Professor Motohiro Tsuchiya is the Vice-President for Global Engagement at Keio University, Japan.

Prior to his current appointment, he served as the Dean of the Keio University Faculty of Policy Management. He earned his BA in political science, MA in international relations, and Ph.D. in media and governance, all from Keio University.

He is a member of the Space Security Division of the Committee on National Space Policy at the Cabinet Office and has served as a guest editorialist at Nikkei since April 2019.

He has authored or co-authored over 40 books, including Intelligence and National Security (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2007, in Japanese), Cyber Terror (Tokyo: Bungeishunju, 2012, in Japanese), Cyber Security and International Relations (Tokyo: Chikura Shobo, 2015, in Japanese), and Cyber Great Game (Tokyo: Chikura Shobo, 2020, in Japanese). He also co-authored Cybersecurity: Public Sector Threats and Responses (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012). He received the 15th Nakasone Yasuhiro Award in 2019.

Ms. Orie KISHIMOTO, Inspector for Schools, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, had begun her career in the ministry in 1993 and has over 20 years of experiences in various fields, such as promotion of culture and the arts, promotion of science, improvement of the copyright system, and student support.
Her expertise concerning higher education has also been enriched through her experience as administrative and academic faculty at national universities and as researcher at the National Institute for Educational Policy Research. After serving as Director for Copyright Division at the Agency for Cultural Affairs, she has been in her current position and in charge of international affairs in the Higher Education Bureau as the leader of the Higher Education International Strategy Project Team, since October 2021.

David has been working in EACEA for Eurydice, the European Union’s education information network, since 2008. He leads the work on higher education. This includes the production of four Bologna Process Implementation Reports (2012, 2015, 2018 and 2020) which have informed discussions of the Ministerial Conferences of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), as well as thematic reports and other information related to European policy priorities.
David also represents EACEA and the European Commission within the Bologna Follow Up Group where he is co-chair of the working group on monitoring and reporting. Here the responsibility of the working group is to coordinate all relevant information to assess the progress towards agreed higher education policy commitments.

Before joining Eurydice, David worked for the European University Association (EUA). He was responsible for EUA’s work on joint programmes and degrees, and also heavily involved in work on quality assurance at European level. EUA’s work in these fields was instrumental to the establishment of the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus programme, as well as to the main reference documents on quality assurance in Europe - notably the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG).

Toru Aoyama is the Vice President for Education and Admission Affairs at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (since 2021 until present). He is a professor of Indonesian Studies at the University (since 2003), where he teaches the Indonesian language, culture, and society.

His research interests include Old Javanese literature, the pre-modern history of Southeast Asia, and the religious interactions in Southeast Asia.

Some of his recent publications are:
・Toru Aoyama (2017). Social Integration in Majapahit as Seen in an Old Javanese Court Narrative. In Noboru Karashima and Masashi Hirosue (Eds.), State Formation and Social Integration in Pre-modern South and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study of Asian Society (pp. 165-177). Tokyo: The Toyo Bunko.
・Toru Aoyama (2018). The significance of mokṣa in the Rāmāyaṇa reliefs in the light of Old Javanese texts. In Yumi Sugahara and Willem van der Molen (Eds.), Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts (pp. 16-30). Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Toru Aoyama was born in Kobe and brought up in Nagasaki before moved to Kyoto to continue his education. He received a MA from Kyoto University and a PhD from Sydney University. Having lived in Tokyo for nearly seventeen years, he enjoys visiting historical sites in and around Tokyo with his wife in his spare time. He also loves coffee, cinemas, and cats.

Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University, Budapest, co-director of Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies (www-pasts.ceu.edu), and director of the History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus MA Program (www.hipsma.com).

His main field of interest is the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Between 2008 and 2013, he was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council grant project, “Negotiating Modernity”: History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe.

Among others, he is the author of the monograph, The Politics of ‘National Character’: A Study in Interwar East European Thought (Routledge, 2012); co-author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I-II (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016, 2018); as well as co-editor of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1775–1945), vols. I–IV (Budapest: CEU Press, 2006–7, 2014); European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (New York: Berghahn, 2017); and Brave New Hungary: Mapping the "System of National Cooperation" (Lexington: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).

Further information: https://people.ceu.edu/balazs_trencsenyi>

Jun Miura received a B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering in 1984 and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering in 1989 from the University of Tokyo.
In 1989, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University. From March 1994 to February 1994, he was a Visiting Scientist at Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2007, he has been a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology. His research interests include intelligent robotics, robot vision, and artificial intelligence.

Vincent Frémont received a M.S. degree in automatic control and computer science from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, in 2000 and a Ph.D. degree in automatic control and computer science from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, in 2003. From 2005 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) within the Heudiasyc Lab, UMR CNRS 7253. Since 2018, he is a Full Professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes within the ARMEN team at the LS2N Lab, UMR CNRS 6004. His research interests belong to perception systems for autonomous mobile robotics with an emphasis on computer vision, machine learning and multi-sensor fusion. Since 2019, he is the coordinator in chief of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree JEMARO, and since 2021, he is the Director of International Relations of Ecole Centrale de Nantes.

Prof. Norihisa Miki received Ph.D. in mechano-informatics from University of Tokyo in 2001. He developed a world-smallest helicopter using MEMS technology during his Ph.D. Then, he worked at MIT microengine project as a posdoc (2001-2003), later as a research engineer (2003-2004). He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Keio University in 2004 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2017. His research interests cover the fields of medical engineering, neuroscience, and media arts using innovative micro/nano devices. He was a researcher of JST PRESTO (Information Environment and Humans) from 2010 to 2016. He served as a general chair of the 8th and 9th Symposium on Micro-Nano Science and Technology in 2017 and 2018 sponsored by JSME. From 2019 he is a vice dean of Keio University International Center and chair of the committee for international affairs of Faculty of Science and Technology. He is the president of Skating Club of Keio University from 2018. He likes Cuban music and dance, watching and playing sports (ice skating, American football, golf, softball, etc.), fishing, movies, arts, etc.

Hideki Kasuya: Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine; Professor of International Medical Education; Vice Presidential Advisor for International Affairs, Chairman of Consortium Promotion Office, Director: Office of International Affairs,Director: Laboratory of Cancer Immunotherapy; Full Member: FACS (Faculty of the American College of Surgery), Board Member:Japanese Society for Gene and Cell Therapy, Board Member:Japanese Medical University International Collaborative Assembly, Board Member:Nagoya University Medical Association. From 2000-2003, Postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Department of Surgery). Current research interests include cancer immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer and comparison of doctoral education systems around the world, and in 2015 he established Japan's first joint doctoral degree program in medicine with the University of Adelaide.

Professor Obi has a Bachelor (BSc) and Master of Science (MSc) in mechanical engineering from Keio University, and a Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.

His research focuses on fluid mechanics, turbulence modelling, computational mechanics, and flow measurement techniques.
He served various positions of senior international officer of the university such as the Dean of the International Center and the Vice-President for International Collaboration.