Workshop Steering Committee

Sheikh A. Akbar, Professor and Founder of the NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM), Ohio State University
David R. Franz, Chief Biological Scientist, Midwest Research Institute
Hajime Haneda, Director, Electroceramics Group, Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Material Science
Duncan Moore, Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester
Norimitsu Murayama, Sensor Integration Group, Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Masanori Okuyama, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

Science Council of Japan Oversight Committee

Teruo Kishi, (Chair) Vice President, Science Council of Japan, President of NIMS
Hiroaki Yanagida, Member, Science Council of Japan
Hajime Haneda, Director, Electroceramics Group, Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Material Science
 

GDEST Oversight Committee

Lewis M. Branscomb, (Chair), Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus and former Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program in the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
George Bugliarello, President Emeritus of Polytechnic University and Foreign Secretary of the US National Academy of Engineering
David R. Challoner, Co-chair of the Executive Committee of the InterAcademy Medical Panel and Foreign Secretary of the US Institute of Medicine
Mike Clegg, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at University of California – Irvine and Foreign Secretary of the US National Academy of Sciences
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Science Council of Japan Staff

Nobuyuki Sakashita, Director, Science Information and International Affairs Division
Shinji Takizawa, Section Chief, Science Information and International Affairs Division
 

National Academies Staff

Patricia S. Wrightson, Program Director – Policy and Global Affairs Division
Tabitha M. Benney, Program Associate – Policy and Global Affairs Division

Sponsors

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Science and Technology Adviser
National Institute for Material Science, Japan
Science Council of Japan, Science Information and International Affairs Division
U.S. National Academies, Policy and Global Affairs Division