Ms. Fumiko Kasuga
Director of the Future Earth Global Hub – Japan, Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Environmental Studies and Visiting Professor at University of Tokyo
Prof. Dr. Fumiko Kasuga, is Future Earth Global Hub Director Japan, Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from and received Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo. Formerly, she was Director at the National Institute of Health Sciences and Vice-President of Science Council of Japan in charge of international activities. She is a member of International Council for Science (ICSU)’s Committee on Scientific Planning and Review. She has been working as a government researcher in the field of public health, in particular, microbiological food safety. Internationally she has been working with WHO, FAO and the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods, and in Japan with Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Food Safety Commission for microbiological risk analysis for food safety and epidemiology of foodborne diseases. She has been involved in establishing globally-distributed Secretariat of Future Earth and is one of Global Hub Directors since May, 2015.