Name: IKENO, Kenichi, Mr.
Office: UTS Ltd. 1st Floor, Nagai Memorial Hall Building, 2-12-15 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0002 JAPAN
TEL: 03-6418-0711 fax 03-6418-0712
E-mail: info@uts-japan.co.jp , info@jcsos.org
Web Site: http://www.uts-japan.co.jp , https://www.jcsos.org

Education, Qualifications and Training.

• April 2016 - March 2018, research student of Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo
• April. 2014 – March 2018, M.A. Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo
• October 2011-March 2014, part- time student of Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo
• April 1988- March 1989, Diploma of the Japan Creative Management Association
• May 1971 – September 1971, management training by SIS group (Sveriges Internationella Sommarskolar Ltd, Gothenburg, Sweden/ Student International Society, Boston, USA) in UK, Sweden, and Germany
• April 1969 – March 1973, B.A. (Economics) Hosei University

Employment history

• September 1971 to present, founder of SIS Japan
• September 1971 to present, founder, owner and chair, UTS Centre for International Education (UTS Ltd. Japan).
• March 1974 to present, founder and president of the College of International Education, Oxford. (CIE-Oxford)
• December 1977 – June 1999, director general of Anglo-Japanese University Exchange Committee
• October 1998 to present, founder and chair of JCSOS (Japan Council for the Safety of Overseas Students).

Professional Activities

• November 1994 – March 2007, board member of JAOS (Japan Association of Overseas Studies)
• April 2000 – September 2006, delegate member of the Japan British Society
• September 2005 – September 2008, board member of ALTO (Association of Language Travel Organisations). ALTO was a part of WYSE (World Youth Student & Educational Travel Confederation)
• June 2007 – May 2015 vice - chair of CIEL (The Council for International Education and Language Travel, Japan)
• April 2010 to present, board member of Tokyo branch of the Japan Creative Management Association
• June 2012 to present, board member of JAFSA (Japan Network for International Education)
• June 2014 to present, president of the Research Society of New Capitalism
• June 2015 - May 2020, chair of CIEL
• April 2015 to present, member of Outbound Travel Executive Committee of JATA (Japan Association of Travel Agents)
• June 2020 to present, Study Abroad chair of JOTC (Japan Outbound Travel Council of JATA)
• April 2021, auditor of the Health Union of Tourism Industry.
• May  2022, chair of the university committee as a division of the Research Society of New Capitalism.

Research Activities

• Thesis: The effects of the changes in governmental policy on Oxford University’s financial management system. The journal of university management and policy course of the graduate school of education, the University of Tokyo, 2017
• M.A. thesis: Aspects of the late-1980s financial crisis at the University of Oxford. 2015, the University of Tokyo.
• Article: The effects of the Corona virus on university international exchange programmes over the next ten years. Education and academic journal, February 2022.
• Thesis: The issue of security and university study abroad programmes. Japan Academic Society of International Tourism, 2018.
• Article: University study abroad programmes and crisis management, learning from past cases and methodologies, 2017. Japan Student Services Organisation, JASSO, the ministry of Education and Science.
• Article: Study abroad and crisis management, 2008, Japan Student Services Organisation, JASSO, the ministry of Education and Science.