Machi Fukuyama Dilworth most recently served as the Vice President for Gender Equality and Human Resource Development at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Prior to her role at OIST, she had a 33-year-long career in Washington D.C. as a government research administrator, including serving as the Associate Program Manager/ Associate Chief of Competitive Research Grants Office at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Director for the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.While at NSF, Machi served as Head of the NSF Tokyo Office and concurrently Science & Technology Attache at the US Embassy from 2007 to 2010. In 2002 she was awarded the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award from the White House, and in 2007 was designated a fellow for both the American Society of Plant Biologists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Machi has always been conscious of the gender-based biases in scientific workplaces and Japanese society, and works for the professional and educational advancement of women at all levels. She received her B.A. in Natural Sciences at International Christian University and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry and Physiology at University of California at Los Angeles.
Danny Ha is US Counsel at Aberdeen Standard Investments, a global asset management company. Prior to Aberdeen, he was General Counsel of Arden Asset Management LLC, an investment firm specializing in hedge fund investments. Danny’s connection to ICU is through his junior year abroad during 1993-1994 academic year, where resided at 2nd Men’s Dormitory. Subsequently, Danny attended ICU’s summer language program in 1999. A lifelong student of history, Danny’s interest in the field includes comparative culture between Korea and Japan. Danny received his bachelor’s degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, master’s degree in Japanese History from the University of Chicago and JD from Fordham University School of Law.
Kieran Cavanna is the Co-Founder and CIO of Old Farm Partners. Old Farm is a hedge fund allocation firm focusing on small and mid-sized hedge funds, as well as co-investment opportunities with $720m under management. Prior to Old Farm, Mr. Cavanna worked at Soros Fund Management where he served as the Head of the External Manager Selection team working for CIO Scott Bessent. Mr. Cavanna and his team performed due diligence on and allocated to funds that deployed a wide variety of hedge fund strategies. Prior to Soros, Kieran was a Partner and the Head of Research at Titan Advisors, a $4b fund-of-hedge funds. In total Mr. Cavanna has allocated to hedge funds for 20 years. Mr. Cavanna started his financial career at KPMG Consulting as Senior Analyst. Mr. Cavanna graduated from the University of Richmond with a BA and received an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
1986年ICU卒業、1988年ICU大学院で公共政策学修士号を取得。ペンシルバニア大学で経済学博士号を取得。現在ジョージタウン大学の国際関係学部プログラムディレクターと副部長を勤めている。国際貿易の教授を行い、Journal of Economic Theory と Journal of Development Economicsに所載されている。アメリカ高等教育での経験を利用して日本高等教育進歩の力になることを希望している。過去にJICUF理事としての経験があり、2021年に退任するまでは9年間JICUF理事を務めました。
Rie Kijima is an Assistant Professor at Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and at Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She has held various senior leadership positions, including serving as the Director of the Initiative for Education Policy and Innovation and the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict, and Justice. Rie Kijima’s research addresses topics such as the politics of international assessments, the impact of education reforms, and STEAM education. She recently co-edited a book called Data for Accountability in Education. She is a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee of the United States Japan Foundation. In 2025, she was selected to the Advanced Leaders Collective of the U.S.-Japan Council. She is a co-founder of SKYLabo, an education non-profit organization that offers educational programs using design thinking. She previously worked at the World Bank to advance equity-focused education projects in Morocco, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Laos. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University, supported by the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship. She received her B.A. from ICU.
Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak is an Associate Professor of Political Science/Asian Studies and the Department Chair for Political Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Kathy earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and her B.A. in East Asian Studies and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between college and graduate school, she worked at Toshiba Corporation’s Tokyo headquarters for two years, and she returned to Japan for 16 months of field research during graduate school. Before joining the St. Olaf faculty in 2003, she taught for five years at New College of Florida. Kathy teaches both broad international and comparative politics classes (Introduction to International Relations, Immigration and Citizenship) and Asia-focused classes (Asian Regionalism, Japanese Politics, Human Rights in Asia). She has published several papers on Japanese immigration and citizenship politics. She spent the 2009-10 academic year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, thanks to a Fulbright Research Grant, investigating democratic ideals and political socialization. She also teaches a St. Olaf class based at the Asian Rural Institute, and is a member of the board of the American Friends of Asian Rural Institute.
Susan Schmidt lived from 1972 to 1996 in Tokyo, where she worked as a staff editor of English-language books at the University of Tokyo Press. Currently she is Executive Director of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese, a 1,500-member professional organization of Japanese language educators in the United States. One of her major projects at AATJ is encouraging American college students to study abroad in Japan, and administrering a scholarship program for that purpose. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Gavin H. Whitelaw (Ph.D. Yale 2007) is a Sociocultural Anthropologist and Executive Director of Harvard University’s Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. His research focuses on issues of globalization, commerce, work, food and consumer culture, particularly in the context of contemporary Japan. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was Senior Associate Professor of Anthropology at International Christian University (ICU) and has served as Director of ICU’s Japan Studies Program. His writing appears in journals and edited volumes including Anthropology of Work Review, Gastronmica and Capturing Contemporary Japan (Hawaii University Press 2014).
日本国際基督教大学財団（Japan ICU Foundation）代表兼CEO。2006年にJICUFに就職し、2015年にエグゼクティブ・ディレクターに就任。アジア学院米国友の会理事長、アメリカン・スクール・イン・ジャパン（ASIJ）理事。アスペン研究所中曽根奨学金を受賞。ボウディン大学卒、コロンビア大学ティーチャーズ・カレッジで国際教育学の修士号取得。子供時代、11年間を日本で過ごす。現在はニュージャージー州メープルウッド在住。妻と長男・次男の4人家族で、リトルリーグのコーチも務める。
コミュニケーションズ・ディレクター、アソシエート・ディレクターを経て、2022年4月より現職。東京で生まれ、14歳までの間に東京、ニューヨーク、ロサンゼルス、ロンドンを転々とする。ICU高校・大学・大学院を卒業後、英国オックスフォード大学大学院で政治学修士号を取得。ニューヨークに移り、日本政府国連代表部、国連開発計画（UNDP）などで勤務した他、オンラインビジネスを経営。
2016年8月より現職。主にJICUFの助成金プログラムを運営し、その他のプログラムにも他の職員と共同で取り組む。ニューヨーク市で生まれ育ち（一時期ニュージャージー州にも住む）、コロンビア大学で建築学の学士号を取得。卒業後、JETプログラムで日本を訪れ、福井県の中学校で2年間英語を教える。その後6年間、米国社会科学研究会議のフェローシップ・コーディネターを務める。趣味は外国語学習、書道（準5段）、新レシピを考案することで、サウス・ブロンクスの子供達を教えるボランティア活動にも従事している。
学習院女子短期大学卒業後、日本興業銀行（現みずほ銀行）に10年間勤務し、アメリカ・コネチカット州に合計約10年間滞在。アメリカでは公立中学で日本語教師を務めた経験もあり、帰国後ICUの職員となり、6年間行政事務Gで主に理事長・理事支援やJICUF担当としてウクライナ学生受入れ窓口などに従事。2024年4月より現職。ICUの学生達とクリエイティブな活動をすることを楽しみにしています。
1983年ICU卒業、1985年ICU行政学研究科を卒業。ホフストラ大学で法学博士号を取得。ピルズベリー・ウインスロップ・ショー・ピットマン（Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP）でジャパンプラクティスチームのリーダーを務める。日本語を母国語として米国で活動する弁護士の中では極めて数の少ない、訴訟を専門にする弁護士です。これまで25年以上、民事訴訟全般、司法・行政当局による調査、独占禁止法、クラスアクション、通商問題において日本企業の案件を多数扱ってきました。
Machi Fukuyama Dilworth most recently served as the Vice President for Gender Equality and Human Resource Development at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Prior to her role at OIST, she had a 33-year-long career in Washington D.C. as a government research administrator, including serving as the Associate Program Manager/ Associate Chief of Competitive Research Grants Office at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Director for the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Danny Ha is US Counsel at Aberdeen Standard Investments, a global asset management company. Prior to Aberdeen, he was General Counsel of Arden Asset Management LLC, an investment firm specializing in hedge fund investments. Danny’s connection to ICU is through his junior year abroad during 1993-1994 academic year, where resided at 2nd Men’s Dormitory. Subsequently, Danny attended ICU’s summer language program in 1999. A lifelong student of history, Danny’s interest in the field includes comparative culture between Korea and Japan. Danny received his bachelor’s degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, master’s degree in Japanese History from the University of Chicago and JD from Fordham University School of Law. 
1986年ICU卒業、1988年ICU大学院で公共政策学修士号を取得。ペンシルバニア大学で経済学博士号を取得。現在ジョージタウン大学の国際関係学部プログラムディレクターと副部長を勤めている。国際貿易の教授を行い、Journal of Economic Theory と Journal of Development Economicsに所載されている。アメリカ高等教育での経験を利用して日本高等教育進歩の力になることを希望している。過去にJICUF理事としての経験があり、2021年に退任するまでは9年間JICUF理事を務めました。
Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak is an Associate Professor of Political Science/Asian Studies and the Department Chair for Political Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Kathy earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and her B.A. in East Asian Studies and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between college and graduate school, she worked at Toshiba Corporation’s Tokyo headquarters for two years, and she returned to Japan for 16 months of field research during graduate school. Before joining the St. Olaf faculty in 2003, she taught for five years at New College of Florida. Kathy teaches both broad international and comparative politics classes (Introduction to International Relations, Immigration and Citizenship) and Asia-focused classes (Asian Regionalism, Japanese Politics, Human Rights in Asia). She has published several papers on Japanese immigration and citizenship politics. She spent the 2009-10 academic year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, thanks to a Fulbright Research Grant, investigating democratic ideals and political socialization. She also teaches a St. Olaf class based at the Asian Rural Institute, and is a member of the board of the American Friends of Asian Rural Institute. 
Susan Schmidt lived from 1972 to 1996 in Tokyo, where she worked as a staff editor of English-language books at the University of Tokyo Press. Currently she is Executive Director of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese, a 1,500-member professional organization of Japanese language educators in the United States. One of her major projects at AATJ is encouraging American college students to study abroad in Japan, and administrering a scholarship program for that purpose. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
カート・トン大使は現在アジア・グループのパートナーで、日本及び東アジア地域における業務を主導しています。アジア・グループ入社前は30年間米国の外交官として日本、中国、韓国、フィリピン、ワシントンDCに赴任しました。2016年から2019年にかけては香港・マカオの総領事、その前は経済商務局筆頭次官補代理を務めました。2011年から2014年には在日米国大使館で主席公使及び代理大使、さらにそれ以前はアジア太平洋経済協力(APEC)担当大使として米国の議長国としての取り組みを主導しました。プリンストン大学卒、1981-1982年にICUに留学。
Gavin H. Whitelaw (Ph.D. Yale 2007) is a Sociocultural Anthropologist and Executive Director of Harvard University’s Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. His research focuses on issues of globalization, commerce, work, food and consumer culture, particularly in the context of contemporary Japan. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was Senior Associate Professor of Anthropology at International Christian University (ICU) and has served as Director of ICU’s Japan Studies Program. His writing appears in journals and edited volumes including Anthropology of Work Review, Gastronmica and Capturing Contemporary Japan (Hawaii University Press 2014).