IMAI Takashi
Chairman, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF)

Education
Mar. 1952        LL.B., Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo

Professional Career
Apr. 1952        Joined Fuji Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
Mar. 1970        Deputy General Manager, Fuel & Ferrous Materials Dept., Nippon Steel Corporation (merger of Fuji Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. and Yawata Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.)
Jun. 1981        Director, Member of the Board
Jun. 1983        Managing Director, Member of the Board
Jun. 1989        Representative Director and Executive Vice President
Jun. 1993        Representative Director and President
Apr. 1998        Representative Director & Chairman of the Board of Directors
Apr. 2003        Honorary Chairman, Director and Senior Advisor
Jun. 2003        Senior Advisor, Honorary Chairman
Oct. 2012        Honorary Chairman, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo
                        Metal Corporation (merger of Nippon Steel Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.)
Apr. 2019        Honorary Chairman, Nippon Steel Corporation (Change of trade name to Nippon Steel Corporation from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation)

Ex-officio Positions
May 1998 ‒ May 2002      Chairman, KEIDANREN
                                        (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations)
May 2002 ‒ Present       Honorary Chairman, NIPPON KEIDANREN
                                        (Japan Business Federation)
Jun. 2006 ‒ Present      Chairman, JAIF

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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI)

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Rafael Mariano GROSSI
Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi assumed office on 3 December 2019.

Mr Grossi is a diplomat with over 35 years of experience in the field of non- proliferation and disarmament. In 2013, he was appointed Ambassador of Argentina to Austria and Argentine Representative to the IAEA and other Vienna-based International Organizations.

In 2019, Mr Grossi acted as President Designate of the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and from 2014 to 2016 he served as president of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, where he was the first president to serve two successive terms. In 2015, he presided over the Diplomatic Conference of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, securing unanimous approval for the Vienna Declaration on Nuclear Safety - a milestone in international efforts in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

From 2010 to 2013, he served as Assistant Director General for Policy and Chief of Cabinet at the IAEA. Previously, he held several senior positions in the Argentine Foreign Service, including as Political Affairs Director General from 2007 to 2009.

Mr Grossi was Chief of Cabinet at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague from 2002 to 2007. Prior to this, he held several positions within the Argentine Foreign Ministry after joining in 1985, including Chief of Embassy in Belgium and Luxembourg from 1998 to 2002, and Argentine representative to NATO from 1998 to 2001 and Argentine Alternate Representative to the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva. Ambassador Grossi led several UN Groups of Governmental Experts on Conventional Arms.

Since 2017, Mr Grossi has been an International Gender Champion, promoting gender balance in the nuclear field.

Born in 1961, Mr Grossi is married and has eight children.

SAKURAI Yoshiko
Journalist/
President, Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF)

As a respected author, journalist, commentator, and host of the popular weekly "Genron TV" news show, Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai covers a wide range of national and international affairs.

Her awards include the coveted Oya Soichi Award (the highest honor for Japanese non-fiction writers) for her representative work entitled Aids Crime: Tragedy for the Hemophiliac Patients (Chuo Koron sha, 1994) and the prestigious Kikuchi Kan Award (for the most outstanding critic of the year) for Japan's Crisis (Shincho-sha, 1998).

Ms. Sakurai also heads the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF), a privately financed public and foreign policy think tank founded in Tokyo in 2007.

The Institute has grown out of a grave sense of concern about the declining position of Japan in the international arena, which Sakurai attributes primarily to a loss of self-confidence, self-respect, and sense of direction under Japan's post-war governments.

ICHIKAWA Shinichi
President of Strategic Associates Japan Ltd. (Senior Fellow of Pictet Asset Management)

Mr. Ichikawa has been a guest professor, at the School of Global Studies of Chukyo University since April, 2022. He established his private office, Strategic Associates Japan, in Aug 2019 and joined Pictet Asset Management as the senior fellow in September 2019. Before them, he worked for Credit Suisse Securities from 2000 as the chief strategist. Mr. Ichikawa also worked for Credit Lyonnais Securities between 1994 and 2000 as the chief strategist. He started his job carrier with Wako Securities in April 1987 just after his graduation from Meiji University.

Mr. Ichikawa has held a number of public positions such as a member of Committee for Special Purpose Zone under Junichiro Koizumi Cabinet and a member of Small Committee for Development of International Nuclear Business by the Agency of Energy and Resources.

He wrote "Irresponsible policy argument" (2009), "Could you be happy by Abenomics?" (2017) and some other books. Mr. Ichikawa has been a regular commentator of "World Business Satellite" (TV Tokyo) since 2011

SADAMORI Keisuke
Director for Energy Markets and Security, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Keisuke Sadamori took up his duties as Director of the Office for Energy Markets and Security at the International Energy Agency in October 2012. Previously, he held the post of Deputy Director General for Policy Co-ordination at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan. He had been involved with the IEA for a number of years as IEA Governing Board Representative for Japan and as Co-Chair of the Standing Group on Long Term Co-operation. Over the years, Mr Sadamori has served in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Japan and has co-ordinated numerous important projects, including work following the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in March 2011.

CHUNG Bum Jin
Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea

Bum-Jin Chung is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering Department at Kyung Hee University, Korea since March 2013. After he received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University, Korea, He has worked for Ministry of Science and Technology, University of Manchester, U.K, Jeju National University.

He has published a series of articles on the experimental research on natural and mixed convection heat transfers on various geometries in application to nuclear systems such as the HTGR, SFR, SMR systems.

Beside the technical interests, he has deep interest on the nuclear manpower demand and supply and education issues. He has been working actively as the members of the governmental and industrial committees for nuclear policy and national electricity planning.

He is an active communicator for nuclear science and industry. He is vice president of Korean Nuclear Society and member of the NAEK (National Academy of Engineering of Korea) and is serving as the Board member of the NuScale Corporation and National Research Foundation of Korea.

Liisa HEIKINHEIMO
Deputy Director General, Energy Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment

Liisa Heikinheimo's current position is Head of Nuclear Section at the ministry since the beginning of 2017. During 2008 - 2016 she worked for TVO, nuclear power Company in Finland, as the Head of R&D and Waste Administration. Before this she worked at VTT (technical research center of Finland) directing the Materials for Power Engineering research area.

The current position at MEAE includes nuclear energy, nuclear waste management, nuclear liability and fossil fuels with a special emphasis to security of supply today. The tasks include licensing, legislation, international co-operation and R&D activities related to the topics. Heikinheimo has is a member of European Council Atomic Questions Group, which she chaired during the autumn 2019 (FI EU presidency). She has positions at IAEA Working Groups and at OECD NEA Steering Committee.

Carl BERGLÖF
Secretary General, Swedish Atomic Forum

Carl Berglöf is a Senior Nuclear Power Advisor at the energy trade association Swedenergy and has served, since 2017, as the Secretary General of the Swedish Atomic Forum - the group of nuclear industry policy cooperation in Sweden. Carl has a Ph.D. in reactor physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has for six years served at the state owned utility Vattenfall both in the field of operation of existing nuclear units and in the preparation of new nuclear power in Sweden.

ARAI Shiro
President, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF)

Shiro Arai is President of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF), the leading private-sector organization for Japan's nuclear industry to promote peaceful use of nuclear power. He was appointed to his current position as well as President of the JAIF International Cooperation Center (JICC) in August 2020.

Prior to joining JAIF, Mr. Arai served as Director and Deputy Chief Nuclear Officer of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO). He has 37 years of experience in nuclear power generation at TEPCO.

Mr. Arai began his career with TEPCO in 1982 as a nuclear engineer at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. He had been in charge of fuel & core management at 2 nuclear power stations (Fukushima Daiichi and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa) early in his career.

Before taking on his position as Director and Deputy Chief Nuclear Officer in 2019, Mr. Arai also held various general management positions such as Site Superintendent of the Higashidori NPP Construction Office, Superintendent of the Nuclear Safety Center and Deputy Site Manager of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa NPS, and Deputy General Manager of the Nuclear Quality & Safety Management Dept. at the Headquarters.

He received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering in 1982 from the University of Tokyo.

Jonathan COBB
Senior Communication Manager, World Nuclear Association (WNA)

Dr. Jonathan Cobb is the Senior Communication Manager at World Nuclear Association. He leads the Association's climate change and sustainable development activities, including at the UNFCCC COP meetings, which he has attended for more than 20 years.

Dr. Cobb is the lead author of the World Nuclear Performance Report, an annual publication that provides information on the performance of operating nuclear reactors and construction of new units. As part of the World Nuclear Association's press office, Dr. Cobb has been a spokesperson for the Association on television, radio and online.

Dr. Cobb began his career in the nuclear industry in 1994 at BNFL's Sellafield site, working on waste treatment and advanced reprocessing R&D. He transferred to BNFL's commercial department to work on competitor analysis before moving to the corporate strategy department, to focus on energy policy, climate change and sustainable development. Dr. Cobb joined World Nuclear Association in 2006.

Yves DESBAZEILLE
Director General, Nucleareurope

Yves Desbazeille is French and graduated in electrical engineering from CentraleSupelec Engineering School in France in 1991 and studied on an MBA program in Paris in the early 2000s.
During his successful career, he has been involved in different businesses and responsibilities at EDF: nuclear engineering, hydro and thermal power projects management in France, USA as well as in Asia, where he was for 5 years.
His previous position as EDF representative for energy in Brussels has provided him with an in-depth knowledge of the EU institutions and Brussels’ stakeholders and of the energy and climate stakes for Europe.

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nucleareurope is the Brussels-based trade association for the nuclear energy industry in Europe. It acts as the voice of the European nuclear industry in energy policy discussions with EU institutions and other key stakeholders. The membership of nucleareurope is made up of 15 national nuclear associations and some corporate members.

Tom GREATREX
Executive Director and CEO, Nuclear Industry Association (NIA)

om Greatrex became Chief Executive of the NIA in 2016.  Formerly Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, Tom was shadow energy minister from 2011 – 2015 and served as a member of the Energy Select Committee from 2010 and from 2007-2010 was a policy adviser in the Scotland Office, including on energy.

In a varied prior career, he was a Director of Corporate Affairs for the NHS in Scotland, a chief officer in local government and a GMB trade union official in England. Outside of work his main interests are family, football (Fulham) and film. He is a member of the FA Council, the governing body of English football, vice-chair of the Football Supporters’ Association and a school governor.

Carol BERRIGAN
Executive Director, Federal Programs and Supplier Relationships Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

Carol L. Berrigan is Executive Director for Federal Programs and Supplier Relationships at the Nuclear Energy Institute. In this role, she is responsible for engagement with the executive branch of the federal government, international trade, and supplier‐related activities. During her tenure at NEI, Ms. Berrigan has served in a variety of positions across the organization including roles in governmental affairs, regulatory affairs, nuclear fuel supply, and supply chain and human capital development. Ms. Berrigan, who re‐joined NEI is 2003, was with USCEA, an NEI predecessor organization, from 1992-1994.

From 1998 to 2003, Ms. Berrigan was Director of Marketing for Pulseworks, where she was responsible for managing marketing and business development functions. Ms. Berrigan was a Program Manager for Camber Corporation, a specialized engineering and management consulting firm in Washington, DC from 1994-1998. She supported several U.S. government programs related to climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency and trade issues.

Ms. Berrigan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Advisory Committee and has served on the board of directors of WiN Global.

George CHRISTIDIS
Vice President, Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA)

George Christidis is Vice President of Government Relations and International Affairs at the Canadian Nuclear Association. He is also Director of Federal Affairs for Ontario Power Generation.

George has extensive experience in designing and implementing advocacy strategies and initiatives that have supported the Canadian nuclear industry in Canada and abroad.

With over 20 years of experience working with federal, provincial, municipal, and international government stakeholders, Mr. Christidis’ experience includes diverse public and private sector involvement, providing strategic advice and recommendations to senior government and corporate decision-makers.

He has previously held key positions within the Canadian government that include policy advisor and former chief of staff for key ministers in the Canadian government.