President's International Advisory Council

Dr. Hiroshi Komiyama

Former Member, KAUST International Advisory Council
President, The University of Tokyo
Japan

Dr. Hiroshi Komiyama became the 28th president of the University of Tokyo in April 2005, after serving a year each as vice president and executive vice president. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Komiyama served as dean of the School of Engineering.

As president, Dr. Komiyama has announced the UT Action Plan, which summarizes key initiatives in attaining the goal of building "the University of Tokyo at the forefront of the times - aiming at the pinnacle of global knowledge" in 2005. In addition, he has initiated new projects to reform the University of Tokyo through endeavors to achieve the "Structuring of Knowledge" and create "Autonomous and Decentralized yet Cooperative Systems."

Dr. Komiyama specializes in chemical engineering, global environmental engineering and the structuring of knowledge. He has received three awards from the Society of Chemical Engineers of Japan for his research work and papers. Dr. Komiyama received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1967, 1969, and 1972 respectively, and from 1973 to 1974, was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Davis. He became a full professor in the University of Tokyo's Department of Chemical System Engineering in 1988.