Board of Governors Board of Governors Table of Contents Chair VijayRaghavan Krishnaswamy Professor Emeritus, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Vice-Chair James Higa Executive Director, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation / Board of Directors, U.S.-Japan Council Members Curtis Callan James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton University Rita Colwell Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health / Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, College Park Bernard L. Feringa Jacobus H. van’t Hoff Distinguished Prof of Molecular Sciences, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry University of Groningen Hiroyuki Fujita Founder and CEO, Quality Electrodynamics, LLC (QED) Gil Granot-Mayer Executive Vice President for Innovation and Outreach, Vice CEO, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Serge Haroche Professor Emeritus at Collège de France Shigeharu Kato Secretary-General and Vice CEO, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Yasushi Kawakami Representative Director and Chairman, Bank of The Ryukyus Ltd. Motoko Kotani Executive Director of Science, RIKEN Karin Markides President and CEO, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Ryoji Noyori President of the Japan Academy, Honorary Director of Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) / University Professor, Nagoya University Amy Shen Provost, Professor, and Vice CEO, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Micro/ Bio/ Nanofluidics Unit Yoshihisa Yamamoto Director of Physics & Informatics Laboratories, NTT Research, Inc., Professor (emeritus), National Institute of Informatics, Professor (emeritus), Stanford University Akira Yoshino Honorary Fellow, Asahi Kasei Corp. / Director of Global Zero Emission Research Center, Department of Energy and Environment Daniel Zajfman External Scientific Member of the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, Full Professor, Dept. of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science Rules of Operation for BOG Rules of Operation for BOG Governor Appointing Body Members （BOG） VijayRavagan Krishnaswamy (Chair) Motoko Kotani (Vice-Chair) Serge Haroche （BOC） Kenji Govaers Keith Hodgson Rules of operation Rules of operation BOG and BOC Meetings View Schedule Board of Governors - Committees view details
VijayRaghavan Krishnaswamy Professor Emeritus, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
James Higa Executive Director, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation / Board of Directors, U.S.-Japan Council
Rita Colwell Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health / Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Bernard L. Feringa Jacobus H. van’t Hoff Distinguished Prof of Molecular Sciences, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry University of Groningen
Gil Granot-Mayer Executive Vice President for Innovation and Outreach, Vice CEO, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
Ryoji Noyori President of the Japan Academy, Honorary Director of Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) / University Professor, Nagoya University
Yoshihisa Yamamoto Director of Physics & Informatics Laboratories, NTT Research, Inc., Professor (emeritus), National Institute of Informatics, Professor (emeritus), Stanford University
Akira Yoshino Honorary Fellow, Asahi Kasei Corp. / Director of Global Zero Emission Research Center, Department of Energy and Environment
Daniel Zajfman External Scientific Member of the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, Full Professor, Dept. of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
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