Committees (FY2023)

The persons listed below act as members of the Japan Foundation’s committees.
(In alphabetical order, names listed without honorifics)

Committees

* As of March 31, 2024

ADACHI Nobuko
Professor, Illinois State University

Lee BRANSTETTER
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Julie Nelson DAVIS
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Alisa FREEDMAN
Professor, University of Oregon

Andrew GORDON
Professor, Harvard University

IKEGAMI Eiko
Professor, The New School

IOKIBE Kaoru
Professor, The University of Tokyo

KATADA Saori
Professor, University of Southern California

Levi MCLAUGHLIN
Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

NAKAMURA Karen
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Robert J. PEKKANEN
Professor, University of Washington

Morgan PITELKA
Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Doug SLAYMAKER
Professor, University of Kentucky

Kären WIGEN
Professor, Stanford University

YAMAMOTO Satomi
Professor, Waseda University

Louis SCHWEITZER
Special Representative of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs for France-Japan Partnership
(co-chairperson from France)

Hortense ARCHAMBAULT
Director, Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis

Jacques ASCHENBROICH
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Orange

Estelle BRACHLIANOFF
Chief Executive Officer, Veolia

Anne DÉMIANS
Architect; Urban planner

Philippe FAURE
Former French Ambassador to Japan

Michael LUCKEN
Professor, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

Jean-Robert PITTE
President, Société de Géographie

Christian SAUTTER
Vice President, Fondation France-Japon (FFJ) of l’École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Diane DE SELLIERS
Éditions Diane de Selliers

MATSUURA Koichiro
8th Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
(co-chairperson from Japan)

ISHII Akari-Lisa
Lighting Designer; Principal, I.C.O.N.

KASHIWAKURA Yasuo
Professor Emeritus, The Open University of Japan

TSUJIHARA Noboru
Writer; Director, Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature

HAYAMA Reiko
Architect

HORIBA Atsushi
Chairperson and Group CEO, Horiba, Ltd.

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