Dr. Hitoshi Kuninaka received his Ph.D from the University of Tokyo in 1988. He was promoted to Professor of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in 2005. He held concurrently the post of Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the University of Tokyo, from 2004 to 2018. He supervised HAYABUSA2 project team as a project manager from 2012 to 2015. In 2018, he became Director General of Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) as well as Vice President of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).