Organization

As of October 1, 2025

Chairperson
UEDA Teruhisa
Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, Shimadzu Corporation
Director-General
NISHIO Shojiro
Professor Emeritus and the 18th president, Osaka University

Management Members of Foundation

Chairperson
UEDA Teruhisa
Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, Shimadzu Corporation
Executive Managing Trustee
WAKI Hiroaki
Senior Expert, Shimadzu Corporation
Trustees
KAWAI Tomoaki
Managing Director, Public Foundation of Kansai Research Institute
KUBOTA Hiroyuki
Executive Managing Director, The Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry
NISHIO Shojiro
Professor Emeritus and the 18th president, Osaka University
SEKI Soichiro
Senior Managing Director, Kansai Economic Federation
Auditors
KITAOKA Mitsuo
Executive Advisor, Shimadzu Corporation
TAKAHASHI Kazuhiro
Certified Public Accountant, Licensed Tax Accountant
Councilors
ASAMI Tohru
President, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International(ATR)
HIRANO Toshio
Former President and Professor Emeritus, Osaka University
President, Osaka International Cancer Treatment Foundation
HORIBA Atsushi
Vice Chairman, Kansai Economic Federation
Chairman, The Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Chairman & Group CEO HORIBA, Ltd.
MATSUO Hiroki
Special Advisor to the Cabinet
NISHIMOTO Takahiro
Managing Executive Officer,Shimadzu Corporation
OOHARA Ken-ichiro
Honorary Director, Ohara Museum of Art
SHIOZAKI Kazuhiro
President, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
SUGAURA Takahiro
Director, Managing Executive Officer, Kintetsu Group Holdings Co., Ltd
SUWA Masaki
Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Technology & Intellectual Property HQ, OMRON Corporation
President and CEO, OMRON SINIC X Corp.
SUZUKI Kazuya
Vice-Governor, Kyoto Prefectural Government
TACHIMOTO Narifumi
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Senior Advisor, RIHN (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), I-URIC NIHU (National Institutes for Humanities, Inter-University Research Institutes Corporation)

As of April 1, 2026

Management Members of Research

Director-General
NISHIO Shojiro
Professor Emeritus and the 18th president, Osaka University
Vice Director
AKAMATSU Tamame
Former President and Professor Emeritus, Kyoto City University of Arts
Artist
KOBAYASHI Tadashi
Professor Emeritus,Osaka University
YAMADA Michio
Project Professor, RIMS, Kyoto University
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Research Planning and Promotion Committee
SAKAKI Hiroyuki (Chair)
President, Nara National Institute of Higher Education and Research
Fellow, Toyota Technological Institute
INAGA Shigemi
Honorary Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies/The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
KOTANI Motoko
Executive Director of Science, Special Advisor to the President, Riken
Executive Vice President for International Research Strategy, Tohoku University
NAKAMURA Michiharu
Honorary President, Japan Science and Technology Agency
TAKAHASHI Yoshito
Specially Appointed Professor, Heian Jogakuin(St. Agnes’)University
Senior Research Fellow
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Specially Appointed Researcher
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