List of Executives

Honorary President Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado
Special Advisors Takatoshi Nishiwaki (Governor of Kyoto Prefecture)
Koji Matsui:Mayor of Kyoto City
Nagahiro Minato (President, Kyoto University)
Shojiro Nishio (President, Osaka University)
Senior Advisors Hiroo Imura (Professor Emeritus and Former President, Kyoto University)
Hiroshi Matsumoto (Director, International Institute for Advanced Studies)
Board of Councilors Tadao Ando (Architect)
Yoshinari Hara (Honorary Adviser, Daiwa Securities Group Inc.)
Katsuhiko Honda (Honorary Company Fellow, Japan Tobacco Inc.)
Nichimu Inada (Chairman, Family Inada Co., Ltd.)
Mizuho Inamori
Takeo Kanade (U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University)
Yasuo Kashihara (Honorary Advisor, The Bank of Kyoto, Ltd.)
Takashi Mimura (Honorary Fellow, Fujitsu Ltd.)
Osamu Nishieda (Attorney-at-law)
Tadashi Onodera (Former President, KDDI Corporation)
Takashi Tanaka (Chairman, KDDI Corporation)
Hideo Tanimoto (President and Representative Director, KYOCERA Corporation)
Yoshikata Tsukamoto (Honorary Chairperson, Wacoal Holdings Corp.)
Yoshiharu Ueki (Chairperson, Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.)
Goro Yamaguchi (Chairman and Representative Director, KYOCERA Corporation)
Board of Directors Chairman
Shigetada Nakanishi (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Vice Chairman
Hiroyuki Sakaki (Chairman, Nara National Institute of Higher Education and Research)
President
Shinobu Inamori-Kanazawa
Executive Managing Director
Shoichi Himono (Former Secretary General, Inamori Foundation)
Directors
Alison Beale (Director, University of Oxford Japan Office)
Kazuhito Himeda (General Manager, Finance & Accounting Division, Inamori Foundation)
Tasuku Honjo (Deputy Director and Distinguished Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University)
Koji Igarashi (General Manager, Academic Research Division, Inamori Foundation)
Yoh Iwasa (Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University)
Tisato Kajiyama (Former President and Professor Emeritus, Fukuoka Women’s University)
Masanori Murakami (Senior Research Fellow, Ritsumeikan University)
Ryoji Noyori (Director-General, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Takamitsu Sawa (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Soshitsu Sen (Grand Tea Master, Urasenke)
Kiyoshi Sono (Senior Advisor, MUFG Bank, Ltd.)
Kiyokazu Washida (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University)
Juichi Yamagiwa (Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
Shinya Yamanaka (Director Emeritus and Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University)
Toshio Yokoyama (Chair of the Board of Trustees and President, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)
Auditors Akiko Koyano (Partner Attorney-at-law, Koyano Law Office)
Hiroshi Tamura (Certified Public Tax Accountant, Shijo Accounting Office)
Academic Advisory Board Seiji Choki (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Yoh Iwasa (Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University)
Shigefumi Mori (Director-General and Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study)
Shuh Narumiya (Director, Medical Innovation Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Kiyokazu Washida (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University)

(As of March, 2024)