Mr. Kohei Saito 

• Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka City University

  • Field of Specialization: Economic and Social thought

• Ph. D. in Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin

• Author of “Mirai he no Daibunnki.”, a collection of conversations with Markus Gabriel and others

• In, 2018, his book “Before the Great Flood : Marx and the Planetary Metabolism, Horinouchi Publishing” won the prestigious “Deutscher Memorial Prize 2018”

• In 2020, he was awarded the “Japan Prize for the Promotion of Science”

• In 2021, his best-selling book “HitoShinSei-no-Shi-hon-ron” (Shueisha Shinsho) won the “New Book Award 2021” as the 1st place

Mr, Yukio Takasu

• Chairman for NPO "Human Security" Forum

• Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General for Human Security

• Vice President of the Japan Committee for UNICEF

• Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University and Chubu University

• Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (Director-General for Administrative Management)

• Former Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations (Ambassador to the United Nations)

• Author of (NPO "Human Security" Forum) "National Data SDGs and Japan: Human Security Indicators for No One Left Behind" (Akashi Shoten, 2019)

• In 2020, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays