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TOKYO FORUM 2022 Shaping the Future SPEAKERS HASEGAWA Mariko
SPEAKERS

HASEGAWA Mariko

President, Graduate University for Advanced Studies
12.1.THU
PROFILE
Dr. Hasegawa joined The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI as a professor in 2006. She went on to serve as a dean of Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems in 2007, as a dean of School of Advanced Sciences in 2011, and then as an executive director in 2014. Dr. Hasegawa became President of SOKENDAI on April 1, 2017.
She earned her Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo.
Before joining SOKENDI, she worked at the Tanzania Wildlife Service, as an assistant at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo. She also taught as an associate professor and professor at Senshu University, as an associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at Yale University and as a professor at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University.
Her research expertise includes Behavioral Ecology and Physical Anthropology, and she conducted research on wild chimpanzee, fallow deer and wild sheep in Great Britain, peafowl in Sri Lanka. Recently she in conducting research on human evolution and adaptation.
She received the Hidaka Award from the Japan Ethological Society in 2012.