Dr. Yuko Harayama is Secretary General of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Tokyo Expert Support Center, where she leads international collaboration on artificial intelligence governance. She is also a trustee of Yamaguchi University and board member of Toray Industries.
Dr. Harayama has held senior positions across government, international organizations, and academia. She was Executive Director for International Affairs at RIKEN and served in Japan's Cabinet Office as Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation. She also worked at the OECD as Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
In academia, she spent ten years as a professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Engineering.
She is an International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and a Foundation Fellow of the International Science Council.
She holds a doctorate in education and a doctorate in economics, both from the University of Geneva.

※Reference
RIKEN Female PI Oral History Project: The Path to PI #6: Dr. HARAYAMA 
(available in Japanese only)