Ioku, Koji

Dr. Ioku is a professor in the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan. He received a Doctoral degree in Science in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990. From 1989-1993 he worked as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Science at Kochi University. He was promoted to associate professor of the Faculty of Engineering (1993-2001), the Graduate School of Medicine (2001-2003) in Yamaguchi University, and the Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Tohoku University (2003-2006). Since 2006 he has held a professorial position at Tohoku University and then moved to Keio University from April, 2012. 　　 Dr. Ioku is an active member of several professional associations, including the Ceramic Society of Japan, the Materials Research Society of Japan, the Japanese Society for Biomaterials, the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine, and others. His scientific achievements have been distinguished by awards from the MRS International Meeting (1988); the Japanese Association of Inorganic Phosphorus Chemistry (1996; 2008); the Society of Inorganic Materials Japan (2000); the Asian BioCeramics Society (2005); the Ceramic Society of Japan (2009), and others. He has published around 300 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of materials science, medical science, and environmental science. He is in the position of the Director of Keio Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences from October 2019. He is the world's top 2% of scientists (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3).

東北大学在職中、東日本大震災に被災。その後の復旧過程において、リーダーに必要な条件について考えさせられました。皆が困っている時に先頭に立つ勇気、大局的にものごとを捉え速やかに具体的指示を出せる決断力、小さなことには動揺しないタフな精神力、困っている人に手を差し延べることのできる豊かな心、このような力と心のあるリーダーが現在の日本には必要とされています。私は、日本の未来を創り、支えていくリーダーを育てることに全力を尽くします。慶應義塾で学ぶ学生諸君の中から、真のリーダーシップを発揮できる政治家、企業経営者、NGOやNPOの代表などが数多く育っていくことを願っています。

• Science and Technology Studies
• /Materials Science
• /Environmental Studies
• /Biomedical Engineering
• /Chemistry