Greetings from the Representative Director
Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi
Representative Director of the Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA)
Nice to meet you. I grew up in Tokyo, born to a father from Kyushu and a mother from the start-up powerhouse of Israel.
Good rule design is necessary for technologies and ideas that have the potential to solve social problems to be properly implemented in society, and it is important to increase the presence of Japanese industry at an early stage of international rule discussions. Japan has ideas, human resources, and technologies to improve society: The Cellular Agriculture Research Group, which started in 2019 with more than a dozen volunteer companies, was relaunched in 2022 as the Cellular Agriculture Research Organization, with the support of a large number of industry members.
We would like to further promote social implementation by forming rules in the emerging industry of cellular agriculture for the revitalization of the Japanese economy and reflecting Japanese opinions in international discussions.
一般社団法人細胞農業研究機構 代表理事 吉富愛望アビガイル
Current position
Representative Director of the Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA)
Executive Director, Cellular Agriculture WT, Public-Private Partnership Council for Food Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture Visiting Researcher, RCAST, The University of Tokyo
Share information on rule formation to the Bioindustry Association’s Food Bio Plus Study Group and the Cellular Agriculture Association.
Awards
2020 The Forbes Japan list of the 30 under 30 in the world of law and policy.
Work History
2020 – Present
Executive Director, Cellular Agriculture WT, Public-Private Partnership Council for Food Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
2019 – 2022
The Center for Rule-making Strategies of Tama University :Public Relations Chair, Cellular Agriculture Research Association Secretariat
2019 – 2023
European Investment Bank M&A Advisory Division
2017 – 2019
Worked for an R&D startup in the field of blockchain and traditional industry x Opportunity learning.
Academic background
2022 – Present
The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
2019 – 2020
MBA Rule-Making Strategy Professional, Graduate School of Tama University
2017 – 2018
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo (Withdrawn)
2013 – 2017
Department of Theoretical Physics, Waseda University
Director・Committee Chair・Auditor
Akira Igata
Director, Japan Association of Cellular Agriculture (JACA)
Project Lecturer, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Naoki Tsujimoto
Committee Chair, Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA).
Chairperson of the Committee on Definition and Food Labelling
Attorney-at-law at Nishimura & Asahi