![[Trinity Japan] Alastair Morgan CMG, former British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (14 April 2022)](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/alistair_morgan_1L7A0458_2000_1500-copy.jpg)
Alastair Morgan CMG (Trinity 1976) will discuss with us his time as British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and views from his distinguished career with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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![[Trinity Japan] Alex Davies: DeepMind, AI and Mathematics (8 April 2022)](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/alex_davies_2000_1500.jpg)
Alex Davies: Founding lead of AI for Maths initiative at DeepMind
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![[Trinity Japan] Clarice Aiello on Quantum Biology and the new Quantum Biology Center (QuBiT) at UCLA (23 / 24 March 2022)](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/clarice-aiello_2000_1333_HDR.jpeg)
“Quantum engineer interested in how quantum physics informs bio. Fearlessly leading the Quantum Biology Tech Lab (QuBiT) at UCLA” (Clarice Aiello (Trinity 2004) on Twitter)
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![[Trinity Japan] Dominic Lieven – The Ukrainian crisis: the view of an imperial historian (17 March 2022)](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dominic_Lieven_at_Epiphany_Nights_2000_1200.jpg)
Professor Dominic Lieven, Trinity Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow
Dominic Lieven is Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity
College Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dominic Lieven was Distinguished Professor in International History at the London School of Economics LSE, 1978-2011.
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![[Trinity Japan] Mr Andreas Demetriades, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon and President at European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) (11 March 2022)](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/andreas_demetriades_Sep2019_2000_1500.jpg)
Mr Andreas Demetriades (Trinity 1997) Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, MB.BChir, MPhil, FRCS (Neuro surg), Diplomate (EANS), President at European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
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![[Trinity Japan] Prof Sir Menelas N Pangalos DSc PhD FRSB FMedSci HonFBPhS on AstraZeneca’s new Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge (25 February 2022)](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Mene_pangalos-headshot2021-scaled.jpg)
“Drug discoverer. Science lover. Combining both as Exec VP at AstraZeneca to transform how we understand and tackle diseases and treat patients in a digital age” (Sir Menelas “Mene” Pangalos on Twitter)
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![[Trinity Japan] Mikael “Mickey” Adolphson: “Japan’s Medieval Economic Miracle” 16 Dec 2021](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mickey_title_1280_720.jpg)
Mickey Adolphson is Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies at Cambridge University, where Mickey has also created the “Japan and the World” program, and many other initiatives.
See: https://japanandtheworld.org/adolphson-inaugural/
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies:
https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-mikael-adolphson
Mickey is Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College.
Currently, in parallel to his positions at Cambridge University and Trinity, Mickey is Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden, where Mickey is pursuing research on the development of coins and monetised economies comparing medieval Scandinavia and medieval Japan. See:
http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Fellows/Invited_Fellows/2021-22/adolphson.html
Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group.
Chair and Founder: Gerhard Fasol
![[Trinity Japan] JC de Swaan, “The Social Value of Investments”, 8/9 Dec 2021](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/jc_title_1280_720.jpg)
JC de Swaan is a lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University. He also teaches at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. In the past he has taught at Yale University, Hong Kong UST, and Cheung Kong Business School in Beijing. Separately, he is a Partner at Cornwall Capital, an investment fund based in New York. Prior to Cornwall, he was a senior advisor on China at a global macro fund, an investment professional at an Asia-dedicated hedge fund, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He received his B.A. from Yale University in Political Science, an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He is the author of Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry (Cambridge University Press).
JC graduated with an MPhil in International Relations from Trinity.
Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group.
Chair and Founder: Gerhard Fasol
![[Trinity Japan] Sir Simon Baron-Cohen “The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism”, 19 Nov 2021](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bc_title_1280_720.jpg)
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge, Director of the Autism Research Centre, and Fellow of Trinity.
Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group.
Chair and Founder: Gerhard Fasol
![[Trinity Japan] Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, inventor of Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), 22 Oct 2021](https://www.fasol.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/shankar_title_1280_720.jpg)
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (together with Sir David Klenerman) have been awarded the 2020 Millenium Technology Prize “their innovation of Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology that enables fast, accurate, low-cost and large-scale genome sequencing”. Sir Shankar is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and Trinity Fellow.
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (together with Sir David Klenerman and Pascal Mayer) were awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Sir Shankar is the scientific founder of two companies:
Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group.
Chair and Founder: Gerhard Fasol