Kamata Takehito

Takehito Kamata, Ph.D. conducts research on international collaborative research and involves in a wide range of international collaborative initiatives and projects such as the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities (SACRU), the MIRAI 2.0 (Swedish and Japanese universities), and other international initiatives to promote internationalization in higher education across nations. He is also the Founding International Collaboration URA (University Research Administrator) affiliated with the Center for Research Promotion & Support at Sophia University in Japan.

As a member of an international academic honor society, he participated in the Collegiate Presidential Inaugural Conferences in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the January Inaugurations of the President and Vice President of the United States in 2009 and 2013.

As the president of the University of Minnesota’s Council of International Graduate Students (CIGS), he led the Student Service Fees funding request application process, for the first time in the University’s history, to have an independent budget for CIGS in promoting academic, professional, and social engagement among graduate and professional students in the 2015-2016 academic year.  In 2017, he received the Josef Mestenhauser Student Award for Excellence in Campus Internationalization that recognizes outstanding student contributions to international education. In 2018, he was also a Co-chair of the International Relations Committee in the College of Education and Human Development Alumni Society Board at the University of Minnesota. 

He was also the founding Co-Chairs of the East Asia Special Interest Group (SIG) in the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in the United States from 2014 to 2018. The main goal of the East Asia SIG is to formalize and strengthen communication among scholars, professionals, and students who are interested in research on East Asian nations and states.

In the 2022-2023 academic year, he was a fellow in the inaugural Japan-U.S. Science Communication & Policy Fellowship Network Program to promote meaningful cooperation between Japan and the United States on global challenges by bridging a critical gap between science and policy. In 2023, he received the 2023 Alumni Award of Excellence by the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.

He is Vice Chair of the International Exchange Committee (2024-2026) and a member of the Certified Research Integrity Advisor System Committee (2025-2027) in Association for the Promotion of Research Integrity in Japan.

His research focuses on the areas of “international research collaborations,” “research integrity,” “research security,” “science, technology, and innovation policy,” “higher education internationalization,” “Japan–United States relations ,“ and “Japan–Sweden relations,” and other subjects relating to science policy.

He earned his Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Minnesota in the United States. He also earned his B.S. in political science and international relations and M.P.A. in public administration from Minnesota State University, Mankato in the United States.