SPEAKERS and MODERATORS
Dr. John P. Holdren served as President Obama’s Science Advisor and the Senate-confirmed Director ofthe White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) from January 2009 until January 2017.
From 1996 through 2008 he was at Harvard University as Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental
Policy in the Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Science & Policy in theDepartment of Earth & Planetary Sciences—positions to which he was re-appointed in February 2017. He is
also Affiliated Professor in Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science; Co-Chairof the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science andInternational Affairs; and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Dr. Holdren earned S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in aeronautics
and astronautics and a Ph.D. from Stanford in theoretical plasma physics. He is a member of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the American PhilosophicalSociety, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a foreign member of the Royal Societyof London and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. From 1973 to 1996 he was on the faculty of
the University of California, Berkeley, where he co-founded and co-led the interdisciplinary graduate-degree
program in energy and resources. In December 1995 he gave the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture on
behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international arms-control
organization he served in leadership positions from 1982 to 1997.

Mr. Taku Otsuka is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the House of Representatives of
the Diet in Japan. He started his career as an LDP member in 2005, and is currently in his 4th term. In theLDP, he has assumed the positions of Law Division Director and Defense Division Director. At the Cabinet
he took such positions as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice and Cabinet Office, State Minister ofFinance, and State Minister of Cabinet Office. He graduated from Keio University Law Department andjoined Mitsubishi-Tokyo Bank. Then, he took a Master’s degree in Public Policy at Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Takahiro Ueyama was born in Osaka in 1958. Completed a Ph.D. at the History Department atStanford University after finishing the Graduate Program at the Faculty of Economics, Osaka University. Hetaught at the Faculty of Economics, Sophia University (1998-2013) serving as its Dean from 2011-2013.
After being Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Keio University(until 2015), and Vice President at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2015-16), he iscurrently Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office ofJapanese Government. Publications include Akademikku kyapitarizumu o koete (Beyond Academic
Capitalism), which was awarded the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Prize in 2010.

Professor Sunami is Director of SciREX Center and President of Sasakawa Peace Foundation. He holds
BSFS from Georgetown University. He obtained MIA and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.
He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Promotion of Science and Technology Diplomacy inMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Expert Panel on Basic Policy in Council for Science,
Technology and Innovation of Cabinet office. He served as Special Advisor, Cabinet Office responsible for
Science and Technology and Innovation from 2015 to 2018.

Dr. Gerald Hane is Senior Executive of Hitachi Asia and a Visiting Research Fellow at GRIPS. He has
spent over 10 years working in Asia on the commercialization of innovation, including time as President ofBattelle-Japan, a joint venture of the Battelle Memorial Institute and Mitsubishi Corporation. He has advised
both the governments of the United States and Japan, and under the Clinton administration served as headof International Strategy and Affairs in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He also worked as
Professional Staff for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Committee on Science, Space andTechnology. He has his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political economy with a focus on innovation
policy, and his B.S. and M.S. are from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering.