M.A., Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Member of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council (2019-2022); President of Konan University from April 2020; Professor at Konan University since 2002, specialising in international human rights law. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International　Human Rights Law Association.

Mr. Amuto Bhatti currently serves as an Associate Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and belongs to the United Nations Operations and Crisis Centre (UNOCC). Before joining the United Nations, he served as an Adviser at the Japanese Mission to the Human Rights Council in Geneva and the Permanent Representation of Japan to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Mr. Bhatti holds a Master’s degree in Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Bachelor’s degree in Human Sciences from Osaka University.

After graduating Hitotsubashi University (Bachelor of Laws), he worked at Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting and Japan Heart (Vice President and Managing Director of Myanmar office). He completed Masters in Public Administration at the National University of Singapore in 2021. Currently, he works at International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva HQ (2022-2024) and Regional office for Asia and the Pacific

After completing her BA at Waseda University in 2007 and MA at George Washington University (U.S.) in 2009, she completed her Master's Degree at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden in 2021. While at Uppsala University, she was an Executive Intern at Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (GPAJ)/Academic Council on the United Nations Systems Tokyo Liaison Office (ACUNS) and a research intern at Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP).

After graduating from Doshisha University with a Bachelor of Laws, and completing a degree in International Mobility in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2018, he worked as a Programme Officer at the UN Food Programme Jordan Country Office providing emergency food assistance to Syrian refugees, followed by UNHCR Zambia, Kolompia and Romania. She has worked in refugee assistance as an Associate Protection Officer in UNHCR Zambia, Colombia and Romania before assuming her current position.

Joined Rotary in 1980 at age 23. A past director and trustee, he will be the fourth RI president from Brazil. He has volunteered for numerous roles including RI learning facilitator, zone coordinator for the Avoidable Blindness Task Force, Latin American coordinator for the Health Concerns Task Force, RI president’s representative, and Council on Legislation representative.