For learning supports in the course of program, the GSS has the following scheme:

The Program students will register their GSS Secondary Academic Supervisor from the list of Faculty Members of Kyoto University (see Table 4) who is not at their own graduate school or International Advisors or Industry-Government-Academy Collaboration Advisors. Non-GSS Faculty Members in Kyoto University also can be a GSS Secondary Academic Supervisor. This scheme allows students to receive advice from interdisciplinary and international perspectives.

Frontline researchers and practitioners in safety and security area who and play active roles in education for Program students are registered as the GSS International Advisors.

Table 10 – List of the International Advisors
　

Name	Affiliation	Title	Country
Airton Bodstein	Graduate School of Civil Defense, Federal University of Fluminense	Director	Brazil
Badaoui Rouhban	Unit for Natural Disasters, UNESCO	Director	France
Endashaw Bekele Wordoffa	Population Genetics and Conservation Biology, College of Natural Science Division of Microbial, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Addis Ababa University	Professor	Ethiopia
Firdausi Qadri	Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases	Director	Bangladesh
Fran Baum	Department of　Public Health, Flinders University	Head and Professor	Australia
Fumiko Kasuga	Division of Safety Information on Drug, Food and Chemical, National Institute of Health Sciences	Director	Japan
Gunilla Lindström	MTM Research Center Örebro University Gunilla Lindstrom	Professor	Sweden
Hajime TOYOFUKU	Department of International Health and Collaboration, National Institute of Public Health	Chief senior Researcher	Japan
Hans van Ginkel	Human Geography and Planning at Utrecht University, Former Rector of United Nation University	Professor	Netherland
Iddya　Karunasagar	Products, Trade and Marketing Service, Food and Agriculture Organisation　（FAO)	Senior Fishery Officer,	Italy
Isaac Keango Nyamongo	Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi	Director, Professor	Kenya
Jakob Rhyner	United Nations University Institute for Environmental and Human Security (UNU-EHS)	Director	Germany
Jan Sopaheluwakan	International Center of Interdisciplinary and Advanced Research (ICIAR), Indonesian Institute of Sciences(LIPI)	Chairman	Indonesia
John Glenn Morris, Jr	Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida	Professor, Director	United States
John M. Wallace	the University of Washington	Professor	United States
Joy Jacquline Pereira	Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Institute (SEADPRI-UKM)	Deputy Director	Malaysia
Juha I. Uitto	Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)	Deputy Director	United States
Le Quoc Doanh	Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute	Director General	Vietnam
Makoto Suwa	Development and Regional Activities Department, World Meteorological Organaization (WMO)		Switzerland
Margareta Wahlstrom	United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)	Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction	Switzerland
Mohamed Fawzy Bakry	National Water Research Center (NWRC), Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation	Vice-President	Egypt
Nana Watanabe	Ashoka Japan	Founder and Launch Director	Japan
P.K. Ramachandran Nair	School of Forest Resources and Conservation, IFAS, University of Florida	Distinguished Professor	United States
Peter Gilruth	Division of Early Warning and Assessment United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)	Director	Kenya
Peter Piot	London School of Tropicl Medicine and Hygiene	Dean	UK
Robert H. Hall	Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, USA	Program Officer	United States
Roy C. Sidle	Ecosystems Research Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research &Development	42 Director (supervisory Physical Scientist)	United States
Ryu Fukui	Office of Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)	Advisor	Philippines
Ryuhei Hosoya	Unieted Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)	Executive Director	France
Sachiko Taki-Reece	The CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles	Facalty	United States
Salvano Briceno	Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk(IRDR), Global Earthquake Model (GEM), International Council for Science / Former Director of Secretariat, UNISDR	Chair	France
Samuel Geoffrey Schladow	Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Depertment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis	Director and Professor	United States
Saroj Jha	Global Facility of Disaster Risk Reduciton (GFDRR) Central Asia, The World Bank	Manager, Regional Director	United States
Shigeyuki Kano	Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute National Center for Global Health and Medicine	Director	Japan
Simmathiri Appanah,	FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific	Senior Programme Adviser	Thailand
Srikantha Herath	United Nation Univesity, Environment and Sustainable Development,	Senior Academic Programme Officer	Japan
Thomas Djamaluddin	Aerospace Science, Assesment, and Information, National Institute of Aeronautics And Space Republic of Indonesia	Deputy	Indonesia
Tim Palmer	Oxford University	Professor	UK
Tim R.H. Davies	Deparment of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury	Professor	New Zealand
Tso-chien Pan	College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University [NTU]	Professor, Dean	Singapore
Walter D Mooney	Earthquake Science Center, US Geological Survey	Research Geophysicist	United States
Wang　Wei	School of Environment, Tsinghua University	Professor	China
William John Siembieda	Plannning Design and Construction Institute, California Polytechnic State University	Professor	United States
Zhongliang Wu	Institute of Geophsyics China Earthquake Administration	Director	China
Robin Ｒoberson Murphy	Texas　A＆M　University	Professor	United States

Advisors who can give advice to the Program students from industrial and governmental perspectives are registered as the GSS Industry-Government-Academy Collaboration Advisors.

Table 11 – List of Industry-Government-Academy Collaboration Advisors (2017)

　

Name	Affiliation	Position
Youichiro Kawasimo	ntellectual Property Department, JFE Steel Corporation
Norihisa Wada	Business Development Division, IE Institute Co.,Ltd.	General manager
Sanjeev　Sinha	IJIP Asset Management Limited.	President
Koichi Kaneda	Corporate Brand & CSR, ANA Holdings Inc.	Global CSR Head
Naoshi Hiraoka	Graduate School of Instructional System, Kumamoto University	Associate Professor
Yoshiaki Kashino	（株）アレスパートナーズ	Representative Director
Toshihiro Oka	Faculty of Economics (also Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration), Fukui Prefectural University	Professor
Mick Morita	Koshii Maxelum America Inc.	Advisor
Takeshi Hibiya	Fuji Xerox co., Ltd.	Advisor

The GSS Program assigns GSS Mentors to students for course support of the Program. Students can receive support for course planning, and submission for different forms, presentation preparation related to activities in the Program in close contact with Mentors. One or two GSS Mentors is/are assigned to one student. The assigned mentor/mentors will be notified at the beginning of semester.

The GSS Program invites model researchers and practitioners who are called as Rising Leaders or Leading Experts, for students who wish to be global leaders in safety and security area by building their interdisciplinary and international research and practical activities. Through these lectures and discussions, the Program students are expected to foster own leadership, sense of mission and ethics, expertise and comprehensive views bridging researches and practices.

Details are provided here

For financial supports which allows students to focus on studies, the GSS Program provides the Program students who are qualified with study fellowship and research grant. Such financial supports will be available until March 2018

The GSS Program provides the Study Fellowship for Program students to reduce financial burden and allow students to focus on the courses and academic research.
Study Fellowship cannot be received concurrently with scholarships for government-sponsored foreign students, scholarships for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellows (DC1, DC2) or other scholarships. In addition, other incomes through part-time jobs are not allowed.

Program students can apply to the Research Grant to conduct their doctoral research, field training etc. up to 1,000,000 yen per a year. Each student are given a chance to submit application every year.