A consultant in global business development, Chie Sato visited UJICY.

For the next week, she will be evaluating the current situation at UJICY through interviews with researchers. She will also give lectures on the theme of how science and technology research institutions can collaborate to promote social implementation and workshops to deepen mutual understanding between management and staff, with the aim of strengthening UJICY's management structure, and prepare the foundations for further promoting activities at UJICY.

Chie Sato is an international co-creation consultant who supports value creation on a global stage. She has been involved in projects to promote the social deployment of research and technology, industrial development, and corporate management improvement not only in Japan, but also in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa. She has also been involved in supporting social partnerships and co-creation strategy development in the higher education sector for over 20 years, and has been working on the development of co-creation human resources.

She obtained an MSc in structural engineering from Waseda University. And she started a part-time research position as a visiting professor at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Science of Yokohama National University, focusing on the combination of hard technology and soft social communication for disaster resilience.