International Symposium on Healthcare and Transportation

Creating Sustainable Societies across Different Communities Through Eco-technologies

Mr. Hiroto Ishida

Japan

Mr. Hiroto Ishida

President, Honda Foundation

Chairman, Komatsu University

Hiroto Ishida has been President of Honda Foundation since 2011. He received his B.A. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering in 1964 and obtained M.A. in Political Science at the University of Illinois in 1970. In 1964, Ishida joined Science and Technology Agency (“STA”). After Vice Minister of STA from 1995 to 1998, he was appointed to the Ambassador to Czech Republic from 1999 to 2003. In 2004, he was appointed to President of Kanazawa Gakuin University, in 2005 he was appointed to the General Manager of National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. In 2010, he became President Emeritus of Kanazawa Gakuin University. In 2018, he became Chairman of Public Komatsu University. Currently besides Honda Foundation, he is the Chairman of Nuclear Safety Technology Center, President of Maeda Ikutoku Foundation, Chair of Association for Traditional Performing Arts of Japan and Member of Management Council of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.