Keiji Tachikawa
Japanese businessman
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Keiji Tachikawa (立川 敬二, Tachikawa Keiji; born May 27, 1939 in Gifu Prefecture) is a Japanese businessman who served as president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA)
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Tachikawa in 2008 | |
| Born | May 27, 1939 |
| Citizenship | Japanese |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo (BS, PhD) MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA) |
| Occupations | President, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
Keiji Tachikawa was born in Gifu Prefecture on May 27, 1939. He graduated from University of Tokyo, Department of Electrical Engineering School of Engineering, in 1962.[1] In 1978, he earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.[1] In 1982, he earned a Ph.D Engineering degree in University of Tokyo.[1]
Tachikawa joined Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) in 1962 as a young engineering graduate.[1] He later joined NTT's subsidiary, NTT DoCoMo, and served as its president from 1998 to 2004.[1][2]
In 2004, Tachikawa became president of JAXA, to restructure the agency after a 2003 H-IIA rocket launch failure. He served as president until 2013.
