Special Advisors
The TFC has invited two world leaders in business and academia to provide comprehensive advice about the activities of the TFC.
Tetsuro Higashi
Former CEO
Tokyo Electron Limited
Makoto Kobayashi
Honorary Professor Emeritus
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
International Advisory Board
The International Advisory Board was established as an organization to evaluate the proposed thematic programs gathered from throughout the world, and to provide advice on the activities of the TFC.
Sayaka Dake
Professor
Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University
Arjen Doelman
Professor
Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
Yuko Harayama
Emeritus Professor
Tohoku University
Mathias Kläui
Professor
Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Hirosi Ooguri
Fred Kavli Professor and Director of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
California Institute of Technology
Huey–Jen Jenny Su
President Emeritus
Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
National Cheng Kung University
Fiona M. Watt
Director
European Molecular Biology Organization
Katsuya Yamori
Professor
Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Past International Advisory Board Members
April 1, 2014 – November 20, 2016
Reiko Aoki
Executive Vice President, Professor
Kyushu University
April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2017
Oliver Smithies
D. Phil. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2018
Jean–Pierre Bourguignon
The Former Director and Honorary Professor at IHES
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2019
Kiyoshi Kurokawa
Professor Emeritus
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2020
Makoto Kobayashi
Honorary Professor Emeritus
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
April 3, 2017 – March 31, 2020
Takamitsu Sawa
Vice Director
International Institute for Advanced Studies
April 1, 2017 – March 31, 2023
Peter Gruss
President/CEO
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
April 1, 2019 – March 31, 2024
Toru Nakano
Emeritus Professor
Osaka University