Brief biography Dr. UESAKA, Mitsuru, who served as Chairperson of Japan Atomic Commission (JAEC) since December 16th, 2020. He had been a professor at the University of Tokyo, specializing in nuclear science, engineering and management. He obtained his Doctor (1985) of Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was the President of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) from 2016 to 2018. He received Commendation for Sci. and Tech. by the Minister of MEXT (2011), etc.

Brief biography Mr. Satoru Yasuraoka joined METI in 2006. He has worked in the Oil & Gas Division (international affairs in North America, Asia, etc.), Aviation & Defense Industries Division (promoting international joint projects on aviation industry), Nuclear Energy Policy Division and Nuclear Accident Response Office (R&D projects to improve nuclear safety, international coordination on decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, etc.). He's also studied at the University of California, Berkeley (Goldman School of Public Policy), and worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency (Nuclear Infrastructure Development Section), and has been in the current position since 2022. He worked for international nuclear energy policy issues, such as development of advanced reactor, nuclear supply-chain, cooperation with IAEA and OECD/NEA as well as negotiations in international fora such as G7 and G20.

Brief biography Dr. Gilles Bernard-Michel is the Nuclear Counsellor at the French Embassy since August 2023. He is an engineer specialized in nuclear safety and has a Phd in fluid mechanics after studying at the Pierre and Marie Curie university and ENSTA in Paris. His technical skills in the nuclear sector are Loss of cooling accidents in Rod bundles and Hydrogen safety of PWR containment wall. Before taking his functions in Japan, he was head of laboratory LE2H and head of project SURAN at the Commissary for Atomic Energy (CEA).

Brief biography Dr. Jon Carmack is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Fuel Cycle. Prior to this, he served as a senior technical advisor to NE from March 2018 to March 2023. He previously served as national technical director for NE's Advanced Fuels Campaign. Jon began his career as a student at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in 1989 and joined the Fuels and Materials Department after graduating with a B.S. and M.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Washington in 1991. During graduate school he worked for Haliburton (NUS) Nuclear Utility Services. He left INL in 1999 and spent five years at BWX Technologies in Lynchburg, Virginia, returning to INL in 2004 to join the DOE Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative program. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Idaho, in 2012, focusing on fuel-cladding chemical interaction formation in fast reactor metallic fuels.

Brief biography Dr. Hill graduated from the European Engineering School of Chemistry from Strasbourg, France, in 1989, and holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Strasbourg since 1994. He is currently heading the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials Section (NFCMS), within the Department of nuclear energy at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). NFCMS covers all technical aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining to spent nuclear fuel management, through nuclear fuel engineering. Prior to joining the IAEA, late 2014, he occupied various positions at the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) in France, including researching on hydrometallurgical separation processes for the front and back-ends of the nuclear fuel cycle, and heading the Laboratory of the Chemistry of Extracting Systems. Over the past 25 years, he co-published 40+ scientific papers on selective separation of radioactive metallic cations by means of classical liquid-liquid extraction techniques or permeation through supported liquid membranes

Brief biography Mr. Naohiro Masuda joined Tokyo Electric Power Company in April 1982 after graduating from Yokohama National University with a master's degree in electrical engineering. He was appointed Site Superintendent at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in June 2010. And he achieved the successful recovery of all 4 units achieved the successful recovery of all 4 units affected by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. He was appointed President and Chief Decommissioning Officer of the Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company. He has been appointed Executive President and CEO, Member of the Board President and CEO, Member of the Board of Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited since Jan 2019.

Brief biography Mr. KOGUCHI Masanori assumed the President of JAEA in April 2022. He has responsibility to efficiently and effectively promote tasks to be addressed, which are development of advanced reactors, promotion of decommissioning task and so on, incorporating management know-how fostered in private company so far. He graduated from the School of Law of Hokkaido University in 1978 and joined the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). In 2015, he became Member of the Board, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Head of Business Strategy Office. In 2018, he was appointed Member of the Board, Senior Executive Vice President, CFO.