Kazuhisa Fukuda

Kazuhisa Fukuda is the Executive Vice President at Nippon Steel. Kazuhisa has over 18 years of experience in the steel industry, having worked their way up from a Technical Staff member at Nippon Steel Corporation, to a Manager, to a Senior Researcher and Director of Technology at Nippon Steel North America, Inc. Kazuhisa's work has focused on developing and improving recycling processes for a wide range of waste materials and low-grade feedstocks. Kazuhisa has also established a process design for recycling dust to highly metalized direct reduced iron (DRI) using an RHF process.

Kazuhisa Fukuda has a Master's Degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Toronto. Kazuhisa also has a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tokyo. Kazuhisa has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tokyo as well. Kazuhisa also has certifications from Coursera in Supply Chain Principles, Photovoltaic Systems, Wind Energy, Solar Energy Basics, Solar Energy System Design, Finance for Non-Financial Professionals, and Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management by University of Virginia. Kazuhisa also has certifications from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan in Hazardous Materials Officer (Class-A) and from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan in Air Pollution Control Manager.

Their manager is Eiji Hashimoto, President. Some of their coworkers include Kenichi Hoshi - Executive Officer, Takeshi Honda - Executive Officer, and Masayoshi Murase - Executive Officer.