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Organization

(as of April 1st, 2011)  

RIHN is organized as the following.

 

Board and Committees

•Board of Advisors

Oversees personnel, plannng, administration and operation of the institute.

NAME
POSITION
FUJII Yoshiyuki Director-General, National Institute of Polar Research
FURUSAWA Iwao President, Tottori University of Environmental Studies
IWASAKA Yasunobu Professor, Kanazawa University Frontier Science Organization
SHIRAHATA Yozaburo Professor, Research Department, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, NIHU
WASHIDA Kiyokazu President, Osaka University
YASUNARI Tetsuzo Professor, Hydrospheric Atomspheric Research Center, Nagoya University
YOKOYAMA Toshio Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
YONEMOTO Shohei Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
ABE Ken-ichi Professor, RIHN
AKIMICHI Tomoya

Professor, CCPC, RIHN

SATO Yo-Ichiro Deputy Director-General, RIHN
Director, CCPC,RIHN
TANIGUCHI Makoto Program Director, RIHN
WATANABE Tsugihiro Deputy Director- General, RIHN
YUMOTO Takakazu Program Director, RIHN

 

•Project Evaluation Committee (PEC)

External review of research project proposals.

(DOMESTIC)
NAME
POSITION
IWASAKA Yasunobu Professor, Kanazawa University Frontier Science Organization
MUSHIAKE Katsumi Research Counciler, Foundation of River & Watershed Environment Management
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Hosei University
NAKAMURA Masami Professor, Edogawa University
Former Senior Staff Writer, Editorial Bureau, Nihonkeizai Shimbun Inc.
OHTSUKA Ryutaro President, Japan Wildlife Research Center
TANAKA Koji Professor, Young Reseacher Development Center, Kyoto University
UETA Kazuhiro Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
YAMAGATA Toshio Professor, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
YOKOYAMA Toshio Professor, Institute for Research in Humanitites, Kyoto University

 

(OVERSEAS)
NAME
POSITION
BELLWOOD, Peter Professor, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Australia
CHUN, Kyung-soo Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University, Korea
FU, Congbin Director, START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia, China; Research Professor, Institute of Atomospheric Physics (IAP)/Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
IKAWA-SMITH, Fumiko Former Associate Vice Principal, McGill University, Canada
LOVEJOY, Thomas E. President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Ecomonics and the Environment, USA
OHMURA Atsumu Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 

 

•Executive Board

Oversees administrative operation of the institute.

NAME
POSITION
TACHIMOTO Narifumi Director-General
SATO Yo-Ichiro

Deputy Director-General

Director, CCPC
WATANABE Tsugihiro Deputy Director-General
KAWABATA Zen'ichiro Program Director
MOJI Kazuhiko Program Director
NAKANO Takanori Program Director
TANIGUCHI Makoto Program Director
YUMOTO Takakazu Program Director
IBUKA Junjii Director, Administrative Office