Matsumoto Shintaro is a Board Member of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a position he has held since October 2025. He joined Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI) in 1996. Throughout his career, he has held key positions in the Cabinet Office, the Reconstruction Agency, and METI, contributing to energy, industrial technology, disaster management, and economic policy. He also served as Director General of NEDO’s New Energy Department and later held senior roles in industrial and technology policy. In 2025, he returned to NEDO as Executive Advisor of the General Affairs Department before assuming his current position as Board Member.

Prof. Dr. Christopher Hebling is an internationally recognized leader and physicist whose career spans more than 30 years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), currently as Director International, leading global collaboration on hydrogen and integrated energy systems, and previously as Director of the Hydrogen Technologies Division, overseeing more than 160 staff.
He has numerous publications, recognitions, and appointments, including Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, Co‑Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (NOW), and Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of the “Forum for Future Energies”. He is member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech and member of the advisory board of the Research and Development 20 for Clean Energy Technologies of the G20 countries.
In 2020 he founded the annual “Freiburg Energy Talks” symposium, an annual gathering of top representatives of academia, industry, capital market, and politics to discuss and push forward the global energy system transformation.

Fumiyo Harada serves as Managing Executive Officer at the Development Bank of Japan, Inc. (DBJ), and is primarily responsible for DBJ’s investment strategies for GX (Green Transformation). She has been involved in the Japanese government policy making process for energy by sitting on several government committees as a specialist of infrastructure/energy finance, such as offshore wind power, hydrogen, CCUS and battery sectors. Prior to the current position, she worked as a Deputy CEO for DBJ Singapore Ltd. as well as Management Director of the department for Energy Finance and Head of Sustainability Management Office of DBJ. She also had been seconded to Infrastructure and Natural Resource Department (East Asia) of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank as a Senior Investment Officer.

Ito Sadanori joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 1994 after graduating from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law. He holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School, passed the New York State Bar Exam, and is a member of the New York State Bar Association.
Since July 2025, Mr. Ito has served as Director-General, GX Policy Group at METI. He leads Japan’s Green Transformation (GX) initiatives, overseeing the development and implementation of GX policies while promoting industrial transformation through the integration of energy and climate-related policies.