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Graduated from Hitotsubashi University, Koji Omi joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1956 and served as Consul at the Japanese Consulate General in New York; Director of the South Asia & Eastern Europe Division, Trade Policy Bureau; Director of the Administrative Division, the Science and Technology (S&T) Agency; and Director-General of the Guidance Department, Small & Medium Enterprise Agency. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1983, he has occupied the posts of Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Finance; Director-General of the Commerce & Industry Policy Bureau, LDP; Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance; and Acting Secretary-General, LDP. He currently serves as Member of the House of Representatives, previously serving as Minister of Finance (2006-2007), Minister of S&T Policy, and for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs (2001-2002), and Minister of State for Economic Planning (1997-1998). Koji Omi is considered as a key political figure in the field of S&T in Japan, his achievement including the central role he played in enacting the Fundamental Law of S&T in 1995, creating the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, an international and interdisciplinary graduate university, and founding the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum with the aim of building a worldwide network among scientists, policymakers and business people and discussing the “lights and shadows” of S&T for the sake of humankind.
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