• Professional Career

2002.8-2004.6 Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT); Secretary-General, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO
2004.7-2005.7 Director-General, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP)
2005.10-2007.7 Executive Director, JST
2007.8-present, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
2008.3-2009.12 Chair, Financial Audit Board, The ITER International Fusion Energy Organization
2009.3-present, Guest Professor, Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2010.8-present, Visiting Fellow, Center for R&D Strategy, JST(Japan Scienceand Technology Agency)
2011.1-present, Chair, Global Science Forum, Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2014.4-present, Advisor to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
2015.4-present, Guest Professor, Keio University
2015.10-present, President, Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management
2016.2-Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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• Selected publications

Hiroshi Nagano “Chapter 3: Challenges Facing Japan’s Science and Technology”, Globalizing Japan, Trans Pacific Press. ,2015, pp.53-69

Hiroshi Nagano "Chapter 1: Science and Technology Policy in Japan," The Dynamics of Regional Innovation, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2012, pp.25-39

Kuniko Urashima, Yoshiko Yokoo and Hiroshi Nagano "S&T policy and foresight investigation – impacts in Japan," foresight The journal of futures studies, strategic thinking and policy, vol. 14, no. 1, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012, pp.15-25

Lennart Stenberg, Nagano Hiroshi, "Priority-Setting in Japanese Research and Innovation Policy", 112p., VINNOVA’s Communication Division, December 2009

Prof. Christopher T. Hill and Nagano Hiroshi, Editorial “New Cooperation in East Asia”, p.1393, SCIENCE, VOL 316, 8 JUNE 2007

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Social contributions

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National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan; Board Member

Engineering Academy of Japan; Board Member

The Japan Opera Foundation; Board Member

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• e-mail: nagano

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