Prof Teruo Kishi is Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan from September 2015. Concurrently, he is the President of Innovative Structural Materials Association (ISMA). He is also the Program Director for SIP (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program) at Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

He is NIMS Advisor Emeritus of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) after serving as the first President of NIMS from April 2001 till June 2009 and Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo.