CHIBA Kazuhiro
President
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)
Date of Birth / Place of Birth
- January 25, 1959; Tokyo, Japan
Education
- March 1981
- Bachelor of Agriculture (Agricultural Chemistry), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT)
- March 1983
- Master of Agriculture (Agricultural Chemistry), Graduate School of Agriculture, TUAT
- March 1991
- Ph.D. (Agriculture), TUAT
Professional Experience
- April 1983
- Researcher, Research Institute of Q.P. Corporation (now Kewpie Corporation)
- April 1990
- Research Associate, Faculty of Agriculture, TUAT
- April 1994
- Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, TUAT
- April 1996
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, TUAT
- December 2004
- Professor, United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, TUAT
- April 2010 – March 2014
- Assistant to the President (Innovation), TUAT
- October 2011
- Professor, Institute of Agriculture, TUAT
- April 2012 – March 2017
- Director, Education and Research Center for Frontier Agricultural Science, Faculty of Agriculture, TUAT
- April 2014 – March 2017
- Vice-President, TUAT
- April 2017 – March 2020
- Dean, Institute of Agriculture; Dean, Graduate School of Agriculture; Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, TUAT
- April 2020 – March 2026
- President, TUAT
- April 2026 –
- Counselor to the Governor on Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery Policies, Tokyo
- April 2026 –
- President, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)
Awards
- FY2006
- Excellent Paper Award, The Electrochemical Society of Japan
- FY2011
- 11th MIT-EFJ Business Planning Clinic & Contest: Grand Prize
- FY2016
- Hot Topics Award at Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry
- 2022
- Manuel M. Baizer Award, The Electrochemical Society
Academic and Professional Affiliations
- Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry
- The Electrochemical Society of Japan
- Japan Oil Chemists' Society
- The Chemical Society of Japan
- American Chemical Society
- The Electrochemical Society
