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Dr Yuko Harayama is the Secretary General of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Tokyo Expert Support Center. She is also a trustee of Yamaguchi University and a board member of Toray. Prior to joining Toray, she was Executive Director for International Affairs at RIKEN, and served in the Cabinet Office of Japan as Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, and at the OECD as Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. Dr Harayama was a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at Tohoku University for 10 years. She is a Légion d'Honneur recipient (Chevalier) and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel. She is an International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and a Foundation Fellow of the International Science Council. She holds a doctorate in education and a doctorate in economics, both from the University of Geneva.
