Prof. Dr. Michael O. HENGARTNER
President of the ETH Board
Prof. Dr. Michael Hengartner is President of the ETH Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the ETH Domain. The Swiss-Canadian citizen, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, grew up in Québec City, Canada, and studied biochemistry at the Université Laval. After his PhD studies at MIT with Nobel laureate H. R. Horvitz, he led a research group at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA for seven years. In 2001, he became the first occupant of the newly founded Ernst Hadorn Endowed Chair for molecular biology at the University of Zurich. From 2009 to 2014, he was dean of the Faculty of Science, and from 2014 to 2020 president of the University of Zurich. From 2016 to 2020, he served as president of swissuniversities, the Swiss Rectors' Conference.
Prof. Dr. Hengartner holds an Executive MBA from IMD, Lausanne and is the recipient of several awards for his research on the molecular basis of apoptosis, among them the Swiss National Latsis Prize, Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award, and an honorary doctorate from Sorbonne Université. In 2010, he received the Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching at the University of Zurich.
He founded and/or was a member of the board of directors of a number of start-up companies, including the biotech company Devgen NV, in Belgium (co-founded in 1997) and the scientific consultancy company EvalueSCIENCE SA, in Switzerland (co-founded in 2008), and is an independent board member of the Kudelski Group (since 2020). In 2022 he became a board member of GESDA.
H.E. Dr. Andreas BAUM
Ambassador of Switzerland to Japan
State Secretary Martina HIRAYAMA
Head of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research
Mr. Allan SUMIYAMA
Head of the Corporate Technology Strategy Division, Sony Group Corporation
Ms. Kyoko MARUMO SUZUKI
Head of the Science and Technology Office Tokyo,
Embassy of Switzerland in Japan
Mr. Raymond CRON
CEO
Switzerland Innovation
Prof. Dr. Mikołaj Jan PISKORSKI
Professor of Digital Strategy, Analytics and Innovation
Dean of Asia and Oceania
IMD
Prof. Dr. Osamu WATANABE
Executive Vice President for Research
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. Christian SCHWARZENEGGER
Vice President, Faculty Affairs and Scientific Information
University of Zurich
Dr. Gianluca AMBROSETTI
CEO and Co-Founder
Synhelion
Mr. Thomas BRODBECK
President, Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan (SCCIJ)
Head of Technical Service, Sika Japan
Ms. Naoko OGAWA
Director, Industrial Technology Bureau
KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation)
Mr. Tetsuya TANAKA
Deputy Director-General
Industrial Science, Technology and Environment Policy Bureau
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)