo)

Keisuke Taira

Advisor, the University of Ryukyus

Former Vice President, the University of Ryukyus

Kurayoshi Takara

Professor of the University of Ryukyus

Fuji Takayasu

Former Assistant PR Officer of the US Consulate in Okinawa

Tsugiyoshi Toma

A Co-chair of the Okinawa Association of Corporate Executives

Chairman, the Okinawa Electric Power Company

Gail Tripp

Chair of the Faculty Assembly/Council, OIST

Yoshiyuki Uehara

Vice Governor of Okinawa Prefecture

Patrick Vincent

Vice-President for Finance and Administration, OIST

Albrecht Wagner

Director General Emeritus, the DESY

Jeffery Wickens

Dean of the Graduate School, OIST

Akira Yamauchi

Principal, Okinawa AMICUS International

* Takeshi Yasumoto

Professor emeritus, Tohoku University

Philip Yeo

Chairman, SPRING Singapore