Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Kokyo Oh is a senior researcher in Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan. He obtained Ph.D. degree (soil science) in 1995, and was honored as a research fellow by Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA) from 1997 to 1999. His research areas include soil science, environmental conservation, environmental chemistry and biology, and environmental agronomy. He has published more than 200 major academic papers, has presided over and participated in more than 100 scientific research fund projects, and has been invited to be the chairman of more than 20 international conferences.

 

Makoto Usami is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Kyoto University and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich. After staying as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, he was a full professor at Chukyo University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the President of the Public Policy Studies Association, Japan. His areas of specialty include legal and political philosophy, and he has recently worked on climate justice, global justice, intergenerational justice, and moral issues surrounding artificial intelligence, among others. He is the author of four books and a co-author of two textbooks, while also editing eight anthologies in English and Japanese. He has published nearly 80 journal papers and book chapters and given talks at more than 70 international conferences.