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Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Overseas Studies - Madrid, Bing Overseas Studies
BioManuel Lucena-Giraldo is Research Scientist in the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, and Director of the Chair of Spanish and Hispanic Heritage from the Universities of Madrid, Adjunct Professor in IE Business School/IE University and Affiliate professor in ESCP Business School Europe. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University ((Sweden), Tufts University (Boston), Javeriana University (Colombia), IVIC (Venezuela), Colegio de Mexico, University of the Andes (Chile and Colombia) and St. Antony´s College (Oxford). He was Education Attaché in the Spanish Embassy in Colombia and held foreign education positions. His publications include a number of books on travels, scientific expeditions, cities, images of nations, empires or globalization. He is professor of Writing (Non-Fiction) in Cursiva, Penguin Random House School; Member of the board in Hispania Nostra and Revista de Occidente and adviser in National Geographic-History. He is a member of the Royal Academy of History from Spain and belongs to the Section Committee of the European Academy.
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Frank Akeem Marsh
Finance and Administrative Coordinator, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
Current Role at StanfordFinance and Administrative Coordinator for Stanford Introductory Studies (SIS)
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Rev. Daiko Matsuyama
Overseas Studies - Kyoto, Bing Overseas Studies
BioBorn in 1978 in Kyoto, Mr. Matsuyama obtained his Master’s degree in Agriculture and Life Sciences from the University of Tokyo.
After three and half years of training at Heirin-ji Temple, Niiza, he became the deputy priest of Taizoin Temple in 2007.
Matsuyama is acclaimed for organizing intercultural activities such as Zen experience tours for foreign visitors and talks at embassies in Japan and at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club.
In May 2009, he was elected as a Japan Tourism Agency’s Ambassador for its “Visit Japan” Campaign.
He has been a member of Kyoto’s Ambassadors for Tourism since 2011, and was listed as one of “The Top 100 People of the New Generation 2016” in Nikkei Business.
And he was appointed as a fellow of US-Japan Leadership Program from 2016.
In 2018, he was invited to Israel as the delegate of Young Leaders Program.
And he also became a visiting lecturer at Stanford Univ.
He received The Award of Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and Shigemitsu Award from Japan society in Boston in 2019.
He is serving as an appointed member of the Kyoto City Board of Education and an Outside Director of V-cube, a tech startup, since 2021.
As a young representative of the Zen Sect in Japan, Matsuyama has interacted with many religious leaders, such as having an audience with the Roman Catholic Pope and conversing with the 14th Dalai Lama.
He also participated in the Davos World Economic Forum in 2014, and continues to work actively beyond national and religious borders.
He is the author of the book,
Forget What’s Important First: 30 Zen Teachings for the Wavering Soul (Sekai Bunka Publishing, 2014)
Strolling around Zen Gardens in Kyoto (PHP Publishing, 2016)
Introduction of ZEN for workers (Kodansya Publishing, 2016).
