Yuko Harayama

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Yūko Harayama ( Japanese 原 山 優 子 Harayama Yūko ; born April 16, 1951 in Ginza , Tokyo ) is a Japanese scientist .

Life

Harayama moved to France to live with her grandfather at the age of 14 and attended the Collège Saint Pierre in a Paris suburb. She later moved back to Japan to graduate from school. Afterwards, however, she returned to France and began studying mathematics at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon , from which she graduated in 1973 with a bachelor's degree.

In the following years she had three children with her husband, the biotechnologist Shigeaki Harayama, and devoted herself to raising them. After the family moved to Geneva due to Shigeaki's professional activity , Harayama began further studies in education at the University of Geneva , from which she graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's degree. In 1992 she earned another bachelor's degree in economics. She then took on a position as a teaching assistant in the political economy department and did her doctorate in economics and education. For this she worked temporarily at Stanford University in the USA . In 1996 she was awarded a doctorate in economics and in 1997 a doctorate in education.

She then worked for three years as an assistant professor for political economy. In 2001 she returned to Japan and initially accepted a position as a research assistant at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry in Tokyo. A year later, she received a professorship in the management of science and technology at Tōhoku University in Sendai , which she held for ten years. In addition to her professorship, she assumed many other tasks. From 2004 to 2005 she was a visiting member of the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) and an associate professor at the National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation . From 2006 to 2010 she was a member of various boards and committees, including board member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), board member of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain in France and member of the Education Committee of the city of Sendai. In 2009, she became an Associate Research Fellow for the Japan Science and Technology Agency for one year .

In 2010, Harayama took on the post of Deputy Director in the Science, Technology and Industry department of the OECD in France for two years . She was then a board member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation in Japan until 2018. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Elsevier Foundation since 2019.

Her research interests include technology policy, innovation systems, cluster policy and higher education systems. It deals with questions of how political and economic means can be used to meet the societal challenges of the future.

Works

  • Le système universitaire japonais , Economica, 2000, ISBN 2717840028
  • Dynamique de la création de connaissances: Microsystèmes en Suisse romande , with Milad Zarin-Nejadan and Alexander Mack, Peter Land AG, 2004, ISBN 3039103695

Awards and honors

  • 2011 Legion D'Honneur (Chevalier)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Université de Neuchâtel
  • Prize of the Ernest Bonichi Foundation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Visages: Yuko Harayama “Il faut casser un petit peu ... all rencontrer ce qui est inconnu, différent” In: La France au Japon. Ambassade de France à Tokyo. 2016, accessed October 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Curiculum Vitae accessed on October 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Yuko Harayama In: World Economic Forum website , accessed October 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Yuko Harayama, Ph. D. In: Website Hiraku. Home for Innovative Researchers and Academic Knowledge Users , accessed October 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Dr. Yuko Harayama has joined the Elsevier Foundation Board In: The Elsevier Foundation website , February 1, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ GS10 Speakers. Dr. Yuko Harayama In: Website of the Gender Summit , 2017, accessed October 24, 2019.
  7. ↑ Harayama Yuko In: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry website , February 1, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Harayama, Yuko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harayama, Yūko; 原 山 優 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo