Mr. Saito joined the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, Japan (OECF), one of the predecessors of JICA, in 1995. Starting his assignment as Representative at Kenya Office between 2001 and 2003 he has vast experience in infrastructure financing and capacity development support in African countries. In India, he first worked in a project for Coal India Limited in 1998 and was later assigned as Representative at India Office in 2006. During his 4-year tenue in Delhi he was engaged with various projects like Delhi Metro Rail Phase 2 or Bisalpur-Jaipur Water Supply Project. In August 2021, he was appointed as Chief Representative at JICA India office. He graduated in 1995 with B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Takahiro Kato carried out research for two years (2003-2005) at the Centre for advanced studies in Sanskrit in Pune, India. He spent six years (2006-2012) in Germany, worked as a researcher at Institut für Indologie, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Dr. Phil.), also as a lecturer for German-Japanese Double Degree Program. Expertise in the area of Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit Philology. He is experienced in the academic and cultural exchange between India and Japan. Life-time member of the All India Oriental Conference.

Prof. Furuichi gained an M.A. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2006 from Ochanomizu University. She has been teaching Japanese language courses in the Division of Global Education for the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo since 2002 and responsible for running the courses since 2010. Her specialty is Japanese language education and multicultural understanding. Her main areas of research have been Japanese language education focusing on engineering, corpus studies of spoken language in science and engineering, and the international exchange aimed at multicultural understanding. She has been conducting the University of Tokyo Hands-on Activity at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Bombay since 2017 to provide internationalization education.