Taishi SUGIYAMA
Research Director
Taishi Sugiyama is the Research Director at The Canon Institute for Global Studies(CIGS). He has published reports on the energy, environment and technology policy and written more than ten books in Japanese. He has advised the Japanese government, in particular the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), on several committees. He has served as a Coordinator and a Lead Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations. Before joining CIGS, he worked for the Central Research Institute for Electric Power Industry(CRIEPI), an institute funded by ten major power companies in Japan. He was also a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis(IIASA) in Austria. He graduated from the physics department of Tokyo university and holds a master degree of solid state physics from Tokyo university.
May 31, 2018, 10:00 - 11:30
1993 | M. Eng., Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo |
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1991 | B. Science., Physics, The University of Tokyo |
2019 | Research Director, Energy and Environment Unit, The Canon Institute for Global Studies. |
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2017-2018 | Senior Research Fellow, Energy and Environment Unit, The Canon Institute for Global Studies. |
1997-2017 | Senior Researcher and Leader of Climate Policy Project, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI). |
1995 -1997 | Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. |
1993- 1995 | Researcher, CRIEPI. |