Biografia
Toshiyuki Kono is Emeritus Professor of Private International Law and former Executive Vice President of Kyushu University, Fukuoka. He served as a member of the expert group that drafted the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and was a member of the Japanese delegation for the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in 2011, became Vice President in 2014, and was subsequently elected President in 2017. In this capacity, he has been actively involved in the evaluation of nominations for World Cultural Heritage. He has dealt extensively with controlling the illicit traffic of cultural property. He has also been assisting the Bhutanese government in their draft heritage law. As Honorary President of ICOMOS, Professor Kono convened the symposium titled “Further Evolution of Authenticity through the Lens of Heritage Ecosystems: Heritage, Communities, and Sustainable Development”, held on 10–11 January 2025 in Takasaki, Japan.
