Kana Furusawa 

kana.furusawa@geopark.jp

Kana Furusawa is the Secretary General of the Specified Nonprofit Organization Japanese Geoparks Network (JGN), the Secretariat of Japan Geopark Committee (JGC), Special Advisor of the Muroto UNESCO Global Geopark.

She studied at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University and received master degree in 1995.

She started to work for geoparks in 2013 as a Coordinator for International Relations in Muroto UNESCO Global Geopark. She became a member of Advisory Committee of the Asia Pacific Geoparks Network (APGN) in 2017 and elected as a Vice Coordinator of the APGN in 2022. She was elected as a member of GGN Executive Board in 2021.