MEMBER_CATEGORIES: HABITAT Phase2(2020-2022)
Kurita Takuya
In 1984, graduated from the faculty of law of The University of Kyoto. His career started as a government official of the Ministry of Construction, and he has had broad experiences in the policy field of national land and regional development, urban policy, city planning and infrastructure development. He also has many legislative achievements in such policy fields.
Between 2015 and 2018 he worked as director general of the City Bureau, and between 2018 and 2019 director general of the Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
In 2020, vice-minister of the ministry.
Holder of M.Phil of Land Economy and Ph.D of Science and Engineering.
Igeta Yuki
In 2024, she completed her doctoral course study at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Doctor of Environmental Studies. She joined DeNA Co., Ltd. and engaged in the development of autonomous driving services and field test operations. She was appointed to her present position in September 2021. Her specialty is Urban Design.
Masola, Alessia
Joined Hitachi’s Center for Technology Innovation – Social Systems Engineering in 2019, and engaged in research and development on smart cities.
Odagiri Mirai
After completing his Master’s degree in public policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, he joined Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. He was selected the Executive Secretary to Dr. Masaki OGUSHI Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. In 2015, he was elected as one of six in the politics and policy field as Propicker at NewPicks, Inc., which is a well-known Japanese social economic media company that specializes in economic information. He established Japan Association of Public Meets Innovation in 2018. In 2020, after getting MPA in Economic Policy Management at School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, he was elected as Pro Publingal at Publingual, Inc., which is Japanese social policy media.
Fukuda Koji
He joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 2005. Since then, he has been engaged in research on artificial intelligence, autonomous distributed systems, and policy Proposal AI. PhD (Science).