Takashi Naono
Takashi Naono is a Director of Safety Office, Vehicle Regulation and International Affair Division, Road Transport Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Japan. And he has been serving as vice-chair of WP.29 (World Forum for the harmonization of Vehicle regulations under UNECE) since 2023, chair of AC.3 in 2023 and 2024, Co-chair of informal working group on ITS since 2021 and vice-chair of GRVA since 2023. He started working for MLIT in 2000 and has worked as Official, Economic Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2004), Senior Inspector, National Technical Safety and Environmental Laboratory (2007), Deputy Director, Technical policy division, Road Transport Bureau, MLIT (2012) , Director of JASIC, Geneva (2014), Director of Branch office of MLIT, Kansai Transport Bureau (2018) and then Current position (2020).