In this panel discussion, as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2026, laureates Shun-ichi Amari, Carol Gilligan, and Azim Surani engage in conversation with Lord Hague of Richmond, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, reflecting on insights from their careers, future challenges in their fields, and the skills each Laureate wished they had outside their professional field.
The Kyoto Prize is an international award founded by the Inamori Foundation to honour those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of humankind. The Blavatnik School of Government is honoured to bring the Kyoto Prize Laureates to Oxford each May.
In 2025, the Kyoto Prize was awarded to Shun-ichi Amari, the 2025 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology, a mathematical engineer who made pioneering contributions to opening up theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence and established the field of information geometry; to Carol Gilligan, the 2025 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Arts and Philosophy, a psychologist who pioneered a new horizon for the "Ethic of Care" while pointing out the distortions and limitations of conventional psychological theories; and to Azim Surani, the 2025 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences, a developmental biologist who discovered genomic imprinting in mammals and elucidation of its molecular mechanisms.
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