Shun SHIRAI
Executive Vice President for Infrastructure and Administration
Executive Vice President for Environmental Health and Safety
Director General
Shun Shirai is executive vice president for infrastructure and administration at Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo). He also serves concurrently as executive vice president for environmental health and safety, and as director general.
Shirai was deputy director of the University Promotion Division at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) from 2012 to 2015. He then joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where he served as an analyst at the Directorate for Education and Skills for two years before returning to MEXT as director of the Curriculum Planning Office.
In 2019, Shirai became assistant director of test development and research at Japan’s National Center for University Entrance Examination. In 2020, he took over as director of the Test Planning Division at the center. A year later, he became director of MEXT’s Education System Reform Office. In 2022, Shirai was appointed director for international planning at the ministry’s Office of the Director-General for International Affairs.
Before his current position at Science Tokyo, Shirai served as director of the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the Cabinet Office of Japan from 2023 to 2025.
