Councillor Biographies
Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor, City of Hiroshima
Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba is mayor of the city of Hiroshima, Japan. He studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his Ph. D. in 1970. Between 1970 and 1997 he taught at universities in the US and Japan, including Tufts in Cambridge and Shudo in Hiroshima. He was elected to the Lower House of the Japanese Diet in 1990 where he served until 1999 when he took office as mayor of Hiroshima. Dr. Akiba is committed to a transparent, democratic, fiscally responsible municipal government with global economic and cultural interaction being a high priority. As president of Mayors for Peace, which counts more than 2200 member cities, he has demonstrated consistent devotion to world peace and environmental protection. The 2020 Vision Campaign which was launched in 2003 and aims to eliminate nuclear weapons, has earned Mayors for Peace the World Citizenship Award from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 2004, the Sean McBride Award from the International Peace Bureau in 2006, and the Nuclear-Free Future Award from the Franz Moll Foundation in 2007.
