Yoshiaki ISHIDA

Executive Vice President for Administration

Yoshiaki ISHIDA, Executive Vice President for Administration

Yoshiaki Ishida has been executive vice president for administration and secretary-general since April 2024.

Ishida joined the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture after earning his Bachelor of Laws degree from Kyoto University in 1999. In 2003, he became unit chief at the Office for Higher Education Policy within the present Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), which was formed in 2001.

From 2004 to 2007, Ishida served at the Division of Higher Education, Education Sector within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. From 2007 to 2008, he was deputy director of the Traditional Culture Division at the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Ishida was also director of lifelong learning at the Okayama Prefectural Board of Education from 2008 to 2010 before returning to MEXT to serve at both the Sports and Youth Bureau and the Higher Education Bureau.

Ishida became First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva in 2013. In 2016, he returned to Japan to take the position of deputy director at MEXT’s Higher Education Policy Planning Division, and then director of the General Affairs Division in the Minister's Secretariat.

Ishida was director of the Office for International Copyrights, Copyright Division at the Agency for Cultural Affairs from 2018 to 2020. Before joining Tokyo Tech, he returned to MEXT once more, becoming director of international strategic planning at the Office of the Director-General for International Affairs, then director of the International Education Division at the Education Policy Bureau, and lastly, director of the Special Support Education Division within the Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau.

Ishida earned his master’s degree in policy studies from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in March 2024.

April 2024	Executive Vice President for Administration and Secretary-General, Tokyo Institute of Technology
March 2024	Master of Policy Studies, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
April 2023	Director, Special Support Education Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
October 2021	Director, International Education Division, Education Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
July 2020	Director of International Strategic Planning, Office of the Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
October 2018	Director, Office for International Copyrights, Copyright Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs
July 2017	Director of General Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, and Director of Office for Administrative Reform, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
August 2016	Deputy Director, Higher Education Policy Planning Division, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
July 2013	First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva
April 2012	Deputy Director, Private Education Institution Administration Division, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
April 2010	Deputy Director, School Health Education Division, Sports and Youth Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
April 2008	Director of Lifelong Learning, Okayama Prefectural Board of Education
April 2007	Deputy Director, Traditional Culture Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs
September 2004	Division of Higher Education, Education Sector, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
April 2003	Unit Chief, Office for Higher Education Policy, Higher Education Policy Planning Division, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
April 1999	Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture
March 1999	Bachelor of Laws, Faculty of Law, Kyoto University