Vice President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan

Chisato Miyaura is Vice President of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, where she has been a professor since March 2004. She has also been a representative of the university’s Women's Future Development Organization since 2009, and was an Advisor to the President for Gender Equality Support Affairs on behalf of the university from July 2008 to March 2014. Prior to that, she was Director of the university’s Women's Career Support and Development Center, from September 2006 to March 2009.She was previously associate professor of Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, and before that was an assistant professor and senior assistant professor at Showa University, Japan. She obtained her Bachelors of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, in March 1978.