Mr. Corey Eide, Principal and Practice Leader, BDO Dr. Regardt Ferreira, Director, Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, Tulane University Dr. Miwako Kitamura, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Startup Incubation Center, Tohoku University Ms. Yumiko Mori, Founder and Chairwoman, Comachiplus
Amb. Derek Mitchell Senior Advisor (Non-Resident), Office of the President, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Distinguished Senior Fellow (Non-Resident), Sasakawa USA Ms. Min Mitchell, Principal and Founder, MoDem Advisory; former Executive Director, Radio Free Asia
Dr. Misaki Kiguchi Chief of Vascular Surgery, Department of Vascular Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Dr. Hiromi Yoshida Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington
Mr. James Schoff, Senior Director, Sasakawa USA; and Mr. Christopher B. Johnstone, Senior Advisor and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dr. Barbara Knust Asia Field Program Director for the Division of Global Migration; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Infectious Diseases
CAPT Christopher L. Perdue U.S. Public Health Service, Senior Policy Analyst; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
Ms. Catherine Evans Interdisciplinary Scientist; Office of Strategy, Policy, Planning, and Requirements, Division of Requirements; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Ms. Alana Morrell Interdisciplinary Scientist, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mr. Ryosuke Tanaka Research Fellow, U.S.-Europe-Russia Division, Regional Studies Department at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) Japan
Mr. John S. Gardner Former General Counsel of the U.S. Agency for International Development, former Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush and a Special Assistant to President George H.W. Bush
Dr. Aya Goto, Professor of Health Information and Epidemiology at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) Center for Integrated Science and Humanities; and Dr. Yui Yumiya, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the FMU Center for Integrated Science and Humanities
Phyllis Genther Yoshida, Dennis Blair, Robert Alan Feldman, Ken Koyama, Jane Nakano, Llewelyn Hughes, Nobuo Tanaka, Yukari Niwa Yamashita, Michael Smitka, Ken Haig, Jun Arima, Tom Cutler
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Mr. Jim Schoff, Distinguished Senior Fellow (non-resident), Sasakawa USA