is the president of the
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
The is the Japanese national air and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and launch of satellites into orb ...
(JAXA).
Keiji Tachikawa was born in
Gifu Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, F ...
on May 27, 1939. He graduated from
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
, Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering, in 1962.
In 1978, he earned an MBA from the
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...
.
In 1982, he earned a Ph.D Engineering degree in University of Tokyo.
Tachikawa joined
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) in 1962 as a young engineering graduate.
He later joined NTT's subsidiary,
NTT DoCoMo, and served as its president from 1998 to 2004.
In 2004, Tachikawa became president of JAXA, to restructure the agency after a 2003
H-IIA
H-IIA (H-2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. These liquid fuel rockets have been used to launch satellites into geostationary orbit; lunar or ...
rocket launch failure.
References
External links
*http://www.nikkei.co.jp/summit/99summit/speaker/tacikawa.html
*http://www10.org/keynoters/tachikawa.html
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
Japanese chief executives
MIT Sloan Fellows
1939 births
Living people
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
People from Gifu Prefecture
University of Tokyo alumni
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