General Secretariat
Introduction to the staff of the AC21 General Secretariat at Nagoya University.
The AC21 General Secretariat was established on October 15, 2002 as the head office of AC21 and is located at Nagoya University, Japan. Its staff structure is as follows as of October 1, 2007:
- Director
- Professor Tsutomu Nomizu (Education Center for International Students)
- Deputy Directors
- Associate Professor Miki Horie (Education Center for International Students)
- Associate Professor Jiro Takai (Graduate School of Education and Human Development)
- Associate Professor Simon R. Wallis (Graduate School of Environmental Studies)
Project Coordinator
- Associate Professor Nami Iwaki (Education Center for International Students)
- Academic Staff
- The following selected members of various departments and centers at Nagoya University:
- Designated Professor Masahiro Abe
- Associate Professor Claudia Ishikawa (Education Center for International Students)
- Associate Professor Toshiko Ishizaki (Education Center for International Students)
- AssociateProfessor Hideki Kasuya (Graduate School of Medicine)
- Associate Professor Yuto Kitamura (Graduate School of International Development)
- Associate Professor Masahiro Chikada (Center for the Studies of Higher Education)
- Professor Zhang Shao-liang (Graduate School of Engineering)
- Associate Professor Shoji Kajita (Information Technology Center
- Professor Akitoshi Nagahata (Graduate School of Languages and Cultures)
- Associate Professor Frank Bennett (Graduate School of Law)
- Associate Professor Jun Murase (Graduate School of Bioagricultural Science)
- Associate Professor Mitsuyoshi Yanagihara (Graduate School of Economics)
- Ms. Tomomi Furuta (International Affairs Division)
- Ms. Yuriko Nishizaki (International Affairs Division)
- Ms. Riyoko Shimazaki (International Affairs Division)
The permanent staff of the General Secretariat will be constantly available as a mutual support system with back-up from the AC21 website. Its main function lies in coordinating activities of AC21, channeling information from all members and updating as well as editing all information on the AC21 website.