Hide Sakaguchi

President of the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) and Executive Director of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation


Dr. Hide Sakaguchi is President of the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) and Executive Director of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Prior to joining OPRI in 2021, he served as Research Associate at Kobe University, Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO of Australia, Adjunct Professor at the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, and Executive Director of JAMSTEC. Dr Sakaguchi is specialized in Computer Science, Geoscience, and Engineering. He received a PhD from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University in 1995.