Program Officer (PO) CHIBA Kazuhiro

CHIBA Kazuhiro

CHIBA Kazuhiro, Ph.D.

President, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)

1) Profile

April 1983 Researcher, Research Institute of Q.P. Corporation (now Kewpie Corporation)
April 1990 Research Associate, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 1994 Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 1996 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
December 2004 Professor, United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 2008 - March 2010 Director, Center for Industry-University-Government Collaboration and Intellectual Property, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 2010 - March 2017 Director, Innovation Promotion Organization, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 2010 - March 2014 Special Advisor to the President (Innovation), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
October 2011 Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 2012 - March 2017 Director, Education and Research Center for Frontier Agricultural Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 2014 - March 2017 Vice President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 2017 - March 2020 Dean, Institute of Agriculture; Dean, Graduate School of Agriculture; Dean, Faculty of Agriculture
April 2020 - March 2026 President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
April 2026 Counselor to the Governor on Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery Policies, Tokyo
April 2026 President, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)

2) Research Activity

Agricultural Chemistry; Bioorganic Chemistry; Organic Synthesis; Peptides; Nucleic Acid Synthesis; Organic Electrochemistry

3) Society Activity, etc

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 (U.S.)