Vice-President, Trustees and Auditors
This section offers information about our Trustees, Auditors, Vice-Presidents and Director General.
Trustees
Trustee for Financial Strategy and Human Resources, MURATA Akira
Academic background
| March, 1991 | Doctoral Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Doctor of Engineering |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 1991 | Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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| April, 1995 | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2007 | Professor, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2010 | Professor, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2011 | Director, Organization for Promotion of Tenure-track System, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2016 | Director, Organization for Promotion of Tenure-track System, Global Innovation Research Organization, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2017 | Director, Information Media Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2023 | Deputy Chief Information Officer, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2025 | Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2026 | Trustee for Financial Strategy and Human Resources, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Trustee for Governance and Global Strategies, OOKAWA Taiichiro
Academic background
| March, 1989 | Master’s Program, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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| March, 1994 | Ph.D. (Agriculture), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 1989 | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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| April, 1999 | Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| March, 2016 | Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2025 | Dean, United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2026 | Trustee for Governance and Global Strategies, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Trustee for General Affairs and Planning, Director General, SATO Akihiro
Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 2026 | Trustee for General Affairs and Planning, Director General, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Trustee for Intellectual Asset Management, Vice-President, Okutani Masako
Academic background
| March, 1995 | Master's course, Graduate School of Agriculture,?Graduate Schools & Professional Graduate Schools,?Meiji University |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 2025 | Trustee for Intellectual Asset Management, Vice-President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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| April, 2026 | Trustee for Intellectual Asset Management, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Trustee for Societal Cooperation Promotion, SAKANE Sirkku
Academic background
| May, 1985 | Finnish Businessmen’s Commercial College Bachelor of Business Administration（Foreign Trade） |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 2025 | Trustee for Societal Cooperation Promotion, Vice-President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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| April, 2026 | Trustee for Societal Cooperation Promotion, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Auditors
Auditor, UEMURA Kyoko
Abridged Professional Experience
| September, 2024 | Auditor,Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Auditor, TSUNASHIMA Tsutomu
Abridged Professional Experience
| September, 2024 | Auditor,Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Special Mission Trustee
Special Mission Trustee for Future Strategy and Reform, Vice-President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Academic Officer SAITO Hirotaka
Academic background
| April, 2003 | Doctoral Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 2003 | Research Assistant, University of Michigan |
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| June, 2003 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories |
| January, 2005 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Riverside |
| June, 2006 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad |
| November, 2006 | Associate Professor, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2010 | Associate Professor (Assistant to the President), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2011 | Associate Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| October, 2017 | Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2022 | Vice-President (Education), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2023? | Member, Education and Research Council, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| ?April, 2024 | Director, Education and Research Center for Frontier Agricultural Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2025? | Dean, Institute of Agriculture; Dean, Graduate School of Agriculture; Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| ?April, 2026 | Special Mission Trustee for Future Strategy and Reform, Vice-President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Academic Officer, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Special Mission Trustee for Project and Research Management ITAKURA Yasuhiro
Abridged Professional Experience
| July, 2025 | Executive Advisor to the President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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| April, 2026 | Special Mission Trustee for Project and Research Management,?Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Vice-Presidents
Vice-President for Education, SHIMIZU Ikuko
Academic background
| March, 1999 | Doctor's course, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 1999 | Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, Saitama University |
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| April, 2004 | Senior Assistant Professor, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2013 | Associate Professor, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| May, 2023 | Vice-President for Education, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Professor, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Vice-President for Admissions and Diversity Promotion, TABUNOKI Hiroko
Academic background
| March, 2005 | Doctor's course, bio-applications and systems engineering, Graduate school of bio-applications and systems engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 2004 | Research fellowship for young scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(DC2) |
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| April, 2005 | Research fellowship for young scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(PD) |
| April, 2006 | Research Associate, Meiji Pharmaceutical University |
| April,2007 | Assistant Professor,Meiji Pharmaceutical University |
| April,2013 | Senior Assistant Professor,Meiji Pharmaceutical University |
| May, 2013 | Senior Assistant Professor, Women's Future Development Organization, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2016 | Senior Assistant Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| November, 2018 | Associate Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| January, 2020 | Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology(~March, 2022) |
| April, 2021 | Assistant to the President, Director of Women's Future Development Organization, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology(~March, 2022) |
| February, 2022 | Vice-President, Director of Women's Future Development Organization, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology(~March, 2022) |
| April, 2022 | Vice-President for Admissions and Diversity Promotion, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Vice-President for International Affairs, OHTSU Naoko
Academic background
| March, 2005 | Doctor's course, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, The University of Tokyo |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April, 2000 | Research fellowship for young scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(DC1 :The University of Tokyo) |
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| April, 2003 | Science Postdoctoral Fellow,?Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido?University |
| April, 2004 | Postdoctoral researcher, Iowa State University, USA |
| April, 2008 | Special Research Fellow at the RIKEN Institute |
| October, 2009 | Assistant Professor,?Women's Future Development Organization, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2012 | Assistant Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| January, 2013 | Senior Assistant Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| March, 2016 | Associate Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| ?October, 2018 | Professor, Institute of Global Innovation Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| December, 2021 | Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April, 2022 | Assistant to the President,?Director of?Organization for WISE Program, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology(~March, 2025) |
| ?April, 2024 | Director of?Institute for Fostering Leadership to Create Future Value through Outstanding Research, Innovation and Sustainable Higher Education, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| ?April, 2025 | Vice-President for International Affairs, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Vice-President for Digital Transformation, AI and Research Promotion, KONDO Toshiyuki
Academic background
| September 1999 | Doctor's course, Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April 1997 | Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
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| April 2000 | Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| April 2006 | Senior Assistant Professor, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| March 2007 | Associate Professor, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| November 2014 | Professor, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April 2020 | Member of the Education and Research Council, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April 2026 | Vice-President for Digital Transformation, AI and Research Promotion, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Vice-President for J-PEAKS and Strategic Partnerships, YAMANAKA Akinori
Academic background
| September 2008 | Doctor's course, Department of Mechanical and System Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University |
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Abridged Professional Experience
| April 2007 | Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
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| December 2008 | Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| October 2012 | Associate Professor, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April 2021 | Professor, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April 2022 | Assistant to the President for Digital Transformation, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April 2023 | Vice Trustee, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Director, West Tokyo Joint Center for Sustainability Research and Implementation, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| ?April 2025 | Assistant to the President for Project Development, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| April 2026? | Vice-President for J-PEAKS and Strategic Partnerships, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Executive Advisor to the President
Executive Advisor to the President, TAKUMA Hiroko
Abridged Professional Experience
| July，2025 | Executive Advisor to the President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Executive Advisor to the President, HAMADA Takanori
Abridged Professional Experience
| April，2025 | Executive Advisor to the President,Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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