Hidetoshi Nakagami, Ph.D. currently serves as CEO of the Jyukankyo Research Institute Inc., which founded in 1973. He is a certified architect in Japan, and regularly lectures on energy situations and strategic options in Japan and has served as a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology and served as a guest professor at Waseda University. He served in the early 1990s on the Energy Efficiency Standard for Appliances in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and as Chairman of Implementation Study Committee for Daylight Saving, Energy Conservation Center of Japan. He is a member of Science Council of Japan (SCJ), and he serves on the Chairman for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Committee, Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (METI). He is a member of Central Environment Council, Ministry of Environment (MOE) and a member of Council for Social Infrastructure, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MLIT). He is the President of the Japan Association of Energy Service Companies.