www.oecd.org/sti/inno/stpolicy2025

DETAILS
Time: 18:30 – 19:45
Date: Thursday, December 23, 2021
Online: via Zoom
Language: English-Japanese simultaneousinterpretation

SPEAKER

Dr. Michael Keenan
OECD Senior Policy Analyst

Commentators

Dr. KOTERA Hidetoshi Dr. ARUGA Osamu
Vice Chair, OECD S&T
Policy Committee
Executive Director, RIKEN

Director for Int’l Affairs
STI Policy Secretariat
Cabinet Office

SciREX Seminar #40
We will invite Dr. Michael Keenan, Senior Policy
Analyst, OECD to talk about the “S&T Policy 2025”
that is an S&T policy concept newly proposed byOECD. It will be followed by his discussions withtwo commentators of Dr. Kotera Hidetoshi, Vice
Chair of the OECD S&T Policy Committee andExecutive Director of RIKEN, and Dr. Aruga Osamu,
International Affairs Director in the STI Policy
Secretariat at the Cabinet Office.
“S&T Policy 2025” aims to provide an overarchingvision and framework for STI policymakers torethink, redesign and implement a new generationof STI policies that better contributes tosustainability transitions. To this end, the projectwill develop tools, guidance, data and analysis toassist countries in their STI policy reforms. Amongthese are reference roadmaps that suggest
appropriate policy steps and sequences in pursuitof STI-enabled transition pathways, and background
papers and policy dialogues that offer practicalguidance and analytical support to policymakers
looking, for example, to improve cross-government
cooperation on STI and to develop the strategic
intelligence infrastructure for transitions.

Moderators:
Prof. ARIMOTO Tateo, GRIPS
Mr. KIKUCHI Noel, SciREX Program Specialist

Registration
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2ng1loaxS3qjIFli0rs
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Inquiries toscirex-center@grips.ac.jp
SciREX Center
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

SPEAKERDr. Michael Keenan
Senior Policy Analyst
Organization for Economic Cooperation andDevelopment (OECD)
Michael Keenan (BSc, MA, PhD) is a Senior Analyst in the OECD’s Directorate
for Science, Technology and Innovation. He has worked in the science andinnovation policy field for more than two decades, focusing on strategic policy
intelligence (foresight, evaluation) practices and national innovation systemanalysis. He has been at the OECD since 2007, where he currently leads
preparation of the “S&T Policy 2025” initiative that aims to provide anoverarching vision and framework for STI policymakers to rethink, redesign
and implement a new generation of STI policies that better contributes tosustainability transitions.

Commentators
Dr. KOTERA Hidetoshi
Vice Chair, OECD S&T Policy Committee
Executive Director, RIKEN
Dr. KOTERA Hidetoshi is Vice Chair of OECD Committee for S&T Policy, an
Executive Director of RIKEN, Japan’s largest comprehensive research
institution of quality research in diverse fields, and a Professor Emeritus atKyoto University. After obtaining Ph.D. from Kyoto University in MechanicalEngineering, he worked as a researcher at Matsushita Electric Company and inthe faculty of Kyoto University. He is an author of 170 academic papers andover 220 papers for international conferences, and a holder of 47 patents.

Dr. ARUGA Osamu
Director, International Affairs, STI Policy Secretariat
Cabinet Office
Dr. Aruga has a diverse experience of working for STI policies, nuclear policy,
including being a Senior Expert at IAEA, while at the Ministry of Education,
S&T (MEXT). He has also been engaged in science, technology andeducation at MEXT, Cabinet Secretariat, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TokyoTech) and Science and Technology Agency (STA). He obtained Ph.D. ineconomics and MAs in economics and public policy from the University ofMichigan, and ME in nuclear engineering and BE in metallurgicalengineering from the Tokyo Tech.