Tatsuyuki Shimazu
Director General
Electronic Navigation Research InstituteTatsuyuki Shimazu is the Director-General at the Electronic Navigation
Research Institute (ENRI) since April 2022. He received his B.E. andM.E. degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka Japan in 1987 and 1989
respectively. After his graduation, he has been with Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and related organizations.
During his career, he has served as a consul at Consulate-General ofJapan in Seattle from 2002 to 2004, Administrator for Osaka Airport
office of the West Japan Civil Aviation Bureau from 2015 to 2016,
Deputy Director-General of the Civil Aviation College from 2016 to2018 and the Investigator-General for Aircraft Accident at the Japan
Transport Safety Board from 2018 to 2019. He has also held a numberof managerial positions at the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau including theDirector of Air Navigation Services Engineering Division, Air Navigation
Services Department from 2019 to 2021, and the Director of FlightStandards Division, Aviation Safety and Security Department from 2021
to 2022.

Kojiro Suzuki
President
The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences

Kojiro Suzuki is the president of The Japan Society for Aeronautical andSpace Sciences (JSASS) in FY2022. He is a professor in Department ofAdvanced Energy, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The Universityof Tokyo, since 2008. He received the doctor of engineering fromthe University of Tokyo in 1990. His major academic research fields
are computational and experimental fluid dynamics, aerodynamics inrelation to aerospace engineering, such as, atmospheric entry, spacetransportation system, lunar and planetary exploration and so on. As
the project leader, he conducted various flight experiments for a novel
atmospheric entry vehicle with deployable membrane aeroshell, usinglarge scientific balloon, sounding rocket and nano-satellite deployedfrom the International Space Station.

Koji Takahashi
Director-General, Air Navigation Services Department, JCAB
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

Koji Takahashi is the Director-General of the Air Navigation ServicesDepartment, Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Japan since October 2022. He graduatedfrom the University of Tokyo with a degree in Law. After his graduation,
he has been with MLIT and working at Embassy of Japan in France,
Policy Bureau, Japan National Tourism Organization(JNTO), Narita
International Airport Corporation and Tokyo International Airport Office
before taking his position at JCAB.
He is now responsible for aviation policy and implementation planning in
the field of Air Navigation Services.

Steve Bradford
Chief Scientist for Architecture and NextGen Development
Federal Aviation Administration

Steve W. Bradford is the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Chief
Scientific and Technical Advisor for Architecture and Next Generation
Air Transportation System (NextGen) Development. He is the Chairmanof the Technical Review Board, which monitors technical decisions;related investments; and the Enterprise Architecture. Mr. Bradford
works with elements of the FAA to develop midterm plans and fiveyear budget requests to implement NextGen. He is the FAA’s leadfor the FAA/NASA Research Transition Team process that supports
collaboration between the FAA and NAS on ATM related activities. He
also has a leading role in NextGen’s International engagement activities
with SESAR Joint Undertaking, and has led several co-operativeinternational efforts with EUROCONTROL He was a member of theInternational Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) technical team that
authored the Global Air Navigation Plan, the past US panel member
to the ICAO Air Traffic Management Requirements and Performance
Panel, and the Chairman of the Global Air Navigation Plan Study Groupresponsible for managing all updates to that plan.

Stephen P. Creamer
Director, Air Navigation Bureau
International Civil Aviation Organization
United Nations

Steve Creamer has served as Director of the Air Navigation Bureau atICAO since April 2015. Steve began his career in air traffic operations
and is a private pilot. Steve previously held a number of executive andmanagerial positions at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration withover 33 years’ experience in the Air Traffic and International Aviation
organizations. He served as a member of the ICAO Air Navigation
Commission as well. At ICAO he is responsible for delivery of safety
and air navigation strategic outcomes, integrating security andenvironmental requirements into developing ICAO SARPs and PANS.
During his tenure, ICAO has kept pace with industry developments
using innovative and engaging symposia, specialized workgroups
and now remote conferencing to help Member States and industry
stakeholders tackle complex challenges like safe carriage of lithium
batteries, safe digital connectivity of safety systems, new remote flying
technology, enhanced runway safety procedures and enhanced aircraft
tracking systems, among many others.

Andreas Boschen
Executive Director
SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking

Starting his professional career as a diplomat in Germany taking careof EU affairs, Andreas Boschen joined the European Commission’s
Secretariat General in 1998 to manage relations between the European
Commission, Parliament, Council and other bodies. He then moved on
to DG MOVE where he held several notable positions, including policy
officer for the Single European Sky, policy officer for maritime safety
and assistant to the Director-General of DG MOVE. Between 2014 and2022, Boschen led the department for the Connecting Europe Facility
at the Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency(CINEA), where he managed EU financial support to infrastructure
projects in the areas of transport and energy. On 1 July 2022, Andreas
Boschen officially started his mandate as Executive Director of theSESAR 3 Joint Undertaking.

Anna von Groote
Director General
European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment

Anna von Groote was appointed EUROCAE Director General in 2022.
She joined the EUROCAE Secretariat in 2011 as Technical ProgrammeManager, then became the Director Technical Programme overseeingand managing all EUROCAE standardisation activities and other
responsibilities within the organisation. Before joining EUROCAE, Anna
worked at the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) since2006, where she assumed responsibilities for the organisation’s work
programme in different sectors. In her role as Programme Manager,
she was responsible amongst others for the aerospace and air traffic
management sectors. Anna holds a Master’s degree in EuropeanStudies from the Centre for European Integration Studies / Universityof Bonn (Germany) and a Master of Laws LLM in Technology andIntellectual Property Law from the University of Liverpool (UK).

Yoshiaki Kuriyama
President
National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation TechnologyYoshiaki Kuriyama graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering,Tokyo Institute of Technology, and joined the Port and Harbour
Research Institute (PHRI), Ministry of Transport, in 1983. Since then,he has been conducting the research work on waves, currents, andsediment transport in the nearshore zone. He was appointed as theDirector General of the Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI), thesuccessor of PHRI, in 2016 and as the President of National Institute ofMaritime, Port and Aviation Technology (MPAT) in 2020.