Makoto Ida

Prof. Dr. Dres.h.c. Makoto Ida was born in Tokyo in 1956. He studied at Tokyo’s Keio Uni-versity, where he was working as a professor of criminal law until 2016. From 2009 to 2013 he was Vice President of Keio University. Professor Ida was a member of the Science Council of Japan (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan), and a member of the board of the Criminal Law Society of Japan. He was President of the Religious Juridical Persons Council (Japanese Minis-try of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). He received the degree Doctor of Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Cologne in 1989. In 2006, he earned the Phillip Franz von Siebold Prize from the Humboldt Foundation, and in 2009, the Eugen und Ilse Seibold Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG). He received an honorary doctorate from Saarland University in 2009, and from University of Erlangen in 2012. He was appointed Saarland Ambassador in 2010 and Ambassador Scientist of the Humboldt Foundation in 2014. Main areas of research: General principles of criminal law, theory of criminal law, sentencing, and medical criminal law.