On Friday, November 25, 2022, the Board of Trustees decided to re-elect current Chancellor NAKATANI Yoshio (current positions: Chancellor and Trustee of the Ritsumeikan Trust; President of Ritsumeikan University; Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering; age: 64) for another term.

About the Next Chancellor
Name: NAKATANI Yoshio *will serve concurrently as the President of Ritsumeikan University
Current positions: Chancellor and Trustee of the Ritsumeikan Trust; President of Ritsumeikan University; Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering
Date of birth: July 24, 1958 (age: 64)
Areas of expertise: Disaster mitigation systems, artificial intelligence, human interfaces, cognitive engineering, personal memory engineering, affective engineering
Term: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2026